My server is a phone now
https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
https://os8088.com/Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.htmlFastmail offers EU data region
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94oShopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservationsDithered QR Codes
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5_for-sale DNS records
https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minuteMaking difficulty curves in games
http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurvesTimeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]
https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-ofTheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics
https://theoremdb.org/US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with-cluster-of-deaths-by-suicideTriton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/Incentives Are for Losers
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losersBuilding a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband
https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_weekFixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
https://jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tooltip-a11y-mistake/Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-foldingLost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense
https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/12/19/when-feature-flags-do-and-dont-make-sense/DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler
https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasmChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-similar-feeling/TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmersDanish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
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