Collaborate Disseminate
Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations in a very compact space. Though they are extremely safe, with only the TMI-2 …read more Continue reading Deep Fission Wants to put Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground
That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded …read more Continue reading RavynOS: Open Source MacOS with Same BSD Pedigree
The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – …read more Continue reading Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II and III
On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure suffered the software equivalent of a cardiac arrest. After much …read more Continue reading How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
When you’re like [Wes] from Watch Wes Work fame, you don’t have a CNC machine hoarding issue, you just have a healthy interest in going down CNC machine repair rabbit holes. …read more Continue reading Fixing a Milltronics ML15 CNC Lathe Despite the Manufacturer’s Best Efforts
Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. …read more Continue reading Browser Fingerprinting and Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s nothing that’s keeping you from …read more Continue reading Writing Type-Safe Generics in C
Since modern household appliances now have an MCU inside, they often have a diagnostic interface and — sometimes — more. Case in point: Miele washing machines, like the one that …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering the Miele Diagnostic Interface
Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of stairs, so too can quadcopters …read more Continue reading Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together
Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo …read more Continue reading Using the Pyroelectric Effect to Identify Broken MLCC Capacitors