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Tony Finch revisits his Gregorian-to-Julian day conversion algorithm, incorporating tricks from Ben Joffe to produce a more efficient and robust formula.

DREI is a new WYSIWYG HTML editor that implements a subset of Emacs editing commands in a Tauri app, letting users edit HTML documents visually while using familiar Emacs keybindings and commands.

A technical blog post explaining the FastLanes Unified Transport Layout, a SIMD-friendly data layout for parallel delta decoding, and how it enables data-parallel processing with wide virtual registers.

FAAAH is a dependency-free, OpenAI-compatible proxy that converts API requests into text files and uses AI coding agents like Claude Code as the backend, enabling reuse of existing subscriptions instead of paying for cloud LLM APIs.

MAGIC is a research paper exploring malicious aging attacks in circuits and cores, focusing on hardware security implications.

atomstr is a service that bridges RSS/Atom feeds to Nostr, letting users follow traditional feeds via Nostr clients.

An exploration of multistack concatenative programming languages, discussing how auxiliary stacks and dynamic bindings like Factor's namespaces and PostScript's dictionaries can ease data stack management without sacrificing concatenative composition.

A research notebook from Ink & Switch describing the object model for Livelymerge, a project that uses an Automerge document as the persistent, collaborative heap of a JavaScript program.

This article explains C++20's std::counting_semaphore and std::binary_semaphore, covering their API, usage for limiting concurrency and signaling between threads, and important details.

The article introduces Revision Prompting, a technique for industrial LLM processes that improves speed, cost, and consistency when re-processing updated inputs by generating output patches from diffs.

MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication technique that integrates delicate molecular materials into electronic devices without damage, combining conventional semiconductor manufacturing with self-assembly. The method, demonstrated with over 1,000 devices and published in Nature Nanotechnology, could enable next-generation computing, photonic, and quantum technologies.

This article explains systemd dynamic users, a feature that creates ephemeral Unix users at runtime for systemd units, removing the need to manually manage service users. It includes configuration examples and use cases.

An annotated guide to the binary structure of OpenSSH private keys, explaining each chunk, RSA parameters, and padding.

robot.villas is a tool that bridges RSS feeds to Mastodon, allowing automated posting of feed updates to the social network.

Developer notes from experiments building a semi-hypervisor/supervisor for the Cortex-M3 (Blue Pill) using MPU and SVC to provide isolation and privileged access control without MMU or TrustZone.

A classic 1960 paper by Norbert Wiener examining the moral and technical implications of automation, including social responsibility and unintended consequences of machine decision-making.

Soar is a fast, modern, bloat-free Linux package manager written in Rust, supporting static binaries, AppImages, and portable packages without requiring root, with distro-independent installation and secure builds.

Jolt, a Lisp/Scheme language, recently added two features: program images in the style of Common Lisp and Smalltalk for full-state serialization and debugging, and a portable Scheme backend decoupled from the Chez runtime for architecture-agnostic portability.

Amiga Corporation announced new agreements with Commodore International and Hyperion Entertainment, clarifying ownership of Commodore/Amiga intellectual property and defining the future of AmigaOS development and licensing.

A video demonstrates a GUI front end experiment that uses the Skred sound engine as an audio effects processor, with a design inspired by the Korg DW-8000 digital delay line. The project is MIT-licensed open source on GitHub.