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.