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An exploration of the Sony Produce 100 and 200 — specialized Japanese word processors (wapuro) from the late 1980s that were often mistaken for laptops, designed specifically for the unique challenges of Japanese text input.
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The Wiren Board engineering team shares a detailed case study of how they investigated and solved battery swelling in their WB-UPS v.2, ultimately redesigning the entire device into the much-improved WB-UPS v.3 with smart charging, Modbus RTU interface, and parallel operation capability.
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A deep dive into the Robotron 1715M, a vintage East German computer from the 1980s with a Z80-clone processor, exploring its hardware, software, character encoding quirks, retro gaming, and using it as a modern Linux terminal via serial connection.
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The story of how Honeywell's flagship DPS-88 mainframe failed catastrophically due to electromigration after engineers replaced gold conductors with copper to cut costs, leading to the company's exit from the computer market.
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An alternative history exploring what the internet would look like today if the Gopher protocol had prevailed over the World Wide Web -- from text-only menus and phlogs instead of social media to the absence of banner ads.
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A beginner-friendly guide to Kubernetes covering its architecture, core components like Pods, Deployments, and Services, and why it has become the industry standard for container orchestration.
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Cloudflare engineers discovered a rare race condition bug in Go's ARM64 compiler where asynchronous preemption during split stack pointer adjustments caused stack unwinding crashes, fixed in Go 1.23.12 and later.
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Six Docker capabilities that go beyond basic container operations: .dockerignore tricks, multi-stage builds, BuildKit mount types, health checks, log drivers, and secure credential storage.
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How IBM PCs from the late 1980s reproduced high-quality digital sound through their humble PC Speaker using Pulse-Width Modulation and the Intel 8253 timer chip, without requiring expensive sound cards.
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A security researcher created an account with the username "NULL" on a domain registrar and began receiving hundreds of email notifications about domain purchases made by other users, due to a classic null-value handling bug.
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A practical guide to building a custom NAS server with ZFS, TrueNAS SCALE, and self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services, all for about 42,000 rubles.
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The author developed a custom Base223 binary-to-text encoding scheme using Windows-1251 character encoding to achieve 97.5% efficiency, packing 168MB of animation files into a single standalone HTML file — saving 52MB compared to the standard Base64 approach.