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• 2017-12-31: Tracking down the roots of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
• 2017-12-31: Alan Kay on how to fund research.
• 2017-12-31: The orgin and constraints of "shitgibbon" compounds.
• 2017-12-30: The 2017 Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing.
• 2017-12-30: Dead store elimination (still) considered harmful.
• 2017-12-30: A history of S_IFMT file types in Unix.
• 2017-12-30: What were the worst Nobel Prize snubs is science history?
• 2017-12-30: Programming in the Wild West.
• 2017-12-29: ECSV: a format for astronomical tables (in CSV) with metadata (in YAML).
• 2017-12-29: Vim on a mechanical typewriter.
• 2017-12-29: New Zealand study provides more support for the lead-crime hypothesis.
• 2017-12-29: PostgreSQL + ZFS best practices.
• 2017-12-29: Re-examining the scrypt() parameter values.
• 2017-12-29: The sorry state of OpenSSL usability.
• 2017-12-29: Legal cannabis isn't the boon small businesses thought it would be.
• 2017-12-29: Willrow Hood's ice cream machine in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
• 2017-12-29: SSL Labs grading overhaul preview.
• 2017-12-28: pg_squeeze: A PostgreSQL extension for automatic bloat cleanup.
• 2017-12-28: The day zero was banned from British roulette.
• 2017-12-28: FaCT aka ConstanC: a constant-time programming language.
• 2017-12-28: FaCT: A flexible and constant-time programming language.
• 2017-12-27: BT InLink in London: building a privatised "smart city" by stealth.
• 2017-12-27: How to hack a turned-off computer, or, running unsigned code in Intel ME.
• 2017-12-27: Macaroons: cookies with contextual caveats for decentralized authorization in the cloud.
• 2017-12-26: Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet.
• 2017-12-26: Scientists have found a drug that can repair cavities and regrow teeth.
• 2017-12-26: Tom Weller's "Science Made Stupid" and "Cvltvre Made Stvpid".
• 2017-12-26: Evil coding incantations.
• 2017-12-26: The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis.
• 2017-12-26: Untangling Jenkins (with Summon and Conjur).
• 2017-12-26: Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter.
• 2017-12-24: Formal verification: the gap between perfect code and reality.
• 2017-12-25: Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability.
• 2017-12-25: Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply.
• 2017-12-25: An algorithmic approach to dealing with insomnia.
• 2017-12-25: The current state of kernel page-table isolation.
• 2017-12-25: Undefined vs unsafe in Rust.
• 2017-12-24: "A simple makefile" is a unicorn.
• 2017-12-24: A list of software that turns your database into a REST or GraphQL API.
• 2017-12-24: NRT:IT refurbished Dell.
• 2017-12-24: Eleven Linux syscalls that suck.
• 2017-12-23: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, reviewed by Adam Roberts.
• 2017-12-23: Vulnerabilities and exploits: What happened when the infosec community outed its own sexual predators.
• 2017-12-23: JSON in MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL: few more stories about performance.
• 2017-12-23: Division by invariant integers using multiplication.
• 2017-12-23: Why nothing matters: the impact of zero initialization on programming language performance.
• 2017-12-23: Dropbox releases PyAnnotate: auto-generate type annotations for mypy.
• 2017-12-23: AVX-512: what's useful for us.
• 2017-12-23: Let your Python code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyType.
• 2017-12-23: Why IBM DB2 is four different DBMS code bases.
• 2017-12-22: Ten lessons a mathematician wished he had been taught.
• 2017-12-22: Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection for forking processes.
• 2017-12-21: Start your open-source career.
• 2017-12-21: Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably.
• 2017-12-21: Implementing malloc(): an exercise to teach students systems programming.
• 2017-12-21: systemd-resolved is broken.
• 2017-12-20: Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's asynchronous I/O framework from the bottom up.
• 2017-12-20: Salesforce's problems on the way to a near perfect log pipeline.
• 2017-12-19: Tune ssh settings to speed up Ansible.
• 2017-12-18: Let it go: the Arctic will never be frozen again.
• 2017-12-18: Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear: unchecked capitalism vs superintelligent AI.
• 2017-12-18: Update on the DNSSEC root KSK rollover project for December 2017.
• 2017-12-18: The first Unix port, to the Interdata 7/32.
• 2017-12-18: Overture JS: FastMail's web app library.
• 2017-12-18: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL.
• 2017-12-18: A modulino is a file that is both script and module in Perl.
• 2017-12-17: A cheat-sheet for mathematical notation with translations to JavaScript.
• 2017-12-17: Butch, femme, and the history of lesbian identity.
• 2017-12-17: Silicon Valley techies still think they're the good guys. They're not.
• 2017-12-17: Modes, medians, means: a unifying perspective.
• 2017-12-17: Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?
• 2017-12-17: A thorough introduction to Apache Kafka.
• 2017-12-17: Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture, from an infrastructure tooling team at the FT.
• 2017-12-17: Dance Dance Convolution: automatically generating steps for a rhythm-based video game.
• 2017-12-16: Dive into BPF: a list of reading material.
• 2017-12-16: 白左 (baizuo): The curious rise of the ‘white left' as a Chinese internet insult.
• 2017-12-16: The Emacs calculator: a computer algebra system in your editor.
• 2017-12-16: RFC 8259: the last JSON spec.
• 2017-12-16: Introducing stapbpf: SystemTap's new BPF backend.
• 2017-12-16: Introducing the GoodWatch: A neighborly watch for radio engineers.
• 2017-12-16: REST is the new SOAP.
• 2017-12-15: Lessons learned from a DNS registrar account compromise and man-in-the-middle attack.
• 2017-12-14: A Volvo factory in China is car production heaven.
• 2017-12-14: Why is giving birth so hard? Revisiting the 'obstetrical dilemma'.
• 2017-12-14: W3C vs WHATWG. Which gives the most authoritative HTML spec?
• 2017-12-14: What is the relationship between the W3C and the WHATWG?
• 2017-12-14: BGP security in partial deployment: is the juice worth the squeeze? (2013)
• 2017-12-14: Results of New Zealand FOI query about academic journal subscription costs.
• 2017-12-12: Software compatibility and lld's autoconf "User-Agent" problem.
• 2017-12-13: XSS vulnerabilities in web sites that display x.509 TLS certificate details.
• 2017-12-13: London Underground map translated into German / Londoner U-Bahn-Plan ins Deutsche übersetzt.
• 2017-12-12: Internet protocols are changing: HTTP/2, TLS/1.3, QUIC, DoH.
• 2017-12-12: Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together in 1800s America.
• 2017-12-13: TP-Link repeater firmware squanders 715 MB/month of DNS and NTP traffic.
• 2017-12-12: It's official: ADSL works over wet string.
• 2017-12-12: Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again.
• 2017-12-13: Monitoring PostgreSQL replication lag.
• 2017-12-12: 100baseT Ethernet: so good, it works over barbed wire.
• 2017-12-12: The ROBOT attack on RSA in TLS: return of Bleichenbacher's oracle threat.
• 2017-12-12: AMD is at last releasing its open source Vulkan driver.
• 2017-12-12: High-level problems with Git and how to fix them.
• 2017-12-12: Why do asteroids explode high in the atmosphere?
• 2017-12-11: An intellectual property rights (IPR) policy and governance structure for the WHATWG.
• 2017-12-12: The GoodWatch: a Casio calculator watch containing hex editor, disassembler, and ham radio.
• 2017-12-11: On the value of EV x.509 TLS certificates.
• 2017-12-11: The numbers of women in tech rise and fall, but sexual harassment is ever present.
• 2017-12-11: The case for machine learning index structures instead of B-trees or hash tables.
• 2017-12-11: Half of Kenya's electricity comes from geothermal energy.
• 2017-12-11: How to make an atomic clock from N@C60, a nitrogen atom in a carbon fullerene cage.
• 2017-12-11: NASA to test prototype Kilopower nuclear reactor intended for missions to Mars.
• 2017-12-11: Thinking about hardware support for virtualization.
• 2017-12-11: When did Italian become the language of Italy?
• 2017-12-11: A collection of magic "nothing up my sleeve" numbers in cryptographic algorithms.
• 2017-12-10: Alaskan North Slope climate change just outran one of our tools to measure it.
• 2017-12-11: Design Principles.
• 2017-12-10: How a CogSci undergrad invented PageRank three years before Google.
• 2017-12-10: Golang tooling essentials: useful flags and options.
• 2017-12-10: About 34% of legitimate E-Passports have flaws preventing verification.
• 2017-12-10: AWS DNS services break qname minimization.
• 2017-12-10: Falsehoods programmers believe about programming.
• 2017-12-10: The Freiburg cup: a solution to single-use coffee cups.
• 2017-12-10: Measuring asymmetric DOCSIS latency via NTP.
• 2017-12-10: Global powers lobby to stop special Brexit deal for UK.
• 2017-12-10: Line Rider in the Hall of the Mountain King. (YouTube)
• 2017-12-10: iPhone slow? Try replacing your battery!
• 2017-12-10: Notes on postmodern programming.
• 2017-12-10: Kerberos: why the world moved on.
• 2017-12-09: The remarkable "curvature blindness" illusion.
• 2017-12-09: 1.4 billion clear text credentials discovered in a single database.
• 2017-12-09: An interview with Xavier Leroy.
• 2017-12-09: This is just to say we have explained the plum jokes in your Twitter feed.
• 2017-12-08: Rust-inspired safe pointers in SPARK Ada 2014.
• 2017-12-08: Make it Simple: a tale about Robert Dewar, Ada, and gnat.
• 2017-12-08: Decoding an air conditioner remote control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis.
• 2017-12-08: Sending infrared commands from a Raspberry Pi without LIRC.
• 2017-12-08: Google is likely to have its LIDAR patents invalidated, hindering its lawsuit against Uber.
• 2017-12-08: What have we learned from the PDP-11?
• 2017-12-08: A PostgreSQL / Pacemaker outage report.
• 2017-12-07: 3D printed objects that can connect to WiFi without electronics.
• 2017-12-07: Portugal's radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn't the world copied it?
• 2017-12-07: Neurotypical peers are less willing to interact with those with Autism based on thin slice judgments.
• 2017-12-07: Google's AlphaZero beats Stockfish in 100-game match after spending 4 hours teaching itself chess.
• 2017-12-06: The story of the crookneck / handled ancient American watermelon.
• 2017-12-07: Rust code organization: modules, crates, etc.
• 2017-12-06: Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite.
• 2017-12-06: Denial by DNS: Uber learns painfully and laboriously how not to write an asynchronous resolver.
• 2017-12-06: Introducing "British Economic Time" aka "Sunrise Time", the ultimate astronomy geek timezone.
• 2017-12-06: AlphaZero achieves in 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess, shogi, and Go.
• 2017-12-06: Electronic Arts is addicted to Wilson loot boxes.
• 2017-12-06: How Diesel autogenerates a Rust API from a database schema.
• 2017-12-06: Are X.509 EV certificates worth the paper they're written on?
• 2017-12-05: Announcing cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s: IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes networking in AWS.
• 2017-12-05: The mystery of the blend: the blender file format explained.
• 2017-12-05: AWS EC2 virtualization 2017: introducing Nitro.
• 2017-12-04: Connected toys: France serves formal notice to cease serious breach of privacy because of a lack of security.
• 2017-12-04: Debugging an evil Golang runtime bug.
• 2017-12-04: Planning to rewrite parts of Mercurial in Rust.
• 2017-12-04: Hands-on with the PocketBeagle: a $25 Linux computer with lots of I/O pins.
• 2017-12-04: How to use Git hooks to version control your Excel VBA code.
• 2017-12-04: The Stretcher Railing Society: preserving WWII artifacts hidden in plain sight around London.
• 2017-12-04: How Google manages 250,000 desktop/laptop computers securely and efficiently.
• 2017-12-04: "Metalenses" created with photolithography could change the nature of imaging and optical processing.
• 2017-12-04: End of privacy rights in the UK public sector?
• 2017-12-04: Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, and turn a conversation around.
• 2017-12-04: DNS resolver latency (cache hit rate) vs query rate.
• 2017-12-04: ffwd: delegation to another thread instead of locking is (much) faster than you think.
• 2017-12-04: Psychological safety in operations teams.
• 2017-12-04: Metro map colour-coding: effect on usability in route tracing.
• 2017-12-03: Dice become ordered when stirred, not shaken.
• 2017-12-03: Fool Britannia: the future of the UK has never looked so grim.
• 2017-12-03: How I convinced my 1987 Canon Cat to talk to my 2017 MacBook Pro.
• 2017-12-03: Criterion: statistics-driven micro-benchmarking for Rust.
• 2017-12-03: DNS for Tor exit nodes.
• 2017-12-02: Not your parent's analog computer.
• 2017-12-02: A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates.
• 2017-12-02: Homeowners trapped by ‘fleecehold', the new cash cow for property developers.
• 2017-12-02: Blockchain graveyard.
• 2017-12-02: Sex isn't chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X and Y.
• 2017-12-02: Hisako Koyama: an amateur astronomer who was one of the greatest solar observers.
• 2017-12-02: Python library API checklist.
• 2017-12-02: Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly.
• 2017-12-02: The Icelandic translation of Dracula is actually a different book.
• 2017-12-02: A clever line of JavaScript.
• 2017-12-01: How Etsy caches: consistent hashing, Ketama, and cache smearing.
• 2017-12-01: DNS TTL violations in the wild, measured with RIPE Atlas.
• 2017-12-01: Write your next Ethereum contract in Pyramid Scheme.
• 2017-12-01: The LEGO storage guide.
• 2017-12-01: Git PSA: git-rev-parse.