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Zero Hydra Failures towards 24.11 NixOS release - November 4, 2024
xmms2 0.9.4 is out - October 7, 2024
gcc-15 bugs, pile 1 - August 25, 2024
gcc-15 template checking improvements - July 22, 2024
seekwatcher 0.15 - July 7, 2024
blog tweaks - July 6, 2024
probabilities are hard - June 23, 2024
inline gnuplot - June 22, 2024
gcc simd intrinsics bug - June 16, 2024
Three years on NixOS - June 2, 2024
nixpkgs bootstrap files update - May 26, 2024
Zero Hydra Failures towards 24.05 NixOS release - May 25, 2024
highway debugging example - May 18, 2024
the sagemath saga - May 12, 2024
gcc-14 bugs, pile 4 - April 13, 2024
a libpam bug - March 30, 2024
listing all nixpkgs packages - December 30, 2023
a breakage example in C variadic function - December 20, 2023
upgrading an ssd - December 15, 2023
gcc-14 bugs, pile 3 - November 22, 2023
fuzzing duperemove - November 21, 2023
duperemove speedups - November 12, 2023
Zero Hydra Failures towards 23.11 NixOS release - November 8, 2023
-Ofast and -ffast-math non-local effects - October 25, 2023
Another gcc profiling bug - October 7, 2023
Inline graphviz dot in hakyll - October 6, 2023
Maximum argument count on linux and in gcc - September 21, 2023
Unexpected runtime dependencies in nixpkgs - September 14, 2023
32-bit file API strikes back - September 7, 2023
gcc-14 bugs, pile 2 - September 6, 2023
SSH over HTTPS - August 30, 2023
An obscure make --shuffle bug - August 11, 2023
Mysterious patchelf linkage bug - July 31, 2023
Nix Expression Language non-determinism example - July 17, 2023
gcc-14 bugs, pile 1 - July 12, 2023
Two years on NixOS - July 9, 2023
Building vanilla gcc on NixOS - July 8, 2023
DNS over TLS - June 18, 2023
nix and guix for Gentoo in 2023 - May 19, 2023
From irssi to weechat - May 11, 2023
Zero Hydra Failures towards 23.05 NixOS release - May 10, 2023
gcc-13 is around the corner - April 20, 2023
fontconfig on 160 DPI - March 25, 2023
parallel installs in nixpkgs - March 15, 2023
a signal from the stars - March 4, 2023
cooling failure - February 25, 2023
xmms2 0.9.2 is out - February 11, 2023
trying out flakes - February 5, 2023
from mcedit to vim - February 4, 2023
nix-olde - find outdated NixOS packages - January 19, 2023
nixpkgs bootstrap deep dive - January 5, 2023
xmms2 FLAC hangup fix - December 30, 2022
xlibsWrapper yak - December 27, 2022
peeking at stale nixpkgs packages - December 27, 2022
AoC of 2022 - December 25, 2022
Registered on mastodon - December 18, 2022
A dataflow gcc bug - December 10, 2022
Fixing wine-wayland on POLARIS - November 28, 2022
Diving into an IPA gcc bug - November 19, 2022
Zero Hydra Failures towards 22.11 NixOS release - November 8, 2022
Waypipe fixes - November 7, 2022
GCC's new -Wdangling-reference warning - November 5, 2022
GNU make 4.4 is out! - November 1, 2022
A few more gcc-13 bugs - October 21, 2022
Trying out wayland - September 28, 2022
GNU make amends rules with multiple targets - September 25, 2022
Shrinking closure example - September 24, 2022
GNU make's 'Secondary Expansion' feature - September 16, 2022
A year on NixOS - September 4, 2022
Porting to pure Bison API - September 4, 2022
Ski 1.4.0 is out! - August 20, 2022
binutils 2.39 - August 12, 2022
one-liner to fix CSS on phones - August 4, 2022
nixpkgs overlay nano howto - July 31, 2022
nixpkgs cross-compilation improvements - July 30, 2022
Dynamic linking is hard (SuperH version) - July 10, 2022
A small update on 'make --shuffle' mode - June 21, 2022
How do shared library collisions break? - June 18, 2022
NixOS 22.05 release - June 11, 2022
dropping disqus comments - June 1, 2022
-fno-common legacy - May 13, 2022
xmms2 0.9.1 is out - May 2, 2022
gcc profiler internals - May 1, 2022
gcc-12 journey - April 24, 2022
nix gc speedup improvements - April 4, 2022
nixpkgs bootstrap intro - March 24, 2022
Hacking on glibc - March 13, 2022
New make --shuffle mode - February 23, 2022
Nix and Guix in Gentoo in 2022 - February 9, 2022
A rust bug - February 8, 2022
Minor atl1c kernel driver bug - January 22, 2022
seekwatcher 0.14 - January 17, 2022
ncurses update journey - January 3, 2022
AoC in rust - December 25, 2021
Trying out gcc-12 - November 14, 2021
When make -j$(nproc) fails - October 28, 2021
A month on NixOS - October 11, 2021
Bisects all the way down - September 1, 2021
Having fun with bash completion - August 23, 2021
farewell, gentoo dev - August 8, 2021
ia64 ptrace: off-by-one yak - August 7, 2021
A year on gcc from git - March 7, 2021
Delay Slots strike back - February 27, 2021
readline config - December 12, 2020
Debugging wine - December 6, 2020
Filter out AAAA DNS responses - November 7, 2020
Fixing HPPA boot - July 6, 2020
debuigging LTO builds - May 19, 2020
mitigating bufferbloat - April 26, 2020
visualising python profiles with flameprof - April 11, 2020
perf and DWARF and fork() - April 10, 2020
Filing STABLEREQ for lazies - March 23, 2020
GCC 10 in Gentoo - March 23, 2020
An old linux kernel tty/vt bug - June 26, 2019
page fault handling on alpha - January 4, 2019
ptrace() and accidental boot fix on ia64 - August 4, 2018
tracking down mysterious memory corruption - July 14, 2018
crossdev and GNU Hurd - April 14, 2018
Linker script weird tricks or EFI on ia64 - February 2, 2018
GCC bit shift handling on ia64 - December 23, 2017
Stack protection on mips64 - December 16, 2017
Endianness of a single byte: big or little? - November 18, 2017
signed char or unsigned char? - September 17, 2017
stack growth direction: how hard can it be? - June 26, 2017
masking a package in gentoo overlay - June 24, 2017
GHC as a cross-compiler update - April 15, 2017
ia64 machine emulation - March 19, 2017
c-reduce nano howto - March 5, 2017
guix on gentoo howto - February 11, 2017
nix on gentoo howto - January 19, 2017
dynamic linking ABI is hard - December 3, 2016
fuzzing re2c - December 2, 2016
scaling ghc --make - October 1, 2016
perf on haskell programs - April 21, 2016
GHC on m68k - March 12, 2016
doxygen for lazies - February 2, 2016
glibc on ia64 or how relocations bootstrap - December 27, 2015
grub-0.97 and gcc-4.9 - December 16, 2015
fixing ghc on sparc ia64 and friends - September 13, 2014
ANNOUNCE: uselex.rb - useless exports extinguisher - July 7, 2013
having fun with exploit 200 ctf 2013 - June 13, 2013
valgrind talk :] - March 31, 2013
FreeBSD-5.3 SMP and qemu - March 16, 2013
gcc's -Wmissing-format-attribute option - March 12, 2013
cvsps gets an update part 2 - January 12, 2013
cvsps gets an update - January 10, 2013
repoman and python implementations - December 25, 2012
turbo boost emerge --sync and cvs up on gentoo-x86 - November 17, 2012
grub2 and menus - July 28, 2012
profiling your boot - July 8, 2012
xorg and udev - June 18, 2012
c++ quiz - June 2, 2012
Ajattara and Verjnuarmu - May 9, 2012
recover broken BIOS - April 10, 2012
seekwatcher - March 10, 2012
gentoo chrootiez in 30 seconds - March 8, 2012
hackport gets hackage status and profile use depends - February 29, 2012
unknown words (Lord of The Rings) - December 21, 2011
paludis and crosscompilers (part 2) - December 20, 2011
sparc relocations - December 19, 2011
canyoucrackit riddle - December 4, 2011
slyfox's overlay - November 16, 2011
ghc-7.2.2 is in overlay - November 13, 2011
unknown words (the hobbit) - November 13, 2011
btrfs subvolumes - November 7, 2011
unknown words (silmarillion) - November 5, 2011
asimov - October 28, 2011
AP wifi - October 23, 2011
Noumena: Suomalainen musiikki - October 11, 2011
LD_PRELOAD and multiple libraries - October 8, 2011
is your code portable? - September 29, 2011
me - September 27, 2011
firefox ftp utf-8 filenames - September 4, 2011
alpha journey - August 11, 2011
an unsafeInterleaveIO example - August 10, 2011
26 - August 8, 2011
ghc-7.0.4 is pushed to portage - August 6, 2011
ghc 7.2 hits overlay! - July 23, 2011
unbreaking igepv2 - July 16, 2011
ghc and static linkage - July 16, 2011
make idea - July 10, 2011
claws-mail filter magic - July 6, 2011
ghc 7.0.4 is unmasked in overlay - July 5, 2011
new xmms2 bell - June 5, 2011
default ssl certificates in gentoo - May 3, 2011
memcpy strikes again - April 16, 2011
a look at btrfs - March 3, 2011
gentoo prefix - February 5, 2011
c and small ints - December 17, 2010
rst for home page - December 15, 2010
zurich trip - December 6, 2010
paludis and crosscompilers - November 24, 2010
clang++ stdcall bug - October 25, 2010
memcheck: the debugger - October 21, 2010
clang++ features - October 19, 2010
haskell's 'let' list expression - October 14, 2010
glibc on sparc - September 25, 2010
flash u-boot to sheevaplug - August 7, 2010
ghci report - August 6, 2010
gentoo-haskell progress for two weeks - July 19, 2010
GHC LLVM report - July 16, 2010
New gentoo dev - June 6, 2010