Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale, “The Sensenmann project, named after the German word for the embodiment of Death, has been highly successful. It submits over 1000 deletion changelists per week, and has so far deleted nearly 5% of all C++ at Google.”

Gefs, a Good Enough File System for Plan 9, by Ori Bernstein. Uses Bε trees.

Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam, by Ben Cox.

Proben der Haas’schen Giesserei in Basel, 775 scanned pages of type specimen. More.

Weekend hacking: wireless charging for a HP-25 calculator (2021), with Qi.

Spinning Diagrams with CSS

OpenBSD 7.3 has been released.

Who invented vector clocks?, by Lindsey Kuper.

Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings, nice exposition by Simon Tatham.

My4TH, a homebuilt CPU-less computer with a 1-bit NOR gate “ALU”, running FORTH. By Dennis Kuschel.

How to Crash SM64 Using a Pendulum (YouTube), explained by pannenkoek2012.

Build faster with Buck2, Meta’s open source build system. Written in Rust, rules are now implemented fully in Starlark.

Knit: making a better Make, with some good ideas.

SIMD-ized faster parse of IPv4 addresses, by Wojciech Muła.

The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations, by Ken Shirriff.

Hell Never Ends On x86: The Hyperspace Story, Continued, Sort Of, by cathoderaydude. Office software running in EFI.

The time Bell Labs brought the Statue of Liberty under its roof (Literally)

PLATO Emoticons, revisited (2012). Uses overprinting.