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tugz: a new deflate library with three applications
I spent a week creating a new deflate implementation from scratch in C named tugz to provide an Info-ZIP-compatible zip program for w64devkit 2.10.1 (released today). I also replaced busybox-w32’s def
I Wasted an Hour on X
Recently John Gruber, whom I’ve followed for decades, published . It’s short and I’m not going to try to summarize it so go read it if you haven’t already. But here are two key quotes: “I see
The Craft of Practitioner Voice
A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craf
Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?
Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost
Who is behind the anti-AI psyop?
The past 8 months or so of AI have been the most important thing that has happened to Open Source and democratization of technology since the Linux Kernel and Rust,
Gaming’s all-digital future doesn’t include “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” and “Pikmin 2”
Sony announced that all games from 2028 and onwards would be digital-only. It seems likely that Xbox will follow and that Nintendo will continue making “physical” releases for first-party games during