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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about…
Oct 7
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Julio Merino
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September 2024
Revisiting the DOS memory models
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There…
Sep 30
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Julio Merino
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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
Sep 9
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Julio Merino
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August 2024
Picking glibc versions at runtime
Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's…
Aug 11
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Julio Merino
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Kyua graduates
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
Aug 2
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Julio Merino
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July 2024
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage
Look, I like Rust.
Jul 23
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Julio Merino
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
Jul 20
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Julio Merino
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June 2024
20 years of blogging
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.
Jun 22
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Julio Merino
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20 years of blogging
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April 2024
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128…
Apr 26
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Julio Merino
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March 2024
How "new type" helps avoid production outages
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra.
Mar 9
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Julio Merino
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February 2024
Links: February 2024 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
Feb 29
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Julio Merino
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To C or not to C
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
Feb 21
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Julio Merino
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To C or not to C
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