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# Hacker, Programmer, Time Traveler, Dog Dad, etc.
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My latest blog post describes the wayward transistor and two other curiosities in the 386 processor's standard cell logic, so read it for details.

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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic
I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex pr...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’ve been converting my homelab from Nginx to Caddy. No complaints except all my dreams have been about Caddyfiles lately.
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Esperanto should make a comeback, I feel like we're due
March 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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github should let me emoji react to any line of code in any repo
February 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
current day me has avenged 8 year old me’s fight with the microsoft website and finally got the XP theme he couldn’t manage to download (it was horribly ugly though so we’re just using the wallpaper with the royale scheme)
February 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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oh you use a text editor? real programmers make their edits directly on the github web ui
January 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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unfortunately “ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about tangerines” would also work on me
January 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux
December 12, 2024 at 8:27 PM