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DNS as a File System: The Gorgeously Terrible Idea That Actually Works

📅 August 27, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A file system on DNS sounds like a bad joke—until you realize DNS is just a globally distributed key-value store. This project strips away abstraction to reveal the absurd elegance underneath, forcing engineers to rethink what’s truly possible.

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Apple Wanted to Fix Case Sensitivity. Here’s Why It Couldn’t.

📅 July 30, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Apple’s engineers wanted APFS to be case-sensitive for correctness. But thousands of apps—including Apple’s own—break when file names differ only by case. So Apple abandoned the plan. This is the hidden tax of backward compatibility: even a trillion-dollar company can’t escape the weight of its own legacy.

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