1. Elon Musk Emails (elonmuskmails.com)

Elon Musk emails and related records, organized by year. Read available records and check the source for each entry.

15. More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right? (www.leadedsolder.com)

The Soggy needed a good low-level programming environment with which to tinker on future hardware projects, and ideally it was one that I controlled myself, so I could include it on the onboard ROM without infringing copyright. It would be nice if it used a semi-popular programming language for embedded systems, and had an interactive development environment that I could run right on the machine. All that seems to mean I’m finally going to make my first Forth.

18. Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 (yeet.cx)

An app fires StatsD datagrams at a port with no listener and Grafana shows the request rate anyway. We replaced prometheus/statsd_exporter with 165 lines of eBPF and a JavaScript decoder on yeet: the kernel reads the datagram, a sandbox with no sockets counts it, and Prometheus scrapes the result. First in a series on replacing every exporter with one binary.

28. Eight Bytes Are a Number (blog.sebastiansastre.co)

You needed a function to read a number, or a type. It also built a place to keep the bytes? That was not free.

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