Software, Computing & the Internet
Programs, protocols, hardware, open systems, and the peculiar institutions people build around machines.
Selected Essays
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GitHub's Ongoing Actions Outage
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The Model Is Not the System
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Context Degradation Syndrome: When Large Language Models Lose the Plot
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The Case for a Government-Exclusive Mastodon Instance
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Let's Talk About Quantum Computing
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The Case for RISC-V
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Beatrix and I Built a Computer
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Working with the m4 Macro Language
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6502-Based Computer in 2019
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Using Rust on the Open Science Grid
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TCP and IP
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Code Coverage Counterexamples
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The MacOS X open(1) Command
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pbcopy and pbpaste
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Source Code for LX, a Link Shortener
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FreeGrep is now at GitHub
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Letter to the Diamondback