John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 03/10/2026October 2 - A utility pole that's been doing its job for a while now. 130
John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 25/03/2025Just doing some reading about the design of cryptographic protocols. 10431104
John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 11/02/2025@rincewind.run I was digging around for my favorite Pratchett quote today and thought of you after I found it. Basically this entire page, and the three lines on the following: "Does what?" "Make a sound. If it falls down when no one's there to hear it." "Who cares?" 071
John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 10/02/2025In 2014, a building collapsed next to the office I worked in crushing a bunch of cars parked next to it. Google added snowflakes for fun. This is still very funny to me. 040
John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 17/11/2024I found a rare thing just sitting on the shelf at a local place that specializes in mules, not whiskey. 030
John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 31/10/2024I drew this 12 years ago. It remains one of my most insightful observations in firmware development. 181
John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 25/09/2023from lwn on the design of "automatic buffer selection for io_uring" lwn.net/Articles/815... 000