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Technologies explained, as clearly as possible. Also a way to organize things for myself, since I forget everything.

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Translated from the Japanese version, so some context may be Japan-flavored.

"What 512,000 lines of source code left behind wasn't implementation — it was a record of battles fought."

The backward-compatible design held up. But a new data type doesn't care about that.

I built image exclusion for a vertical typesetting engine. Three coordinate systems showed up.

Five traps I fell into getting Kickstart to work on XCP-ng. All silent.

Finding the "closest taste" among ten million bottles of wine.

How to fit a million document ID lists into memory.

I wrote a binlog parser, and 20 years of design decisions came raining down.

How do you grammatically split "tabesaserarenakatta"?

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