7 November 2026

12 links · Saturday

The Port That Does Not Exist

Port 0 is the port you are not supposed to use, so nobody looks there. So we put an IRC network on it. Then I got curious whether anyone else had, and scanned all of IPv4 for port 0. Turns out we weren't alone, and some of our neighbours really shouldn't be th…

UploadYourRam.org

Sam Altman sure is convincing when he says it is inefficient for us to have RAM in our computers. But RAM that has been purchased already can't be un-purchased so consumers are left to feel the guilt of having unused RAM in their computers. Right?

Underground 2 Revived

Play Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004) in Chrome and Firefox with WebGPU graphics, Web Audio, up to 120 fps widescreen, controller support, free roam and Online races with friends. Fan project, not affiliated with Electronic Arts.

Making musl and proprietary NVIDIA drivers work together

As you may be aware, one of the limitations of musl-based distributions is that they will not function to their proper extent when used in computers with various NVIDIA graphics cards. This is due to the proprietary nature of the driver, being built for glibc.…

Libghostty 1.0

libghostty-vt 1.0 is here. libghostty is a portable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation, extracted directly from the core of Ghostty. The 1.0 release means both the library itself and the C ABI are now stable.

Working with designers

I love working with designers, in part because (unlike managers and product managers) they’re culturally different from engineers. However, having more than one…