Skripteka is a large library of Prototype extensions and scripts.

How not to write a shared library. There’s nothing like wrapping stuff that works just fine.

Google has a faster implementation of malloc. Not only is the source to the library clean and clear, the developer documentation for it is golden.

At one point, the Visual Studio code base had about a dozen implementations of a C++ String class, most of them hacked out of MFC. That’s a vast improvement over passing the buffers around, but hey… these library writers are paid to work on these things full time! Why aren’t you using STL or ATL yet? – ex-MS employee

A comparison of desktop memory usage, pitting KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and Plain XFree against each other in the battle for the smallest footprint.

Capacity planning isn’t to figure out what’s impossible, it’s a tool to guess how big things might be.

Here’s a great set of articles showing off the new features in Php 5.3: Part 1, 2, 3, 4. It’s fun to watch languages evolve.

Midori is a Webkit-based browser for Gnome. It’s new, and the artwork is a bit weird, but it means that other Webkit-esque browsers are coming. Yay.

An old-school Atari zine’s history of the PPC architecture.

S3 ‘buckets’ == unbounded mount points