Thought Dumpster
A hodgepodge of marginally interesting thoughts
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- Alexandru Ciobanu
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Did I Really Build Any of This?
A few weeks ago I wrote about Nostalgia, the emulator for the ES-1841 computer I used as a kid. In that post I described one of the more interesting bugs I found while trying to boot DOS.
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Why I "wrote" my own 8086 nostalgia emulator
Long-time readers (hi, both of you) might remember that I once spent a cross-Atlantic flight reverse-engineering a DOS poster viewer just so I could look at “pixel art” I had as a kid on my old ES-1841 – a Soviet clone of the IBM PC XT that was my entire...
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03
TZDB 2.1.3.2026a — Bug fixes and IANA update
A new TZDB release is out — this one updates to IANA TZDB 2026a and ships a handful of bug fixes, some of which have been quietly causing performance problems on Windows for a while.
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They Can't Wait to Fire You
They are excited. Not quietly relieved, not pragmatically resigned — excited. The Klarna CEO said it out loud: “AI can already do all of the jobs that we, as humans, do.” The Shopify CEO sent a company-wide memo saying employees must now prove AI can’t do their job before anyone...
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Hey .NET, where you at?
This article originally started as a “short delve” into the process of using Cursor editor to write .NET framework code. As I was writing it though, it quickly mutated into more of a commentary.
Enjoy!
