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2026

The Real Historical Analogy

2026-04-20 00:00 | Words: 1709, Reading: 9

MCPs: "Useful" Was Never the Real Threshold -- "Consequential" was.

2026-04-20 00:00 | Words: 2465, Reading: 12

Agents | Ai | Llm | Mcp | Musings | Protocols | Security

From Prompt to Protocol Stack

2026-04-18 00:00 | Words: 1714, Reading: 9

Is There a Hidden Language Beneath English?

2026-04-16 00:00 | Words: 1897, Reading: 9

The Myth of Prompting as Conversation

2026-04-13 00:00 | Words: 1581, Reading: 8

Freedom Creates Protocol

2026-04-06 00:00 | Words: 1857, Reading: 9

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 7: From TPW to Delphi and the RAD Mindset

2026-03-13 00:00 | Words: 5503, Reading: 26

Delphi | Dos | Object-Pascal | Toolchain | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 6: Object Pascal, TPW, and the Windows Transition

2026-03-13 00:00 | Words: 5492, Reading: 26

Dos | Object-Pascal | Toolchain | Tpw | Turbo-Pascal

VFAT to 8.3: The Shortname Rules Behind the Curtain

2026-03-10 00:00 | Words: 1148, Reading: 6

Dos | Filesystem | Naming | Retrocomputing | Vfat

Deterministic DIR Output as an Operational Contract

2026-03-10 00:00 | Words: 1245, Reading: 6

Dos | Filesystem | Retrocomputing | Specification | Tooling

Why Old Machines Teach Systems Thinking

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 730, Reading: 4

Retrocomputing | Systems

When Crystals Drift: Timing Faults in Old Machines

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 792, Reading: 4

Debugging | Hardware | Retrocomputing

Turbo Pascal Units as Architecture, Not Just Reuse

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 653, Reading: 4

Architecture | Dos | Software-Design | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 5: From 6.0 to 7.0 - Compiler, Linker, and Language Growth

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 4268, Reading: 21

Dos | History | Toolchain | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 4: Graphics Drivers, BGI, and Rendering Integration

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 4234, Reading: 20

Bgi | Dos | Graphics | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 3: Overlays, Memory Models, and Link Strategy

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 4337, Reading: 21

Dos | Overlays | Toolchain | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 2: Objects, Units, and Binary Investigation

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 4654, Reading: 22

Dos | Reverse-Engineering | Toolchain | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Toolchain, Part 1: Anatomy and Workflow

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 4486, Reading: 22

Dos | Toolchain | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal Overlay Tutorial: Build, Package, and Debug an OVR Application

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 1339, Reading: 7

Dos | Overlays | Turbo-Pascal | Tutorial

Turbo Pascal History Through Tooling Decisions

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 661, Reading: 4

Dos | History | Toolchain | Turbo-Pascal

Turbo Pascal BGI Tutorial: Dynamic Drivers, Linked Drivers, and Diagnostic Harnesses

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 678, Reading: 4

Bgi | Dos | Graphics | Turbo-Pascal | Tutorial

Turbo Pascal Before the Web: The IDE That Trained a Generation

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 803, Reading: 4

Dos | History | Retrocomputing | Turbo-Pascal

Trace-First Debugging with Terminal Notes

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 662, Reading: 4

Debugging | Hacking | Incident-Response | Tools

Timer Capture Without an RTOS

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 780, Reading: 4

Electronics | Embedded | Microcontrollers

Threat Modeling in the Small

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 787, Reading: 4

Hacking | Security

The Cost of Unclear Interfaces

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 834, Reading: 4

Communication | Engineering | Musings

Terminal Kits for Incident Triage

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 688, Reading: 4

Cli | Hacking | Incident-Response | Tools

State Machines That Survive Noise

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 671, Reading: 4

Electronics | Embedded | Firmware | Microcontrollers

SPI Signals That Lie

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 681, Reading: 4

Electronics | Embedded | Microcontrollers

Security Findings as Design Feedback

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 802, Reading: 4

Architecture | Hacking | Process | Security

ROP Under Pressure

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 680, Reading: 4

Exploits | Hacking | Rop

Recon Pipeline with Unix Tools

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 665, Reading: 4

Hacking | Recon | Tools

Recapping a Vintage Mainboard

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 713, Reading: 4

Hardware | Repair | Retrocomputing

Prototyping with Failure Budgets

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 784, Reading: 4

Electronics | Engineering | Prototyping

Mode X in Turbo Pascal, Part 4: Tilemaps and Streaming

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 675, Reading: 4

Dos | Graphics | Mode-X | Retrocomputing | Turbo-Pascal

Mode X in Turbo Pascal, Part 3: Sprites and Palette Cycling

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 665, Reading: 4

Dos | Graphics | Mode-X | Retrocomputing | Turbo-Pascal

Mode X in Turbo Pascal, Part 2: Primitives and Clipping

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 737, Reading: 4

Dos | Graphics | Mode-X | Retrocomputing | Turbo-Pascal

Mode X in Turbo Pascal, Part 1: Planar Memory and Pages

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 800, Reading: 4

Dos | Graphics | Mode-X | Retrocomputing | Turbo-Pascal

Mode 13h in Turbo Pascal: Graphics Programming Without Illusions

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 834, Reading: 4

Dos | Graphics | Retrocomputing | Turbo-Pascal

Maintenance Is a Creative Act

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 700, Reading: 4

Engineering | Musings

Latency Budgeting on Old Machines

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 806, Reading: 4

Performance | Retrocomputing | Systems

IRQ Maps and the Politics of Slots

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 796, Reading: 4

Dos | Hardware | Retrocomputing | Troubleshooting

Interrupts as User Interface

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 694, Reading: 4

Dos | Retrocomputing | Systems

Incident Response with a Notebook

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 766, Reading: 4

Hacking | Incident-Response | Operations

Ground Is a Design Interface

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 799, Reading: 4

Debugging | Design | Electronics | Hardware

Giant Log Lenses: Testing Wide Content

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 208, Reading: 1

Cli | Hacking | Tools

Fuzzing to Exploitability with Discipline

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 777, Reading: 4

Exploits | Fuzzing | Hacking | Research

Exploit Reliability over Cleverness

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 724, Reading: 4

Exploits | Hacking | Reliability

Debugging Noisy Power Rails

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 748, Reading: 4

Debugging | Electronics

Debouncing with Time and State, Not Hope

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 802, Reading: 4

Electronics | Embedded | Firmware | Microcontrollers

CONFIG.SYS as Architecture

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 735, Reading: 4

Dos | Retrocomputing | Systems

Clarity Is an Operational Advantage

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 783, Reading: 4

Engineering | Musings | Process

C:\ After Midnight: A DOS Chronicle

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 5156, Reading: 25

Dos | Retrocomputing

Building Repeatable Triage Kits

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 715, Reading: 4

Hacking | Operations | Tools

Benchmarking with a Stopwatch

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 796, Reading: 4

Performance | Retrocomputing | Systems

Assumption-Led Security Reviews

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 714, Reading: 4

Hacking | Review | Security

Archive Discipline for the Floppy Era

2026-02-22 00:00 | Words: 705, Reading: 4

Retrocomputing | Storage

Why Constraints Matter

2026-02-10 00:00 | Words: 244, Reading: 2

Philosophy

Restoring an AT 286

2026-02-01 00:00 | Words: 256, Reading: 2

Hardware | Restoration | Retrocomputing

RISC-V on a 10-Cent Chip

2026-01-30 00:00 | Words: 255, Reading: 2

Electronics | Embedded | Microcontrollers | Risc-V

Nmap Beyond the Basics

2026-01-08 00:00 | Words: 209, Reading: 1

Hacking | Networking | Tools

2025

Format String Attacks Demystified

2025-12-14 00:00 | Words: 235, Reading: 2

C | Exploits | Hacking | Security

Writing Turbo Pascal in 2025

2025-10-19 00:00 | Words: 345, Reading: 2

Dos | Turbo-Pascal

2024

Linux Networking Series, Part 7: Ten Years Later - nftables in Production

2024-10-09 00:00 | Words: 4095, Reading: 20

2015

Linux Networking Series, Part 6: Outlook to BPF and eBPF

2015-11-19 00:00 | Words: 3213, Reading: 16

2011

Storage Reliability on Budget Linux Boxes: Lessons from 2000s Operations

2011-11-08 00:00 | Words: 1403, Reading: 7

2010

From Mailboxes to Everything Internet, Part 4: Perimeter, Proxies, and the Operations Upgrade

2010-05-21 00:00 | Words: 1375, Reading: 7

2009

Early VMware Betas on a Pentium II: When Windows NT Ran Inside SuSE

2009-04-03 00:00 | Words: 1435, Reading: 7

2008

From Mailboxes to Everything Internet, Part 3: Identity, File Services, and Mixed Networks

2008-09-18 00:00 | Words: 1363, Reading: 7

2007

From Mailboxes to Everything Internet, Part 2: Mail Migration Under Real Traffic

2007-02-27 00:00 | Words: 1347, Reading: 7

2006

Linux Networking Series, Part 5: iptables and Netfilter in Practice

2006-10-09 00:00 | Words: 4116, Reading: 20

From Mailboxes to Everything Internet, Part 1: The Gateway Years

2006-03-14 00:00 | Words: 1512, Reading: 8

2004

Linux Networking Series, Part 4: iproute2 and the Migration from ifconfig/route

2004-06-09 00:00 | Words: 3275, Reading: 16

2003

Home Router in 2003: Debian Woody, iptables and the Stuff Which Runs

2003-03-02 00:00 | Words: 1184, Reading: 6

2001

Debian Potato on a 486 Before the Real Router Swap

2001-09-08 00:00 | Words: 1015, Reading: 5

Getting the LAN Services Right: dhcpd, bind8, Squid and Adzapper

2001-08-20 00:00 | Words: 1489, Reading: 7

2000

Linux Networking Series, Part 3: Working with ipchains

2000-04-11 00:00 | Words: 3191, Reading: 15

My D-Channel Syslog Hack and DynDNS Update for the Home Router

2000-04-09 00:00 | Words: 1052, Reading: 5

1999

Making ISDN Dial-On-Demand Work with SuSE and ipfwadm

1999-02-14 00:00 | Words: 1030, Reading: 5

1998

My First Linux Router: SuSE 5.3, Teles ISDN and the Blinking DSL Modem

1998-10-03 00:00 | Words: 1408, Reading: 7

Linux Networking Series, Part 2: Firewalling with ipfwadm and IP Masquerading

1998-06-18 00:00 | Words: 3200, Reading: 16

Linux Networking Series, Part 1: Basic Linux Networking

1998-05-24 00:00 | Words: 3144, Reading: 15

Linux | Networking | Operations | Retrocomputing | Tcp-Ip

IPX Networking on Linux: Mini Primer for Mixed 90s Networks

1998-05-10 00:00 | Words: 1001, Reading: 5

Ipx | Linux | Networking | Novell | Retrocomputing

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