Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
On February 20, 2026, at 17:48 UTC, Cloudflare experienced a service outage when a subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyberattack or malicious activity of any kind. […]
Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header -like 2D rasterizer for C++
Example const context = document.getElementById( ”example” ).getContext( ”2d” ); // Build a star path. context.moveTo( 128.0, 28.0 ); context.lineTo( 157.0, 87.0 ); context.lineTo( 223.0, 97.0 ); context.lineTo( 175.0, 143.0 ); context.lineTo( 186.0, 208.0 ); context.lineTo( 128.0, 178.0 ); context.lineTo( 69.0, 208.0 ); context.lineTo( 80.0, 143.0 ); context.lineTo( 32.0, 97.0 ); context.lineTo( 98.0, 87.0 ); context.closePath(); […]
What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form
What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form as reported in the [REDACTED] list and RISKS Date: 01 Apr 88 1620 PSTFrom: Les Earnest LES…@S…Subject: The ”previous account” referred to in RISKS-6.51 e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the FBI Reading a book got me into early trouble–I had an FBI record by age twelve. This bizarre […]
The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated
The Nekonomicon Volume 1 – Book of Endings What is the Nekonomicon? Volume 2 – Book of Notes The collected works of the Nekochan forums. Volume 3 – Book of Illustrations Nekochan photo gallery.
Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust
Wolfenstein 3D in Rust The goal is to have a pixel, mod-friendly perfect recreation of Wolfenstein 3D in Rust. E1M1 Demo E1M1.mp4 Playing Iron Wolf just run-sdl-shareware should work out of the box on a cloned repo. It will run the shareware version, that is also checked in along with the code as testdata. Alternatively […]
macOS’s Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
17 Apr, 2025 EARLY ACCESS If you want a deeper, up-to-date treatment of sandbox-exec—including modern macOS pitfalls, Mach/XPC failures, and working profiles—I’m documenting it as an extended handbook, sandbox-exec: The Missing Handbook (early access, $12). What is sandbox-exec? sandbox-exec is a built-in macOS command-line utility that enables users to execute applications within a sandboxed environment. […]
Andrej Karpathy talks about ”Claws”
21st February 2026 Andrej Karpathy talks about ”Claws”. Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini (”The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused”) to tinker with Claws: I’m definitely a bit sus’d to run OpenClaw specifically […] But I do love the concept and I […]
EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
A new law to ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe is entering into force today. The new Batteries Regulation will ensure that, in the future, batteries have a low carbon footprint, use minimal harmful substances, need less raw materials from non-EU countries, and are collected, reused and recycled to a high […]
AI uBlock Blacklist
A personal list for uBlock Origin blocking AI content farms. Pull requests welcome. You can click here to subscribe to this list automatically. This link works only if you have uBlock Origin installed. Alternatively, import the following URL as a 3rd party list in uBlock Origin. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist/master/list.txt While browsing it happens sometimes most of the […]
Acme Weather
Adam Grossman February 16, 2026 Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weather app. Eventually, in time, it was acquired […]