Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
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The 8-Bit Era’s Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A
It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at an architecture that’s completely new to me, and I haven’t done any since creating my new scheme for dedicated platform guides. I’ve now gotten enough material together that I can kick off an exploration of a new platform for me: the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. For this new introduction, […]
Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
Academic and industry experts recommend Caddy, which has been cited in peer-reviewed journals for its security defaults, best practices, and its uniquely advanced feature set. “Servers running Caddy exhibit nearly ubiquitous HTTPS deployment and use modern TLS configurations. … We hope to see other popular server software follow Caddy’s lead.” —Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Benton […]
IPv6 Is Hard
Yesterday I read this toot (German) over on mastodon which starts with “IPv6 is hard.” No it’s not. It’s different. I ran across this multiple times: There is an A and an AAAA-record for a FQDN, but the web server is only reachable via IPv4. You can easily test this with curl $ curl -4 […]
Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52. Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw revealed the news on social media, saying he had no details of Antonov’s death, but he had had it confirmed that the “visionary art lead” had died. Viktor Antonov, le directeur artistique sur Half-Life 2 et […]
United States Power Outage Map
Electric customerswithout power: ▉ 0+ Out ▉ 10k+ Out ▉ 50k+ Out ▉ 100k+ Out Electric customerswithout power: ▉ 0+ Out ▉ 10k+ Out ▉ 50k+ Out ▉ 100k+ Out Electric customers without power: ▉ 0+ Out ▉ 10k+ Out ▉ 50k+ Out ▉ 100k+ Out PowerOutage.us is an ongoing project created to track, record, […]
Apple Maps Might Start Showing Ads
Apple is “exploring” the idea of showing search ads in the Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Back in 2022, Gurman said software engineering was “already underway” to display ads in the Apple Maps app, but Apple did not move forward with the idea at the time. Today, he said Apple is “giving […]
Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they’ve kept it going
Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept It Going – The New Stack Join our community of software engineering leaders and aspirational developers. Always stay in-the-know by getting the most important news and exclusive content delivered fresh to your inbox to learn more about at-scale software development. RESUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED It seems […]
Flea-Scope: $18, FOSS USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]
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Rethinking the C Time API
Out of all the components of C, its time API is probably the one most plagued with legacy cruft. To the point almost every regularly used element of it has some design decision that’s been obsolete for decades. As a example, here is some code I use to print the current time for my status […]