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New NIN, Deftones, and Ladytron. What a year!
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Are "glassholes" socially acceptable now? I find it strange that Meta Ray-Bans etc. don't have physical camera lens covers. They may have blinking LEDs, but that's "trust me, bro, it's not recording" feature.
September 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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“The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web.

🙏 @washingtonpost.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone'

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right?
In “This Is for Everyone,” Tim Berners-Lee writes about the early days of the internet and how we might restore its more democratic roots.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I had a lot of fun giving this talk in Singapore about the many-years-long saga of multicore OCaml, and in particular, the work over the least 2.5 years of getting it ready for production work within Jane Street's walls.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGS...
The Saga of Multicore OCaml
YouTube video by Jane Street
www.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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RIP Usenix ATC – I’ve got many fond memories of you

www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-...
USENIX ATC Announcement | USENIX
www.usenix.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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* Announcement * Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu!

@canonicalltd.bsky.social is supporting us to get sudo-rs ready for Ubuntu 25.10. 

trifectatech.org/blog/memory-...
Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu - Trifecta Tech Foundation
May 6, 2025 – Ubuntu 25.10 is set to adopt sudo-rs by default. Sudo-rs is a memory-safe reimplementation of the widely-used sudo utility, written in the Rust programming language.
trifectatech.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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We released Wolfenstein 3D on this day (May 5th) in 1992. Here's a local television news report about it. What an amazing time that was. #wolfenstein #gamedev #retrogames
May 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Notepad.exe is already my favorite #SwiftUI cratchbook where I keep experimenting and save ideas for later notepadexe.com #notepadexe

🎧 sound on! I'm proud of this one
May 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Oh no! The 3DS audio guide for the Louvre is getting discontinued in September!
ルーヴル美術館で提供されていた「ニンテンドー3DSの音声ガイド」が9月に終了へ。以降は別のシステムに置き替えに
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/250505h
May 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#GTA test and an early GTA Master.

The master isn’t much different, but the test has several bugs still needing fixed.
November 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Benchmarking Crimes Meet Formal Verification

There are multiple instances of authors comparing verification efforts of systems projects by looking at the ratio of proof to code size. I demonstrate why this is nonsense and constitutes a benchmarking crime.
Benchmarking Crimes Meet Formal Verification
There are multiple instances of authors comparing verification efforts of systems projects by looking at the ratio of proof to code size. I demonstrate why this is nonsense and constitutes a benchmarking crime.
microkerneldude.org
April 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
📸✨Is your #iPhone photo gallery filled with countless forgettable snapshots? I totally get it! I recently learned #Swift and built an #iOS app that helps you identify and declutter those one-off photos. It’s a work in progress, but I’d love for you to check it out! 🚀 #iOSApp tinyurl.com/snapsweep
April 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering youtu.be/g3qd4zpm1LA?...
Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering
YouTube video by Jane Street
youtu.be
April 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Microsoft Teams really is indistinguishable from malware. Just spotted this beauty in my Mac's process list.
March 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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If you could go back in time and change #rustlang before it hit 1.0, what would you change?
March 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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RWC 2026 in Taipei!
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Rust Asia has begun! Allen says the goal is to bring together companies throughout Asia quietly using Rust, and get them to meet each other and strengthen a culture of new software stacks here in Asia.
March 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM