BruceEel
Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:41AM (#49895252)
Opens with a reference to Snow Leopard, I miss it to this day.
AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
Re:Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything")
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:33AM (#49499021)
> I am now using for most of my projects a exe/dynamic lib format of my own. This file format is so miminal a simple RFC will suffice.
That's great! Have you published it? If not, please consider doing so.
Re:Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything")
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:34AM (#49495978)
This is actually a lot of fun. Never did it on Linux, but Windows PE EXE files make similar tricks possible. Windows 95 in particular was very permissive. Using a (very primitive, by today's standards) hex editor I tried making the ".text" section begin halfway through the header and bang! ..it worked, a revelation of sorts. I imagine today's loaders may be a bit more strict because of security but I guess you can always make your own loader :)
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
Re:macOS 27 Wishlist: What Do You Want from Apple at WWDC 2026?
on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:12AM (#48412039)
Good heavens, I was about to post "Well, make it Snow Leopard, please", nice to meet you.
C++ STL Container Complexities Quick Reference
Re:Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @11:54PM (#48379713)
I'm 100% going to add file_id.diz to anything I release, how could I forget!
Re:Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:40AM (#48370902)
Aye, they were. I also liked listening to this [1] (Jason Scott's) interview with Mark Herring.
[1] https://archive.org/details/20021102-bbs-herring/Mark+Herrin...
Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
Re:Inferno (Boards of Canada)
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:31AM (#48334716)
enjoy! - I think they've 100% nailed it once again.
Inferno (Boards of Canada)
Arbitrage
The Windows Command Line and JP Software – A Brief History
CodeWright
GW-Basic (Modern Cross-Platform Rewrite)
Pilot (Proramming Language)
Just make a f___ing .EXE file and give it to me
Waking up as a meme-hero – Andras Arato [video]
FalconFly 3dfx Archive
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:58PM (#47576815)
Well, Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono ... - thank you!!!
Re:Grief Text Editor
on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:45AM (#47324836)
Isn't it just! Even today, Brief puts some of our 'modern' editors to shame...
Grief Text Editor
Re:We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
on Sunday February 22, 2026 @11:03AM (#47112079)
Very, very cool. Besides the top-performing models, it's interesting (if I'm reading this correctly) that gpt-5.2 did ~2x better than gpt-5.2-codex.. why?
Re:Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:07AM (#47015573)
A tragedy, yes. I can't be the only old fart around here with fond memories of John Siracusa's macOS ("OS X") reviews & Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' deep dives in CPU microarchitectures...
Re:How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windo...
on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:37AM (#46047561)
good heavens - can any thing or any one escape the subscription madness
Re:How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windo...
on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:30AM (#46045600)
Yes please! Speaking of which, was it Window Blinds(?) that could back/forward port UI themes across various Windows versions? Are they still around?
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
on Saturday November 22, 2025 @12:40AM (#46012403)
While we are here, may I ask what are some blogs you guys read regularly? (Regularly as in: going back to read new articles as opposed to a one-off link shared on some other platform.)
Neat. Personally, I wasn't aware of mathjax, it's a bit of a revelation to learn you can do this. I like very much the fact that the ASCII side is highly readable - compared to say, LaTeX (to me, anyway!) - as something I could use in code comments.