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Andrew Plotkin (zarf) reverse-engineers Infocom's classic adventure Infidel with a memory-level debugger and uncovers an egregious wild-pointer compiler bug in the ZIL code that manages objects dropped in the endless desert.
An account of a MySQL upgrade that resulted in data inconsistency due to AUTO_INCREMENT behavior during replication, with insights on binlog formats affecting table references.
An analysis of rsync release history examines whether Claude-assisted commits introduced more bugs, using a permutation test on bugs per 10 commits. The findings suggest no statistically significant increase in bugs for Claude-assisted releases compared to historical distribution.