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The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...

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Why I Built a Waitlist Tool That Forces You to Validate Before You Code

I've lost count of how many side projects I've abandoned. Not because the code didn't work — because nobody wanted what I'd built.

  • Author abandoned side projects due to poor validation, leading to wasted effort
  • Created WaitlistTest tool to validate ideas before coding, emphasizing validation-first approach

Robinhood Chain: Three Things the Docs Don't Say

Originally published on xroot.dev . I spent a day reading Robinhood Chain with eth_call instead of reading about it. Three things turned up that no documentation page mentions — and one of them is a…

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  • Operated by Robinhood with permissionless deployment
  • ABI lacks transfer restrictions despite source code showing "onlyNotBlocked" modifier

Clicks Rose 73%. I Shut the Site Down.

In June I fixed a real problem on a small editorial site I run. The site was a client-side app — the kind where the server sends a nearly empty HTML shell and the browser assembles the actual page…

  • Clicks rose 73% on the editorial site
  • Site shut down due to performance decline
  • Top pages accounted for 91% of impressions

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