Mastodawn

This writer never uses AI.

The purpose of AI is to produce minimally viable text.

My purpose is to produce text that expands your mental foundations to be more skilled and more compassionate. Tech book, fiction, doesn't matter, that's the goal.

These purposes are incompatible.

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Mar 17

kottke.org Mar 17

Twin adventurers are cleverly testing modern vs. historic gear. “If they went on an expedition, and Ross wore modern kit while Hugo wore historic replicas, any difference in performance…could be attributed solely to the gear, not genetics.” https://www.carryology.com/insights/how-the-turner-twins-are-mythbusting-modern-gear/

How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear

Modern adventure apparel should outperform heritage gear, right? Well, the genetically identical Turner twins put this theory to the test...

Carryology

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Mar 9

Kenneth Finnegan Dec 11, 2022

One of my nice friends at Hurricane Electric gave me a dead 100G-LR4 optic to tear apart for your entertainment, so for the sake of your entertainment, lets dig into it! 🧵

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Mar 6

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)Mar 6

Wanna know what's in store for #Linux 7.0, which is expected on April 12?

Then check out these great @lwn articles now freely available:

* The first half of the 7.0 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1057769/

* The second half of the 7.0 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1058664/

#LinuxKernel #Kernel

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Feb 27

Per Vognsen Feb 27

I guess this deserves to be posted on a regular cadence for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen it before: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the „condensed time line“ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so. <iframe width="700" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c0O6UXrOZJo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

D. Kriesel

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Feb 24

daniel:// stenberg://Feb 24

#curl decomplexification continued

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/24/decomplexification-continued/

decomplexification continued

Last spring I wrote a blog post about our ongoing work in the background to gradually simplify the curl source code over time. This is a follow-up: a status update of what we have done since then and what comes next. In May 2025 I had just managed to get the worst function in curl … Continue reading decomplexification continued →

daniel.haxx.se

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Feb 18

Martin Kleppmann Feb 18

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @[email protected], is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Jan 29

Grickle Jan 29

Here's a process video of a recent Holiday Vampire illustration I did. I'm generally pretty terrible at documenting my own work in progress, so I'm glad I actually spent the time to record this one. The concept came out of one tiny scribbled doodle and then I just went for it straight ahead with ink and pencil. #grickledoodle #vampire #holiday #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Jan 27

Binary Ninja Jan 27

New blog post is live! Xusheng tears apart a tiny Linux binary that really does not want to be reversed. Malformed ELF headers, segment tricks, layered XOR and RC4, plus a bunch of Binary Ninja tricks along the way. Read it here: https://binary.ninja/2026/01/23/reversing-linux-anti-re.html