Yosef Kreinin’s "delayed printf" approach to debug #logging for embedded software development: save a pointer to the format string and the arguments in a buffer, then do the formatting in your debugger if and when needed, so printf doesn’t slow down your program’s real-time response latency
why #PyPy has difficulty emulating the #Python C API for Python extension modules like Numpy
Ron Wyden in January 02025 with a Republican memo about their radical policies of tax cuts for the rich, etc. #USA #politics
German 3M page about cyanoacrylate #adhesives #materials. “Cyanacrylat-Klebstoffbasis”.
DNM’s list of readings: manifesto of the futurist programmers, worse is better, early history of Smalltalk, Wirth’s plea for lean software, calm technology, Sassenrath’s REBOL manifesto, Systems Software Research is Irrelevant, Itching Powder at Tulips, etc.
a note about people shooting themselves, or their companies, in the foot with languages with too much freedom
Cal Paterson’s “oral history of bank Python”
how to make #PWM #electronics signals without a microcontroller, using a 74AC14
#PDF #electronics spec of 4-wire PWM-controlled CPU fans from Intel
#PDF of Julia Evans’s #perf_events zine. CC-BY-NC-SA. #performance #profilers
Brendan Gregg’s page on #perf_events #performance #profilers #toread
Andi Kleen’s #perf_events #performance #profilers tools