Two Years of Rust

Reflections on using Rust professionally for two years.

Are Plants Farming Us? A Thoughtful Look at Nature’s Silent Masters (@gentleshaid)

When I was a child, my grandmother had a sprawling garden filled with tomatoes, cucumbers, and sunfl...

20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?

rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between anothe…

Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected

Google announced that end-to-end encryption would be coming to Gmail. What a sweet day! Finally Google does something good. Is it a new protocol to

Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive

A deep dive into Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel architecture, tracing its evolution from Mach and BSD roots to powering macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon. This post explores the hybrid kernel’s design, its adaptation to new hardware and security paradigms, and why XNU remains a uniquely resilient and scalable foundation for Apple’s platforms.

GitHub - zquestz/ppa: zquestz's PPA

zquestz's PPA. Contribute to zquestz/ppa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Go Optimization Guide

Patterns and Techniques for Writing High-Performance Applications with Go

GitHub - supabase-community/postgres-language-server: A Language Server for Postgres

A Language Server for Postgres. Contribute to supabase-community/postgres-language-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

Golang on the PlayStation 2

The PS2 is more than capable of doing some wild things, including running Linux. I always wondered if we could just write baremetal Go code on it, so I decided to give it a try.

GitHub - zquestz/plank-reloaded: Still stupidly simple.

Still stupidly simple. Contribute to zquestz/plank-reloaded development by creating an account on GitHub.

CVE-2025-1974: The IngressNightmare in Kubernetes | Wiz Blog

Wiz Research uncovered RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-1097, 1098, 24514, 1974) in Ingress NGINX for Kubernetes allowing cluster-wide secret access.

The Worst Programmer I Know

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

Leaking Passwords (and more!) on macOS | Watch This Space

A security research blog.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

plank-reloaded — Translation Project on Crowdin

Help us translate plank-reloaded and bring it to the world!

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps - eva's site

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps

Visionati - Image Captioning, Descriptions and Analysis for Everyone

Harnessing the best in AI for unmatched image descriptions and analysis. Your images and videos, understood and explained like never before.

Why Ruby on Rails still matters

An old tool endures in a Next.js world

Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents

Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog

Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

Cloudflare incident on February 6, 2025

On Thursday, February 6, 2025, we experienced an outage with our object storage service (R2) and products that rely on it. Here's what happened and what we're doing to fix this going forward.

Good engineers are right, a lot

It's an iffy Amazon leadership principle but a great engineering metric

ModRetro Chromatic: Building the Ultimate Game Boy

The ModRetro Chromatic arrived with a bold claim: to be the ultimate tribute to Nintendo’s Game Boy. Built with premium materials - a synthetic sapphire screen cover, magnesium-aluminum alloy shell, and PBT buttons - it delivers on that promise. But for those of us deep in the retro gaming world, there’s always room for more. After preordering the limited Midnight edition and later adding a GameStop unit for multiplayer, I began exploring ways to transform this already impressive device into something even more special.