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Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

Verge staffers react to the iPhone Duo: What we love and don’t love

Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen, two back cameras, Touch ID for authentication, an IP68 rating…

Framework is giving some customers a RAM refund

In a "rare, positive update" amid the ongoing component shortage, Framework is lowering its RAM prices for some buyers of the Laptop 13 Pro - at least, for now. After increasing the laptop's memory pr…

My OSS Projects: AngleSharp

This is the first post in a new series, "My Open-Source Projects", where I go through some of the...

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

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What Happens When You Type a URL: Answer It With Three Interactive Simulators

"What happens when you type a URL and press enter?" is the most reused interview question in...

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

The Cable Buys Headroom: 91% of a USB 2.0 Bus, 3.6% of a Thunderbolt One

The best USB 2.0 pass in 45 tethering records used 91% of what that bus can usably carry. The same link on a SuperSpeed cable uses 3.6%. USB speed is autonegotiated between host, cable and device, the…

Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

Stop rebuilding from scratch: cache Docker layers on Cloud Build

Cloud Build runs on ephemeral workers, so your Docker cache vanishes on every run. Here's how to persist it in Artifact Registry with BuildKit's registry cache — uv stops re-downloading dependencies,…

RISC-V Emulator and Linux System from Scratch

Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker

Dozens of Resumes, One Call From an Old Colleague

About two weeks ago, I left my previous company. I didn't start looking for a new job right away. I...

Programming is Art

Bot Detection Without JavaScript: What My Blog Measured

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes