Why the super rich are inevitable, by Alvin Chang. Explains the “yard-sale model”.

Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting (PDF), master thesis by Laurenz Mädje.

“A Handbook of Integer Sequences” Fifty Years Later, by N. J. A. Sloane.

Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine, amazing.

wInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late, by q3k.

tangle is a work-in-progress graphical editor for string diagrams, along with an accompanying TikZ library for exporting to LaTeX.

libco is a cooperative multithreading library written in C89.

Tiktok’s enshittification, by Cory Doctorow. “Here is how platforms die.”

LeanChess is a chess program for the IBM PC AT and compatibles. “As of this writing, it’s the world’s smallest chess-playing program; its smallest edition is 288 bytes long.”

Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs, by Wenting Zhang.

Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice, new book by Mara Bos. Full text available online.

Unbundling Tools for Thought, by Fernando Borretti. A refreshing perspective.

Production Twitter on One Machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast, by Tristan Hume.

The t-digest construction algorithm uses a variant of 1-dimensional k-means clustering to produce a very compact data structure that allows accurate estimation of quantiles.

Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom, by Danny Spencer.

A Z80 emulator, by Kamila Szewczyk.

Inside the 8086 processor’s instruction prefetch circuitry, by Ken Shirriff.

Casio F-91W: iconic quartz watch, a die-shot.

A practical model for analyzing long tails (2007), by Kalevi Kilkki.

ChaCha20 Encryption Performance on DEC PDP-11, by niconiconi.

I did Advent of Code on a PlayStation, by Ben Visness.

Konami Code Domain Name, by Terence Ededen. It’s ↑↑↓↓←→←→ba.tk.