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Operating system kernels could return multiple values from system calls (utcc.utoronto.ca)
14 points by ingve 6 months ago | past | 2 comments
What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature (utcc.utoronto.ca)
65 points by ingve 7 months ago | past | 48 comments
How you can wind up trying to allocate zero bytes in C (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by ingve 7 months ago | past
The "personal computer" model scales better than the "terminal" model (utcc.utoronto.ca)
33 points by zdw 7 months ago | past | 20 comments
Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL (utcc.utoronto.ca)
55 points by ingve 7 months ago | past | 80 comments
The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals (utcc.utoronto.ca)
110 points by zdw 7 months ago | past | 72 comments
I feel open source has turned into two worlds (utcc.utoronto.ca)
121 points by sdht0 7 months ago | past | 50 comments
Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware (utcc.utoronto.ca)
43 points by zdw 7 months ago | past | 8 comments
What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by ingve 7 months ago | past
Python argparse has a limitation on argument groups that makes me sad (utcc.utoronto.ca)
29 points by zdw 7 months ago | past | 16 comments
I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by valyala 7 months ago | past
You could automate (some) boilerplate Go error handling with a formatter (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by ingve 7 months ago | past
Our Grafana and Loki installs have become 'legacy software' here (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by gpi 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
Things are different between system and application monitoring (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | past
My idea of how a modern mailing service should work (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | past
In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero (utcc.utoronto.ca)
69 points by mfrw 8 months ago | past | 38 comments
Our Grafana and Loki installs have become 'legacy software' here (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by valyala 8 months ago | past
Intel versus AMD is currently an emotional decision for me (utcc.utoronto.ca)
22 points by goranmoomin 8 months ago | past | 34 comments
A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems (utcc.utoronto.ca)
194 points by zdw 8 months ago | past | 207 comments
The length of file names in early Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca)
77 points by ingve 8 months ago | past | 64 comments
What keeps Wandering Thoughts more or less free of comment spam (2025 edition) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by zdw 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
A variable to a single-element slice in Go (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by goranmoomin 8 months ago | past
Thinking about what you'd want in a modern simple web server (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by ingve 8 months ago | past
The five platforms we have to cover when planning systems (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by throw0101b 8 months ago | past
Python, type hints, and feeling like they create a different language (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
The lack of a good command line way to sort IPv6 addresses (utcc.utoronto.ca)
37 points by zdw 8 months ago | past | 52 comments
Let's Encrypt Drops "Client Authentication" (mTLS) from Its TLS Certificates (utcc.utoronto.ca)
8 points by pabs3 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
Classical "Single user computers" were a flawed or at least limited ideas (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 8 months ago | past
LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by ingve 9 months ago | past

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