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Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics

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February 2023 Multiprocessor Synchronization was one of my favorite classes during my undergrad — it had a clear progression from theory to practice, starting at the theory of consensus numbers and moving onto atomic operations and then synchronization primitives and … Read more

Making a 3D Modeler, in C, in a Week

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Last fall I participated in a week long programming event called the Wheel Reinvention Jam. The point of the Jam was to revisit existing software systems with fresh eyes. I ended up making a 3D modeler called “ShapeUp”. This post … Read more

Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL

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in blog date 4/13/2024 A hot minute ago, there was this interesting trend of Republicans being ostracized by mainstream social media, then forming their own. In these places, their version of the truth can proliferate without the moderation they’ve grown … Read more

Making old orchards new again

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Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an apple tree. It may be gnarly, with limbs clawing out in all … Read more

Making Friends with AttributeGraph

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If you’ve used SwiftUI for long enough, you’ve probably noticed that the public Swift APIs it provides are really only half the story. Normally inconspicuous unless something goes exceedingly wrong, the private framework called AttributeGraph tracks almost every single aspect … Read more

I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021)

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Something happened earlier this year where I got on a run making checkbox animations and just couldn’t stop. A bit of background: back in pre-pandemic 2020, I went to the Recurse Center for a week and built Checkboxland, a JavaScript … Read more

Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?

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12 Challenges readers Thandeka Xaba and Toby Mather raised some great points in the comments for yesterday’s Typology piece (thanks so much!). I want to pick up on something Toby said in particular, because I’m also puzzled by it: If … Read more

Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany

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I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Some version of this has been floating around the Internet … Read more