For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh to make it crash loudly and analyzing the crash’s core dump was the winning strategy!
Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
Why traditional logging fails and how wide events can fix your observability
Fix your tools
Last week I had to diagnose a bug in an open source library I maintain. The issue was gnarly enough that I couldn’t find it right away, but then I thought: if I set a breakpoint here and fire up the debugger, I will likely find the root cause very soon… and then proceed to mercilessly destroy it! So I rolled up my sleeves, set the breakpoint, fired up the debugger, and… saw the program run to completion without interruptions whatsoever.
Forking is Cool, or: A Unix Shell in Zig, or: Dave Learns How to Fork - ratfactor
In this article, I make a real, working interactive shell written in Zig. Though essentially a toy, it demonstrates the incredible elegance of the fork() system call and is an example of what can be done with absolutely no runtime memory allocations.
Blockenheimer for Bluesky
Rehosted without much testing, Unblocking and History even less tested, original code here, I am not responsible for anything that happens as a result of using this site. Please do not contact the original author about this site. Complaints to @alxtratrstrl.xyz
Is GitHub Cooked?
Track GitHub service incidents and outages. Real-time stats, incident history, and downtime analytics.
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
Audio & MIDI - Zrythm v2.0.0-DEV documentation
The Export dialog below is used to export the project or part of the project into audio or MIDI files. It can be accessed by clicking Export.
The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now
I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of self-loathing. Call it collecting evidence of the fall. Dansugc.com went straight into the folder this morning. It’s a
Proving the Firehose: I Audited 2.9 Million Bluesky Messages and Found What the Relays Don't Show You - Sovereign Logs
I’m BEGGING You To Make Zines
How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going
For the past year and a half, the team building Roc's compiler has been rewriting our 300,000 lines of Rust code into Zig, for reasons I'll recap below. We recently passed an exciting milestone: feature parity with the original compiler!
Agentics: Memorizing Session Transcripts Isn't Useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
Clearsky status
Welcome to Clearsky status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.
Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents
A curated directory of real-world incidents where AI-generated code failed in production.
Oxmgr — Rust Process Manager
42× faster crash recovery, 20× lower memory than PM2. Written in Rust.
How to Fix OpenClaw's Memory Search with QMD | Jose Casanova
Upgrade OpenClaw's memory search from basic SQLite to QMD — a local hybrid search engine combining BM25, vector search, and LLM re-ranking for better AI memory.
