This one is even lower effort than #2. Not even annotations for most because these recorded when I was on cellphone.
Oh, the very first bullet is good, heavily recommended read. Heck, I even bothered to type out that much text on my phone! Also, ok, I guess I did put in the effort to add link text, because otherwise this will literally be just a wall of links. Please appreciate that :D
I should put in more effort in distinguishing between verbatim titles in link text, and own paraphrasing. Ugh, too much effort! Sorry!
The Eternal Mainframe Mainframe was never and still isn’t about the physical form, the racks and racks of metal upon which computers hung. It’s about inaccessibility (“priesthood”) and centralization. “If offline use becomes uncommon, then the great and the good will ask: “What are you hiding?” Aren’t all prophesies almost necessarily be slippery slopes? Talks of chance and reasonableness almost certainly fails when the scope is far far long in the future.
Series on tangents and meandering into epistemology
Very good introduction to cryptography for application programmers
Comprehensive introduction to using DDD (the GDB frontend)
The internet 20 years ago, or so as people thought. I think this again is on HN frontpage at one point.
Fan subbing effects (and why it’s better than your netflix srt subs) for outsiders
What is HDR? Fantastic article (and blog!) clarifying all the mysteries behind HDR, specifically wrt. photography (as opposed to rendering).
Chomsky’s (yes that one) critique on LLM
Series on investigation on Windows command line parsing
Someone’s rambling on centering Good introductory ideas, but leaves something to be desired on the topic of actually designing iconography and dealing with centering. Also, the sweeping take on icon fonts is inappropriate (granting the point of text centric logic used by fonts is inapt for icons).
缺字危机：一本书背后有多少不存在的汉字？——「表意」文字体系与数字编码规则间的深层冲突 About encoding and designing fonts for ancient Chinese glyphs.
装配线上的“麦门”打工人, 摘自虹线周刊