Posts

All the articles and links I've shared.

• UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design

  originally posted by Vishnu Haridas

  UTF-8 is everywhere in software development, yet few developers truly understand how it works under the hood. This article breaks it down beautifully — variable-width encoding, ASCII backward compatibility, and a hands-on playground to visualize it all.

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• Building Vector Tiles from scratch

  originally posted by Andre Debuisne

  I have been looking for a more efficient way to render the map.

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• We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes

  originally posted by Pavel Panchekha

  A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today11 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here. all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural.

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• The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy

  originally posted by Ben Collier

  A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.

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