The Hardest Tarball?(stoppels.ch)
140 points by thatslast | 30 comments
Blog post describing a single GNU tar-built pax archive with a sized hard link that different tar tools and libraries extract in 8 distinct ways.
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A Bit about Email(maurycyz.com)
27 points by vinhnx | 4 comments
A blog post explaining how email works, covering MUA/MSA/MTA components, SMTP sessions, SPF and DKIM authentication, and message header and MIME formats.
Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust(clj.rs)
163 points by simonpure | 61 comments
Project homepage for cljrs, an experimental alpha Clojure dialect implemented in Rust, with links to the crate, browser REPL, source, and docs.
Pointer Provenance in Rust vs. C++: Pointers Are Not Just Glorified Ints(sofiabelen.github.io)
16 points by sofiabelenlopez | 6 comments
A blog tutorial explaining pointer provenance, inspecting it via LLVM IR, and comparing C++ integer casts with Rust's addr() and with_addr() provenance APIs.
The Flash C Compiler(blog.adafruit.com)
91 points by AlexeyBrin | 43 comments
Adafruit blog post about Flash C, a from-scratch C89 compiler emitting static ELF binaries for x86-64 Linux with a Turbo C++-style text-mode IDE.
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A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.
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A personal blog post describing the author's move of services and subscriptions from non-EU providers to European ones for political and data protection reasons.
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Personal blog post listing software development opinions the author changed after 10 years working in the industry.
Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS(blog.6nok.org)
367 points by frontsideair | 241 comments
A personal blog post by a self-described LLM skeptic explaining how to download and run large language models locally on a Mac.
Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why(journal.james-zhan.com)
381 points by nafnlj | 163 comments
A personal blog post by James Zhan describing how Google de-indexed his entire Bear Blog a month after he started it, with no apparent reason.