A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization(uninformativ.de)

133 points by zdw 1 year ago | 48 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes(simonomi.dev)

569 points by tobr 6 months ago | 151 comments

Blog post by Alice Pellerin arguing that hex editors should color-code bytes to make binary data easier to read.

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git(nelson.cloud)

553 points by FergusArgyll 4 months ago | 167 comments

A short blog post explaining three ways to ignore files in Git: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and the global ~/.config/git/ignore file.

My first superoptimizer(austinhenley.com)

197 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 51 comments

Debugging a Failing Hotkey(tratt.net)

44 points by ltratt 2 years ago | 6 comments

cp: -r or -R?(movq.de)

115 points by zdw 26 days ago | 104 comments

Blog post examining whether cp's -r and -R options ever differed, tracing GNU coreutils source history back to 1992.