Recommendations

stuff I link to

• gedanken

There are a few blog posts, Twitter threads and other stuff I usually recommend to people when talking about a specific topic. I figured it would be nice to collect them all in one place.

last updated: 2020-01-23

web stuff:

• A tale of two viewports - part one
• A tale of two viewports - part two

terminals:

• everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (but were afraid to ask)
• The TTY demystified

text encoding:

• UTF-8 Everywhere

date and time stuff:

• You advocate a __ approach to calendar reform

network stuff:

• The world in which IPv6 was a good design

X11:

• XScreenSaver: On Toolkit Dialogs
• Rethinking Screensavers
• Screenlocker architecture in Plasma Next
• Why screen lockers on X11 cannot be secure
• Looking at the security of Plasma/Wayland
• A sandbox for the screen locker

Linux:

• Desktop Linux Platform Issues

programming languages:

• C Is Not a Low-level Language
• With Undefined Behavior, Anything is Possible
• Undefined behavior can result in time travel (among other things, but time travel is the funkiest)