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I released z386, an open-source 80386 CPU core, in May and added the 80386 early-start optimization in June. Early start overlaps address generation for one instruction with completion of its predecessor. It was an important 386...
Recently, my mom has been enjoying a detailed history of her family since arrival on the American continent (prior to the American Revolution) researched in great depth by a scholar at West Point. Prominently featured in the book (and...
After the system goes into sleep and wakes up again, ImapGoose would just hang for like 15–20 minutes before finally detecting the disconnection and reconnect. This was super annoying, and understanding the root cause was not trivial at...
Here’s a short video about Daniel Craig’s screen test for Bond (it says 2006, but Casino Royale was released in 2006, so it had to be earlier than that). There’s a voiceover from Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson about how much they...
We’ve had a damp spring and summer in Houston – thirty-nine inches of rain since the start of the year. No major storms but frequent brief showers, often in late afternoon. At this time nine years ago, Hurricane Harvey was about to hit,...
Endurance is not glamorous, but it is what is needed.It's not in the dramatic speech before the monster makes its entrance, or in the final fight and the big spell. It is in the aftermath. The next morning comes, and one has to get up...
Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit! This week I learned about the worlds smallest buffalo, and she's...
One way to look at the whole DJing thing is whether you want to look at people’s fronts or backs. Personally, as a bassist, I wanna see the backs of people. I wanna be making things happen without being looked at directly. This is my...
Saturday 15th October 2026 Continuing this monthly nostalgic look back to the build up to bus deregulation forty years ago, thanks to those fledgling early editions of Bus Business from the Bus Archive, we now reach August 1986, just two...
Diego Nicolás Argüello wrote: ¡Objeción! The Trials and Tribulations of Translating Ace Attorney for Latin America All of a sudden, the team of four was sitting in front of over 780,000 words. Any project of this magnitude would be...
Some wise advice from my good self, all hidden behind a thumbnail chosen by one of my rotten colleagues! I will get my own back...
Note to self. A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than the Philippines’ national hero José Rizal had annotated an edition of Antonio de Morga, in...
A fire hydrant I shot on my S26 a few days ago, turned into a mostly black and white photo in Affinity Studio:
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot...