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• 2017-11-22: I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f'd up is that?
• 2017-11-24: Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at last.
• 2017-11-30: Twenty Toes: juggling with hands and feet. (Vimeo)
• 2017-11-30: Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058.
• 2017-11-29: Drawing fractal Droste images: spirals inside Mandelbrots!
• 2017-11-29: Object models in Python 3, Lua, JavaScript, and Perl 5.
• 2017-11-29: ISPS: hardware decription languages before VHDL.
• 2017-11-29: Why an empty password gets you root on macOS High Sierra.
• 2017-11-29: Exploring the BBC micro:bit software stack.
• 2017-11-29: The numbers that show SNCF, France's proud rail service is struggling.
• 2017-11-29: The Irish and Belgian approaches to Brexit.
• 2017-11-28: tenta-dns: Recursive and authoritative DNS server in golang, with DNSSEC, DNS-over-TLS, and BGP anycast.
• 2017-11-28: PostgreSQL auto_explain: analyzing the performance of millions of unique SQL queries.
• 2017-11-28: DNS-over-TLS at SURFnet.
• 2017-11-28: pgDoctor: PostgreSQL healthchecks for load balancers.
• 2017-11-28: Bitcoin and that 1929 vibe.
• 2017-11-28: Photovoltaic growth: reality versus projections of the International Energy Agency.
• 2017-11-28: Format oracle attacks against OpenPGP and GnuPG.
• 2017-11-28: … Then you win.
• 2017-11-28: A sense of units and scale for electrical energy production and consumption.
• 2017-11-27: Drawing from noise with Processing, and making animated loopy GIFs.
• 2017-11-27: Horwood's plan of London, 1792 - 1799.
• 2017-11-27: SPIFFE: standards for securely identifying software systems in dynamic and heterogeneous production environments .
• 2017-11-27: VPN DNS leak test.
• 2017-11-27: Inside Docker's "FROM scratch" empty container.
• 2017-11-27: What Bikini Atoll looks like today.
• 2017-11-27: A minimalist guide to tmux.
• 2017-11-26: Why Amazon DynamoDB isn't for everyone.
• 2017-11-26: Unit testing doesn't affect codebases the way you might expect.
• 2017-11-26: A review of some Amazon HQ2 bids shows that democracy itself is a bargaining chip.
• 2017-11-26: Legatum: who are the Brexiteers' favourite think tank and who is behind them?
• 2017-11-26: Lively Linear Lisp: 'Look Ma, no garbage!'
• 2017-11-26: LIL: the little implementation language (and other mid-level languages).
• 2017-11-26: Carp: a Lisp with Rust-like memory management.
• 2017-11-25: Asbestos and the great Aussie DIY obsession: the impending killer 'third wave'.
• 2017-11-25: Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming.
• 2017-11-25: No end in sight to the Brexit madness.
• 2017-11-25: Incremental data capture for Oracle databases at LinkedIn.
• 2017-11-25: Using a logbook to improve your programming.
• 2017-11-24: How the sandwich consumed Britain.
• 2017-11-25: Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles.
• 2017-11-25: SOLID principles made easy.
• 2017-11-25: In search of the perfect writing font.
• 2017-11-25: Hexagonal Architecture: a mobile app case study.
• 2017-11-25: VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code.
• 2017-11-24: In the Jungle: inside the long hidden genealogy of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.
• 2017-11-24: Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game.
• 2017-11-24: No boundaries: key logging and exfiltration of personal data by web site session-replay scripts.
• 2017-11-24: MySQL performance tuning and Linux context switches.
• 2017-11-24: Our computer systems are not good enough. (YouTube)
• 2017-11-24: Observations of an ex pat: the Middle East explained.
• 2017-11-24: The financial realities of going viral.
• 2017-11-24: Make: shows how to apologise properly.
• 2017-11-24: Why the world has so many Guineas.
• 2017-11-24: Ada: There's a mini-RTOS in my language.
• 2017-11-22: breezy: a fork of bzr for Python 3 support.
• 2017-11-23: Common issues with PostgreSQL planner statistics.
• 2017-11-23: Better random number generation for OpenSSL, glibc, and Linux.
• 2017-11-23: How tuning PostgreSQL for SSDs can improve slow query performance by 50x.
• 2017-11-23: Draft revision of ISO 8601-201x with EDTF extended date/time formats.
• 2017-11-23: PostgreSQL configuration tuning for humans.
• 2017-11-22: Do no harm: Linus on the tension between kernel security and system reliability.
• 2017-11-23: Road design: sustainable safety vs shared space.
• 2017-11-23: WIPEONFORK in Linux 4.14.
• 2017-11-22: Why git is worse than Fossil.
• 2017-11-22: Beauty shots of (moderately) retro computers.
• 2017-11-22: Thoughts on Fossil-NG.
• 2017-11-22: Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Golang.
• 2017-11-22: Announcing failure: error handling for Rust.
• 2017-11-22: What happens when a woman translates Homer's Odyssey.
• 2017-11-22: True Kilts: debunking myths about highlanders and clan tartans.
• 2017-11-22: Milksnake: ship Python wheels written in Rust without linking to libpython.
• 2017-11-21: How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
• 2017-11-21: ESO observations show first known interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before.
• 2017-11-21: Development progress of Language Server Protocol compatible editors and language servers.
• 2017-11-21: When a Phillips is not a Phillips! A zoo of screwdrivers.
• 2017-11-21: Has web advertising jumped the shark?
• 2017-11-21: EU Horizon Prize: seamless IoT/cloud authentication for all.
• 2017-11-21: OpenSSI: single system image distributed clusters for Linux.
• 2017-11-21: Understanding `git filter-branch` and the git storage model.
• 2017-11-21: cquery: a highly-scalable, low-latency VS Code language server for C/C++.
• 2017-11-21: Shaping the World. (PyCon UK keynote)
• 2017-11-20: Leapseconds and earthquakes: 2018 predicted to be a year of big quakes as Earth rotation slows.
• 2017-11-20: Why clocks run clockwise, and some watches and clocks that don't.
• 2017-11-19: Typesetting the 1973 4th edition Unix programmer's manual.
• 2017-11-19: From War to Worboys: the redesign of British road signs in the early 1960s.
• 2017-11-19: Dark matter does not form a disk.
• 2017-11-19: Span types for raw memory slices in C#.
• 2017-11-19: Some birds use discarded cigarettes to fumigate their nests.
• 2017-11-19: Security things in Linux v4.14.
• 2017-11-19: Orcas vs great white sharks: in a battle of the apex predators who wins?
• 2017-11-18: Everything you need to know about Lexit in five minutes.
• 2017-11-18: 20 feet vs 178000 miles: a stupidly long network route.
• 2017-11-18: The mystery of the phantom scientific journal reference.
• 2017-11-18: The rise and fall of the complex sentence.
• 2017-11-18: Bufferbloat on the Internet backbone.
• 2017-11-17: Formula 1 race car aerofoils keep cold air inside supermarket chillers.
• 2017-11-17: Graphing the Analytics Package at Amazon: Remove the legend to become one.
• 2017-11-17: FreeBSD/EC2 on AWS C5 instances.
• 2017-11-17: Christopher Tolkien has resigned as director of the Tolkien estate.
• 2017-11-16: Experience with viruses on UNIX systems. (1989)
• 2017-11-16: KAISER: hiding the Linux kernel from user space.
• 2017-11-16: Puffs: a domain-specific language and library for parsing untrusted file formats safely.
• 2017-11-16: Plan 28 Autumn 2017 report on progress analysing Babbage's analytical engine manuscripts.
• 2017-11-15: Fairchild F9445 MicroFlame: a clone of the Data General Nova.
• 2017-11-15: Keeping a lab notebook: basic principles and best practices.
• 2017-11-15: Oberon: the overlooked jewel.
• 2017-11-15: NumPy's plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by 2020.
• 2017-11-15: All of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux.
• 2017-11-15: Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases.
• 2017-11-15: What did 17th century food taste like?
• 2017-11-14: Report from the SNAFUcatchers workshop on coping with complexity.
• 2017-11-14: Finding the right color palettes for data visualizations.
• 2017-11-13: uPyPhone: a GSM phone using MicroPython, PyBoard, and SIM800L.
• 2017-11-13: The post-Weinstein reckoning.
• 2017-11-13: Against brilliant jerks.
• 2017-11-13: Verfploeter: broad and load-aware anycast mapping.
• 2017-11-13: Physics has demoted mass.
• 2017-11-13: Long-term coffee consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease.
• 2017-11-13: Vitamin D and cancer prevention.
• 2017-11-13: Time zones, daylight saving, and cancer risk.
• 2017-11-13: target="_blank": an underestimated vulnerability.
• 2017-11-13: Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ.
• 2017-11-13: Trip report: Fall 2017 ISO C++ standards meeting (Albuquerque).
• 2017-11-13: RISC-V processor research at IIT-Madras.
• 2017-11-12: Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant: a GSM device hidden in a USB cable.
• 2017-11-12: Google's approach to observability across microservices.
• 2017-11-12: Medieval price list.
• 2017-11-12: Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757.
• 2017-11-12: Shadow Brokers security breaches and spilled secrets have shaken the NSA to its core.
• 2017-11-12: Gallery of missing data visualisations.
• 2017-11-11: Take it from the Swiss: the Brexit referendum wasn't legitimate.
• 2017-11-11: Fire and ice: Mapping the magma flow to Antarctica's most active volcano.
• 2017-11-11: A computer scientist who prefers voting on paper.
• 2017-11-11: Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies.
• 2017-11-11: Real-time GPU texture-mapped vector glyphs.
• 2017-11-11: The shape of Rome.
• 2017-11-11: Explanation of the OVH Strasbourg outage.
• 2017-11-11: Burn the programmer!
• 2017-11-11: How can liberalism be to blame for everything when we can't even agree what it is?
• 2017-11-10: Cursive handwriting and other education myths.
• 2017-11-10: All you need to know about whiteboard markers.
• 2017-11-10: CEOs don't steer.
• 2017-11-10: An evening with Berferd, in which a cracker is lured, endured, and studied.
• 2017-11-10: The fungus that turns ants into zombies is more diabolical than we realized.
• 2017-11-09: FastNetMon DDoS detection tool.
• 2017-11-09: Exponential generic type expansion in the C# compiler.
• 2017-11-09: America's "retail apocalypse" is really just beginning.
• 2017-11-09: .NET/C# generics history: some photos from Feb 1999.
• 2017-11-09: Curiouser and curiouser: recursive generic types in C#.
• 2017-11-09: Scientists on new supernova: WTF have we been looking at?
• 2017-11-08: This fungus has over 20,000 sexes.
• 2017-11-08: ARM takes wing: benchmarking Qualcomm vs. Intel CPUs.
• 2017-11-08: Perfect locality for listening sockets, and three epic SystemTap scripts.
• 2017-11-08: Andrew S Tanenbaum on the use of Minix in the Intel ME.
• 2017-11-08: The 10 top recommendations for the AI/ML field in 2017.
• 2017-11-08: CSS Flexbox and Grids, your layout's best friends.
• 2017-11-08: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
• 2017-11-08: Some problems of URLs.
• 2017-11-08: Get up to speed with JANET's faster DDoS protection services.
• 2017-11-08: HotPlug: remove a running computer without shutting it down.
• 2017-11-07: Update on the DNSSEC root KSK rollover project.
• 2017-11-07: Against ORMs.
• 2017-11-06: subjack: hostile subdomain takeover vulnerability scanning tool written in Golang.
• 2017-11-06: Beyond Horizons: 443km world record of distant landscape photography.
• 2017-11-06: Configure / metaconfig at the 2017 Perl 5 core hackathon.
• 2017-11-05: Visiting Lord's Bridge: the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory near Cambridge.
• 2017-11-05: Contributor Covenant: a code of conduct for open source projects.
• 2017-11-05: Reconstructing ROCA.
• 2017-11-04: Collapsing towers of interpreters.
• 2017-11-04: "The warhead is no longer on top of the missile." A nuclear accident in 1964.
• 2017-11-04: Logstalgia: replay or stream website access logs as a retro arcade game.
• 2017-11-04: Playing with Wolfram playing cards.
• 2017-11-04: CERTSTREAM: see certificate transparency list updates as X.509 certs are issued in real time.
• 2017-11-04: Identifying the "Early IBM Computer" in a Twitter photo: a 405 Accounting Machine.
• 2017-11-04: CT Advisor: Certificate Transparency monitoring and alerts.
• 2017-11-03: DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram.
• 2017-11-03: Software matters in the world: work on fixing the big bugs.
• 2017-11-03: FOSSology: open source license compliance toolkit.
• 2017-11-03: Strava's global heatmap, now 6x hotter.
• 2017-11-02: The return of Coppersmith's attack: practical factorization of widely used RSA moduli.
• 2017-11-02: What's new in HAProxy 1.8.
• 2017-11-02: Linux containers in 500 lines of code.
• 2017-11-02: How the Guardian found 800,000 paying readers.
• 2017-11-02: A minimalist guide to SQLite.
• 2017-11-02: Data classes for Java.
• 2017-11-02: The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules.
• 2017-11-02: m.css math: a Pelican plugin to render TeX to SVG on the server.
• 2017-11-02: 95 theses about technology.
• 2017-11-01: Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?
• 2017-11-01: Git delta amplification.
• 2017-11-01: My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container.