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2016-12-31: Apple AirPods teardown.
2016-12-31: The best prime numbers of 2016.
2016-12-31: How command line parameters are parsed on Windows.
2016-12-31: About the PHPMailer CVE-2016-10033 and CVE-2016-10045 remote code execution vulnerabilities.
2016-12-31: Load Balanced DNS with dnsdist.
2016-12-30: Typography wars: has the Internet killed curly quotes?
2016-12-30: The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force book on his career so far.
2016-12-30: OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path (or the lack thereof...)
2016-12-30: US CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure.
2016-12-30: The history of keeping the damned women out: when Cambridge went co-educational.
2016-12-30: Hormonal contraceptives are linked to depression, and doctors can no longer ignore it.
2016-12-30: Non-compete clauses in employment contracts and developers' side projects.
2016-12-30: Firejail security sandbox, based on Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
2016-12-30: LoRaHam: Ham radio protocols and Arduino examples for LoRa on 70cm.
2016-12-30: A coding style guide horror story.
2016-12-30: Security risks with untrusted input and Python's new-style string formatting.
2016-12-29: How to triage an academic paper.
2016-12-29: DTrace at home: a kernel hacker bypasses a bug in Adobe Illustrator.
2016-12-29: How not to build a digital archive: lessons from the dark side of the force.
2016-12-29: From tape drives to memory orbs, the data formats of Star Wars suck.
2016-12-29: Modules in Clang.
2016-12-29: Detecting the use of `curl | bash` server side.
2016-12-29: Theresa May lacks courage to admit complexity of Brexit.
2016-12-29: Mealworms can happily and safely eat styrofoam.
2016-12-29: From secretary to software developer, the hard way.
2016-12-28: OONI: open observatory of network interference, detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation.
2016-12-28: New theory explains how the moon got there.
2016-12-28: Maslow's hierarchy of SRE / devops needs.
2016-12-28: What was it like working on the original iPhone project (codenamed Project Purple)?
2016-12-28: Live CO2 emissions of European electricity production.
2016-12-28: The mysterious virus that could cause obesity.
2016-12-28: How C compilers break for objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes.
2016-12-28: Chunked sequences: O(1) push and pop, O(log n) split and concat, low constant factors.
2016-12-28: A list of lists of falsehoods programmers believe about almost everything.
2016-12-27: Falsehoods programmers believe about CSV.
2016-12-27: twitter-export-image-fill: A script to download all the images that should be in your Twitter archive.
2016-12-27: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG14 N2086: C2x charter.
2016-12-27: Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way on Windows.
2016-12-27: Rogue One: an engineering ethics story.
2016-12-27: Making DNSSEC work for an AWS-hosted site.
2016-12-27: Reflecting on Haskell in 2016.
2016-12-26: Code style tip: Return early and clearly.
2016-12-26: μWWVB: A tiny WWVB station for setting radio-synced watches.
2016-12-26: The farmer who built her own gigabit FTTP ISP.
2016-12-26: No API? No problem! Scripting AJAX web UIs with Fiddler and PowerShell.
2016-12-26: All the talks from the Systems We Love conference.
2016-12-26: Kubernetes / AWS networking for dummies.
2016-12-26: A container networking introduction and overview.
2016-12-26: What the Guardian tech team learnt from their mistakes in 2016.
2016-12-26: Petros Vrellis: knitted pictures on a circular loom.
2016-12-26: ThreadTone: halftone images made of thread.
2016-12-26: Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old.
2016-12-26: The MySQL "swap insanity" problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture.
2016-12-25: Cambridge night climbing.
2016-12-25: gti: a steam locomotive for git users.
2016-12-24: Selected Usenet articles on computing.
2016-12-24: Constant-time crypto in BearSSL.
2016-12-23: Inside the Starshot mission to Alpha Centauri.
2016-12-23: Multiple DNS providers: synchronizing Dyn and to AWS Route 53, using nsnotifyd and cli53.
2016-12-23: Leap smear at Amazon.
2016-12-23: Top 10 Python libraries of 2016.
2016-12-22: How Heroku sped up SNI TLS handshakes in Erlang by 5x.
2016-12-22: Now, that's what I call Brexit! Delving into the Brexicon.
2016-12-22: Squaring the data protection circle with Brexit just got harder for the UK.
2016-12-22: Learning from a year of security breaches.
2016-12-22: Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC 1973. (YouTube)
2016-12-22: Multi-process Firefox project status report.
2016-12-21: Let Toys Be Toys 2016 end of year report.
2016-12-21: A history of the Washington-Moscow hotline.
2016-12-21: Furiosa's armor-plated cat feeder.
2016-12-21: The war on drugs in 2016.
2016-12-21: Solar now produces a better energy return on investment than oil.
2016-12-20: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT.
2016-12-20: Fabrice Bellard's 128-bit RISCVEMU RISC-V system emulator.
2016-12-20: Modern garbage collection vs Golang.
2016-12-20: The incompatible food triad is the most delicious philosophical problem of our time.
2016-12-20: A qp-trie implementation in Rust.
2016-12-20: A complete archive of the sf-lovers mailing list.
2016-12-19: A bit of history about sf-lovers.
2016-12-19: SF-lovers: archive of the first big non-technical ARPANET mailing list.
2016-12-19: GPS seismology: real-time high-rate sampling for tsunami warnings.
2016-12-19: The accidental tide guage: a GPS reflection case study from Alaska.
2016-12-19: How does a GPS tide guage work?
2016-12-19: GPS interferometric reflectometry for measuring the depth of snow.
2016-12-19: CYGNSS: a weather satellite system using reflected GPS signals to measure ocean winds.
2016-12-19: How Sweden has redesigned streets to route around bad human behavior.
2016-12-18: Why percentiles don't work the way you think.
2016-12-18: You need to rethink your ssh jump server.
2016-12-18: Three-tier support should be replaced with Swarming in a DevOps-oriented organization.
2016-12-18: Tired of Makefiles.
2016-12-18: Reliably compromising Ubuntu desktops by attacking the crash reporter.
2016-12-18: How Unix got into the CEO's office at AT&T.
2016-12-18: Some advice for dealing with narcissists like Trump.
2016-12-17: Project Wycheproof tests crypto libraries against known attacks.
2016-12-17: SQLines Oracle to PostgreSQL migration reference.
2016-12-17: Could the best way to make money from science be to give it away for free?
2016-12-17: A chemical chorus: "carol of the bells" played using NMR data.
2016-12-17: How Godbolt's compiler explorer works.
2016-12-16: Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, goes into production.
2016-12-16: Compromise recent Linux desktops via gstreamer SNES emulation.
2016-12-16: The underhanded Rust contest.
2016-12-16: GitHub is building a coder's paradise. It's not coming cheap.
2016-12-15: Major flaws in university league tables: Governments and institutions should ignore them.
2016-12-15: Zero-cost futures in Rust.
2016-12-15: 9 places that reveal the hidden history of the cold war in Britain.
2016-12-14: Programming is forgetting: toward a new hacker ethic.
2016-12-14: What would happen if the USA went to war against Santa?
2016-12-14: Efficient markets? When to send an investing model into retirement.
2016-12-14: Kakoune: a vi-like editor with a better command grammar:
2016-12-14: Zone poisoning: the how and where of insecure dynamic DNS UPDATEs.
2016-12-14: Why you should not review for or publish with Elsevier.
2016-12-14: A faster sort algorithm for Rust.
2016-12-13: EPA admits that fracking can contaminate drinking water.
2016-12-13: Enormous uplift at a site of explosive volcanic eruptions on the Chile / Argentina border.
2016-12-13: Choose your own email adventure! A tool to help freelancers negotiate contract terms.
2016-12-13: Cheap-ass ECMP with an ethernet hub and non-contiguous netmasks.
2016-12-13: Where does 9600bps come from?
2016-12-13: Best practices in DNS anycast service provision architecture. (2006)
2016-12-13: Best practices in IPv4 anycast routing. (1997)
2016-12-13: Build your own anycast network in 9 steps.
2016-12-13: 3 million Brexit tweets reveal leave voters talked about immigration more than anything else.
2016-12-13: Hexml: a very fast but incomplete XML parser inC and Haskell.
2016-12-13: Pugixml: parsing XML at the speed of light.
2016-12-13: pugixml: Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ with XPath support.
2016-12-13: Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the modern whistle-blower.
2016-12-12: Revamped bubble wrap loses its pop.
2016-12-12: Commercial web sites must check all their link targets for piracy, rules Hamburg court.
2016-12-12: Discussion of server hardware for GitLab.com.
2016-12-12: Not giving up on PGP: how to set up stronger key encryption and use OpenKeychain on Android.
2016-12-12: Exchange Online message corruption breaks DKIM signatures on some forwarded messages.
2016-12-12: German judges explain why Adblock Plus is legal.
2016-12-12: Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator: At the cutting edge of technology.
2016-12-12: Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator's plasma confinement magnetic field.
2016-12-11: grafanalib: generate Grafana dashboards from simple Python scripts.
2016-12-11: jid: json incremental digger, like an interactive jq. (Golang)
2016-12-11: ansistrano: an Ansible port of the Capistrano web app deployment tool.
2016-12-11: pREST: an alternative to PostgREST written in Golang instead of Haskell.
2016-12-11: Fan is a tool-using animal.
2016-12-11: How to manage multistage environments with Ansible.
2016-12-11: NetData: scalable, distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
2016-12-11: President of Colombia called for a rethink of the war on drugs in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
2016-12-10: Better insults.
2016-12-10: Only one activity is known to grow new neurons in adulthood: vigorous aerobic exercise.
2016-12-10: Command-line cartography with newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON).
2016-12-10: PG Wodehouse archives acquired by British Library.
2016-12-10: Five things we learnt from the Supreme Court Article 50 hearing.
2016-12-10: Don't cry over dead trade agreements.
2016-12-09: Breaking the exploit chain: Win32k API lockdown in Google Chrome.
2016-12-09: Hilary: the most poisoned baby name in US history.
2016-12-09: Passive WiFi could be 10,000 times more power efficient.
2016-12-09: A guide to the breads of India.
2016-12-09: Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors.
2016-12-09: Romer's gap / tetrapod triumph! Solving the mystery of the first land vertebrates.
2016-12-09: New measurements of the Earth's rotation from 720 BC to AD 2015.
2016-12-09: EU applications to Cambridge University fell after the Brexit vote.
2016-12-09: RISC-V BOOM: Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine.
2016-12-09: FOSSi: The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation.
2016-12-09: Faild: Fastly's in-house load balancing system.
2016-12-09: The right has its own version of political correctness. It's just as stifling.
2016-12-08: The half-life of code and the git of Theseus.
2016-12-08: Communications infrastructure in Cornwall. (YouTube)
2016-12-08: Announcing TypeScript 2.1.
2016-12-08: Compositional test-case shrinking in Hypothesis.
2016-12-08: Integrated vs type-based shrinking: Hypothesis vs QuickCheck.
2016-12-08: How to get someone to check a cable: ask them to blow the dust out of the connector.
2016-12-08: Mr. Robot killed the Hollywood hacker.
2016-12-07: An algebra of graphs.
2016-12-07: How not to fuck up your manufacturing startup.
2016-12-07: Secure ROM extraction on iPhone 6s.
2016-12-07: Starting a new Rust project right, with error-chain.
2016-12-07: The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the state to tell lies in court.
2016-12-07: Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017.
2016-12-07: The orphaned Internet: 120K domains vulnerable to the shared hosting takeover attack.
2016-12-07: Giving up on PGP.
2016-12-06: Ultra-stable optical clock with two cold-atom ensembles.
2016-12-06: NIST ZDT (zero dead time) dual ytterbium optical lattice clock sets new stability record.
2016-12-06: Azure Jupyter notebooks in action for CUED 1A computing.
2016-12-06: Azure Jupyter notebooks.
2016-12-05: SSD prices rise as NAND shortage bites; HDD shortage looms as components become scarce.
2016-12-05: How slow https processing in Python revealed a performance bug in macOS calloc().
2016-12-05: How I wrote the screenplay of Arrival, and what I learned doing it.
2016-12-05: V8 JavaScript engine: optimizing memory consumption.
2016-12-05: Torsors made easy.
2016-12-05: ripgrep code review.
2016-12-04: How to use PVS-Studio static analyser for free.
2016-12-04: Quantum physics and prime numbers: the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function.
2016-12-04: Origin of diversity in falling snow: how special are snowflakes?
2016-12-04: Tim Hayward's guide to making the ultimate gravy.
2016-12-04: ProtonMail deploys SRP to improve usability by unifying login and decryption passwords.
2016-12-04: IPv6 support for EC2 instances in AWS virtual private clouds.
2016-12-04: Canonical log lines: a single-line summary of each request.
2016-12-04: Brigadoon, the time machine.
2016-12-04: ojo: Fun one-liners with Mojo, a perl web framework.
2016-12-04: recs: A system for command-line analysis of data.
2016-12-03: Let's stop copying C.
2016-12-02: 15 years of concurrency at Microsoft.
2016-12-02: Service discovery at Stripe with Consul, HAProxy, and DNS.
2016-12-02: RoLR, Registrar of Last Resort: malicious domain quarantine.
2016-12-02: Avalanche law enforcement takedown.
2016-12-02: ‘Avalanche' botnet C&C dismantled in international operation.
2016-12-02: So long, Whitechapel bell foundry.
2016-12-02: How data analysis identified the Singapore Circle Line rogue train.
2016-12-01: Google OSS-Fuzz: continuous fuzzing for open source software.
2016-12-01: GNU Shepherd: the Guix system distribution's init process, written in Guile.
2016-12-01: An apocryphal story about defect rates when ordering electronics from Japan.
2016-12-01: Nichia LEDs: precise binning AND low minimum order quantities.
2016-12-01: AMD will sneak-peek its high-end Zen CPU in December, starting a new CPU war.
2016-11-30: Shipping maps win at the Information Is Beautiful awards.
2016-11-30: UK ratifies membership of new unified EU patent court, despite Brexit.
2016-11-30: The Emacs dumper dispute, or, unexec the awesomely horrible.
2016-11-30: A very precise calculation of exactly how many cows are being murdered to make the new fivers.
2016-11-30: A design for micron-scale atomic clocks using endohedral fullerenes.
2016-11-30: Raspberry Pi NTP stratum 1 microserver HOWTO.
2016-11-30: Browsix: Unix in the browser tab.
2016-11-30: Google public NTP servers with smeared leap seconds.
2016-11-30: Corrode C-to-Rust translator: goto considered (mostly) harmless.
2016-11-30: nom parser combinator library for Rust, version 2.0.
2016-11-30: Rust's iterators are inefficient, and here's what to do about it.
2016-11-30: Fujitsu and ARM collaborate for Japan’s Post K supercomputer.
2016-11-30: Barcelona supercomputing centre MareNostrum 4 will include Intel Xeon, Knights Hill, Knights Landing, IBM POWER 9, NVIDIA GPUs, Fujitsu ARMv8.
2016-11-30: Router / switch buffer size issues.
2016-11-30: New polymer £5 note added to Churchill archives centre, where it sits alongside Winston Churchill's unpaid bills.
2016-11-30: 10G ethernet switch buffer sizes.
2016-11-30: Betavoltaic devices.
2016-11-30: A new higher-power diamond betavoltaic battery.
2016-11-29: The surprising implications of the Microsoft / Ireland warrant case.
2016-11-29: LEGO Technics machine produces true braided rope.
2016-11-29: Ofcom orders BT to separate from Openreach to improve competition.
2016-11-29: Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism.
2016-11-29: The 14 characteristics of fascism.
2016-11-29: Narcissistic personality disorder: Coping with chaos in the White House.
2016-11-29: Chance of an 'orderly' Brexit within two years is less than 50%.
2016-11-29: The electoral college was not meant to overturn elections.
2016-11-28: The design of Vulkano, a Rust interface to Vulkan.
2016-11-28: Who speaks for the state? Brexit in court.
2016-11-28: On bullshit and the oath of office: the "LOL nothing matters" presidency.
2016-11-28: The blockchain paradox: once you address the problem of governance, you no longer need a blockchain.
2016-11-27: pgTAP: unit testing for PostgreSQL.
2016-11-27: pgrebase: easy management of Postgres functions, triggers, views, etc.
2016-11-27: Pictures of the GeoCities cage at Exodus Communications. (1999)
2016-11-27: Systemd is not magic security pixie dust.
2016-11-26: Building a Harlequin ZX Spectrum clone.
2016-11-26: Abusing MS Edge URL protocols.
2016-11-26: Lessons learned playing the programming game Shenzhen I/O.
2016-11-26: Approaches to applying spacing methods in seriffed and sans-serif typeface designs.
2016-11-26: What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
2016-11-25: Disobedient electronics: call for submissions.
2016-11-25: Don't build private clouds.
2016-11-25: On political and civic structures.
2016-11-25: Rust hash tables are accidentally quadratic.
2016-11-25: sccache, Mozilla's distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust.
2016-11-25: Putting the Rust in Trust: towards formal verification.
2016-11-25: Robigalia: a userland for seL4 written in Rust.
2016-11-25: CakeML: a formally verified implementation of ML.
2016-11-23: Aspartame may prevent weight loss by blocking an intestinal enzyme's activity.
2016-11-23: Solving imaginary scaling issues, at scale.
2016-11-22: Using Let's Encrypt within FreeBSD.org.
2016-11-22: Who will command the robot armies?
2016-11-22: Brussels prepares for a hard Brexit.
2016-11-22: US banks lay groundwork to leave London.
2016-11-22: A 4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles.
2016-11-21: How to chop garlic. (video)
2016-11-21: constexpr-8cc: a C compiler implemented in C++14 constant expressions.
2016-11-21: Cloudflare IPv6 state of play.
2016-11-21: This year is the first time the winner of the Interactive Fiction Competition can be played without a keyboard.
2016-11-21: A particular kind of seaweed can reduce methane in cow burps and farts to nearly zero.
2016-11-21: Lessons learned from South Australia power blackout.
2016-11-21: QP trie to be used in Knot DNS.
2016-11-20: German cities have come up with a cheap way to provide public toilets.
2016-11-20: How to make bots that successfully fight racism on Twitter.
2016-11-19: Blameless postmortem debriefing facilitation guide.
2016-11-19: SpaceX plans worldwide low latency gigabit satellite Internet service.
2016-11-18: "Sore winner" syndrome: Why are Donald Trump's supporters (and Brexiteers) still so angry?
2016-11-18: Election expenses exposed: Channel 4 news investigation into breaches of campaign law.
2016-11-18: Why Roman law did not succeed in England.
2016-11-18: Chernobyl containment arch moved into place in historic engineering feat.
2016-11-17: Stephen Wolfram on his contribution to the movie Arrival.
2016-11-17: NTP leap smearing test results.
2016-11-17: How Arrival's designers crafted a mesmerizing alien alphabet.
2016-11-17: Rust for C++ programmers.
2016-11-17: Learning Rust with entirely too many linked lists.
2016-11-17: Xnet protesters in Spain drove the criminal prosecution of top bankers.
2016-11-15: H L Mencken on Trump.
2016-11-15: Leaked brexit memo: ministers have multiple conflicting plans, and Whitehall is struggling to cope.
2016-11-15: Portable System Services: systemd takes over Linux containers.
2016-11-15: Thunderbolt 3 technology brief.
2016-11-15: Dutch principles of road design: Sustainable Safety in action.
2016-11-14: Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 processor opcodes on an emulated Nintendo.
2016-11-14: Refactoring Rust std lib for ultimate portability.
2016-11-14: More about the Fraunhofer Institute StEnSEA pumped storage system.
2016-11-14: StEnSEA under-sea pumped storage 1:10 trial under way.
2016-11-14: Cretonne as a backend for the Rust compiler.
2016-11-14: Cretonne vs LLVM.
2016-11-14: Cretonne: a low-level compiler back-end IR and retargetable code generator, implemented in Rust.
2016-11-14: Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend: on leaving tech.
2016-11-13: Some thoughts about DNS and DDoS.
2016-11-13: Stop asking me to empathize with the white working class.
2016-11-13: Solar panels surpass coal-fired electricity in UK over summer.
2016-11-13: pg_repack: reorganize PostgreSQL with minimal locks. (Alternative to vacuum.)
2016-11-13: What so many people don't get about the US working class.
2016-11-13: Authoritarianism, not the economy, explains Trump and Brexit.
2016-11-13: Sheffield University's vice chancellor on Theresa May's trade mission to India.
2016-11-12: DNS request analysis with open source software.
2016-11-12: Extreme bagpiping.
2016-11-12: The Cinemax theory of racism.
2016-11-12: Blink Shell: ssh and mosh terminal emulator for iOS.
2016-11-12: Why sorting an array makes a Python loop faster.
2016-11-12: Ted Chiang, the science fiction genius behind the film Arrival.
2016-11-11: What's the singular form of ‘cattle'?
2016-11-11: Things fall apart: a history of banking crises and ensuing political crises in Britain.
2016-11-11: Why the IETF should standardize JMAP.
2016-11-11: Getting "atomic" (WWVB) clocks to work indoors and in weak signal areas.
2016-11-11: CAN bus-off attack: error handling of in-vehicle networks makes them vulnerable.
2016-11-11: The Beagle2 Mars lander came excruciatingly close to success.
2016-11-11: Tor, TPMs and service integrity attestation.
2016-11-10: History tells us what may happen next with Brexit and Trump.
2016-11-10: Lies to children: Why electricity is hard to understand.
2016-11-09: Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over'.
2016-11-09: UK IPv6 council meeting October 2016 slides and videos.
2016-11-08: NAPALM: network automation and programmability abstraction layer with multivendor support, for Ansible or Salt.
2016-11-08: UK austerity policies 'amount to violations of disabled people's rights' says UN.
2016-11-08: Brutal reality of lower benefit cap hits home for struggling UK families.
2016-11-08: Akamai will smear the 2016 leap second.
2016-11-08: How do you feel about optical lattice clocks?
2016-11-08: Sun outage / interference prediction for geostationary orbit satellites.
2016-11-08: IoT goes nuclear: creating a ZigBee chain reaction worm that spreads by physical proximity.
2016-11-08: A list of headless browsers and related automation tools.
2016-11-08: Some thoughts on Python asynchronous API design in a post-async/await world.
2016-11-07: Locking in WebKit.
2016-11-07: Futexes are tricky.
2016-11-07: rq: record query, like a multi-format jq.
2016-11-07: Perl and the birth of the dynamic web.
2016-11-06: The "hard problem" of consciousness is a distraction from the "real problem".
2016-11-06: Docker in production: a history of failure.
2016-11-06: kpatch: patch a running Linux kernel.
2016-11-06: Harvard researchers created solid metallic hydrogen and saw it is a reflective metal at low temperature at 495GPa.
2016-11-06: The secret world of microwave networks.
2016-11-05: Brexit is jeopardizing Britain's universities.
2016-11-05: Holovect: holographic vector display. (Kickstarter)
2016-11-05: Jeff Erickson's Algorithms, Etc.
2016-11-04: BearSSL: a new small TLS implementation.
2016-11-03: Abusing systemd user services.
2016-11-03: Measuring Docker network overhead in multi-host clusters.
2016-11-03: Measuring Docker disk IO overhead by benchmarking Percona server.
2016-11-03: Measuring Docker CPU / network overhead by benchmarking Percona server.
2016-11-03: PornHub bypasses ad blockers by using WebSockets.
2016-11-03: Not so special: Why the US won't help Britain in the Brexit talks.
2016-11-02: Active Cyber Defence: tackling cyber attacks on the UK
2016-11-02: Benjamin Franklin's method for improving his writing.
2016-11-02: The Brexit campaign, physics and data science: Vote Leave's "Voter Intention Collection System" (VICS) now available for all.
2016-11-01: Polymorphism, subtyping, and type inference in MLsub.
2016-11-01: Maastricht 25 years on: what happened to the European dream?
2016-11-01: HP / Agilent / Symmetricom 5071A cesium beam tube photos.
2016-11-01: HP 9100A, their first RPN calculator.
2016-11-01: What's inside an atomic clock Cs beam tube?
2016-11-01: Eliminating excessive state in network, application, and services architectures as a DDoS defense strategy.
2016-11-01: I don't understand Python's asyncio.
2016-10-31: Glossary of government IT self-harm bullshit.
2016-10-31: Comedy script writer jargon.
2016-10-31: European parliament debates DST.
2016-10-31: Mituharu's enhanced emacs-mac port.
2016-10-31: Museu del Cinema, Girona.
2016-10-30: The USA spent $5.7 billion on a nuclear armageddon pyramid, then abandoned it.
2016-10-30: telnetlogger: record login attempts from the Mirai botnet.
2016-10-30: Michael Moore's Angel in the Tweets.
2016-10-30: Misc stuff about USB-C.
2016-10-30: Differing Thunderbolt 3 vs PCIe bandwidth in the late-2016 MacBook Pro USB-C ports.
2016-10-30: Why are there no USB-C Receptacle to Type-B plugs or Type-A plugs?
2016-10-30: Bus1: capability-based object-oriented inter-process communication on Linux.
2016-10-29: What comes after iptables? Its successor, nftables.
2016-10-29: The fourth argument to main() on macOS.
2016-10-29: Compatibility nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.
2016-10-29: Buttery smooth Emacs: double-buffered rendering on X11.
2016-10-29: The DrK attack: de-randomize kernel ASLR using Intel TSX.
2016-10-29: Corrode C-to-Rust update: support from Mozilla, and new features.
2016-10-29: Home Office rules: social and economic policy after Brexit.
2016-10-28: 27th DNS root key ceremony: generating the future KSK.
2016-10-28: Cognitive bias cheat sheet.
2016-10-28: Hooked on DTrace.
2016-10-28: Intro to DTrace on macOS.
2016-10-28: DTrace (or rather BPF) for Linux 2016
2016-10-27: A visit to the museum of technology in Figueres.
2016-10-27: Museu de la Tècnica de l'Empordà, Figueres.
2016-10-27: Bimodal IT considered harmful.
2016-10-27: Gecko plus Servo: a quantum leap for the Web.
2016-10-27: Security operations centre (SOC) buyers guide.
2016-10-27: Passfault password strength analyser.
2016-10-26: Parsing JSON is a minefield.
2016-10-26: How Google almost killed ProtonMail.
2016-10-26: OpenSSL face to face meeting report: roadmap and platform updates, including TLS 1.3.
2016-10-26: IETF dots wg: DDoS open threat signalling.
2016-10-26: Attackers are now abusing exposed LDAP servers to amplify DDoS attacks.
2016-10-26: The fantasy of autonomous cars is already encouraging neglect of more efficient transit systems .
2016-10-26: Verisign public DNS recursive resolver service.
2016-10-26: PPRuNe discusses Concorde.
2016-10-25: task_t considered harmful: problems in the core of XNU / macOS / iOS.
2016-10-25: How not to do it: liquid nitrogen tanks.
2016-10-25: Brexit Britain is a narcissist nation.
2016-10-25: Marginal "Marginal evidence for cosmic acceleration from Type Ia supernovae".
2016-10-25: How Democrats killed their populist soul: post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power.
2016-10-24: Nobel prize overturned? No dark energy, no accelerating expansion of the universe?
2016-10-24: "They didn't tell us we could do that": Brexit, Mayism, and the economics of nationalism.
2016-10-24: Threat analysis of on-premises and cloud encryption.
2016-10-24: Charles Dickens' pet raven Grip inspired Edgar Allen Poe.
2016-10-23: cinf: Linux container info, and low-level namespace and cgroup prodding.
2016-10-23: A burning philosophical question: dumpster fires vs tire fires.
2016-10-23: Scaling Puppet and Puppet culture at GitHub.
2016-10-23: A guide to optimising software in C++.
2016-10-23: Rust roadmap for 2017.
2016-10-23: Internet Census 2012: Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices.
2016-10-23: The racist and sexist history of keeping birth control side effects secret.
2016-10-23: Kircher and Schott's computer music of the Baroque.
2016-10-23: Nomulus: Google's open source top-level domain name registry.
2016-10-22: Sunday Strip Watchmen: your favourite syndicated cartoons get the dark treatment.
2016-10-22: Dyn statement on 2016-10-21 DNS DDoS attack.
2016-10-22: Full(er) House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices.
2016-10-22: Shami Chakrabarti's fall from grace: how a liberal hero lost her reputation.
2016-10-21: Goodbye World! The perils of error checking stdio.
2016-10-21: World's longest pub crawl: a travelling salesman problem solved between 25,000 UK boozers.
2016-10-21: Comodo issued X.509 certs to the wrong people because they used OCR to read whois data from .be and .eu.
2016-10-21: SANET 100Gbit NREN backbone based on TRILL.
2016-10-21: Why we lost the Brexit vote: Behind the scenes of the flawed campaign to keep the UK in the EU.
2016-10-21: Fixing Python performance with Rust.
2016-10-20: The dangerous dream: How a progressive alliance could split Labour's left.
2016-10-20: Architects Registration Board will not prosecute "Software Architects".
2016-10-20: "Software architect" is an illegal job title in the UK.
2016-10-20: How the Web became unreadable: against low-contrast typography.
2016-10-20: 8cc.vim: a C compiler written in vim script, based on ELVM.
2016-10-20: $ export TERM=aaa-60; : jwz resurrects an old terminal.
2016-10-20: Brexit: the death of British business.
2016-10-19: Greenland is melting. The floodgates may already be open.
2016-10-19: Bit-rot tolerance in digital archives doesn't work.
2016-10-18: History of actors in programming languages.
2016-10-18: The history and manufacture of pencils.
2016-10-18: Faster counting in PostgreSQL.
2016-10-18: Debugging with Bacon.
2016-10-17: A dramatic tour through Python's data visualization landscape.
2016-10-17: 12480: an alphanumeric writing system.
2016-10-17: The Birkana runic hexadecimal number symbols.
2016-10-17: How Twitch uses PostgreSQL.
2016-10-17: The Importance of Place: explaining the characteristics underpinning the Brexit vote across different parts of the UK.
2016-10-17: JMESpath: a query language for JSON.
2016-10-17: CIRA labs DSAP: DS automated provisioning, for third-party DNS operator DNSSEC maintenance.
2016-10-17: Irish leaders fear Brexit will bring economic disaster.
2016-10-16: Brexit: a story in maps.
2016-10-16: Yeti DNS root server testbed: the first experiments.
2016-10-16: Rolling the root zone DNSSEC KSK.
2016-10-16: ENT was here !!! A problem with DNSSEC validation and empty non-terminal names.
2016-10-16: Anycast vs. DDoS: evaluating 2016-11-30 attack on root DNS servers.
2016-10-16: The ops identity crisis.
2016-10-16: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table.
2016-10-16: Understanding cacheing in Postgres.
2016-10-16: Introduction to PostgreSQL physical storage.
2016-10-16: NOMMU Linux, without virtual memory.
2016-10-16: Unix command line utility style guide.
2016-10-16: MySQL 8.0: the end of MyISAM.
2016-10-15: Gradual typing for functional programming languages.
2016-10-15: Static types in Python, oh my(py)!
2016-10-15: What $50 buys you at Huaqiangbei, a huge electronics market in Shenzhen.
2016-10-15: This robot can do more push-ups because it sweats.
2016-10-14: How to speed up the Rust compiler.
2016-10-14: A single byte write opened a root execution exploit, via c-ares on Android.
2016-10-14: A look back at a view of categories of SDN from 2013.
2016-10-14: Bellringers banned from York Minster, one of the greatest rings of bells in the country.
2016-10-14: The AstroPy problem: lack of funding and recognition for work on scientific software.
2016-10-14: Hedy Lamarr: inventor of frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
2016-10-14: Benchmarking popcount: hand coded assembly beats compiler intrinsics.
2016-10-14: 101 ways to screw up when making a fake online identity.
2016-10-14: A dozen USB chargers in the lab.
2016-10-13: Your social media fingerprint: which web sites are you logged into?
2016-10-12: New algorithm solves the bounded fair cake-cutting problem.
2016-10-12: PostgreSQL major version upgrade options.
2016-10-12: OpenSSL key recovery attack on unsafe RFC 5114 DH parameters.
2016-10-11: Multics Emacs: the history, design, and implementation.
2016-10-11: Algorithms for making more interesting mazes.
2016-10-11: Hopper disassembler v4.
2016-10-11: Britain's raucous negotiating style will not help Brexit.
2016-10-11: WASM is switching from an AST representation to a stack machine bytecode.
2016-10-10: "Don't feed the trolls" really is good advice. Here's the evidence.
2016-10-10: The massacre at Monkey Hill: Solly Zuckerman's misunderstanding of the baboons of London Zoo.
2016-10-10: Why does the replication crisis seem worse in psychology?
2016-10-10: Microsoft's P programming language, for asynchronous event-driven programming.
2016-10-10: 6 reasons to choose PostgreSQL 9.6.
2016-10-10: SQL style guide.
2016-10-10: Still think you don't need HTTPS?
2016-10-10: Kubernetes without SDN.
2016-10-10: Real world microservices: routing RPCs with linkerd and namerd.
2016-10-10: Outage postmortems: on finding root causes and contributing conditions.
2016-10-10: Rules, benefits, patterns, and anti-patterns for pre-merge code reviews.
2016-10-10: Mattermost: open source alternative to Slack.
2016-10-10: IRCv3
2016-10-09: Bottled Water: Real-time integration of PostgreSQL and Kafka.
2016-10-09: Streaming updates from Postgres.
2016-10-09: Transit app: how their pretty auto-generated transit maps work.
2016-10-09: A JavaScript journey with only six different characters.
2016-10-08: szl: a scripting language inspired by Tcl, shell, and CPython.
2016-10-08: Don't listen to the 400 richest Americans: most on the list inherited their wealth.
2016-10-08: Just Too Much Administration: breaking JEA, PowerShell's new security barrier.
2016-10-08: Der Giftschrank: the poison cupboard of dangerous books.
2016-10-08: In Little England, the conceit of Brexit is on full display; says the South China Morning Post.
2016-10-08: FOSS nonprofits: judged on their merits at the IRS?
2016-10-07: Git didn't beat SVN, GitHub did.
2016-10-07: Science used to be polyglot, but now English rules. How did this happen, and at what cost?
2016-10-07: ructe: compiled templates for Rust.
2016-10-07: Are DDoS attacks a threat to the decentralized Internet?
2016-10-07: CloudFlare and RSS.
2016-10-07: Opposition to Galileo was scientific as well as religious.
2016-10-07: Three years of @fewerror.
2016-10-07: macOS Sierra permanently remembers SSH key passphrase by default.
2016-10-07: Possible backdoor in RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman groups?
2016-10-06: On the causes of the huge Level 3 VOIP outage.
2016-10-06: Parallela Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor.
2016-10-06: ECDSA and DNSSEC: ready for prime time?
2016-10-05: The first computer music recording was programmed by Christopher Strachey on a machine designed by Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn.
2016-10-05: A mathematician looks at Wolfram's "new kind of science".
2016-10-05: The cost of forsaking C / why to teach C to undergrads.
2016-10-05: A tale of a DNS packet: BIND CVE-2016-2776.
2016-10-05: Fighting fire with fire: Eliminating standing queues with large UDP packet floods.
2016-10-05: Queueing in the Linux network stack.
2016-10-05: A bit about TCP BBR.
2016-10-05: BBR bottleneck bandwidth and RTT congestion control.
2016-10-05: Mr Grayling is wrong about the Brexit dividend to station platform heights.
2016-10-04: Letter opener? Paper knife? The mystery of the phantom page turner.
2016-10-04: Python packaging is not bad any more.
2016-10-04: Pull-based monitoring doesn't scale. Or does it? (Prometheus)
2016-10-04: Deep-fried data.
2016-10-04: A comparison of Logstash, Filebeat, Fluentd, rsyslog, syslog-ng, and Logagent.
2016-10-04: LinkedIn Autobuild: zero-touch provisioning of physical servers.
2016-10-04: XMLStarlet: a set of shell commands to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents.
2016-10-04: json_xs: convert to/from JSON and a dozen other serialization formats.
2016-10-04: gron: make JSON greppable.
2016-10-04: Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way.
2016-10-04: Distributed authentication at Facebook using OpenSSH certificate authorization.
2016-10-04: Wayland to replace X in Fedora 25.
2016-10-04: Outlook/Exchange autodiscover allows web site compromise to escalate to email compromise.
2016-10-04: Timezone boundary builder: create shapefiles for Olson tz names using data from Open Street Map and node.js.
2016-10-04: Why the 27 are taking a hard line on Brexit.
2016-10-04: Brexit talks will be like the Greek bailout.
2016-10-03: 40 minute video of extremely soothing artisanal Nixie tube production.
2016-10-03: The day TravisCI deleted their VM images.
2016-10-03: Brexit is damaging UK science already. Here is a plan to fix it.
2016-10-03: Attitudes to potentially offensive language and gestures on TV and radio.
2016-10-03: rr: lightweight user-space record and replay debugging.
2016-10-03: High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history. (A review of "Blitzed".)
2016-10-03: Manufacturer usage description (MUD): automatic firewall configuration for the Internet of Things.
2016-10-03: Rendering ASCII Charts with D3.
2016-10-03: ASCIItoSVG: Convert ASCII diagrams to beautiful SVG, using PHP.
2016-10-03: asciidiagram: A freeform ASCII diagram parser for Haskell (inspired by Ditaa).
2016-10-03: ASCIIFlow: ASCII art diagram editor.
2016-10-03: Ascii to SVG, using Elm.
2016-10-02: The rebuilding of the Weston Library in Oxford, winner of the Stirling Prize.
2016-10-02: The accidental DBA.
2016-10-02: Nitrokey USB crypto devices.
2016-10-02: Will the Nobel Prize overlook Barry Barish, the master builder of gravitational wave detectors?
2016-10-02: When Paris closed a riverside expressway, half the motor traffic disappeared.
2016-10-02: What caused crime to decline in the U.S.?
2016-10-02: Lesser known Git options and aliases.
2016-10-01: Thoughts on cults, and compassion for victims of spiritual abuse.
2016-10-01: Visiting the secret laboratory inside the Monument to the Great Fire of London.
2016-10-01: An intro to interesting mathematical twittering.
2016-10-01: DNS-over-HTTPS proxies.
2016-10-01: Google public DNS: DNS-over-HTTPS.
2016-10-01: Announcing Rust 1.12: new error message format; MIR mid-level intermediate representation.
2016-10-01: You don't have to be stupid to work here, but it helps: how workplaces suppress intelligence.
2016-10-01: Postgres full-text search is good enough!
2016-09-30: PostgreSQL 9.6 released!
2016-09-30: Amazon's newest ambition: competing directly with UPS and FedEx.
2016-09-30: Using mathematics to repair an ancient artistic masterpiece.
2016-09-30: Phone-based 2fa and account recovery is not secure.
2016-09-29: How to lock up systemd in one tweet.
2016-09-29: Theresa May accused of trying to remove positive data from immigration report before Brexit vote.
2016-09-29: The protocol-relative URL.
2016-09-28: UTF-8 in OpenBSD: why and how you ought to keep multibyte character support simple.
2016-09-28: JVM warmup flame graphs.
2016-09-28: The three IT infrastructure mistakes your company must not make.
2016-09-28: Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink.
2016-09-28: Restoring a vintage Xerox Alto day 8: it boots!
2016-09-28: The fall and rise of SVG.
2016-09-28: Brexit Britain: The poor man of Western Europe?
2016-09-27: pgComparator: compare tables in different locations and report differences. (PostgreSQL / Perl)
2016-09-27: Largest health and safety fines in the UK.
2016-09-27: SC4-HSM USB cryptographic module / security token.
2016-09-27: Designing and producing 2FA tokens to sell on Amazon.
2016-09-26: Virtual Colossus: a simulation of the world's first electronic computer.
2016-09-26: The John Peel mistake: "Everyone I know's got a copy." "No, you know everyone who's got a copy."
2016-09-26: SSH implementation comparison: huge cipher support matrix.
2016-09-26: DDoS botnets: the democratization of censorship.
2016-09-26: Top 10 London sundials.
2016-09-26: RTP and leap seconds.
2016-09-26: The new Napster: Sci-Hub is blowing up the academic publishing industry.
2016-09-26: Microsoft's rollout of FPGAs in their Azure cloud.
2016-09-26: The many hurdles of Brexit.
2016-09-26: Traffic source analysis of the J-root DNS server anycast instances.
2016-09-26: TCP anycast: don't believe the FUD.
2016-09-26: Use "Sperner's Lemma" to split unequal rent fairly.
2016-09-26: Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net.
2016-09-26: Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers.
2016-09-26: Investigating the phrase "fills a much-needed gap".
2016-09-25: Animations of pinball flipper techniques.
2016-09-25: Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) suite and quantum computing FAQ.
2016-09-25: A riddle wrapped in an enigma: the NSA's policy on elliptic curve and post-quantum cryptography.
2016-09-24: PdB: ANSI C to Postscript compiler.
2016-09-24: List of humorous units of measurement.
2016-09-24: Hy-Brasil: an imaginary island that stayed on maps for five centuries.
2016-09-24: Corbyn has won, again. This could be the end of the Labour Party.
2016-09-24: srez: image super-resolution through deep learning.
2016-09-24: optimise-js: tweak IIFE coding style to reduce parsing overhead.
2016-09-24: The performance impact of ECDSA signatures on DNSSEC validation.
2016-09-24: An ode to the night train.
2016-09-23: The NSA's hubris and the Shadow Brokers 0-day.
2016-09-23: Streetmix: design, remix, and share your street.
2016-09-23: Why coffee is sometimes called mocha.
2016-09-23: Cisco vulnerabilities and Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON exploits.
2016-09-23: ripgrep: the usability of ag and the speed of GNU grep. (Written in Rust.)
2016-09-23: Globalization should be put to work for democracy.
2016-09-23: Bloomberg will smear the next leap second.
2016-09-23: QuickSpec: guessing formal specifications using testing.
2016-09-23: QuickSpec: equational laws for free!
2016-09-23: Humanity left Africa in one big surge.
2016-09-23: The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5 °C.
2016-09-23: Why Hanjin, the world's 7th-largest ocean freight carrier, was allowed to go bankrupt.
2016-09-23: 4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe.
2016-09-23: syncookied: offload syn flood protection.
2016-09-23: Introducing the GitHub load balancer.
2016-09-23: Norton's law: Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.
2016-09-23: The winds have changed: bad statistics and invalid results in psychological and sociological research.
2016-09-22: Julia v0.5.0 release notes.
2016-09-22: Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more.
2016-09-22: MotionMark: WebKit's new graphics benchmark for web browsers.
2016-09-22: Which tent cost more? #GBBO or Henry VIII's field of cloth of gold?
2016-09-22: How to make the perfect fish fingers.
2016-09-22: The discredited PACE trial: bad science misled millions with ME / chronic fatigue syndrome.
2016-09-22: Animation of HEVC wavefront parallel encoding.
2016-09-21: Optical fibre connectors: cleanliness is a virtue.
2016-09-21: What it costs to run Let's Encrypt.
2016-09-20: Hackers were able to remotely activate a Tesla's brakes via a web browser privilege escalation vulnerability.
2016-09-20: The problem with cul-de-sac suburbia: more traffic fatalities than a dense grid.
2016-09-20: Roughtime: network time service that assumes both network and time servers are untrustworthy.
2016-09-20: Edgy humour isn't funny any more? Don't blame political correctness, bame Poe's law.
2016-09-19: Rewriting a Python program in Golang and Rust.
2016-09-19: Improving license and patent issues for LLVM: Apache v2 and GPL v2 compatibility.
2016-09-19: DNS stats graphing tools: DSC and alternatives.
2016-09-19: Pg-Strom large table scan acceleration with SSD-to-GPU direct DMA.
2016-09-18: Twice the bits, twice the trouble: vulnerabilities induced by migrating to 64-bit platforms.
2016-09-18: OSTN15: the new geoid for Britain (and why Calf Top is now a mountain).
2016-09-18: TCP BBR: bottleneck bandwidth and congestion control.
2016-09-18: Solitude, space junk and sea monsters: the eerieness of Point Nemo.
2016-09-18: In America, mass incarceration has caused more crime than it has prevented.
2016-09-17: EU countries in scramble to "steal" UK-based research centres, because brexit.
2016-09-17: Google's BBR TCP congestion control algorithm: bottleneck bandwidth and RTT.
2016-09-17: The iPhone 7's new CPU should worry Intel.
2016-09-17: The impossible Bridge book: enumerating every possible deal.
2016-09-17: Big Deal: a program for dealing Bridge hands.
2016-09-17: American Contract Bridge League to switch to more secure European Big Deal hand generation software.
2016-09-16: More LastPass security vulnerabilities.
2016-09-16: An introduction to Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches.
2016-09-16: How much screen time do women get in Hollywood movies?
2016-09-16: Blocked! Database of web sites censored in the UK.
2016-09-16: There is no REST API.
2016-09-16: Sorry David Attenborough, we didn't evolve from "aquatic apes" – here's why.
2016-09-16: If you leave your kids alone, it’s not predatory strangers who are a risk.
2016-09-16: A floating point exception, a compiler bug, and a crash in Chrome.
2016-09-16: CC BY and data: not always a good fit.
2016-09-15: Mozilla Firefox debugger.html: more progress replacing XUL.
2016-09-15: qira, QEMU interactive runtime analyser: a timeless debugger.
2016-09-15: Mozilla WebReplay rewindable debugger project.
2016-09-15: PCH peering survey 2016.
2016-09-15: The DDoS awareness / hype cycle amongst senior managers.
2016-09-15: ISC tech note on DNS anycast ECMP clusters with BIND, Zebra, and FreeBSD.
2016-09-14: Sophie Dahl writes about her grandfather Roald Dahl for his centenary.
2016-09-14: Inside the spire of the Transamerica Pyramid.
2016-09-14: dhcplb: Facebook's open source DHCP load balancer.
2016-09-14: Yandex Mail migrated from Oracle to Postgres.
2016-09-13: Pascal said that to persuade someone they are wrong, first find out how they are right.
2016-09-13: Why do tourists visit ancient ruins everywhere except the United States?
2016-09-13: China will resurrect the Antonov AN-225, the world's largest plane.
2016-09-13: A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and cache flushing.
2016-09-13: Someone is learning how to take down the Internet.
2016-09-13: Notional results for the 2015 UK parliamentary election with the provisional constituency boundaries.
2016-09-13: The Doves Press typeface: the world’s most beautiful lettering was nearly lost forever.
2016-09-13: A digital reconstruction of the Doves Press typeface.
2016-09-13: European GDP at regional level.
2016-09-13: The sugar industry bought off scientists and skewed dietary guidelines for decades.
2016-09-13: How songbirds island-hopped their way from Australia to colonise the world.
2016-09-13: Inside the violent, geeky world of hardcore international medieval combat.
2016-09-13: The technological trends that will shape the next 30 years: an interview with Kevin Kelly.
2016-09-13: How to cheat at Bridge by breaking the tournament card-dealing random number generator.
2016-09-13: Constituency Boundaries: explore the impact of proposed changes to Parliamentary constituency boundaries.
2016-09-12: Jeremy Corbyn's disastrous year.
2016-09-12: Input threads in the X server.
2016-09-12: xkcd: Earth temperature timeline.
2016-09-12: Vanilla JS :-)
2016-09-12: Visible light vs transparency of water to electromagnetic radiation.
2016-09-12: DAV's Endian FAQ.
2016-09-12: Wreck of HMS Terror found nearly 170 years after disastrous Northwest Passage attempt.
2016-09-12: whatplug.global: find out about plugs, sockets and power adapters around the world.
2016-09-12: Brexit calendar for the rest of 2016 (and beyond).
2016-09-12: Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce's single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry.
2016-09-12: Rust vs graph structures and inheritance.
2016-09-12: The origin of C's cast syntax.
2016-09-12: The brightest part of a shadow is in the middle (if you have a circular object and a laser). (YouTube)
2016-09-12: Netnod NTP from a distributed timescale traceable to UTC.
2016-09-12: Swedish distributed time service, including a link to the FPGA NTP server source code.
2016-09-12: Netnod NTP time service: how and why?
2016-09-12: Brexit from the perspective of Brussels.
2016-09-12: Climate change will lead to more incidents of severe clear-air turbulence on passenger flights.
2016-09-12: The vDOS booter service got hacked, revealing their customer database.
2016-09-12: Cambridge peak-time congestion control points - FAQ.
2016-09-12: Cambridge peak-time congestion control points - quick guide.
2016-09-12: The loud sound of a fire suppression gas release destroyed dozens of hard drives at ING Bank's main data centre.
2016-09-12: The two cultures of mathematics.
2016-09-11: What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
2016-09-11: Lucille Ball and Star Trek.
2016-09-11: Tricki: a repository of mathematical know-how.
2016-09-11: When will New York City sink into the sea?
2016-09-11: The false promise of a free-trade paradise: Brexit Britain will lose access to 50 trade agreements.
2016-09-11: Failure of national welfare systems can be partly blamed for discontent with the EU.
2016-09-11: Teaching computational thinking with the Wolfram Language.
2016-09-11: Halide: a programming language for high performance image processing pipelines, embedded in C++.
2016-09-11: VW engineer's guilty plea could signal more indictments on diesel emissions scandal.
2016-09-11: Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered.
2016-09-11: Argument maps.
2016-09-11: How to write articles and essays quickly and expertly.
2016-09-10: Data snooping blunders by UK spies and police led to wrongful arrests.
2016-09-10: A zfs-style filesystem on Noms.
2016-09-10: Photos from inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain combat center.
2016-09-10: Pypy RevDB: reverse debugger for Python.
2016-09-10: The efficacy of donations and spending on Lib Dem seats at the 2015 UK general election.
2016-09-10: Brits will need a visa to visit the EU after Brexit.
2016-09-09: Discovering how Dropbox hacks your Mac to get accessibility privileges.
2016-09-09: Brexit: England's last gasp of empire.
2016-09-09: Evidence rebuts Chomsky's theory of language learning and universal grammar.
2016-09-09: Incremental compilation in Rust.
2016-09-09: The fierce, forgotten library wars of the ancient world.
2016-09-09: Why is printing "B" dramatically slower than printing "#"?
2016-09-08: Our assumption that spacetime is a continuum leads to many challenges in mathematical physics.
2016-09-08: Databases and CGI were the killer app for the WWW.
2016-09-08: DSA-3628: vulnerabilities due to perl loading modules from the current directory.
2016-09-08: Upcoming change to perl: current directory no longer in @INC.
2016-09-08: How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of supersmart children.
2016-09-08: Google obliterated a 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users.
2016-09-08: The people's priority? Free trade or immigration control? Ashcroft's Brexit poll.
2016-09-08: EasyJet moves maintenance base to Malta thanks to Brexit.
2016-09-08: Turing codec: BBC's open source HEVC H.265 video compression.
2016-09-07: Frowns are different in the UK and USA.
2016-09-07: The next steps for gmane.
2016-09-07: Dolphin emulator now boots the final GameCube game. (MMU emulation!)
2016-09-07: Thoughts on conducting a beginner level Rust workshop.
2016-09-07: A lucky iron fish helps fix anaemia in Cambodia.
2016-09-06: Compromised cryptographic key reuse remains widespread in embedded products.
2016-09-06: Unwieldy LEGO sculptures reveal a multitude of hidden shadow designs.
2016-09-06: Prime Minister says Secretary of State for Brexit's comments on the Single Market are not government policy.
2016-09-06: Autonomous driving: Mercedes-Benz E-Class vs Tesla Model S.
2016-09-06: ANTP: authenticated network time synchronization.
2016-09-06: One bit flips, one cloud flops: cross-VM rowhammer attacks and privilege escalation.
2016-09-06: German federal intelligence service BND violates laws and constitution.
2016-09-06: The XTS cipher mode: how it works and why you don't want to use it.
2016-09-06: One, two, three, four: Sesame Street, Frege, and the foundations of arithmetic.
2016-09-06: The secret to a breakthrough in fighting norovirus? Human bile.
2016-09-05: Moving from Docker to rkt.
2016-09-05: Inside OpenBSD's full disk encryption.
2016-09-05: Stabilized time lapse video shows Earth rotating under fixed stars. (YouTube)
2016-09-05: skypeopensource2: reverse engineered Skype client.
2016-09-05: What I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriter.
2016-09-05: Obama quashes prospect of fast-track Brexit UK-USA trade deal.
2016-09-05: Japan's unprecedented warning to UK over Brexit.
2016-09-05: A fighter pilot's guide to avoiding road traffic collisions.
2016-09-04: Computing with programmable logic (FPGA).
2016-09-04: What can a university teacher do to make compsci more inclusive?
2016-09-04: Big bad adjective order in English.
2016-09-04: The Shit Pyramids of King Sneferu: the learning process before the Great Pyramid of King Khufu.
2016-09-04: ThreatSTOP RPZ DNS firewall.
2016-09-04: The hacker, the scrapheap, and the first Apollo computer.
2016-09-04: The NSA hacked the Élysée in 2012.
2016-09-04: Flooding of American coast, caused by global warming, becomes hard to ignore.
2016-09-04: Let's build an igloo at the South Pole!
2016-09-03: Nick Clegg: ‘I did not cater for the Tories' brazen ruthlessness'
2016-09-03: 12 MORE ways to make it look like Brexit has happened!
2016-09-03: History of Gaussian elimination.
2016-09-03: Why do criminals launder money through restaurants?
2016-09-03: 100 million year old avian dinosaur wing found preserved in amber.
2016-09-03: pingfs: storage in ICMP in the cloud.
2016-09-03: A catalogue of extraordinary stranger-than-fiction people.
2016-09-03: Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker.
2016-09-03: Windyty: wind map and forecast.
2016-09-03: Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice.
2016-09-03: Brexit: there will be tears before bedtime.
2016-09-03: Solutions to integer overflow.
2016-09-02: Hidden assets, hidden costs: a review of the Panama Papers.
2016-09-02: WoSign's legal threats over their secret purchase of StartCom.
2016-09-02: A short history of Internet protocols at CERN. (1995)
2016-09-02: How to attack servers bound to localhost on someone else's workstation.
2016-09-02: Arrival (based on Ted Chiang's Story Of Your Life) is science fiction at its most beautiful and provocative.
2016-09-02: 3D printed Curta mechanical calculator.
2016-09-01: 40 years on, the Internet transmits every aspect of our lives.
2016-09-01: External issues in DNS scalability. (1995)
2016-09-01: y-cruncher: a multi-threaded pi program (the world record holder).
2016-09-01: Rclone: a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage services.
2016-09-01: lzturbo: fast compressor.
2016-09-01: Zstandard: smaller and faster data compression from Facebook.
2016-09-01: Four reasons why Brexit negotiations are harder than you (or the Cabinet) might think.
2016-09-01: Rowhammer plus VM page deduplication leads to cross-VM crypto key compromise.
2016-08-31: A nice RAM latency chart.
2016-08-31: RAM access with TLBs is O(N log N).
2016-08-31: RAM access is O(√N) not O(1).
2016-08-31: How jvns made a zine about netstat, netcat, ngrep, tcpdump, wireshark, strace, eBPF, dstat, and perf!
2016-08-31: British officials don't have the expertise, the staff or a plan for the tortuous Brexit negotiations.
2016-08-31: The top 19 brexit promises.
2016-08-31: Theresa May calls for "unique" brexit deal: in the single market, without freedom of movement.
2016-08-31: The restructuring of Internet standards governance 1987-1992.
2016-08-31: Notes on the history of fork and join.
2016-08-31: Little: a statically typed, C-like scripting language compiled to Tcl bytecode.
2016-08-31: GNU JTW: Delphi-flavoured bournegol for Java.
2016-08-31: MIT problem set on regexes.
2016-08-31: scsh sre: scheme shell regular-expression notation.
2016-08-31: Emacs rx: readable regexes.
2016-08-31: SRL: simple (verbose) regex language.
2016-08-30: A Docker fork? Talk of a split is now on the table.
2016-08-30: PLOT3: programming language for old timers.
2016-08-30: bitdata: high-level views on low-level binary data representations.
2016-08-30: Zig: a C-like programming language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability.
2016-08-30: Game animation from rotoscoped filmed parkour.
2016-08-29: undebt: automatic refactoring for Python.
2016-08-29: Cambridge: a history of its railways and station.
2016-08-29: mpc: a micro parser combinator library for C.
2016-08-29: The price of solar power installations is declining to unprecedented lows.
2016-08-28: Sad puppies vs sf: radical futures and conservative sensitivities.
2016-08-28: How Chuck Tingle beat sf's sad puppies at their own game, and cured a case of writer's block.
2016-08-28: Rustdoc meets Emacs.
2016-08-28: Theresa May orders her cabinet ministers to come up with a plan for brexit.
2016-08-27: Investment managers with poor parents produce higher returns than those with rich parents.
2016-08-27: Human-induced climate change started in the 1830s.
2016-08-27: The wrong emotion.
2016-08-27: Taking over 20K domain names with lame servers pointing at DigitalOcean.
2016-08-27: Farming was invented twice in the Middle East, shows a genetic study.
2016-08-27: Rasputin and the "this is a work of fiction" disclaimer.
2016-08-27: Attack of the week: Sweet32 exploits birthday collisions in 64-bit ciphers in TLS.
2016-08-26: How many x86 instructions are there?
2016-08-26: What's new in C# 7.
2016-08-26: Technical analysis of Pegasus iPhone spyware.
2016-08-26: Million dollar dissident: NSO Group's iPhone 0days used against a UAE human rights defender.
2016-08-26: Decline and fall of the British lobbying empire.
2016-08-26: Database of 4200 predictions about the future of the Internet from the early 1990s.
2016-08-25: Traffic Light Protocol for controlled disclosure of sensitive security information.
2016-08-24: Rover: proof of concept exploit of CVE-2016-5696.
2016-08-24: 31 essential sf terms and where they came from.
2016-08-24: The Python JITs are coming.
2016-08-24: Dynamic branch prediction with perceptrons.
2016-08-24: The Ethernet PAUSE frame.
2016-08-23: Host of troubles: HTTP cache poisoning through Host: header misparsing confusion.
2016-08-23: Bubble-wrapped sponge makes steam using ambient sunlight.
2016-08-23: Samsung M1 ARMv8 core has a neural network branch predictor.
2016-08-23: libpnet: low level networking (and binary packet parsing) in Rust,
2016-08-23: Roaring bitmaps in C.
2016-08-23: Array layouts for comparison-based searching.
2016-08-23: Nail: A practical interface generator for data formats, such as DNS.
2016-08-22: The general method for solving all problems is: 1. Find the most difficult outstanding problem; 2. Solve it.
2016-08-22: Crash not accident: more neutral, constructive terminology when referring to collisions on the roads.
2016-08-22: City of London police is replacing fraud prosecutions with privatised-for-profit civil lawsuits.
2016-08-22: Playing with syntax: variations of setf in Common Lisp.
2016-08-22: Help to Buy ISA scandal: they cannot be used for initial deposit on homes as originally promised.
2016-08-22: A year of Rust and DNS.
2016-08-22: NIST's new password rules.
2016-08-21: Brexit ministers have not even got to base one in knowledge of EU treaties.
2016-08-21: The myth of the placebo effect.
2016-08-21: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home.
2016-08-21: The LMS Turbomotive 6202: steam turbine locomotive.
2016-08-21: Self-Hosted Kubernetes makes Kubernetes installs, scaleouts, upgrades easier.
2016-08-21: Nasa just made all its research available online for free.
2016-08-21: What is the colour of an atom?
2016-08-21: The hidden danger of big data.
2016-08-21: The difficulties of getting that Brexit deal.
2016-08-21: Brexiteers are short of a plan and the people to implement it.
2016-08-21: The war on cash.
2016-08-20: Power pricing: a handy rule of thumb for the annual cost of electricity.
2016-08-20: Research funding in a post-brexit world.
2016-08-20: "Hot" sex and young girls.
2016-08-20: Pro-EU folks in the UK: keep making your case, don't apologise.
2016-08-19: Interview with Jeffery Snover, inventor of PowerShell.
2016-08-19: ScanTailor: an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.
2016-08-19: Manually dewarping photos of pages of books with Photoshop.
2016-08-19: Automatically dewarping photographs of pages of books.
2016-08-18: PowerShell is now open source and running on Linux.
2016-08-18: Empire of the air: the British imperial airship service.
2016-08-18: It's the future of web app deployment!
2016-08-18: The bedroom tax failed to free up larger homes.
2016-08-18: Beer archaeologist: how alcohol shaped our civilization.
2016-08-18: The Shadow Brokers mess is what happens when the NSA hoards zero-days.
2016-08-18: Intel licenses ARM technology to boost foundry business.
2016-08-18: Brexit trade deals: the gruelling challenge of taking back control.
2016-08-18: World's biggest banks already plotting mass exodus from London after Brexit.
2016-08-17: Close encounters of the Java memory model kind.
2016-08-17: A Palo Alto housing commissioner leaves town, and starts an affordable housing furor.
2016-08-17: TriforceAFL: full-system fuzzing with AFL and qemu.
2016-08-17: July was the hottest month since records began.
2016-08-17: public-inbox: mailing list archives stored in git.
2016-08-17: git-series: track changes to a patch series over time.
2016-08-17: Colorized man pages using LESS_TERMCAP.
2016-08-17: Why didn't Larrabee fail?
2016-08-17: NTIA to allow IANA functions contract to expire on October 1, relieving ICANN from US DoC supervision.
2016-08-17: Hitler and the reinvention of interpreting: simultaneous translation.
2016-08-17: The uniform European Union passport.
2016-08-17: Brexit is not going to happen, but it might need a second referendum.
2016-08-16: pgpdump: PHP packet visualizer.
2016-08-16: mb21: the UK transmission mast gallery.
2016-08-16: Quick Brexit illusion exposed in unusual tale of Greenland.
2016-08-15: Circumventing fuzzing roadblocks with compiler transformations that help AFL find magic numbers.
2016-08-15: Sonic black hole creates its own version of Hawking radiation.
2016-08-15: Implementing a Pratt parser in Rust.
2016-08-15: Tyre: typed regular expressions for Ocaml.
2016-08-15: Distributed logging architecture in the container era with fluentd.
2016-08-15: Sysdig tracers: system profiling for lazy developers.
2016-08-15: Why is the Greenwich Prime Meridian 102m west of the GPS zero meridian?
2016-08-15: Brexit could be delayed until late 2019. Whitehall doesn't even know the right questions to ask.
2016-08-15: wcc: the Witchcraft Compiler Collection - shared object extraction, conversion, and scripting.
2016-08-15: Java memory model pragmatics.
2016-08-15: A notation for algorithms written by hand on paper.
2016-08-14: A cyclist's view of road congestion in London.
2016-08-14: The beauty of polynomial roots.
2016-08-14: Incompetent Liam Fox's dept. deletes press release after making big Brexit EU admission.
2016-08-14: The brexit hangover just got worse.
2016-08-13: Could a ‘reverse Greenland' arrangement keep Scotland and Northern Ireland in the EU?
2016-08-13: New "bionic" leaf is roughly 10x more efficient than natural photosynthesis.
2016-08-13: PostgreSQL BDR 1.0: bi-directional replication.
2016-08-13: Lake Kivu's dissolved methane extraction project.
2016-08-13: Lake Nyos: the deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
2016-08-12: Enough David Brent, Brexit is serious!
2016-08-12: DiskFiltration: data exfiltration from speakerless air-gapped computers via covert hard drive noise.
2016-08-12: The proton radius puzzle: a muon orbiting around an atom confirms physics is broken.
2016-08-12: Elliptic curve calculator: a slide rule made from a sheet of paper and a straight edge.
2016-08-12: DDoSCoin: a cryptocurrency with a malicious proof-of-work.
2016-08-12: How Microsoft compromised their Secure Boot implementation.
2016-08-12: CENTRstats: data on European national TLD registries.
2016-08-11: Zero-cost futures in Rust.
2016-08-11: EMF TiLDA: ElectroMagnetic Field programmable con badges.
2016-08-11: Britain may soon leave Europol as a result of Brexit.
2016-08-11: These are the red lines Europe won't cross in Brexit talks.
2016-08-11: Wireless hacks can unlock millions of motor vehicles.
2016-08-11: On the performance of AES vs ChaCha.
2016-08-11: Brexit means Brexit, but in reality it's a long time away.
2016-08-11: "Biased" fit for work tests penalise poorer people.
2016-08-10: Linux performance tools, with maps of which tools do what.
2016-08-10: NEJM continues campaign against open data.
2016-08-10: US DEA agents profile travellers to seize cash, not to make arrests or build criminal cases.
2016-08-10: Ride like a girl: cycling is awfully similar to being a woman.
2016-08-10: Microsoft has accidentally left a hole in Secure Boot.
2016-08-10: The shape of errors to come in Rust.
2016-08-10: fast-cli: test your download speed using fast.com and node.js.
2016-08-10: On cybersecurity and being targeted: DNS compromise leads to narrowly avoided account compromise.
2016-08-10: Met Office weather radar upgrade can now capture the size and shape of raindrops.
2016-08-10: Brexit: almost a third of international students less likely to come to the UK to study.
2016-08-10: UK researchers excluded from European research network due to Brexit.
2016-08-09: Building fast.com, the Netflix speed test web site.
2016-08-09: Foghorn: a DNS greylisting proxy.
2016-08-09: Stop talking about the trolley problem.
2016-08-09: Behind the scenes with iOS security.
2016-08-09: Carto-Metro London rail and tube map v3.5.
2016-08-09: Notes on distributed systems for new engineers.
2016-08-09: Radicale: a simple CalDAV and CardDAV server.
2016-08-09: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail.
2016-08-08: How not to autoconf: it's hard work printing nothing.
2016-08-08: Mathematica version 11 announcement.
2016-08-08: ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform covertly extracts encrypted government comms.
2016-08-08: Why sodium and potassium really explode in water.
2016-08-08: DNA analysis shows the horse's smooth fast ambling gait originated near York in about 850 AD.
2016-08-08: Brexit: a divided nation.
2016-08-08: Think the north and the poor caused Brexit? Think again.
2016-08-08: I peeked into my node.js modules directory, and you won't believe what happened next!
2016-08-08: Guide to building lightning protection.
2016-08-08: Benchmarking integer and floating point operations on the JVM.
2016-08-08: Cuckoo filter: practically better than Bloom.
2016-08-07: American wire gauge and the 39th root of 92.
2016-08-07: Quanergy announces $250 solid-state LIDAR for cars, robots, and more.
2016-08-07: MIT and DARPA packed a LIDAR sensor onto a single chip.
2016-08-07: International Phonetic Alphabet reference chart.
2016-08-07: Fun facts about the International Phonetic Alphabet.
2016-08-07: About the International Phonetic Alphabet.
2016-08-07: Mapping the hidden worlds beneath Greenland's ice.
2016-08-06: Julia Reda: the political iconoclast at the center of Europe's tech policy debate.
2016-08-06: Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars.
2016-08-06: EditorConfig: define and maintain consistent coding styles across different editors and IDEs.
2016-08-06: DCAS is not a silver bullet for nonblocking algorithm design.
2016-08-06: asyncpg: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python.
2016-08-06: RhodeCode: repo hosting for Hg, Git, SVN.
2016-08-06: Moving to GitLab! Yes, it's worth it!
2016-08-06: Ratas: A hierarchical timer wheel.
2016-08-05: Towards a unified theory of Operational Transformation and CRDT.
2016-08-04: $hell on earth: from browser to system compromise. Pwn2Own attack chain analysis.
2016-08-04: HEIST attack uses TCP to make the CRIME and BREACH TLS attacks easier.
2016-08-04: What's next for multi-process Firefox?
2016-08-04: Thoughts on Uber's list of Postgres limitations.
2016-08-03: Dynamically diagnosing type errors in unsafe C.
2016-08-03: Cipherli.st: strong TLS ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd.
2016-08-03: Prepaid or PAYG data SIM wiki.
2016-08-03: A unified theory of randomness.
2016-08-03: font-rs: the fastest font renderer in the world, written in Rust.
2016-08-03: C style and coding standards for SunOS.
2016-08-02: OpenWeatherMap.
2016-08-02: How to read a book.
2016-08-02: Structure literals vs constructors in Rust.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>