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Trying to get into #Witcher but don’t know where to start or go next? #TheWitcher Completionist’s Guide at mina86.com/2026/witcher... is there to help! It covers it all: books, @cdprojektred.com games, @darkhorse.com comics, @netflix.com show and the obscure works only hardcore fans know about.

The SpecPool #ICDCS2026 paper has been published. \o/ It describes an algorithm for speculative execution of transactions in #blockchain mempool, and demonstrates a #CosmWasm implementation of the method with 20% throughput improvement over prior approaches. More at mina86.com/2026/specpoo...

Want to draw a circle, but all you have are Bézier curves? Should you be in this specific situation or just interested in the mathematics of the curves, I’ve got a series about it at mina86.com/2026/bezier-.... It presents ways to approximate circles with linear, quadratic and cubic Bézier curves.

4 weeks left to donate to #SoftwareFreedomConservancy to help resist #BambuLab ’s attack on customer rights. For context how Bambu tries to screw everyone in #3DPrinting and beyond see mina86.com/2026/bambu-l.... #Enshittification, #SLAPP, AGPL violation, Sec. 1201 abuse — the story has it all.

Ever wondered how to make a #favicon look good in light and dark mode? Or localise it to user’s language? Or how to animate it? Wonder no more! Head to mina86.com/2026/fun-wit... for a description how to achieve all that with #SVG favicons.

Contrary to what some argue, #Linux is user-friendly. We don’t need GUIs for every single operation; it’s fine for administrative tasks to require a terminal or editing text files. See mina86.com/2026/we-dont...

For those following along, #StopKillingGames had a public hearing at The European Parliament. Recording can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSla...

Web fonts are a way to add icons ta a webpage. mina86.com/2026/creatin... describes how an SVG image can be easily converted to a font so you’re not limited to third-party icon fonts. And that’s not all, mina86.com/2026/using-l... elaborates on how ligatures can be used to improve accessibility.

Contrary to popular belief, K in CMYK stands for Key. That’s basically it but if you want to read more about key plates and CMYK head on to mina86.com/2026/k-is-fo...

Years ago I’ve prepared a programming task for DressCode competition. Dusted it off in hope it may be useful to someone, perhaps CS teachers. See Sorting algorithm programming exercise at mina86.com/2026/dressco... Coincidentally, it is tagentally related to today’s date.

I hear articles on page 40 and 47 are particularly interesting. ;)

Using character entities to escape #HTML markup is common knowledge, but how about using CDATA sections? Read up what they are, how they may be applicable outside #XML and how they may break your #XHTML documents at mina86.com/2026/escapin...

Apologies for tagging directly, but I am interested in what pros think about styling outbound links. cc: @bram.us @kevinpowell.co @nerdy.dev @una.im

Styling external (i.e. outbound) links differently from internal ones (Wikipedia style), yea or nay? I’m interested in everyone’s thought. Is it useful? Too much visual clutter? Read more, including description of three #CSS methods of getting such styling, at mina86.com/2026/styling...

You see your coworker write ‘import pickle’ but you don’t stop them? Why? Read more on how you should have stopped using pickle years ago at mina86.com/2026/pickle-...

Ever wondered what the deal with GMT and UTC is? Aren’t they the same? Short answer is no. Long answer is at mina86.com/2026/are-gmt...

‘Your Screen is Secretly 30 Years Old’ video from @nicklucid.nebula.tv is… How do I put it… Baffling. If you want to see some of the things it got wrong and why 7-bit colour depth has never been enough have a look at mina86.com/2026/7bpc-is....

Soon after I wrote an article about JPEG XL, Chromium team added support for the format. Coincidence? www.techradar.com/pro/google-r...

Are you a man of culture whose drive bulges at the seams from all the photos in the local gallery? What if I told you, you can save 22% of the storage with just one easy trick. Read more at mina86.com/2025/use-jpe....

Linux distributions are not like cars at mina86.com/2025/linux-d... If you’re interested in trying out Linux but reached selection paralysis stage of choosing your first GNU/Linux distribution, this article may be for you.

‘Be My Guest’ paper which I’ve presented at DSN 2025 has been published. More info at mina86.com/2025/be-my-g...

A tale of two pull requests at mina86.com/2025/a-tale-... with an addendum at mina86.com/2025/a-tale-... to prove I don’t complain about Rust only.

Could this be null? at mina86.com/2025/this-is... A bit of a follow up from my previous post on undefined behaviour touching on the null pointer dereferences in method calls. (Believe it or not, Microsoft still does that).

Axiomatic view of undefined behaviour at mina86.com/2025/axiomat...

Is Ctrl+D really like Enter? at mina86.com/2025/is-ctrl... cc: @hackarcana.bsky.social

Mutable global state in Solana at mina86.com/2025/solana-...

Now I know my XYZ’s at mina86.com/2025/know-my...

Regular expressions aren’t broken after all at mina86.com/2025/regexes...

Solana signature count limit at mina86.com/2025/solana-...

Solana transaction size limit at mina86.com/2025/solana-...

AI images should be copyrightable at mina86.com/2025/ai-shou...

Beware of Composable Foundation at mina86.com/2024/beware-...

Human error is not the root cause mina86.com/2025/human-e...

Rust’s worst feature* at mina86.com/2025/rusts-w...