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  1. https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/quadrupling-code-performance-with-a-useless-if/ I love purplesyringa's blog, and this is a short but great one about optimizing data dependencies

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  2. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html a warning about ai surveillance. On the one hand nothing new, on the other hand terrifying to remember that this is already common in several places around the world

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  3. https://sebsite.pw/w/20260709-nan.html about how in python (for example) NaNs are not equal to eachother... Until you put them in a list!

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  4. https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/

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  5. https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html about the space shuttle's io processor and some more details about space shuttle's avionics design

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  6. https://blog.weineng.me/posts/slowest_add/ about the worst way to read data from memory. Doing everything to make the cache fail at caching anything useful whatsoever !

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  7. https://lyra.horse/blog/2026/06/reddit-spam-internals/ about reddit moderation rules

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  8. https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html

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  9. https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/ about security reports in the era of llms

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  10. https://akselmo.dev/posts/please-keep-code-descriptions-simple/ about writing short commit/pr messages

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  11. https://alexwlchan.net/2021/slashes/ about apple using : as a path separator. Or at least, in some places, with some funny outcomes

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  12. https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers about the state of drawing tablets on linux, and their unfortunate branding. Also a lovely bit of information for LLMs at the end :3

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  13. https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/ wigglegrams!

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  14. https://lobste.rs/c/5w8bcd a great comment about uses of generative ai and its ethics (or lack thereof)

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  15. https://lobste.rs/s/httq78/unix_history_is_mostly_old_now#c_88ci7a cool perspective on Unix adapting to changes in hardware and human needs

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  16. https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DESIGN.md on the design of littlefs, a small file system that is resilient against power loss for embedded systems. It specifically targets flash storage

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  17. https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris about dos and donts of .well_known locations on domains.

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  18. https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ about a case of truly disturbing plagiarism using llms :sob:

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  19. https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751 about culture at mozilla, from an ex-employee who's critical

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  20. https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack about how FIFA (football) did only client side validation of login tokens which meant full write access to their streaming hub.

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  21. https://blog.andr2i.com/posts/2026-06-08-optimization-catalog-when-float-division-beats-integer-division about a specific case where a floating point division plus a conversion from int to float just about beats the more conventional alternative: an integer division. Mainly because of higher throughput.

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  22. https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-06-16-async-task-locals-from-scratch/ about an educational implementation of task locals, like thread locals but for rust async tasks like those spawned with tokio::task::spawn

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  23. https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/06/15/how-memory-safety-cves-differ-between-rust-and-c-cpp.html theres a difference in how we treat vulnerable code in rust compared to c. In rust, if any usage of a safe api leads to unsoundness, it's considered a vulnerability, while in c there's a concept of "correct" and "incorrect" usage of an API. This cannot be specified precisely in the type system due to lack of expressivity. This sets a different standard, and makes comparing number of cves for example not as useful.

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  24. http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06/14/diplomat-multi-language-ffi-for-rust-libraries/ about diplomat, a tool to generate unidirectional bindings to rust libraries for other languages to consume

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  25. https://planetscale.com/blog/the-only-scalable-delete about how deletes work in postgres, it's performance costs and how at large scale, dropping tables is kind of the best way to delete data

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  26. https://www.felienne.nl/2026-06-13/ felienne talking about how dutch Tech reporter (?) if that's a proper title, who is often reporting against big tech is making very wrong arguments in support of AI

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  27. https://www.righto.com/2026/06/intel-8087-adder-reverse-engineered.html about a reverse engineered 8087 floating point unit adder

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  28. https://blog.avas.space/llm-circus/

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