Tony Finch – link log

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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: Re-examining the scrypt() parameter values.
2017‑12‑29: PostgreSQL + ZFS best practices.
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: 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.
2017‑12‑28: pg_squeeze: A PostgreSQL extension for automatic bloat cleanup.
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.
2017‑12‑25: Undefined vs unsafe in Rust.
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: Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability.
2017‑12‑25: The current state of kernel page-table isolation.
2017‑12‑24: Formal verification: the gap between perfect code and reality.
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: Division by invariant integers using multiplication.
2017‑12‑23: Why nothing matters: the impact of zero initialization on programming language performance.
2017‑12‑23: JSON in MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL: few more stories about performance.
2017‑12‑23: AVX-512: what's useful for us.
2017‑12‑23: Dropbox releases PyAnnotate: auto-generate type annotations for mypy.
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: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL.
2017‑12‑18: Overture JS: FastMail's web app library.
2017‑12‑18: A modulino is a file that is both script and module in Perl.
2017‑12‑18: The first Unix port, to the Interdata 7/32.
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 the GoodWatch: A neighborly watch for radio engineers.
2017‑12‑16: REST is the new SOAP.
2017‑12‑16: Introducing stapbpf: SystemTap's new BPF backend.
2017‑12‑15: Lessons learned from a DNS registrar account compromise and man-in-the-middle attack.
2017‑12‑14: Why is giving birth so hard? Revisiting the 'obstetrical dilemma'.
2017‑12‑14: A Volvo factory in China is car production heaven.
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: Results of New Zealand FOI query about academic journal subscription costs.
2017‑12‑14: BGP security in partial deployment: is the juice worth the squeeze? (2013)
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.
2017‑12‑13: TP-Link repeater firmware squanders 715 MB/month of DNS and NTP traffic.
2017‑12‑13: Monitoring PostgreSQL replication lag.
2017‑12‑12: Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again.
2017‑12‑12: Software compatibility and lld's autoconf "User-Agent" problem.
2017‑12‑12: The ROBOT attack on RSA in TLS: return of Bleichenbacher's oracle threat.
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.
2017‑12‑12: 100baseT Ethernet: so good, it works over barbed wire.
2017‑12‑12: It's official: ADSL works over wet string.
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?
2017‑12‑12: 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: An intellectual property rights (IPR) policy and governance structure for the WHATWG.
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: NASA to test prototype Kilopower nuclear reactor intended for missions to Mars.
2017‑12‑11: When did Italian become the language of Italy?
2017‑12‑11: Thinking about hardware support for virtualization.
2017‑12‑11: How to make an atomic clock from N@C60, a nitrogen atom in a carbon fullerene cage.
2017‑12‑11: Design Principles.
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.
2017‑12‑10: Golang tooling essentials: useful flags and options.
2017‑12‑10: How a CogSci undergrad invented PageRank three years before Google.
2017‑12‑10: AWS DNS services break qname minimization.
2017‑12‑10: About 34% of legitimate E-Passports have flaws preventing verification.
2017‑12‑10: Falsehoods programmers believe about programming.
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: The Freiburg cup: a solution to single-use coffee cups.
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: 1.4 billion clear text credentials discovered in a single database.
2017‑12‑09: The remarkable "curvature blindness" illusion.
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: Make it Simple: a tale about Robert Dewar, Ada, and gnat.
2017‑12‑08: Rust-inspired safe pointers in SPARK Ada 2014.
2017‑12‑08: Sending infrared commands from a Raspberry Pi without LIRC.
2017‑12‑08: Decoding an air conditioner remote control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis.
2017‑12‑08: What have we learned from the PDP-11?
2017‑12‑08: Google is likely to have its LIDAR patents invalidated, hindering its lawsuit against Uber.
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: Rust code organization: modules, crates, etc.
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.
2017‑12‑06: 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: Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite.
2017‑12‑06: AlphaZero achieves in 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess, shogi, and Go.
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?
2017‑12‑06: Electronic Arts is addicted to Wilson loot boxes.
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: 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: Planning to rewrite parts of Mercurial in Rust.
2017‑12‑04: How Google manages 250,000 desktop/laptop computers securely and efficiently.
2017‑12‑04: The Stretcher Railing Society: preserving WWII artifacts hidden in plain sight around London.
2017‑12‑04: Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, and turn a conversation around.
2017‑12‑04: End of privacy rights in the UK public sector?
2017‑12‑04: DNS resolver latency (cache hit rate) vs query rate.
2017‑12‑04: "Metalenses" created with photolithography could change the nature of imaging and optical processing.
2017‑12‑04: ffwd: delegation to another thread instead of locking is (much) faster than you think.
2017‑12‑04: Metro map colour-coding: effect on usability in route tracing.
2017‑12‑04: Psychological safety in operations teams.
2017‑12‑03: Dice become ordered when stirred, not shaken.
2017‑12‑03: How I convinced my 1987 Canon Cat to talk to my 2017 MacBook Pro.
2017‑12‑03: Fool Britannia: the future of the UK has never looked so grim.
2017‑12‑03: Criterion: statistics-driven micro-benchmarking for Rust.
2017‑12‑03: DNS for Tor exit nodes.
2017‑12‑02: Homeowners trapped by 'fleecehold', the new cash cow for property developers.
2017‑12‑02: Blockchain graveyard.
2017‑12‑02: Not your parent's analog computer.
2017‑12‑02: Sex isn't chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X and Y.
2017‑12‑02: A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates.
2017‑12‑02: Hisako Koyama: an amateur astronomer who was one of the greatest solar observers.
2017‑12‑02: The Icelandic translation of Dracula is actually a different book.
2017‑12‑02: Python library API checklist.
2017‑12‑02: Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly.
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: The LEGO storage guide.
2017‑12‑01: Write your next Ethereum contract in Pyramid Scheme.
2017‑12‑01: Git PSA: git-rev-parse.
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: Why an empty password gets you root on macOS High Sierra.
2017‑11‑29: ISPS: hardware decription languages before VHDL.
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: DNS-over-TLS at SURFnet.
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: pgDoctor: PostgreSQL healthchecks for load balancers.
2017‑11‑28: Bitcoin and that 1929 vibe.
2017‑11‑28: A sense of units and scale for electrical energy production and consumption.
2017‑11‑28: Format oracle attacks against OpenPGP and GnuPG.
2017‑11‑28: Photovoltaic growth: reality versus projections of the International Energy Agency.
2017‑11‑28: ... Then you win.
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: What Bikini Atoll looks like today.
2017‑11‑27: Inside Docker's "FROM scratch" empty container.
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: Legatum: who are the Brexiteers' favourite think tank and who is behind them?
2017‑11‑26: A review of some Amazon HQ2 bids shows that democracy itself is a bargaining chip.
2017‑11‑26: LIL: the little implementation language (and other mid-level languages).
2017‑11‑26: Lively Linear Lisp: 'Look Ma, no garbage!'
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: Using a logbook to improve your programming.
2017‑11‑25: Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles.
2017‑11‑25: In search of the perfect writing font.
2017‑11‑25: SOLID principles made easy.
2017‑11‑25: Incremental data capture for Oracle databases at LinkedIn.
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: 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: How the sandwich consumed Britain.
2017‑11‑24: Our computer systems are not good enough. (YouTube)
2017‑11‑24: MySQL performance tuning and Linux context switches.
2017‑11‑24: In the Jungle: inside the long hidden genealogy of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.
2017‑11‑24: Observations of an ex pat: the Middle East explained.
2017‑11‑24: Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at last.
2017‑11‑24: Make: shows how to apologise properly.
2017‑11‑24: The financial realities of going viral.
2017‑11‑24: Ada: There's a mini-RTOS in my language.
2017‑11‑24: Why the world has so many Guineas.
2017‑11‑23: Common issues with PostgreSQL planner statistics.
2017‑11‑23: Draft revision of ISO 8601-201x with EDTF extended date/time formats.
2017‑11‑23: PostgreSQL configuration tuning for humans.
2017‑11‑23: How tuning PostgreSQL for SSDs can improve slow query performance by 50x.
2017‑11‑23: Road design: sustainable safety vs shared space.
2017‑11‑23: WIPEONFORK in Linux 4.14.
2017‑11‑23: Better random number generation for OpenSSL, glibc, and Linux.
2017‑11‑22: Why git is worse than Fossil.
2017‑11‑22: breezy: a fork of bzr for Python 3 support.
2017‑11‑22: Thoughts on Fossil-NG.
2017‑11‑22: Beauty shots of (moderately) retro computers.
2017‑11‑22: Do no harm: Linus on the tension between kernel security and system reliability.
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?
2017‑11‑22: Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Golang.
2017‑11‑22: Milksnake: ship Python wheels written in Rust without linking to libpython.
2017‑11‑22: Announcing failure: error handling for Rust.
2017‑11‑22: True Kilts: debunking myths about highlanders and clan tartans.
2017‑11‑22: What happens when a woman translates Homer's Odyssey.
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: How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
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: cquery: a highly-scalable, low-latency VS Code language server for C/C++.
2017‑11‑21: Shaping the World. (PyCon UK keynote)
2017‑11‑21: Understanding `git filter-branch` and the git storage model.
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: Orcas vs great white sharks: in a battle of the apex predators who wins?
2017‑11‑19: Security things in Linux v4.14.
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: KAISER: hiding the Linux kernel from user space.
2017‑11‑16: Experience with viruses on UNIX systems. (1989)
2017‑11‑16: Plan 28 Autumn 2017 report on progress analysing Babbage's analytical engine manuscripts.
2017‑11‑16: Puffs: a domain-specific language and library for parsing untrusted file formats safely.
2017‑11‑15: Keeping a lab notebook: basic principles and best practices.
2017‑11‑15: Oberon: the overlooked jewel.
2017‑11‑15: Fairchild F9445 MicroFlame: a clone of the Data General Nova.
2017‑11‑15: All of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux.
2017‑11‑15: NumPy's plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by 2020.
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: The post-Weinstein reckoning.
2017‑11‑13: uPyPhone: a GSM phone using MicroPython, PyBoard, and SIM800L.
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: 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.
2017‑11‑13: target="_blank": an underestimated vulnerability.
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: America's "retail apocalypse" is really just beginning.
2017‑11‑09: .NET/C# generics history: some photos from Feb 1999.
2017‑11‑09: Exponential generic type expansion in the C# compiler.
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: HotPlug: remove a running computer without shutting it down.
2017‑11‑08: Get up to speed with JANET's faster DDoS protection services.
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: Logstalgia: replay or stream website access logs as a retro arcade game.
2017‑11‑04: Playing with Wolfram playing cards.
2017‑11‑04: "The warhead is no longer on top of the missile." A nuclear accident in 1964.
2017‑11‑04: CT Advisor: Certificate Transparency monitoring and alerts.
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.
2017‑11‑03: DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram.
2017‑11‑03: FOSSology: open source license compliance toolkit.
2017‑11‑03: Software matters in the world: work on fixing the big bugs.
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: Data classes for Java.
2017‑11‑02: What's new in HAProxy 1.8.
2017‑11‑02: How the Guardian found 800,000 paying readers.
2017‑11‑02: A minimalist guide to SQLite.
2017‑11‑02: The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules.
2017‑11‑02: Linux containers in 500 lines of code.
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.
2017‑10‑31: Sequent calculus and linear logic: The Blind Spot and the cut rule.
2017‑10‑31: The habitat of hardware bugs.
2017‑10‑31: Perl is the most disliked programming language.
2017‑10‑31: State of the OpenVMS port to x86-64.
2017‑10‑31: fixie tries: a popcount trie implemented in Rust.
2017‑10‑31: Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930): A lady logician.
2017‑10‑31: Debug information is huge and what to do about it.
2017‑10‑31: Why are so many new and expectant mothers dying in the US?
2017‑10‑31: How the monstrous Weierstrass function paved the way for modern math.
2017‑10‑31: Cray: how to program a supercomputer.
2017‑10‑31: Dataviz project: a collection of data visualizations to get inspired and find the right type.
2017‑10‑31: Most websites don't need to vibrate: a cost-benefit approach to improving browser security.
2017‑10‑31: Same stats, different graphs: manipulating datasets through simulated annealing.
2017‑10‑31: Approximate frequency counts over data streams.
2017‑10‑30: Near future of programming languages.
2017‑10‑30: Scaling the GitLab PostgreSQL database.
2017‑10‑30: Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs.
2017‑10‑30: Colliding neutron stars are "standard sirens" that tell us how fast the universe is expanding.
2017‑10‑30: Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS.
2017‑10‑29: The meaning of Google AMP.
2017‑10‑29: The Internet Worm of 1988.
2017‑10‑29: Stealing Amazon EC2 keys via an XSS vulnerability.
2017‑10‑29: Some of the world's biggest energy storage schemes.
2017‑10‑29: The cubehelix colour scheme.
2017‑10‑29: Better than rainbows: matplotlib alternative colourblind-aware colourmaps.
2017‑10‑29: How to monkey-patch the Linux kernel with systemtap.
2017‑10‑29: Replace your exploit-ridden Intel x86 firmware with a Linux kernel
2017‑10‑29: Antarctica's illicit Ingress scene
2017‑10‑28: Slack SAML authentication bypass vulnerability.
2017‑10‑28: I watched all of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 videos so you don't have to.
2017‑10‑27: It's getting clearer: the diet-cancer connection points to sugar and carbs.
2017‑10‑27: Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in PostgreSQL.
2017‑10‑27: TLS-N: non-repudiation of data served over TLS.
2017‑10‑27: Disk|Crypt|Net: rethinking the stack for high-performance video streaming.
2017‑10‑27: Titan: the poor man's Atlas?
2017‑10‑27: Automatically submitting your Internet-Draft from GitHub.
2017‑10‑27: Who guards the guards? Formal validation of the ARM v8-M architecture specification.
2017‑10‑26: High-performance GPU computing in the Julia programming language.
2017‑10‑25: ZFSin: OpenZFS ported to Windows.
2017‑10‑25: Don't use a pencil: a key to Brexit's Russian bots.
2017‑10‑25: Testing DNSSEC public keys for the ROCA vulnerability.
2017‑10‑25: Barbarian: a sword font.
2017‑10‑25: One-level storage system: virtual memory on the Manchester Ferranti Atlas.
2017‑10‑25: Papers on virtual memory and working sets.
2017‑10‑25: Why do so few black students go to Oxbridge?
2017‑10‑25: More taste, less greed? or, sending UNIX to the fat farm.
2017‑10‑25: All you ever wanted to know about dynamic taint analysis and forward symbolic execution (but might have been afraid to ask).
2017‑10‑25: IP addresses considered harmful.
2017‑10‑25: A software-based approach to identify heavy hitters in 10Gbit/s DNS traffic.
2017‑10‑25: One Debian developer's preferred packaging setup.
2017‑10‑25: I deb, you deb, everybody debs: Debian packaging for beginners and experts alike.
2017‑10‑25: TimescaleDB: PostgreSQL made scalable for time-series data.
2017‑10‑25: Amazon Aurora: design considerations for high throughput cloud-native relational databases.
2017‑10‑25: Short-lived certificates at Netflix.
2017‑10‑24: Executive function impairment in high-IQ adults with ADHD.
2017‑10‑24: Infineon ROCA: Welp, there go my Git signatures.
2017‑10‑24: First Timers Only: friendly open source projects reserve specific issues for new contributors.
2017‑10‑24: The mathematics of 2048: counting states with combinatorics.
2017‑10‑24: Buffer overflow in musl-libc DNS response parser.
2017‑10‑24: Surviving IPv6 fragmentation.
2017‑10‑24: On the passive measurability of RTT/loss of QUIC traffic.
2017‑10‑24: How to write a stunt server using raw sockets in IPv6.
2017‑10‑24: A history of the ampersand.
2017‑10‑24: How Merkle trees enable the decentralized web.
2017‑10‑24: What everybody gets wrong about Jekyll and Hyde.
2017‑10‑24: The future of DNSSEC at the RIPE NCC.
2017‑10‑24: Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?
2017‑10‑24: Introduction to the Zig programming language: "more pragmatic than C".
2017‑10‑24: Recent IETF BGP work addressing operational challenges.
2017‑10‑24: IPv6 prefix assignment for end-users: persistent vs non-persistent, and what size to choose.
2017‑10‑24: cronic: a cure for chronic cron spam.
2017‑10‑23: This is what the no-deal Brexit cliff edge looks like.
2017‑10‑23: The DUHK attack: don't use hard-coded keys for RNG seeds.
2017‑10‑23: .Amsterdam refuses to publish Whois records as ICANN whois GDPR row escalates.
2017‑10‑23: DéjàVu: a map of code duplication on GitHub.
2017‑10‑23: Manipulating Maintainers: how to persuade members of an open source community to help you.
2017‑10‑23: UCAS statistics: Is there bias in university admissions?
2017‑10‑23: Filesystem error handling / improving error checking in C / funding robustness research.
2017‑10‑23: The Atlas of the Underworld shows Earth's interior is teeming with dead plates.
2017‑10‑23: Best trackballs 2017.
2017‑10‑23: Danish numbers are obscurely 20-based.
2017‑10‑23: ChrysaLisp: TAOS-flavoured parallel OS, with GUI, terminal, OO assembler, class libraries, C-Script, and more...
2017‑10‑23: Genode: a capability-oriented microkernel OS.
2017‑10‑22: Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television.
2017‑10‑22: Android getting support for DNS over TLS.
2017‑10‑22: A README maturity model.
2017‑10‑22: How did Arron Banks afford to bankroll Brexit?
2017‑10‑22: MENACE: machine educable noughts and crosses engine, a matchboxes-and-beads computer.
2017‑10‑22: Reusable and type-safe functional options for Golang APIs.
2017‑10‑22: The self-referential functional option pattern in Golang.
2017‑10‑22: Successful hotfire test of Blue Origin BE-4 reusable high-thrust rocket engine.
2017‑10‑22: Sugar is a toxic agent that creates conditions for disease.
2017‑10‑22: zsync: download files over http using the rsync algorithm.
2017‑10‑21: The rise and fall of the Lyons' Cornerhouses and their Nippy waitresses.
2017‑10‑21: The largest left truncatable prime.
2017‑10‑21: Autodesk Recap360: turn photos into 3D models.
2017‑10‑21: Nationalisation of Carlisle pubs during the First World War.
2017‑10‑21: Some examples of historical music notation.
2017‑10‑21: Battle with a phantom PostgreSQL WAL segment.
2017‑10‑21: IPv6 Buddy: a keyboard for typing hex.
2017‑10‑21: co2: an object system for C.
2017‑10‑21: Object oriented programming in C.
2017‑10‑21: Object-oriented programming in ANSI C.
2017‑10‑21: Google's quantum computing plans upended by IBM's 56 qubit classical computing simulation.
2017‑10‑21: Vikings razed the forests. Can Iceland regrow them?
2017‑10‑21: Don't style your marketing emails.
2017‑10‑20: Female homicide rate dropped 17% after Craigslist launched its erotic services platform.
2017‑10‑20: How I socially engineer myself into high security facilities.
2017‑10‑20: Pointer free programming and the future of Nim.
2017‑10‑19: Over 30,000 published studies could be wrong due to contaminated cells.
2017‑10‑19: Objective-C and fork() in macOS 10.13.
2017‑10‑19: Why Ruby app servers break on macOS High Sierra: fork safety in Objective C frameworks.
2017‑10‑19: X.org server for Android.
2017‑10‑19: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app.
2017‑10‑19: Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
2017‑10‑19: Ad industry insiders profited from ad fraud scheme that stole $millions.
2017‑10‑19: Hey Siri: an on-device DNN-powered voice trigger for Apple's personal assistant.
2017‑10‑19: Browser security beyond sandboxing: Microsoft exploits Google Chrome.
2017‑10‑18: ML modules and Haskell type classes: a constructive comparison.
2017‑10‑18: AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch.
2017‑10‑18: mod_md: ACME support for the Apache httpd.
2017‑10‑18: The mathematical genius of Auto-Tunea.
2017‑10‑18: Exploring lock-free Rust: from locks, via atomics, to Crossbeam.
2017‑10‑17: Fact check markup: explain to Google what claims are true or false.
2017‑10‑17: End all immigration controls: they're a sign we value money more than people.
2017‑10‑17: ROCA: critical vulnerability in Infineon security chips.
2017‑10‑17: TAOS Operating System.
2017‑10‑15: How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece .
2017‑10‑15: Help test out ThinLTO! Another feature aiming to reduce Rust's compile times.
2017‑10‑15: Beyond XX and XY: the extraordinary complexity of sex determination.
2017‑10‑15: Switching from Common Lisp to Julia.
2017‑10‑15: The Journal of Open Source Software: a developer friendly journal for research software packages
2017‑10‑15: Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography.
2017‑10‑14: The impossible dream of USB-C.
2017‑10‑14: Interactive scientific computing, Goldilocks languages, and Julia.
2017‑10‑14: Some insights from a Julia developer.
2017‑10‑14: 5 things we learned from Google Waymo's self-driving car NTSB report.
2017‑10‑14: I'm an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here's why.
2017‑10‑14: Why the assholes are winning: money trumps all.
2017‑10‑14: Is the inflationary universe a scientific theory?
2017‑10‑14: By analysing hundreds of police interviews, two scientists have revolutionised interrogation.
2017‑10‑13: freno: mitigating MySQL replication lag and reducing read load at GitHub.
2017‑10‑13: Reverse proxy grapher.
2017‑10‑13: Exploding Git repository: a billion blobs.
2017‑10‑12: Notable features in C++17.
2017‑10‑11: ADHD: a lifelong struggle.
2017‑10‑11: Reasons Kubernetes is cool.
2017‑10‑11: Block comments considered harmful.
2017‑10‑11: A template for a run book / system operation manual.
2017‑10‑11: Disabling the Intel Management Engine.
2017‑10‑11: PACELC, Hazelcast, and the mythical PA/EC system.
2017‑10‑10: Fake crypto: Microsoft Outlook S/MIME cleartext disclosure.
2017‑10‑10: A bug has no name: multiple heap buffer overflows in the Windows DNS client.
2017‑10‑10: Coding style as a failure of language design.
2017‑10‑10: Macro-less code execution with DDE in Microsoft Word.
2017‑10‑10: The asynchronous computability theorem: applying topology to distributed systems.
2017‑10‑10: The absurdly underestimated dangers of spreadsheet compromise via CSV injection.
2017‑10‑10: A decade of Amazon Dynamo.
2017‑10‑09: Breaking Ed25519 in WolfSSL using differential power analysis.
2017‑10‑09: "Peer review" is younger than you might think. Does that mean it can go away?
2017‑10‑08: Thoughts on Microsoft's time-travel debugger.
2017‑10‑08: Fairchild Semiconductor: the 60th anniversary of a Silicon Valley legend.
2017‑10‑08: The story behind the photo of the Lightning crash at Hatfield in 1962.
2017‑10‑08: How to avoid unwanted wakeups when killing lots of processes.
2017‑10‑07: A branchless UTF-8 decoder.
2017‑10‑07: What even is compiler correctness?
2017‑10‑07: iOS 11's misleading "off-ish" setting for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is bad for security and battery life.
2017‑10‑06: Fast JVM startup with JDK 9.
2017‑10‑05: The magic phrase, "we don't do that here."
2017‑10‑05: HoTTSQL: proving query rewrites with univalent SQL semantics.
2017‑10‑04: The undercover story of the Chicago newspaper that bought a bar.
2017‑10‑04: The story behind ICANN's decision to delay the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2017‑10‑04: Brexit will hit Britain's overseas territories hard. Why is no one talking about it?
2017‑10‑04: Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra.
2017‑10‑04: Using an iPad Pro instead of a desktop computer.
2017‑10‑04: Sequent NUMA-Q: a new commercial parallel-processing architecture. (1999)
2017‑10‑04: 8th: a gentle introduction to a modern Forth.
2017‑10‑04: Cashing in on ATM malware: a comprehensive look at various attack types.
2017‑10‑04: Random cyclic curves in the complex plane.
2017‑10‑04: Times tables, Mandelbrot, and the heart of mathematics. (YouTube)
2017‑10‑04: Beauty in mathematics: modular multiplication tables.
2017‑10‑04: Common Lisp vs Racket vs Gerbil.
2017‑10‑04: Gerbil Scheme has a state of the art macro and module system on top of the Gambit runtime.
2017‑10‑04: Compiling switch/case: Are jump tables always fastest?
2017‑10‑03: In 1973, I invented a 'girly drink' called Baileys.
2017‑10‑03: What Tesla's big battery in South Australia is for.
2017‑10‑03: Not all disagreements are opportunities to change your own mind.
2017‑10‑02: Probot: GitHub apps to automate and improve your workflow.
2017‑10‑02: Mitogen: an infrastructure code baseline that sucks less, or, why Ansible is slow.
2017‑10‑02: Troubleshooting: a journey through Bird, HAProxy, cURL, and the Linux dentry cache.
2017‑10‑02: RELAY: past, present, and future. (1987)
2017‑10‑02: Toward a predictive-processing theory of depression.
2017‑10‑02: Advanced secondary DNS for the technically inclined.
2017‑10‑02: No brogrammers: Practical tips for writing inclusive job ads.
2017‑10‑02: What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science, and how to fix it.
2017‑10‑01: Haxl: a big hammer for concurrency. (YouTube)
2017‑10‑01: How deeply are STEM students learning? They often guess and merely manipulate symbols without insight.
2017‑10‑01: DNA from old skeleton suggests humanity's been here longer than we thought.
2017‑10‑01: How science saved me from pretending to love wine.
2017‑09‑30: What's In the Cache? DNS cache hit rates.
2017‑09‑30: Cache effect of shared DNS resolver.
2017‑09‑30: BotDigger: Detecting DGA bots in a single network using DNS traffic.
2017‑09‑30: Bad autoconf tests with nested functions are incompatible with clang.
2017‑09‑30: Why are Nazis so afraid of clowns?
2017‑09‑30: BIND 9.12 refactoring and performance improvements.
2017‑09‑30: A look at RFC 8145 DNSSEC trust anchor signalling.
2017‑09‑30: RFC 7706 vs RFC 8198 for root DNS zone performance and resilience.
2017‑09‑29: The pragmatic case for moving Britain's capital to Manchester.
2017‑09‑29: Serving 100 Gbps from a Netflix FreeBSD Open Connect Appliance.
2017‑09‑29: What happened to the folding UK plug?
2017‑09‑28: DNS for service discovery in HAProxy.
2017‑09‑28: Identifying satellite interference due to GSM rebroadcast.
2017‑09‑28: We need to talk about TLS session tickets.
2017‑09‑28: Background information on the DNSSEC root key rollover postponement.
2017‑09‑28: How Crossrail is using 3D-printing to build its stations.
2017‑09‑28: When filters fail: These cases show we can't trust algorithms to clean up the internet.
2017‑09‑28: DNSSEC KSK rollover postponed.
2017‑09‑28: Languages don't all have the same number of terms for colors. Here's a new theory why.
2017‑09‑28: detect.location: getting iOS location data via photo EXIF access.
2017‑09‑28: Software is a long con.
2017‑09‑28: HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing!
2017‑09‑28: ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit.
2017‑09‑27: Ed25519 for DNSSEC.
2017‑09‑27: git git git git git
2017‑09‑27: BOOMv2: an open-source out-of-order RISC V core.
2017‑09‑27: Feminism, equality, chattels, and judgement.
2017‑09‑27: Flags are not languages.
2017‑09‑27: The history of Sears predicts almost everything Amazon is doing.
2017‑09‑26: Comparing differential equation solvers in C, Fortran, Julia, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, and R.
2017‑09‑26: cloudflare/bn256 implements a particular bilinear group at the 128-bit security level, ~10x or ~20x faster.
2017‑09‑26: Cloudflare Geo Key Manager: identity-based encryption for private keys in a TLS CDN.
2017‑09‑25: Mathematics and the state of being stuck.
2017‑09‑25: Org-mode is one of the most reasonable lightweight markup languages.
2017‑09‑25: A quick introduction to Graphviz.
2017‑09‑25: Antifragility 101.
2017‑09‑24: The Canpaign for North Africa: a notorious board game that takes 1,500 hours to complete.
2017‑09‑24: Branded in memory: how well can people draw a logo from memory?
2017‑09‑23: APFS: a backup software developer's perspective.
2017‑09‑23: GPS without COCOM limits.
2017‑09‑23: Super-accurate GPS chips coming to smartphones in 2018.
2017‑09‑23: Franchise: an open source in-browser SQL notebook.
2017‑09‑23: lnav: a log file navigator.
2017‑09‑22: How Portugal is winning the War on Drugs that the USA is losing.
2017‑09‑22: Time to speak up for Article 15 of the E-commerce Directive.
2017‑09‑22: API Monitor: spy on Windows API calls and COM interfaces.
2017‑09‑22: Implementing Berkeley sockets in System V release 4.
2017‑09‑22: How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk.
2017‑09‑22: Seveneves and the Roche limit.
2017‑09‑22: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason": a simulation.
2017‑09‑22: Golang: Ten years and climbing.
2017‑09‑21: Weather forecasting is better than it's ever been.
2017‑09‑21: The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces, whose penises do not grow until puberty.
2017‑09‑21: Parents, children, CDS/CDNSKEY records, and dnssec-cds.
2017‑09‑21: Measuring the security of closed DNS resolvers by probing via SMTP.
2017‑09‑21: Locks, Little's Law, and the universal scalability law.
2017‑09‑21: Effects without monads: non-determinism.
2017‑09‑21: CLKSCREW: attacking ARM TrustZone using security-oblivious energy management.
2017‑09‑21: Booleans and enums.
2017‑09‑21: Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's control center doesn't actually turn them off.
2017‑09‑21: Inception drive: a compact, infinitely variable transmission for robotics.
2017‑09‑20: jwz: "HTML email, was that your fault?"
2017‑09‑20: Clocks and hardware design for software engineers.
2017‑09‑20: A rare peek inside a 400Gbit/s Cisco network processor.
2017‑09‑20: Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing?
2017‑09‑20: A longitudinal, end-to-end view of the DNSSEC ecosystem.
2017‑09‑20: Allocation efficiency in high-performance Golang services.
2017‑09‑20: Evolution of data structures in Yandex.Metrica.
2017‑09‑19: Why Keccak is not ARX.
2017‑09‑19: Fuzzing Tales 0x01: Yadifa DNS.
2017‑09‑19: Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing to India, China, and the Philippines.
2017‑09‑19: Undercover police operation to catch close-pass overtaking reduced cyclist casualties by 20%.
2017‑09‑19: An efficient academic journal.
2017‑09‑19: Simple Set game proof stuns mathematicians, leading to advances in combinatorics.
2017‑09‑19: To type or not to type: 15% of JavaScript bugs detectable by TypeScript or Flow.
2017‑09‑18: Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987)
2017‑09‑18: Optionsbleed: HTTP OPTIONS method can leak a misconfigured Apache server's memory.
2017‑09‑18: The future of HHVM, Facebook's fast PHPish runtime.
2017‑09‑17: Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system.
2017‑09‑17: ptexplore: Linux process page table explorer.
2017‑09‑17: Pirate black open access is trumping green and gold and we must change our approach to academic journals.
2017‑09‑17: Root causes of TLS certificate errors for Google Chrome users.
2017‑09‑16: Interview with Martha Wells about the second Murderbot book.
2017‑09‑16: The week my husband left and my house was burgled I secured a grant to begin the BRCA1 project.
2017‑09‑16: The Minskytron: early graphics demos on an in-browser PDP-1 emulator.
2017‑09‑16: The Minsky circle algorithm.
2017‑09‑16: proptest: Hypothesis-style property testing for Rust.
2017‑09‑16: ZARM: the Bremen microgravity drop tower.
2017‑09‑16: How not to land a SpaceX orbital rocket booster. (YouTube)
2017‑09‑16: A working game of Tetris implemented in Conway's Game of Life.
2017‑09‑16: LoRa backscatter: data transmission over >400m using <10μW.
2017‑09‑16: A translation of the Polari in "Putting on the Dish".
2017‑09‑16: A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men.
2017‑09‑16: e-dumper: the world's largest electric vehicle.
2017‑09‑15: Where are you on the IPv6 adoption curve?
2017‑09‑15: Rising CO2 and the great nutrient collapse.
2017‑09‑15: Rich's B compiler
2017‑09‑15: RFC 8187: the first RFC containing non-ASCII characters.
2017‑09‑15: Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload.
2017‑09‑15: Google's influence over its network of influencers.
2017‑09‑15: Meet the font detectives who ferret out fakery.
2017‑09‑14: migra: like diff for PostgreSQL schemas; migrations made almost painless.
2017‑09‑14: The origins of malloc().
2017‑09‑14: Compile-time Mandelbrot set in Rust.
2017‑09‑14: Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception.
2017‑09‑14: Proporti.onl: gender distribution of people you follow and your followers on Twitter.
2017‑09‑13: Formally verified cryptography for Firefox 57.
2017‑09‑13: Flying economy class is so cramped it could be a death trap.
2017‑09‑13: Here's what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers.
2017‑09‑13: Reconstruction of a train wreck: how priming research went off the rails. (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow)
2017‑09‑12: Announcing Topicbox: FastMail's new product for teams.
2017‑09‑11: Nearby houses with "twin" street addresses.
2017‑09‑11: White shark kayak: the origin of the fake picture of the shark in the flooded road.
2017‑09‑11: A copyright vote that could change the EU's Internet.
2017‑09‑11: The proposed European copyright directive's effects on open source software development.
2017‑09‑11: How to find out if/why a server is dropping packets.
2017‑09‑10: How f.root-servers.net has performed since Cloudflare joined its anycast cloud.
2017‑09‑10: How Brexit will affect your human rights.
2017‑09‑10: Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours, but at this point, he can't just let his art do the talking.
2017‑09‑10: The problem with calling women 'females'.
2017‑09‑10: Has the Voynich manuscript really been solved?
2017‑09‑10: The Network and Information Systems Directive's effect on Internet companies in the UK.
2017‑09‑10: Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
2017‑09‑10: .uk domain transfers are scary.
2017‑09‑09: The Corpus Christi prime.
2017‑09‑09: Identity fraud, credit reports, and you.
2017‑09‑09: Things found on GitHub: shell history.
2017‑09‑09: A guide to filtered permeability.
2017‑09‑09: On the discussion of security vulnerabilities. (1853)
2017‑09‑09: Download 67,000 historic maps from Stanford's David Rumsey map collection.
2017‑09‑09: The "premium mediocre" life of Maya Millennial.
2017‑09‑09: A first look at CoreDNS.
2017‑09‑07: The solution to the Voynich manuscript.
2017‑09‑07: The Uncomfortable: a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects.
2017‑09‑07: serve-stale in BIND: Akamai's contribution to DNS / Internet resiliency.
2017‑09‑07: Infosec incident response: protecting individual rights under the GDPR.
2017‑09‑07: In defence of NAT.
2017‑09‑07: Optimizing nginx on Linux for high throughput and low latency at Dropbox.
2017‑09‑07: Librsvg's build infrastructure: autotools and Rust.
2017‑09‑07: 5 tips for writing small CLI tools in Rust.
2017‑09‑07: Mison: a fast non-FSM-based JSON parser.
2017‑09‑07: Performance evaluation of elfmalloc, a general-purpose malloc() replacement written in Rust.
2017‑09‑06: Surfing uncertainty: the predictive processing model of human cognition.
2017‑09‑06: British antifa before and after World War II.
2017‑09‑06: Wind farms are not the bird slayers they're made out to be.
2017‑09‑06: How to recognize burnout before you're burned out.
2017‑09‑06: A serf on Google's farm.
2017‑09‑06: Google: time to return to not being evil.
2017‑09‑06: Wind is one of the cheapest sources of electricity, and it's getting cheaper.
2017‑09‑05: Some were meant for C: the endurance of an unmanageable language.
2017‑09‑05: Efficient air-conditioning beams heat into space.
2017‑09‑05: Solaris to Linux migration 2017.
2017‑09‑05: Is systemd's hand-rolled dbus-over-ssh tunnel a security worry?
2017‑09‑05: Game of registrars: an empirical analysis of post-expiration domain name takeovers.
2017‑09‑05: ansible-lint: Best practices checker for Ansible.
2017‑09‑05: Invisible Manipulation: 10 ways our data is being used against us.
2017‑09‑05: Zero-confirmation .uk domain hijacking with eNom.
2017‑09‑05: SharknAT&To: grievous vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems.
2017‑09‑04: Clear Containers and CRI-O: a VM per Kubernetes container, without Docker.
2017‑09‑04: Claude Shannon: mathematician, engineer, genius... and juggler?
2017‑09‑04: The vacuity of postmodernist methodology.
2017‑09‑04: Six year old PDF loop bug affects most major implementations.
2017‑09‑04: Quantum reconstruction: rewriting the axioms of quantum theory from scratch, to understand what it all means.
2017‑09‑04: Outlawing war? The Kellogg-Briand pact actually worked.
2017‑09‑04: Multiple perspectives on technical problems and solutions: architecture review at Etsy.
2017‑09‑04: Google cloud load balancer outage postmortem.
2017‑09‑04: The Netherlands: an agricultural giant showing what the future of farming could look like.
2017‑09‑03: Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? (For modern versions, yes.)
2017‑09‑03: Is there winning strategy in Tetris? (In general, no.)
2017‑09‑03: Perl as PID 1 under Docker.
2017‑09‑03: An introduction to managing secrets safely with version control systems.
2017‑09‑02: Brexit talks cannot succeed.
2017‑09‑02: LuaTeX comes of age.
2017‑09‑01: Barriers to equality in academia: women in computer science at MIT. (1983)
2017‑09‑01: F*: an ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification.
2017‑08‑31: Following Hurricane Katrina, an amazing decade of climate research.
2017‑08‑31: Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames?
2017‑08‑31: Reducing Python's startup time.
2017‑08‑31: Concurrent JavaScript: It can work!
2017‑08‑30: Gifpop: turn your GIFs into lenticular prints.
2017‑08‑30: A Polaroid-style Raspberry Pi camera that prints a GIF instantly.
2017‑08‑30: "Torrential": a cruelly ironic etymology.
2017‑08‑30: Relaxed-memory concurrency synchronization patterns.
2017‑08‑30: Fully automatic DNSSEC delegation updates at CZ.NIC with FRED and Knot.
2017‑08‑30: Urban maths: tipping point, or, what is the bias of perfect dice?
2017‑08‑30: Eyes change over time, thwarting iris scanners.
2017‑08‑30: How to use `dig` to find details of the Google Public DNS cluster you are using.
2017‑08‑30: Hurricane Harvey didn't come out of the blue. Now is the time to talk about climate change.
2017‑08‑30: Don't fall for Babylonian trigonometry hype.
2017‑08‑29: Fascinating experiments that show what happens when mercury and aluminium are combined. (video)
2017‑08‑29: Hurricane Harvey is what climate change looks like.
2017‑08‑29: How to make Python run as fast as Julia.
2017‑08‑28: What makes a good REPL?
2017‑08‑28: Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented US Government High Assurance Platform mode.
2017‑08‑28: AWS Parameter Store: the right way to manage secrets with AWS.
2017‑08‑28: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten.
2017‑08‑28: Akira Miyagawa live orchestral mashup: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 vs Mambo No. 5. (YouTube)
2017‑08‑28: On (respect for) children as autonomous human beings.
2017‑08‑28: Attack of the 50 foot blockchain! Bitcoin, Ethereum, and smart contracts.
2017‑08‑27: Where in Europe does an electric car reduce CO2 emissions?
2017‑08‑26: Two spirits, one heart, five genders: how Europeans tried to extinguish Native American views on gender.
2017‑08‑26: How the music of Rogue One links to A New Hope.
2017‑08‑25: Better letterer: comic lettering tips.
2017‑08‑25: How to piss off a failed super-soldier.
2017‑08‑25: Threading the celestial needle: catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 feet.
2017‑08‑25: VW's strike in Slovakia exposes a European divide.
2017‑08‑25: Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA.
2017‑08‑25: How American bank payments (ACH) work: A developer perspective.
2017‑08‑25: Rules for new FPGA designers.
2017‑08‑25: On crimes and punishments, torture and retribution, deterrence and Beccaria.
2017‑08‑25: Enlightenment technology; A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy.
2017‑08‑25: On progress and historical change.
2017‑08‑24: Here at the end of all things: on losing oneself in maps of fantasy worlds:
2017‑08‑24: Got Phish: how/where to report malicious web sites.
2017‑08‑24: What made the Moon? New ideas try to rescue a troubled theory.
2017‑08‑24: We're racing towards another private debt crisis, so why did no one see it coming?
2017‑08‑24: Rethinking the dbus message bus.
2017‑08‑24: D as a better C.
2017‑08‑23: The only 4 spaghetti recipes you'll ever need.
2017‑08‑23: The beauty of Bresenham's algorithm.
2017‑08‑23: Mathematicians tame rogue waves, illuminating future of LED lighting.
2017‑08‑22: Hackers are the real obstacle for self-driving vehicles.
2017‑08‑22: IPv6, large UDP packets, and the DNS.
2017‑08‑22: Reverse engineering a 1970s DTMF dialler chip.
2017‑08‑22: Typing with pleasure, and low latency.
2017‑08‑22: Four MLs (and a Python).
2017‑08‑21: Starting Star Wars: How George Lucas came to create a galaxy.
2017‑08‑21: Inequality in the USA: understanding the historic divergence between productivity and a typical worker's pay.
2017‑08‑20: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent ANS compression.
2017‑08‑20: How do I improve my storytelling?
2017‑08‑20: "I teach dirty tricks": the explosives expert who shows armies how to deal with terrorists.
2017‑08‑20: Everything you always wanted to know about optical fibre networking, but were afraid to ask.
2017‑08‑20: BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon: CIA SSH hacking tools.
2017‑08‑19: Why PS4 downloads are so slow.
2017‑08‑19: A crash course on ML modules.
2017‑08‑19: Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them.
2017‑08‑19: Towards a JavaScript binary AST.
2017‑08‑19: Vue.js vs React.
2017‑08‑19: What next in programming languages?
2017‑08‑19: What a border collie taught a linguist about language.
2017‑08‑18: NASA's sound suppression water system.
2017‑08‑18: How Postgres makes transactions atomic.
2017‑08‑17: Hands on with the SHACamp 2017 badge.
2017‑08‑17: At last, a big, successful trial of probiotics.
2017‑08‑17: Dilution of whisky and flavour: a molecular perspective.
2017‑08‑17: The origin of complex life on Earth just got a little less mysterious.
2017‑08‑17: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial.
2017‑08‑16: The dwarfs of our vocabulary: etymologies of small words.
2017‑08‑16: APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning.
2017‑08‑15: Iris: a scalable, accurate, and ethical method to measure global manipulation of DNS resolution.
2017‑08‑15: The Meson build system, used by GTK/Gnome.
2017‑08‑15: rustgo: calling Rust from Golang with near-zero overhead.
2017‑08‑14: German universities take on Elsevier.
2017‑08‑14: The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two islands.
2017‑08‑14: Consistent hashing with bounded loads.
2017‑08‑13: A theory of jerks: Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around?
2017‑08‑12: Hyperscan: a high-performance PCRE-compatible multiple regex matching library.
2017‑08‑11: OpenGeofiction: a map of an imaginary world, created by a community of worldbuilders.
2017‑08‑11: The end of Libor.
2017‑08‑11: British bank regulators are abandoning LIBOR, the benchmark for hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial transactions.
2017‑08‑11: UX brutalism.
2017‑08‑11: Small functions considered harmful.
2017‑08‑11: Compromise on checkout: vulnerabilities in gIt and other SCM tools.
2017‑08‑11: Crafting plausible fantasy maps.
2017‑08‑11: Font-size: an unexpectedly complex CSS property.
2017‑08‑11: Why Github can't host the Linux kernel.
2017‑08‑10: Scrapmetal: scrap your boilerplate in Rust.
2017‑08‑10: Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?
2017‑08‑10: For fans of the movie WARGAMES: a list of all the nuclear war scenarios stored in the W.O.P.R. computer.
2017‑08‑09: IETF 99 DNS activity.
2017‑08‑08: Approaching the physical limits of storage technology.
2017‑08‑08: Counting quotient filter: making every bit count. (Better than Bloom filters!)
2017‑08‑08: Localhost entries in DNS zones can lead to "same site" scripting web vulnerabilities.
2017‑08‑07: Tolkien's map and the messed-up mountains of Middle-Earth.
2017‑08‑07: "Not even wrong!" Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory?
2017‑08‑07: Why don't more quantum physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
2017‑08‑07: Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.
2017‑08‑07: A brief history of quantum alternatives.
2017‑08‑07: An 18th-century horse that Eclipsed all the others.
2017‑08‑07: How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?
2017‑08‑07: Why many smart contract use cases are simply impossible.
2017‑08‑07: Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island's experiment.
2017‑08‑07: Can a living creature be as big as a galaxy?
2017‑08‑05: Optimizing HAMT (hash array mapped tries) for fast and lean immutable JVM collections.
2017‑08‑05: What the ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence.
2017‑08‑05: Which DNS registries offer the best protection for domain owners?
2017‑08‑04: The slow currentTimeMillis().
2017‑08‑04: The languages which almost became CSS.
2017‑08‑04: The development of Chez Scheme.
2017‑08‑03: 306 million freely downloadable pwned passwords.
2017‑08‑03: Elsevier acquires bepress, increasing its hold on open access and institution repositories.
2017‑08‑03: Users, clients, and servers: the robustness principle and the web.
2017‑08‑02: TypeScript's type system is Turing complete.
2017‑08‑02: IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge.
2017‑08‑02: A practical guide to SQL transaction isolation levels.
2017‑08‑02: RTFM v2: real-time for the masses on a Cortex-M with Rust.
2017‑08‑02: Parsing NES ROM headers with nom and Rust.
2017‑08‑02: Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM.
2017‑08‑01: Brexiteers using Ireland.
2017‑08‑01: New evidence of British torture could overturn Northern Ireland ruling that became a blueprint for US torture.
2017‑08‑01: Review: Nabokov's favorite word is mauve: what the numbers reveal about [] writing.
2017‑08‑01: US DoD encyclopedia of ethical failure.
2017‑08‑01: see-phit: A C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing.
2017‑08‑01: Recursives in the wild: engineering authoritative DNS servers.
2017‑07‑31: Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fairness in WiFi.
2017‑07‑31: Dolphin Nintendo emulator ubershaders: a ridiculous solution to an impossible problem
2017‑07‑30: Medicine's women problem.
2017‑07‑30: A rant on usable security: run-time sandboxes from static analysis?
2017‑07‑29: No Dunkirk spirit can save Britain from Brexit defeat.
2017‑07‑29: An effective attack against the Argon2i hash function.
2017‑07‑29: The Evolution of Trust: a game to teach game theory.
2017‑07‑29: sandsifter: the x86 processor fuzzer.
2017‑07‑28: Confession of a C/C++ programmer.
2017‑07‑28: How to remove systemd from a Debian installation.
2017‑07‑28: Farewell to systemd.
2017‑07‑28: Sci-Hub's cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests.
2017‑07‑28: Project Snowflake: non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET.
2017‑07‑27: Bodging: making chair legs around High Wycombe.
2017‑07‑27: How to set up a cheap Chromebook for software development when travelling.
2017‑07‑26: Why Is the Internet Archive painstakingly preserving Ted Nelson's junk mail?
2017‑07‑26: Using BGP to acquire bogus TLS certificates.
2017‑07‑26: Defining the undefinedness of C.
2017‑07‑25: Why we rewrote Lua in JavaScript, to run in the browser.
2017‑07‑25: Karn: an admin-friendly tool for creating seccomp and apparmor profiles.
2017‑07‑25: A homemade robot that can crack a safe in 15 minutes. (video)
2017‑07‑25: Esperanto: european or asiatic language?
2017‑07‑25: gocmdpev: A command-line PostgreSQL query visualizer in Golang.
2017‑07‑25: Snopes faces an ugly legal battle.
2017‑07‑24: Fingerprint-based detection of DNS hijacks using RIPE Atlas.
2017‑07‑24: Burglary, robbery, kidnapping and a shoot-out over... a domain name?!
2017‑07‑24: Anthony Burgess' lost dictionary of slang.
2017‑07‑23: Fast-key-erasure random-number generators.
2017‑07‑23: How economists rode maths to become our era's astrologers.
2017‑07‑23: mod_md: built-in Let's Encrypt (ACME) support for Apache httpd.
2017‑07‑23: The future of education is plain text.
2017‑07‑22: The incredible shitness of Solidity, the Ethereum progamming language.
2017‑07‑22: SQLCipher: encrypted SQLite database store.
2017‑07‑22: Free-libre / open source software (FLOSS) is commercial software.
2017‑07‑22: colorForth replaces punctuation with colours.
2017‑07‑22: Monospaced programming fonts with ligatures.
2017‑07‑21: Long term data storage will be much less free than it used to be.
2017‑07‑21: Is "information is physical" contentful?
2017‑07‑21: Custom dynamically sized types are super annoying in Rust at the moment. (qp)
2017‑07‑21: How to trick Symantec to revoke a cert with a fake private key, and how to check keys properly.
2017‑07‑20: A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation in SpinalHDL.
2017‑07‑20: How devastating was the Black Death?
2017‑07‑20: How Checkers was solved.
2017‑07‑20: The hidden dungeons of the London Underground.
2017‑07‑20: The mystery of the hanging S3 downloads: a TCP debugging tale.
2017‑07‑20: Faces of open source software.
2017‑07‑20: LeoCAD: LEGO model designer.
2017‑07‑20: Undefined behavior and unsafe code guidelines for Rust.
2017‑07‑19: Certified malice: phishing sites and TLS certs.
2017‑07‑19: On the (perceived) value of EV TLS certs.
2017‑07‑19: Fast complex arithmetic is complicated in C and C++.
2017‑07‑19: Every place we used to think was a planet (until we knew better).
2017‑07‑19: Playing for third place: the media vs database marketing.
2017‑07‑19: Digital towbars for autonomous vehicles.
2017‑07‑18: Bugs Everywhere: a distributed bugtracker with which code and bugs are tracked together.
2017‑07‑18: A Mind at Play: how Claude Shannon invented the information age. (book review)
2017‑07‑17: Introducing Log::ger, a low-overhead Perl logging module.
2017‑07‑17: OVH 24h outage due to SAN failure following sudden power loss.
2017‑07‑17: A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector.
2017‑07‑17: Bangra: an LLVM-based programming infrastructure for high performance with multi-stage compilation at runtime.
2017‑07‑17: Koka: a functional programming language with effect inference.
2017‑07‑17: What are OCamlers' critiques of Haskell?
2017‑07‑17: What are Haskellers' critiques of F# and OCaml?
2017‑07‑17: Modular type classes.
2017‑07‑17: Modular implicits for O'Caml.
2017‑07‑17: Poly/ML: a multiprocessor implementation of Standard ML.
2017‑07‑17: owl: an OCaml numerical library.
2017‑07‑16: hobbes: Morgan Stanley's Haskell-like programming language.
2017‑07‑16: git-dit: a decentralized issue tracker for git.
2017‑07‑16: Do you know what a stinkpipe is?
2017‑07‑15: Beginner-friendly Vulkan graphics API tutorials.
2017‑07‑15: Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized.
2017‑07‑15: Password Store aka pass: the standard Unix password manager.
2017‑07‑15: rax: A radix tree implementation in ANSI C for Redis.
2017‑07‑15: Real system failures at NASA.
2017‑07‑14: Life in a universe with 2 time dimensions.
2017‑07‑14: Why 1Password is no longer recommended by security experts.
2017‑07‑13: Towards Golang 2.
2017‑07‑13: Understanding the .io TLD's DNS configuration vulnerability.
2017‑07‑13: binctr: getting towards real sandbox containers.
2017‑07‑13: Orpheus's Lyre puts Kerberos to sleep!
2017‑07‑13: The Facebook algorithm mom problem.
2017‑07‑13: Superconducting quantum levitation on a 3π Möbius strip. (YouTube)
2017‑07‑13: How Discord scaled Erlang/Elixir to 5,000,000 concurrent users.
2017‑07‑12: The cost of hard drives in recent years.
2017‑07‑12: A French mathematician has proved that we know all kinds of convex pentagons that tile the plane.
2017‑07‑12: Renaming of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2017‑07‑12: Life is about to get a whole lot harder for websites without HTTPS.
2017‑07‑12: Rewriting Zopfli from C to Rust.
2017‑07‑12: The semver trick: how to avoid complicated coordinated library API upgrades in Rust.
2017‑07‑12: Looking at DNS traces: What do we know about resolvers?
2017‑07‑12: Antarctic ice shelf Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg.
2017‑07‑12: ES6 In Depth: Symbols.
2017‑07‑12: Linux and GPL defense: "once the lawyers are involved, you have lost".
2017‑07‑12: Vector packet processing (VPP): one terabit software router.
2017‑07‑12: Is decentralized storage sustainable?
2017‑07‑12: Unjust, unreasonable, and unduly discriminatory: electric utility rates and the campaign against rooftop solar.
2017‑07‑11: Office and residential buildings use more energy per square metre of floor area the taller they are.
2017‑07‑11: Turning tweets into vector images.
2017‑07‑11: The .io error: a problem with bad optics, but little substance.
2017‑07‑11: Evolution of the LEGO logo.
2017‑07‑11: LLVM x86 backend can introduce branches that depend on uninitialized values, upsetting valgrind.
2017‑07‑11: How Rust is tested.
2017‑07‑11: A more detailed report of the Gandi domain hijacking incident.
2017‑07‑10: Smooth as butter: achieving 60 FPS animations with CSS3.
2017‑07‑10: The .io error: don't make your TLD name servers available for others to register.
2017‑07‑10: aRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R.
2017‑07‑10: Next-generation Subversion unveiled.
2017‑07‑10: Hello, United Kingdom, it's the United States of America here, and we need to talk.
2017‑07‑10: Security improvements in Linux v4.12.
2017‑07‑10: Dynamic tracing in Linux user and kernel space.
2017‑07‑10: Linux tracing systems and how they fit together.
2017‑07‑10: Windows 10 process exit performance regression: 24-core CPU and I can't move my mouse.
2017‑07‑10: "I no longer feel like I can trust `init` to do the sane thing." - Linus.
2017‑07‑09: Why people from Manchester are Mancunians, and other demonyms.
2017‑07‑09: Postgres job queues and failure by MVCC.
2017‑07‑09: The language server protocol (LSP/RLS) and IDEs.
2017‑07‑09: Minimal PDF.
2017‑07‑09: Stop using JWT for sessions.
2017‑07‑09: Benchmarking nftables vs iptables.
2017‑07‑09: Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility.
2017‑07‑08: PyData 101: everything you need to know to get started in data science in Python.
2017‑07‑08: Yours or mine? Making personal pronouns consistent in user interface design.
2017‑07‑08: DJI is locking down its drones against a growing army of DIY hackers.
2017‑07‑08: Zoomable map of greenbelt in England.
2017‑07‑07: 35 practical steps men can take to support feminism.
2017‑07‑07: Report on 7 July 2017 Gandi domain hijacking incident.
2017‑07‑07: Pragmatic Debian packaging.
2017‑07‑07: Right To Know: the long path to Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire.
2017‑07‑07: GitLab: 2/3 of the self-hosted git market, next-generation CI system, and Auto DevOps.
2017‑07‑07: TSIG authentication bypass through signature forgery in ISC BIND.
2017‑07‑07: TSIG authentication bypass for zone transfer operations in ISC BIND.
2017‑07‑07: TSIG authentication bypass through signature forgery in Knot DNS.
2017‑07‑06: An Internet Archive hidden service attacked over Tor.
2017‑07‑06: MySQL infrastructure testing automation at GitHub.
2017‑07‑06: Let's Encrypt will start issuing DNS-validated wildcard TLS certificates from January 2018.
2017‑07‑06: The new TRust-DNS resolver.
2017‑07‑06: Why undefined behavior for infinite loops?
2017‑07‑06: The third thumb.
2017‑07‑06: ARIA: markup for accessible rich internet applications.
2017‑07‑06: Web accessibility according to actual people with disabilities.
2017‑07‑06: Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in.
2017‑07‑06: Language server protocol (lsp), Rust RLS, and Emacs.
2017‑07‑05: Dart gets a type system.
2017‑07‑05: A brief history of the O'Reilly animals.
2017‑07‑05: Refining expression evaluation order for idiomatic C++.
2017‑07‑05: Undefined behavior in 2017.
2017‑07‑05: A bug story: undefined behaviour and pointer (mis)alignment on x86.
2017‑07‑04: WiFi232: an Internet Hayes modem for your retro computer.
2017‑07‑04: Sliding right into disaster: side-channel leak leads to complete break of RSA-1024 in libgcrypt.
2017‑07‑04: Let's Encrypt numbers to know.
2017‑07‑04: fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder written in Golang.
2017‑07‑03: Your revolution was dumb and it filled us with refugees: A Canadian take on the American Revolutionary War.
2017‑07‑03: The capital sharp S is now part of the official German orthography.
2017‑07‑03: Wibbly-wobbly magnetic fusion stuff: The return of the stellarator.
2017‑07‑03: That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox. (FAQ)
2017‑07‑03: Dissolving the Fermi paradox: the Drake equation as a probability density function.
2017‑07‑03: Galois theory for beginners, through the unsolvability of the quintic.
2017‑07‑03: Why is the quintic unsolvable?
2017‑07‑02: New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass.
2017‑07‑02: Memory use in CPython and MicroPython.
2017‑07‑02: Pony: deny capabilities for safe, fast actors.
2017‑07‑02: Beyond public key encryption.
2017‑07‑02: "I have no idea what I'm doing": on the difficulty of deploying HTTPS.
2017‑07‑02: Dexter: automatic indexer for PostgreSQL.
2017‑07‑02: Hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL.
2017‑07‑02: The 5 best punctuation marks in literature.
2017‑07‑02: Starfish Prime: a 1.4 megaton nuclear test in space.
2017‑07‑01: Skylake bug: a detective story.
2017‑07‑01: That terrifying photo from Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory took a hidden toll on America's arsenal.
2017‑07‑01: QuickselectAdaptive: fast deterministic selection.
2017‑07‑01: ska_sort: a fast radix sort.
2017‑07‑01: Fun with branch (mis-)prediction and imbalanced quicksort pivots.
2017‑07‑01: In-place merge sort.
2017‑07‑01: pdqsort: Pattern-defeating quicksort.
2017‑07‑01: Effectively using Matplotlib.
2017‑07‑01: SKIP LOCKED in PostgreSQL 9.5: Most work queue implementations in SQL are wrong.
2017‑07‑01: Rotate the Mercator projection.
2017‑06‑30: How do whales and dolphins sleep without drowning?
2017‑06‑30: This is how sperm whales sleep.
2017‑06‑30: 100 million certificates issued by Let's Encrypt.
2017‑06‑30: A new Concurrent ML for Guile Scheme.
2017‑06‑30: Morton order matrices deserve support from compilers.
2017‑06‑30: How do you cut a monolith in half? Not with a message broker.
2017‑06‑29: Why is NumPy only now getting funded?
2017‑06‑29: Frinkiac: Simpsons full text search.
2017‑06‑29: Simpsons full text search.
2017‑06‑28: Writing parsers like it's 2017, with Rust and nom.
2017‑06‑28: Designing Kerberos: a dialogue in four scenes.
2017‑06‑28: Never use DNS TTL of zero.
2017‑06‑28: About ELF auxiliary vectors.
2017‑06‑28: EBL: a block list of spam reply-to email addresses.
2017‑06‑28: A whirlwind tour of rustdoc.
2017‑06‑28: How `for` and `while` differ wrt the borrow checker in Rust.
2017‑06‑28: CAP: Don't settle for eventual consistency.
2017‑06‑28: Kill sticky web page headers.
2017‑06‑28: The three projections of Doctor Futamura.
2017‑06‑27: Why have all 95 of England's high-rise towers tested so far failed fire safety tests?
2017‑06‑27: Growing fibers from delimited continuations in Guile.
2017‑06‑27: How not to do things with words: The BBC sub-committee for the invention of new words (1935-1937).
2017‑06‑27: Microsoft explains how (not) to encrypt and decrypt a file with Visual C#.
2017‑06‑27: The average number of ops to quicksort n items is approximately 10 times the nth prime number.
2017‑06‑27: The sad story of the vCard format and its lack of interoperability.
2017‑06‑27: Robert Maxwell and the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing.
2017‑06‑26: Xandikos: a git-backed CalDAV/CardDAV server.
2017‑06‑26: Streaming combinators and extracting flat parallelism in the Futhark functional array programming language.
2017‑06‑26: Literate SQL using the WITH clause.
2017‑06‑26: 25 microchips that shook the world.
2017‑06‑25: Making the Internet Archive's full text search faster.
2017‑06‑25: What can developers learn from being on call?
2017‑06‑25: American national standard safety code and requirements for dry Martinis.
2017‑06‑25: The Bakerloo is the hottest London Underground line.
2017‑06‑25: Why your dockerized application isn't receiving signals.
2017‑06‑25: Stack Clash: an ancient kernel hole is (not) closed.
2017‑06‑25: The rise and fall of FireWire, IEEE 1394.
2017‑06‑25: uncertainties: a Python calculator with error propagation.
2017‑06‑25: Qalculate! the ultimate Linux desktop calculator.
2017‑06‑24: Insect: a high precision scientific calculator with support for units of measurement.
2017‑06‑24: Play Tetris over traceroute.
2017‑06‑23: BGP nyan cat.
2017‑06‑23: Why is the Internet so slow?!
2017‑06‑23: Website global latency testing tool.
2017‑06‑23: InspiroBot: an AI generating unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.
2017‑06‑23: Beyond memory safety with types in Rust.
2017‑06‑23: Philip Coppola spends nearly 40 years illustrating New York City's subway stations.
2017‑06‑22: Five things we have forgotten about Open Source.
2017‑06‑22: Stack Clash disclosure post-mortem.
2017‑06‑22: Severe weather Europe.
2017‑06‑22: European severe weather database.
2017‑06‑22: Dinosaurs vs flowers.
2017‑06‑21: liblb: an empirical study of load balancing algorithms.
2017‑06‑21: A critical problem: this plutonium photo should give you the creeps.
2017‑06‑21: The latitude observatory at Ukiah, California.
2017‑06‑21: DNSSEC validation algorithm support test.
2017‑06‑20: Truffle, Graal, and Futamura: practical partial evaluation for high-performance dynamic language runtimes.
2017‑06‑20: An ex-AAIB inspector discusses accident investigation and the Grenfell Tower fire.
2017‑06‑20: JSON in PostgreSQL: the present and future.
2017‑06‑20: Racking Mac Pros for web image optimization.
2017‑06‑20: Ted Nelson's junk mail archive.
2017‑06‑19: Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals.
2017‑06‑19: Render the Mandelbrot Set with jq.
2017‑06‑19: The stack clash: many local root vulnerabilities due to stack/heap confusion.
2017‑06‑19: One-hour Mandelbrot: Creating a fractal on the vintage Xerox Alto.
2017‑06‑19: How do you draw a circle? Clockwise, anticlockwise, handwriting and scripts.
2017‑06‑19: A historical review of US contributions to the atomic redefinition of the SI second in 1967.
2017‑06‑19: Improving DNS security: a measurement-based approach.
2017‑06‑19: A patch for Postel's robustness principle.
2017‑06‑19: sparsehash: C++ associative containers using popcount compressed arrays.
2017‑06‑19: Simplicity Debt: the difficulty of adding generics to Golang.
2017‑06‑19: Australian Tax Office SAN outage report.
2017‑06‑18: Unambiguous Webpack config with Typescript.
2017‑06‑18: Out for the Count: at the election counts in Edinburgh.
2017‑06‑18: The remote branch triangle and Git's missing terminology.
2017‑06‑17: "Because I moved 5 shirts"... portrait of an unexpected Twitter storm.
2017‑06‑17: fwupd: updating firmware in Linux.
2017‑06‑17: AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 SoC begins sampling: a step up in ARM's server ambitions.
2017‑06‑17: pASSWORD tYPOS and how to correct them securely.
2017‑06‑16: Will AMD's Ryzen finally bring SHA extensions to Intel's CPUs?
2017‑06‑16: Finding open DNS resolvers on IPv6.
2017‑06‑16: NANOG discusses templating/automating network configuration.
2017‑06‑16: Is SHA-3 slow?
2017‑06‑15: The secret origin story of the iPhone.
2017‑06‑15: If you write unsafe Rust, you should use compiletest.
2017‑06‑15: Bugs you'll probably only have in unsafe Rust.
2017‑06‑14: Strange Horizons - Utopia, LOL?
2017‑06‑14: What stops IPv6 traffic in a dual-stack ISP?
2017‑06‑14: Rust's MutexGuard was Sync when It should not have been: a data race bug found with formal methods.
2017‑06‑14: Ten things Idris improved over Haskell.
2017‑06‑14: hyper v0.11: Rust's HTTP server library is now based on Tokio async i/o.
2017‑06‑14: Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell.
2017‑06‑13: An introduction to Wayland.
2017‑06‑13: The design and use of QuickCheck.
2017‑06‑12: Initialization in C++ is bonkers.
2017‑06‑12: Digging the graveyard of oil's past: decommissioning North Sea oil rigs.
2017‑06‑12: #c0ffee is the colour: what real words are valid CSS hex RGB colours?
2017‑06‑12: Secrets and LIE-abilities: the state of modern secret management.
2017‑06‑12: PostgreSQL set_user extension: swap to/from a different role, with enhanced logging and control.
2017‑06‑12: Cooling the Tube: engineering heat out of the London Underground.
2017‑06‑11: How to write exciting conference talk proposals.
2017‑06‑11: VirtualBox: are you getting your money's worth?
2017‑06‑11: A PGP / GnuPG tutorial.
2017‑06‑11: An introduction to timekeeping in Linux VMs.
2017‑06‑11: Exploring /dev/input/.
2017‑06‑11: tini: a tiny `init` for Docker containers.
2017‑06‑11: Kubernetes patterns and anti-patterns.
2017‑06‑11: Comdb2: Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS.
2017‑06‑10: BitKeeper: the original distributed source management system, now open source (Apache 2.0).
2017‑06‑10: How Turla malware abused satellites to stay under the radar.
2017‑06‑10: Sushi = Beer ?! UTF8 bug fixes in MySQL 8.0.
2017‑06‑09: Sachal Studios Orchestra (Pakistan): Take Five.
2017‑06‑09: I/O efficient gzip compression with libpcap and funopen().
2017‑06‑09: BIND and ISC DHCP bug DB opening up for guest users.
2017‑06‑09: The L scripting language: C syntax, Perl features, Tcl implementation.
2017‑06‑09: x86 approaching 40 and still going strong.
2017‑06‑09: Intel fires warning shot at Qualcomm and Microsoft over Windows 10 ARM emulation in x86 birthday blog post.
2017‑06‑09: HomeOffice rules: the mindset of the Home Office and its officials.
2017‑06‑08: Christine de Pizan: a feminist writer in early 1400s France. (Radio 4)
2017‑06‑08: Compressing pcap files with gzip, xz, and zstd.
2017‑06‑08: Intelligent tracking prevention in WebKit.
2017‑06‑08: A mathematical chronology.
2017‑06‑08: How to understand the Wireless Diagnostics app on your Mac.
2017‑06‑08: How to think about HTTP status codes.
2017‑06‑08: Rust performance pitfalls.
2017‑06‑08: Creating a distributed data centre architecture using Kubernetes and containers.
2017‑06‑08: D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style.
2017‑06‑08: 3D virtual tour of the national museum of computing at Bletchley Park.
2017‑06‑08: State of the art in lightweight symmetric cryptography.
2017‑06‑08: A formal Linux kernel memory-ordering model.
2017‑06‑08: PEP 524: os.urandom() now blocks on Linux in Python 3.6.
2017‑06‑08: 3-year-olds consuming alternative milks are 1.5 cm shorter on average.
2017‑06‑08: SyncPerf: categorizing, detecting, and diagnosing synchronization performance bugs.
2017‑06‑07: Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
2017‑06‑07: A day without Javascript.
2017‑06‑07: You are not Google, or Amazon, or LinkedIn.
2017‑06‑07: Performance improvements in .NET Core 2.0.
2017‑06‑07: Network automation do's and don'ts.
2017‑06‑07: State of IPv6 deployment 2017.
2017‑06‑07: WebKit JavaScriptCore optimizations for ES6.
2017‑06‑06: The Boom hierarchy.
2017‑06‑06: Comprehending ringads.
2017‑06‑06: pgBadger: log analyzer for PostgreSQL.
2017‑06‑06: DocuColor printer tracking dot decoding guide.
2017‑06‑06: Printer dots: how The Intercept outed NSA leaker Reality Winner.
2017‑06‑06: A powerful study that bolsters the lead-crime hypothesis.
2017‑06‑05: IBM unveils world's first 5nm chip.
2017‑06‑05: A history of the birth of the IBM PC.
2017‑06‑05: An epoxy potted homebrew OCXO.
2017‑06‑05: A homebrew OCXO.
2017‑06‑05: Kubernetes: more like jazz improv than orchestration.
2017‑06‑04: Mup: music publication software.
2017‑06‑04: ARM pointer authentication on Linux.
2017‑06‑03: Tilting titling: direction of printing on spines of books.
2017‑06‑03: U.Texas information security office policy on food provisioning at meetings.
2017‑06‑03: 32-bit x86 position independent code is really bad.
2017‑06‑03: Multi-threaded setuid on Linux.
2017‑06‑03: Don't mix Linux namespace switching and goroutines.
2017‑06‑03: The evolution of code deploys at Reddit.
2017‑06‑03: JSON-LD is about linked data for better Web APIs, not the Semantic Web.
2017‑06‑03: Please, enough with the dead butterflies!
2017‑06‑03: What really happened with Vista.
2017‑06‑02: Cryptographic hash functions and indifferentiability.
2017‑06‑02: A real steam-powered simplified difference engine. (YouTube)
2017‑06‑02: U 2 can U2F.
2017‑06‑02: Little's Law and the universal scalability law.
2017‑06‑02: Progress with Python's GILectomy.
2017‑06‑02: Cambridge North station is covered in Rule 30!
2017‑06‑01: Pinboard acquires Del.icio.us.
2017‑06‑01: A guide to the many flavours of TeX.
2017‑05‑31: SHA-3 should probably not be used.
2017‑05‑31: Seville shows what makes a city great for cycling: the number of cycleways, or their connectivity?
2017‑05‑31: New DNS infrastructure at GitHub.
2017‑05‑31: Problems with OCSP stapling and Must-Staple and why certificate revocation is still broken.
2017‑05‑31: HTTP/2 push is tougher than you might expect.
2017‑05‑31: Federal Circuit loses again: US Supreme Court categorically rejects enforcement of post-sale patent restrictions.
2017‑05‑30: Venus has very few volcanoes. Weirdly, this might be why it's as hot as hell.
2017‑05‑30: Golden Carrots: Kenya's M-PESA, W3C's Web Payments, Australia's NPP.
2017‑05‑30: What went wrong in the British Airways data centre?
2017‑05‑30: DST causes an estimated 30 traffic accident deaths per year in the USA.
2017‑05‑30: CalVer: calendar-based version numbers.
2017‑05‑30: Conference speaking as a software vendor / talks as a product design tool.
2017‑05‑30: Scaling Amazon Aurora at ticketea: compensating for DNS propagation delay.
2017‑05‑30: Avert your eyes from the server "humping" trend in GPU compute chassis.
2017‑05‑29: The atomic bomb considered as a Hungarian high school science fair project.
2017‑05‑29: STEM: still no shortage of qualified people in the USA.
2017‑05‑29: Book Review: The Entrepreneurial State.
2017‑05‑29: The rise of the QR code and how it has forever changed China's social habits.
2017‑05‑29: LLVM's shifty semantics.
2017‑05‑29: The world Is running out of (the right kinds of) sand.
2017‑05‑29: Hacking Golang's type system.
2017‑05‑29: Jitterdämmerung
2017‑05‑29: Harnessing the energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater.
2017‑05‑29: View counting at Reddit, with Redis HyperLogLog, Kafka, and Cassandra.
2017‑05‑29: What's the difference between the COM and EXE extensions?
2017‑05‑29: Building the Lego Saturn V.
2017‑05‑29: RFC 3484 address sorting is a bug: DNS resolution in Golang and Cgo.
2017‑05‑29: Template for an outage post-mortem review document.
2017‑05‑28: Trump stole the Davies coat of arms from the former owners of Mar-a-Lago.
2017‑05‑28: SSD rowhammer: vulnerabilities in MLC NAND flash memory programming.
2017‑05‑28: How to use conscious purpose without wrecking everything.
2017‑05‑27: traintimes.org.uk performance notes.
2017‑05‑27: Don't go to the doctor: PREVENT's effects on British muslims.
2017‑05‑27: JOSE (Javascript Object Signing and Encryption) is a bad standard that everyone should avoid.
2017‑05‑26: Faster command line tools in D, with simple TSV as an example.
2017‑05‑26: Rocket Lab's Electron conducts inaugural flight from New Zealand.
2017‑05‑26: Rocket Lab's New Zealand space launch is first from a private site.
2017‑05‑26: uTT: lightweight and efficient MQTT broker. (WIP)
2017‑05‑26: MH17 and the utility of NOTAMs.
2017‑05‑26: Chrome won the browser war.
2017‑05‑26: Simple and Happy: is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
2017‑05‑25: Let's Encrypt OCSP and issuance outage postmortem.
2017‑05‑25: Why Flamingos are more stable on one leg than two.
2017‑05‑25: Rust's built-in traits: the when, how, and why.
2017‑05‑25: Saint Architeuthis is the patron saint of doomed sailors.
2017‑05‑25: Meld: a visual diff and merge tool for developers
2017‑05‑25: Linux kernel dentry cache growth causes performance problems.
2017‑05‑24: Using TLS1.3 with OpenSSL.
2017‑05‑24: Google buys a /12 IPv4 address block: further concentration of internet haves and have nots.
2017‑05‑24: System programming in Rust: beyond safety.
2017‑05‑24: Tutorial: CSV parsing with Rust.
2017‑05‑24: Rocket Lab's first Electron launcher "It's a Test" is set to lift off from New Zealand.
2017‑05‑24: Turning the database inside out with Apache Kafka and Samza.
2017‑05‑23: 1Password travel mode: protect your accounts when crossing borders.
2017‑05‑23: Who owns England? Land ownership map.
2017‑05‑23: Chaos Computer Club breaks iris recognition system of the Samsung Galaxy S8.
2017‑05‑23: After seven years, Microsoft is finally fixing the "J" email bug.
2017‑05‑22: HTTPS on Stack Overflow: the end of a long road.
2017‑05‑22: On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint. (YouTube)
2017‑05‑21: Improving qsort worst case behaviour on OpenBSD, plus multipivot quicksort.
2017‑05‑21: Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding.
2017‑05‑21: SILE: a typesetter written in Lua.
2017‑05‑21: CPU utilization is wrong.
2017‑05‑21: Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials.
2017‑05‑21: Pattern matching for Java.
2017‑05‑21: Google PhotoScan takes glare-free pictures of pictures with a smartphone.
2017‑05‑21: Prepack: partial evaluator for JavaScript.
2017‑05‑21: Generating fantasy maps.
2017‑05‑21: New in Debian Stretch: nftables.
2017‑05‑21: Programming as a way of thinking.
2017‑05‑21: Writing a new time series database for Prometheus.
2017‑05‑21: fireflowers: advocating Rust, in the words of its practitioners.
2017‑05‑21: How basic performance analysis saved us millions. (PostgreSQL, perf, flame graphs)
2017‑05‑20: Escaping hell with monads.
2017‑05‑20: ARM's ASL: architecture specification language.
2017‑05‑20: XML parsing accelerator with Intel SSE4.
2017‑05‑20: Generating datasets with varied appearance and identical statistics through simulated annealing.
2017‑05‑20: Myth: it's easier to multiply and divide with Hindu-Arabic numerals than with Roman ones?
2017‑05‑20: The politics of the NHS WannaCrypt ransomware outbreak.
2017‑05‑20: An introduction to monoids with FizzBuzz.
2017‑05‑20: Freshly Remember'd: Kirk drift.
2017‑05‑20: Slovak Radio building.
2017‑05‑20: Criticisms of RFC6979 deterministic ECDSA.
2017‑05‑20: Where have all the insects gone?
2017‑05‑20: Troublesome OCSP server outage handling in Apache.
2017‑05‑20: CRLite: a scalable system for pushing all TLS X.509 certificate revocations to all browsers.
2017‑05‑19: FizzBuzz in Haskell by embedding a domain-specific language.
2017‑05‑19: Disable the GNU libstdc++ memory allocator to avoid leaks.
2017‑05‑19: NVidia Tesla Volta data center GPU.
2017‑05‑19: Monitoring PostgreSQL streaming slave lag.
2017‑05‑19: Performance problems due to false dependency in Intel popcnt instruction.
2017‑05‑19: How to restart MySQL fast: the difference between knowledge and experience.
2017‑05‑19: pgsidekick: scheduler (pglater) and external tool invoker (pglisten) for PostgreSQL.
2017‑05‑19: North Sea Wind Power Hub: A giant wind farm to power all of north Europe.
2017‑05‑19: The replication crisis in psychology: Daryl Bem "proved" ESP is real, which means science is broken.
2017‑05‑19: Replacing Disqus with Github comments.
2017‑05‑19: Temporal tables PostgreSQL extension.
2017‑05‑19: How Trump could get fired.
2017‑05‑19: Swift is like Kotlin.
2017‑05‑19: P-hacking "Mindless Eating", or how to send an entire life of research into question.
2017‑05‑19: Let us paste passwords!
2017‑05‑19: secure-operator: a DNS server proxy to Google's DNS-over-HTTPS.
2017‑05‑19: Teller reveals his magical secrets.
2017‑05‑19: The fold-and-cut problem: make any shape by folding paper flat and making one cut?
2017‑05‑18: Cargo Rust crate registry format.
2017‑05‑18: The quantum thermodynamics revolution.
2017‑05‑18: Flang: a Fortran compiler based on the PGI front end and LLVM back end.
2017‑05‑18: How to accidentally stop a global cyber attack. (WannaCry)
2017‑05‑18: PlantNet: 'Shazam' for plants will identify French plants from a picture.
2017‑05‑18: Sensible new password guidelines from NIST.
2017‑05‑18: Cap'n Proto 0.6 Released: Two and a half years of improvements.
2017‑05‑18: Remotely exploitable Javascript type confusion bug in privileged Microsoft Security Essentials AV scanner.
2017‑05‑18: Rules for successful hotel Wi-Fi.
2017‑05‑18: Caddy 0.10 released. (Golang http server)
2017‑05‑18: go-audit: Slack's tool for syscall auditing at scale.
2017‑05‑18: A Rust optimization guide.
2017‑05‑17: Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers.
2017‑05‑17: Getting started with headless Google Chrome.
2017‑05‑17: How ssh got port 22.
2017‑05‑17: "Me and SVG" - Amelia Bellamy-Royds.
2017‑05‑17: Prolog under the hood: an honest look.
2017‑05‑17: Fusion reactors: Not what they're cracked up to be.
2017‑05‑17: VME broken on AMD Ryzen. (Affects 16bit virtual machines.)
2017‑05‑17: How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2,000,000 concurrent SSL connections.
2017‑05‑17: New LLVM JIT in Azul's Zing JVM.
2017‑05‑17: The SQL layer in CockroachDB.
2017‑05‑17: Kryptonite: an ssh agent on your phone with Touch ID authorization.
2017‑05‑17: Intent to remove support in Google Chrome for commonName matching in X.509 certificates.
2017‑05‑17: Aspirin and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918-1919: pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence.
2017‑05‑17: 4chan: the skeleton key to the rise of Trump.
2017‑05‑16: UPSERT race condition with MERGE on Microsoft SQL Server.
2017‑05‑16: Fewer mallocs in curl.
2017‑05‑16: Notation as a tool of thought. (Ken Iverson)
2017‑05‑16: Akumuli storage engine design.
2017‑05‑16: Is the preprocessor still needed in C++?
2017‑05‑16: Wax worm caterpillars can dissolve plastic shopping bags surprisingly fast.
2017‑05‑15: Check whether Intel AMT is enabled and provisioned under Linux.
2017‑05‑15: Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency.
2017‑05‑13: Physical separation of cyclists from traffic "crucial" to dropping injury rates, shows U.S. study.
2017‑05‑13: How to reduce Lua boilerplate with D.
2017‑05‑12: Optimal probabilistic cache stampede prevention.
2017‑05‑12: A public key that crashes ssh-keygen. (2015)
2017‑05‑10: Beware of the background colour of transparent pixels.
2017‑05‑10: Truly seamless reloads with HAProxy: no more hacks!
2017‑05‑10: A history of relay computers.
2017‑05‑09: Innovation is an overrated ideology, say historians of technology. Maintenance means more to most peoples' lives.
2017‑05‑09: Writing a fast hash table with a tiny memory footprint.
2017‑05‑08: Migrating from Heroku to AWS.
2017‑05‑08: Did Macron outsmart Russian hackers?
2017‑05‑07: A dog that rescues cats.
2017‑05‑05: Rediscovering the Intel AMT remote firmware authentication vulnerability.
2017‑05‑05: Background and introduction to BBR TCP.
2017‑05‑03: Programming as theory building. (Peter Naur)
2017‑05‑03: LEGO Ideas 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V.
2017‑05‑03: The sandwich alignment chart.
2017‑05‑01: Rust your ARM microcontroller!
2017‑05‑01: Laffer curve: Everything right-wingers get wrong about trickle-down economics.
2017‑04‑30: How Ireland achieved a crucial Brexit coup.
2017‑04‑29: Sorting 2 tonnes of Lego.
2017‑04‑29: luajit-bpf: Lua to eBPF compiler for easier in-kernel scripting.
2017‑04‑26: File processing in Clojure (and Java) can easily become CPU bound.
2017‑04‑26: Dynamic storage allocation: a survey and critical review. (1995)
2017‑04‑26: How many disks can you add to a (virtual) Linux machine?
2017‑04‑25: Capturing all the flags in BSidesSF CTF by pwning Kubernetes.
2017‑04‑25: LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how.
2017‑04‑25: Glob matching can be simple and fast (but often isn't).
2017‑04‑24: Protect your management interfaces.
2017‑04‑24: Tools as a catalyst for tech culture change.
2017‑04‑24: Unicode character inspector.
2017‑04‑23: Kava: A Java dialect with a uniform object model for lightweight classes.
2017‑04‑21: Post-quantum RSA.
2017‑04‑21: Design flaws in LastPass two factor authentication.
2017‑04‑21: ARM releases a machine readable architecture specification.
2017‑04‑20: Hellandizing: disciplined test point placement in server software.
2017‑04‑19: MIT deploying IPv6 and selling off half of 18.0.0.0/8.
2017‑04‑19: b.root-servers.net to begin anycast service and renumber.
2017‑04‑18: Compact PAT trees (PATRICIA suffix tries).
2017‑04‑18: Level-compressed tries: improved behaviour of tries by adaptive branching.
2017‑04‑18: SILT (small index, large table): a memory-efficient, high-performance key-value store.
2017‑04‑18: Theft and loss recovery for iOS users. (Passwords? Phone numbers? Credit cards?)
2017‑04‑18: Prioritizing economics over democracy is crippling the U.S. economy.
2017‑04‑18: "I thought I understood the American right. Trump proved me wrong."
2017‑04‑18: How to know if you've sent a horrible tweet.
2017‑04‑18: Angry Birds / Inglourious Basterds.
2017‑04‑17: CVE-2017-7892: arithmetic overflow undefined behaviour leads to security vulnerability in Cap'n Proto.
2017‑04‑17: Calling bullshit in the age of big data.
2017‑04‑17: The invisible parts of CSS.
2017‑04‑17: The origins of XXX as a FIXME comment marker.
2017‑04‑17: The Dzhanibekov effect aka the tennis racket theorem: when the axis of rotation flips.
2017‑04‑17: Inside the PHP 7 virtual machine.
2017‑04‑17: Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles.
2017‑04‑17: Cloning r/place in a weekend.
2017‑04‑17: Debugging compilers with optimization fuel (applied to ghc / Haskell).
2017‑04‑16: What is DevOps?
2017‑04‑16: Ten simple rules for making research software more robust.
2017‑04‑15: Optimizing struct size in Rust: a 6-month compiler development project.
2017‑04‑15: Critical deficiencies in Jigsaw / JSR-376 Java platform module system.
2017‑04‑15: Host key verification in golang SSH clients.
2017‑04‑15: Who would go Nazi? (1941)
2017‑04‑14: Leibniz, Bernoulli, and the logarithms of negative numbers.
2017‑04‑14: What happens when the pager goes off?
2017‑04‑14: The future of ad blocking.
2017‑04‑14: A retrospective on the tech behind the IMDB message boards.
2017‑04‑13: How Reddit built their epic r/Place 1st April stunt.
2017‑04‑13: Intel Haskell research compiler.
2017‑04‑13: Blender cheat sheet / quick reference poster.
2017‑04‑13: Blender for hackers: 3D modeling is just like using vim.
2017‑04‑13: Memory bandwidth per instruction.
2017‑04‑13: High-performance rate limiting with RocksDB.
2017‑04‑11: Linear lambda calculus and PTIME-completeness.
2017‑04‑11: Typing the technical interview: solving 8 queens in the Haskell type system.
2017‑04‑11: The Centennial Society's business reply pamphlet: how to break free from the junk mail industry.
2017‑04‑11: In pursuit of perfection : thermocompensated quartz watches and their movements.
2017‑04‑11: Banker Bob (still) can't get TLS right: a security analysis of TLS in leading UK banking apps.
2017‑04‑11: A field guide to the American sandwich.
2017‑04‑10: The BEAM Book: A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual machine BEAM.
2017‑04‑10: Setting up a failover Database for PostgreSQL.
2017‑04‑10: Spotify's love/hate relationship with DNS.
2017‑04‑10: Using the PostgreSQL TAP framework for testing extensions.
2017‑04‑10: New features coming in PostgreSQL 10.
2017‑04‑10: Brexit: economists will have the last word.
2017‑04‑06: The Portlandification of pot.
2017‑04‑06: How momentum speeds up gradient descent.
2017‑04‑06: Lessons learned managing site reliability for some of the world's busiest gambling sites.
2017‑04‑06: Exploiting Broadcom's Wi-Fi stack over the air.
2017‑04‑04: Paul Vixie on good/bad ideas and interoperable implementations.
2017‑04‑04: Education of a programmer.
2017‑04‑04: Eventually-fair locking in WebKit.
2017‑04‑03: The mess with internationalized domain names.
2017‑04‑03: EuroLLVM 2017 review.
2017‑04‑03: A retired German statistician proved the Gaussian correlation inequality, but the response was underwhelming.
2017‑04‑03: Understanding how an OS uses a modern NIC.
2017‑04‑03: Cloudflare now hosting f.root-servers.net
2017‑04‑03: More bent horizon pictures by Aydın Büyüktaş.
2017‑04‑03: Bent horizon projections of Manhattan.
2017‑04‑03: The American West looks like a space habitat in these bent-horizon photos.
2017‑04‑02: Pointing and calling in Japan's zero-accident total participation campaign.
2017‑04‑02: Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things.
2017‑04‑02: Microsoft is shutting down their open source hosting service CodePlex.
2017‑04‑02: Jacobsen v. Katzer upheld enforceability of copyright conditions in the Artistic License.
2017‑04‑02: Get lost in mega-tunnels dug by South American megafauna.
2017‑04‑01: cgo is not Golang.
2017‑04‑01: Filming mosquitoes reveals a completely new approach to flight.
2017‑04‑01: Fuzzing is magic, or how to find a panic in Rust's regex library.
2017‑04‑01: Capability-based computer systems.
2017‑04‑01: Rate limiting with Nginx.
2017‑04‑01: How to block rate-limited http traffic with Varnish.
2017‑04‑01: Scaling a web API with rate limiters.
2017‑04‑01: The exceptional beauty of Doom 3's source code.
2017‑04‑01: John Carmack on functional programming in C++.
2017‑04‑01: Trolls are winning the Internet. How do we defeat them?
2017‑04‑01: UW professor: The information war is real, and we're losing it.
2017‑03‑31: How not to cite academic software.
2017‑03‑31: Special tools covering advanced topics for the experienced system administrator.
2017‑03‑31: Learn redis the hard way (in production).
2017‑03‑30: Daffowocky: a poetic mash-up.
2017‑03‑30: Beej's Guide to Network Programming.
2017‑03‑30: sedlisp: a Lisp implementation in sed.
2017‑03‑29: Ravenserodd and other lost settlements of the East Yorkshire coast.
2017‑03‑28: rsync's 32KB buffer size makes it slower than cp.
2017‑03‑28: Use a 128KB buffer for efficient file copying on Linux.
2017‑03‑28: Research Unix 8th / 9th / 10th editions released for non-commercial use.
2017‑03‑28: Pi and the golden ratio, via Viète's formula.
2017‑03‑28: Self-hosted, server-side MathJax.
2017‑03‑28: KaTeX: Fast math typesetting for the web.
2017‑03‑27: Qattara depression: flood the Sahara with water from the Mediterranean for hydroelectric power?
2017‑03‑27: A historical survey of subroutine linkage and procedure call mechanisms.
2017‑03‑26: A constructive look at TempleOS.
2017‑03‑26: How Elsevier plans to sabotage Open Access.
2017‑03‑26: Chasing the first arcade easter egg.
2017‑03‑26: BEAMJIT: An LLVM based just-in-time compiler for Erlang.
2017‑03‑26: C++17 feature comparisons.
2017‑03‑26: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting: C++17 is complete.
2017‑03‑26: Apple's new APFS has Unix-style "bag of bytes" filenames.
2017‑03‑25: Hadoop has failed in a smoking heap of cost and complexity.
2017‑03‑25: Czar of Bad Systems, responsible for changing dumb company rules.
2017‑03‑25: Comprehensive and biaised comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
2017‑03‑25: An detailed, eye-opening roadmap for meeting the Paris climate goals.
2017‑03‑24: Research debt is the accumulation of missing interpretive labor.
2017‑03‑24: OpenSSL switching to Apache License.
2017‑03‑23: An empirical evaluation of in-memory multi-version concurrency control.
2017‑03‑23: Peloton: building a new database management system in academia.
2017‑03‑22: MyRocks: a RocksDB storage engine for MySQL.
2017‑03‑22: Iago attacks: syscall return values can induce arbitrary computation in userland processes.
2017‑03‑22: Hungarian secret agent reveals in detail how serious the Russian threat is.
2017‑03‑22: attrs: the one Python library everybody needs.
2017‑03‑21: Can ultraprecise time measurements warp space?
2017‑03‑21: Put your Raspberry Pi NTP server in a padded envelope to improve temperature and frequency stability.
2017‑03‑21: Git blame who?: stylistic authorship attribution of small, incomplete source code fragments.
2017‑03‑21: Uber is being sued for avoiding VAT in the UK.
2017‑03‑20: How not to do it: breaking up ammonium nitrate.
2017‑03‑20: We can teach women to code, but that just exposes a deeper problem.
2017‑03‑20: PostgreSQL 10 hash indexes are faster than Btree indexes?
2017‑03‑20: DeepMind in talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use by 10%.
2017‑03‑20: Performance results of the Oscilloquartz optically pumped cesium beam clock.
2017‑03‑20: Oscilloquartz high performance optically-pumped cesium beam clock.
2017‑03‑20: Building a Hackintosh Pro.
2017‑03‑19: Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it's so strange.
2017‑03‑19: Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse.
2017‑03‑18: badssl.com: a web site for testing clients against bad server SSL configs.
2017‑03‑18: The million dollar AWS cost reduction.
2017‑03‑18: Guetzli: a new open source JPEG encoder, produces smaller and better images, much slower.
2017‑03‑18: The road to a free Europe goes through Moscow.
2017‑03‑18: Information Wars: a window into the alternative media (Russian disinformation) ecosystem.
2017‑03‑18: The bootstrapping mindset: seeking higher-level abstractions for the web.
2017‑03‑18: Is your fancy git shell prompt vulnerable?
2017‑03‑17: I hate Matlab: How an IDE, a language, and a mentality harm science.
2017‑03‑17: Penrose map binning.
2017‑03‑17: SHA-1 is dead: implications of hash collisions for long-term digital archiving, e.g. LOCKSS.
2017‑03‑17: Application crash consistency and performance with CCFS.
2017‑03‑17: Enlightening the I/O path: A holistic approach for application performance.
2017‑03‑17: Practical color theory for people who code.
2017‑03‑17: Beautiful Racket: how to make your own programming languages with Racket.
2017‑03‑16: Dark matter is missing from young galaxies in the early universe.
2017‑03‑16: A Unicode reading list.
2017‑03‑16: Russia's 5th Column.
2017‑03‑15: Physics, topology, logic, and computation: a Rosetta Stone.
2017‑03‑15: Scotland isn't different, it's Britain that's bizarre.
2017‑03‑15: Silent data corruption investigated at CERN.
2017‑03‑15: Meet the companies installing 'Irish' pubs in cities across the world.
2017‑03‑14: Parallel queries in PostgreSQL 10.
2017‑03‑14: Ripgrep 0.5.0, with support for UTF-16 and other encodings.
2017‑03‑14: Embedded Rust on an ARM Cortex M3.
2017‑03‑14: Arithmetic with distances in Rust: safety and correctness across units.
2017‑03‑14: A formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown.
2017‑03‑14: European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation".
2017‑03‑14: Linear types make Haskell performance more predictable.
2017‑03‑14: from __past__ import bytes_literals: a hack to help port Mercurial to Python 3.
2017‑03‑14: Unpaywall: a browser for finding preprint or institutional archive copies of academic papers.
2017‑03‑14: Berry's paradox.
2017‑03‑14: Is Yablo's paradox non-circular?
2017‑03‑14: Paradox without self-reference.
2017‑03‑14: If statements considered harmful, or, How to achieve coding happiness using null objects.
2017‑03‑14: Left wing politicians need to keep their policies simple and take credit for them.
2017‑03‑13: The other side of communications data: screwups, misdirected warrants, false arrests.
2017‑03‑13: HTML5 SGML DTD reference.
2017‑03‑13: Kantu: picture-driven web automation.
2017‑03‑13: How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in a running interpreter.
2017‑03‑12: Silent data corruption is real.
2017‑03‑11: Rust's type system is Turing complete.
2017‑03‑11: A digital clock made from 288 analogue faces.
2017‑03‑11: Annotated Google SRE book.
2017‑03‑11: Inter-lingual personal script: a phonetic alphabet made from stick figures.
2017‑03‑10: A history of AIX, IBM 801, ROMP, RT/PC.
2017‑03‑10: Unicode character names fed through an RNN.
2017‑03‑10: Zippers as derivatives of data types.
2017‑03‑09: selfie: tiny self-hosting C compiler, MIPS emulator, and hypervisor.
2017‑03‑08: An introduction to GraphQL using the GitHub API.
2017‑03‑08: Session resumption with forward secure PSK key agreement in TLS 1.3.
2017‑03‑08: Why Warren Buffett is winning his $1 million bet against hedge funds.
2017‑03‑08: Redundancy does not imply fault tolerance: distributed storage reactions to single errors and corruptions.
2017‑03‑08: How to stop Ubuntu Xenial from randomly killing your big processes.
2017‑03‑08: The Council of Elrond.
2017‑03‑08: Brexit is (maybe) the ruin of Irish whiskey.
2017‑03‑07: Time system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2.
2017‑03‑07: Deterland: deterministically deterring timing attacks across hypervisor guests.
2017‑03‑07: SS64 command line reference with annotated man pages.
2017‑03‑07: Malware Guard Extension: using Intel SGX to conceal cache attacks.
2017‑03‑07: Two executables with matching SHA-1 and MD5 hashes.
2017‑03‑07: Cloud hosting VPS benchmarks.
2017‑03‑07: Cloud hosting comparison: DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway.
2017‑03‑06: Changes to Ragel in response to the CloudFlare security incident.
2017‑03‑06: 0-RTT key exchange with full forward secrecy.
2017‑03‑06: Securing PostgreSQL.
2017‑03‑06: PostgreSQL + ZFS best practices and standard procedures.
2017‑03‑06: Why replace SHA-1 with BLAKE2?
2017‑03‑06: Penflip: browser/cloud collaborative writing and version control.
2017‑03‑06: Scrolling through time by sending undo/redo commands with the mouse wheel.
2017‑03‑06: How to handle noisy LLVM benchmark results.
2017‑03‑06: Dartmouth communication files: interprocess communication before pipes.
2017‑03‑06: Spam-a-lago: the fall of an empire.
2017‑03‑06: Linguistic antipatterns: bad naming in software.
2017‑03‑06: Is naming things really that hard?
2017‑03‑06: A programmer's introduction to Unicode.
2017‑03‑05: The accidental arrival of the cubicle.
2017‑03‑05: Aheui (아희): an esoteric programming language written in Hangul.
2017‑03‑05: 802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks.
2017‑03‑05: SpaceEngine is a realistic virtual Universe you can explore on your computer.
2017‑03‑05: If the Moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate map of the solar system.
2017‑03‑04: The license/contract dichotomy in open licenses: a comparative analysis.
2017‑03‑04: A digital clock built in Conway's Game of Life.
2017‑03‑04: NeFS, the Network Extensible File System: NFSv3 based on in-kernel PostScript.
2017‑03‑04: Window management with Sun NeWS.
2017‑03‑03: Algebraic subtyping.
2017‑03‑03: Operation Rosehub: patching ALL THE JAVA THINGS to fix the Mad Gadget vulnerability.
2017‑03‑02: Summary of the AWS S3 outage: command line typo.
2017‑03‑02: How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?
2017‑03‑02: V8 behind the scenes: a tale of TurboFan.
2017‑03‑01: New GitHub terms of service are incompatible with many Free Software and open source licences.
2017‑03‑01: The power of role models: women in astronomy.
2017‑03‑01: Gravitational Teleport: an SSH server for teams managing distributed infrastructure.
2017‑03‑01: Doing presentations, gov.uk style.
2017‑03‑01: Towards faster Ruby hash tables.
2017‑02‑28: .SUNW_cap: CPU-dependent linking on Solaris/Illumos.
2017‑02‑28: Stormy petrels: words that cannot be used except as part of a stock phrase.
2017‑02‑28: Where are Amazon's data centers?
2017‑02‑28: Movie review: The Great Wall.
2017‑02‑28: Evolutionary database design.
2017‑02‑28: Who needs a software / systems architect?
2017‑02‑28: Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON.
2017‑02‑28: Who needs GPS? Etak's amazing 1985 car navigation system.
2017‑02‑27: Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides.
2017‑02‑27: A transition plan for git to move to a new hash function.
2017‑02‑27: Citizens' initiative (i.e. petition) for a European passport.
2017‑02‑27: Logging vs instrumentation.
2017‑02‑27: No domain left behind: is Let's Encrypt democratizing encryption?
2017‑02‑26: How New Relic does DevOps.
2017‑02‑26: Thoughts on Kubernetes.
2017‑02‑26: Streaming databases in realtime with MySQL, Debezium, and Kafka.
2017‑02‑26: Continuous delusion at the infrastructure layer.
2017‑02‑26: Future Shocked: Judge Dredd at 40.
2017‑02‑26: Self-driving cars have a SMIDSY problem.
2017‑02‑26: Why I enthusiastically switched from Cacti to Zabbix for system monitoring.
2017‑02‑26: Meet the man who stopped thousands of people becoming HIV-positive.
2017‑02‑26: How RCA invented then lost the LCD.
2017‑02‑26: Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions.
2017‑02‑25: Securing browsers through isolation vs mitigation: Google Chrome vs Microsoft Edge.
2017‑02‑25: Inside the trenches of an information war: a case study in dating a video, fake or not?
2017‑02‑25: Game system emulation latency.
2017‑02‑24: Generation CS: undergraduate enrollment has more than tripled since 2006.
2017‑02‑24: reStructuredText vs. Markdown for technical documentation.
2017‑02‑24: Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions.
2017‑02‑24: Make your own PDFs with matching SHA-1 hashes.
2017‑02‑24: Search a Usenet archive with AltaVista.
2017‑02‑24: Redis on the Raspberry Pi: adventures in unaligned memory access.
2017‑02‑24: Safe arrays and pointers for C through compatible additions to the language.
2017‑02‑24: Upspin: a file sharing service from the Golang team at Google.
2017‑02‑24: On the existence of two states in liquid water: impact on biological and nanoscopic systems.
2017‑02‑24: frunk: Funktional generic programming in Rust.
2017‑02‑24: Billions and Treellions: there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Galaxy.
2017‑02‑24: Browsers belatedly add built-in protection against cross-site request forgery.
2017‑02‑24: X-Frame-Options HTTP header for clickjacking protection.
2017‑02‑24: Attacking the OAuth protocol.
2017‑02‑24: Set the TZ environment variable to avoid stat() syscalls.
2017‑02‑24: Cloudflare reverse proxies were dumping uninitialized memory.
2017‑02‑24: Git Rev News 24, with interesting stuff from the Git Merge conference.
2017‑02‑24: How would Git handle a SHA-1 collision?
2017‑02‑24: Yubikey handbook.
2017‑02‑24: Cloudflare's incident report on their accidental decrypted data exposure.
2017‑02‑23: Docker in production: an update.
2017‑02‑23: strace: wow much syscall.
2017‑02‑23: Why facts don't change our minds.
2017‑02‑21: The best single-word anagram in English.
2017‑02‑21: pg_healer: repairing PostgreSQL problems automatically using data checksums.
2017‑02‑21: All you need to know how to influence the EU in one easy chart (and several paragraphs).
2017‑02‑20: Meet the project manager of the world's most spectacular bicycle bridge: the Hovenring in Eindhoven.
2017‑02‑20: A nonsense collection of disgusting code.
2017‑02‑20: How copying an int made some Rust code 11 times faster.
2017‑02‑20: Chile's ReciclApp is sparking a recycling revolution.
2017‑02‑20: Debugging a hardware panic: use the ESM log!
2017‑02‑20: Pachyderm: a containerized, version-controlled data lake. ("git for data science")
2017‑02‑19: 42 recommendations about coding in C++
2017‑02‑19: systemd cgroup process limits and Java out-of-memory errors.
2017‑02‑19: A camera made from 32000 drinking straws takes pointillistic photographs.
2017‑02‑19: A line in the sand: a homemade machine to roll a ball around.
2017‑02‑18: Oldskool demo on lots of 7 segment displays.
2017‑02‑17: Etymology of "shit sandwich".
2017‑02‑17: Jepsen analysis of CockroachDB.
2017‑02‑17: AVM private key leak puts cable modems worldwide at risk.
2017‑02‑16: JavaScript attack on MMU page table side channel breaks ASLR.
2017‑02‑16: Chez Scheme as the Racket VM.
2017‑02‑16: 13 things you didn't know about Brexit.
2017‑02‑16: Pathfinder, a fast GPU-based font rasterizer in Rust.
2017‑02‑16: Faster startup times for TruffleRuby on the Substrate VM.
2017‑02‑16: Realtime analysis of the Oroville dam overflow.
2017‑02‑15: Instapaper outage cause and recovery (on AWS MySQL RDS).
2017‑02‑15: A surreal trip to a domain names conference.
2017‑02‑15: First synthesis of pentazole, one unhappy molecule.
2017‑02‑15: The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel git history.
2017‑02‑15: Google's not-so-secret new OS.
2017‑02‑15: European contraception atlas.
2017‑02‑14: BIND 9 refactoring.
2017‑02‑14: Is PostgreSQL good enough?
2017‑02‑14: Quizlet tests Google Cloud Spanner.
2017‑02‑14: Google Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem.
2017‑02‑14: Smalltalk was great, is great, but the cult-building is maddening.
2017‑02‑14: The history behind the decision to move Python to GitHub.
2017‑02‑14: Rust compiler design sprint summary.
2017‑02‑13: Solar system in a bottle.
2017‑02‑13: The origin of the insult "shitgibbon".
2017‑02‑13: A working balloon-powered paper pipe organ.
2017‑02‑12: A feminist guide to married women's names.
2017‑02‑12: Introducing Riptide: WebKit's retreating wavefront concurrent garbage collector.
2017‑02‑12: Linux eBPF tracing tools.
2017‑02‑12: mkfile(8) bandwidth is severely limited by Sys all performance on OS X.
2017‑02‑12: Process reconnaissance without /proc on Linux.
2017‑02‑11: takeover.sh: Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH, without rebooting.
2017‑02‑11: GitLab data loss postmortem.
2017‑02‑11: check_pgactivity: Nagios remote agent for PostgreSQL.
2017‑02‑11: LPegLabel: parsing expression grammars for Lua, with error labels.
2017‑02‑11: Decovar: A multistyle decorative variable font by David Berlow.
2017‑02‑10: Utrasound can accelerate the aging of distilled liquor.
2017‑02‑10: An experimental investigation of a crappy USB mug warmer.
2017‑02‑10: FreeBSD-1.x CVS converted to git.
2017‑02‑10: Conversion scripts of the CSRG SCCS repository to git.
2017‑02‑10: Why PostgreSQL does not have query planner hints.
2017‑02‑10: Mains frequency regulation, AC grids, and the retirement of steam turbine power stations.
2017‑02‑10: Code execution vulnerability in bash tab completion.
2017‑02‑10: Safe schema migrations without downtime on PostgreSQL.
2017‑02‑10: RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: lessons learned from developing SageMathCloud.
2017‑02‑09: France's beautiful national library reopens after a decade of renovations.
2017‑02‑09: Why acme-client does not use a seccomp sandbox on Linux.
2017‑02‑09: The warm, rich sound of valve guitar amplifiers.
2017‑02‑09: Leap-smeared representation of time for high-accuracy applications.
2017‑02‑08: The Uber SSH Certificate Authority.
2017‑02‑08: We finally have a computer that can survive on the surface of Venus.
2017‑02‑08: American Fuzzy Lop'ing Rust.
2017‑02‑08: HERMIT: the Haskell equational reasoning model-to-implementation tunnel.
2017‑02‑08: Why prove programs equivalent when your Haskell compiler can do that for you?
2017‑02‑08: Oracle to Postgres migration: considerations, hurdles, and possible solutions.
2017‑02‑08: More on Microsoft's GVFS and git performance work.
2017‑02‑07: MongoDB 3.4.0 Jepsen analysis.
2017‑02‑07: The security impact of https interception.
2017‑02‑07: The Women Scientists WikiProject: a brilliant "fuck you" to Wikipedia trolls.
2017‑02‑07: Why Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager won't be released in HD or on Blu-ray.
2017‑02‑07: zetcd: Zookeeper client support for etcd clusters.
2017‑02‑07: How Kubernetes handles incoming requests: services and ingress under an X-ray.
2017‑02‑07: Online database migrations at scale.
2017‑02‑07: How Shopify throttles flashes of high-write traffic using nginx+Lua.
2017‑02‑07: Inferbo: Infer-based buffer overrun analyzer.
2017‑02‑06: The garbage collection handbook.
2017‑02‑06: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation.
2017‑02‑06: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation recommends ASLv2.
2017‑02‑06: pgBackRest: PostgreSQL backup and restore.
2017‑02‑06: New ammonia process also generates electricity.
2017‑02‑06: Russian hackers have broken casino slot machine random number generators.
2017‑02‑06: RethinkDB relicensed from AGPL3 to APL2.
2017‑02‑05: WAL-E: continuous archiving for Postgres.
2017‑02‑05: M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine.
2017‑02‑05: Understanding Julia and Mandelbrot sets.
2017‑02‑05: The case against serving in Trump's administration.
2017‑02‑05: Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language.
2017‑02‑05: How powerful people trick you into hating protesters.
2017‑02‑04: QE2 1987 refit from steam turbine to diesel electric.
2017‑02‑04: SQL Slammer returns from the dead.
2017‑02‑04: The Gray-1, a homebrew CPU exclusively composed of memory.
2017‑02‑04: Donald Trump and the terrible phone call with Australia.
2017‑02‑04: Frictionless border with Ireland impossible after Brexit, government is told.
2017‑02‑04: Scaling Git at Microsoft.
2017‑02‑03: UK rail companies to undergo most radical overhaul of train fares for more than 30 years.
2017‑02‑03: Monotonic elapsed time measurements in Golang.
2017‑02‑03: NHSmail #replyallgate: 500 million messages in 75 minutes.
2017‑02‑03: Abstraction-filtration-comparison test for non-literal copying of code.
2017‑02‑03: John Carmack on the Zenimax vs Oculus trial.
2017‑02‑02: The beauty of array indexing and mixed-radix bases.
2017‑02‑02: Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India.
2017‑02‑02: The landlord octopus, still stalking London.
2017‑02‑01: Early analysis of the relationship between Brexit vote and anti-Trump petition.
2017‑02‑01: Red tape is organizational scar tissue.
2017‑02‑01: GitLab.com database incident report.
2017‑02‑01: How Etsy manages TLS X.509 certificates for custom domains with Let's Encrypt.
2017‑01‑31: macOS patches for Dell XPS 13.
2017‑01‑31: Bit permutations.
2017‑01‑31: An overview of macros in Rust.
2017‑01‑31: Lowering Rust traits to logic: Horn clauses in the type system.
2017‑01‑31: Don't setenv in multi-threaded code.
2017‑01‑31: The algorithms behind probabilistic programming.
2017‑01‑31: Swift hash table iteration and reinsertion is accidentally quadratic.
2017‑01‑31: Punched card typography explained.
2017‑01‑30: Quickly counting secure delegations using HyperLogLog and DNSSEC NSEC3.
2017‑01‑30: Using rational numbers to key nested sets in a relational database.
2017‑01‑30: Building the Raspberry Pi Infinity+ jumbo exhibition model.
2017‑01‑30: UK anti-Trump petition map.
2017‑01‑30: What is the oldest computer program still in use?
2017‑01‑30: Trunk-based development: how to branch your source repository.
2017‑01‑29: MIT PDP-10 ITS Incompatible Timesharing System source code.
2017‑01‑29: KVM hypervisor security hardening in the Google Cloud.
2017‑01‑29: Ansible best practices. (Native YAML for module arguments!)
2017‑01‑29: Project Everest: a formally verified https stack in development at INRIA.
2017‑01‑29: Peloton: the self-driving database. (slides)
2017‑01‑29: Peloton: an in-memory database based on PostgreSQL, self-tuned using machine learning.
2017‑01‑28: The internals of PostgreSQL.
2017‑01‑28: The long-overdue opioid revolution is finally here.
2017‑01‑28: Google Chrome no longer rechecks all resources when you reload a page.
2017‑01‑28: Using immutable caching to speed up the web.
2017‑01‑27: Secrets management with Hashicorp Vault in the Autopilot pattern.
2017‑01‑27: 1.1 billion taxi rides analysed with kdb+/q and 4 Xeon Phi CPUs.
2017‑01‑27: IPv6 on FreeBSD on AWS EC2.
2017‑01‑27: Archeology at the New Museums Site in Cambridge.
2017‑01‑27: The design of POSTGRES. (1985)
2017‑01‑27: Some highlights from POPL'17 in Paris.
2017‑01‑27: Google's root X.509 TLS CA.
2017‑01‑26: Formal proof of the four colour theorem.
2017‑01‑26: AWS IPv6 rollout.
2017‑01‑26: If your boss could do your job, you are more likely to be happy at work.
2017‑01‑25: Tektronix Smalltalk document archive.
2017‑01‑25: The styrofoam presidency.
2017‑01‑25: Russian Proton rocket grounded by poor quality control.
2017‑01‑25: How GitHub moved persistent data from Redis to MySQL.
2017‑01‑25: MiniKeePass for iPhone.
2017‑01‑25: KeePassXC: KeePass cross-platform community edition. (A fork without a single-maintainer bottleneck.)
2017‑01‑25: Columbus and the shape of the Earth, a "Holywood" story.
2017‑01‑25: Rogue One subverts Asian male stereotypes, and that's important.
2017‑01‑25: Handshake patterns in Rust: making two traits co-operate.
2017‑01‑25: Towards assigning blame to unsafe code in Rust.
2017‑01‑24: Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted.
2017‑01‑24: Vendors take Facebook's data centre switches to market.
2017‑01‑24: The saga of Golang dependency management.
2017‑01‑24: Delete an inline function, save 794 kB.
2017‑01‑24: Plotting a Dutch cycling network onto a British town.
2017‑01‑23: Why Trump's staff are lying.
2017‑01‑23: Cisco Umbrella / OpenDNS top 1m most popular domains.
2017‑01‑22: So your institute went cold turkey on Elsevier. What now?
2017‑01‑22: The death of the British dream.
2017‑01‑22: Ada Lovelace's calculation of Bernoulli's numbers: dissecting an Analytical Engine program.
2017‑01‑22: So just how fast are Golang channels anyway?
2017‑01‑22: The barycentric conspiracy: modern triangle rasterization.
2017‑01‑22: Programming languages other than Erlang on the BEAM.
2017‑01‑22: Maintainers don't scale: the BDFL is an antipattern in open source software development.
2017‑01‑22: BundleWrap compared to other config management tools.
2017‑01‑22: BundleWrap: config management with Python without yaml.
2017‑01‑22: ngrok: secure introspectable tunnels to servers on your localhost behind a firewall.
2017‑01‑22: Hellogopher: just clone and make your conventional Golang project, without GOPATH.
2017‑01‑21: How a Kalman filter works, in pictures.
2017‑01‑21: This is not an EXE, this is not a DLL, this is a Windows App.
2017‑01‑21: The infrastructure behind Twitter.
2017‑01‑21: How Discord stores billions of messages in Cassandra.
2017‑01‑20: Collapse of the Larsen B Antarctic ice shelf. (2002)
2017‑01‑20: The rift in the Larsen-C Antarctic ice shelf grew 10km since the start of the month.
2017‑01‑20: Fac: a build system that automatically tracks dependencies, by the author of Darcs.
2017‑01‑20: Exponential laws of computing growth. Moore's law, Dennard scaling, Koomey's law, Amdahl's law, vs the logistic function.
2017‑01‑20: IPv6-only at Microsoft.
2017‑01‑19: postage: a web-based GUI for PostgreSQL.
2017‑01‑18: The problem with the English: England doesn't want to be just another member of a team. (Brexit)
2017‑01‑18: A full English Brexit, with kippers.
2017‑01‑17: A brief history of African click words.
2017‑01‑17: The CIA's declassified but previously inaccessible history is now online.
2017‑01‑17: Trace the growth (or decline) of British cities and counties over the last 200 years.
2017‑01‑17: Erik Verlinde's gravity minus dark matter: a quantum basis for MOND.
2017‑01‑17: How did Darwin decide which book to read next?
2017‑01‑17: Gates Foundation research must now be published in open access journals.
2017‑01‑17: Dovecot security audit results.
2017‑01‑16: When constant-time source code compiles to a binary with a timing attack vulnerability in Curve25519.
2017‑01‑16: The line of death: which pixels are trustworthy?
2017‑01‑15: Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi now boots.
2017‑01‑15: Feeling safer online with Firefox: better security permissions dialog boxes.
2017‑01‑15: Containers from scratch, without docker or rkt.
2017‑01‑15: Linux kernel initialization, translated to bash.
2017‑01‑15: vallumd: feed an MQTT topic into an IPset blacklist.
2017‑01‑15: posixcube: a POSIX compliant shell script server automation framework.
2017‑01‑15: dgsh: directed graph shell, a bash extension for multiple parallel pipelines.
2017‑01‑14: When they came from another world: James Gleick reviews Story Of Your Life and Arrival.
2017‑01‑14: ZeroPhone: a Raspberry Pi smartphone.
2017‑01‑14: Seagate is shutting down one of its largest HDD manufacturing plants.
2017‑01‑14: DRAM latency then and now / the perfomance of 1980s RAM-coupled processors.
2017‑01‑14: Big comparison grid of C++ compilers standards implementation status.
2017‑01‑14: GCC C++ standards implementation status.
2017‑01‑14: Clang C++ standard implementation status.
2017‑01‑13: The complexity of abstract machines / the efficiency of lambda calculus evaluation strategies.
2017‑01‑13: Freenom World public DNS resolver.
2017‑01‑13: The state of certificate revocation: CRLs, OCSP and OCSP stapling. (Jan 2016)
2017‑01‑13: GoDaddy revoked and then un-revoked a certificate without request.
2017‑01‑13: GoDaddy issued certificates without proper domain validation.
2017‑01‑13: RISC-V port of gcc heads upstream.
2017‑01‑12: How Flickr got through a year without buying one byte of additional storage.
2017‑01‑11: Dart on LLVM.
2017‑01‑11: Dockerfile security tuneup.
2017‑01‑11: Docker? Looks like you have a bad case of embedded libraries.
2017‑01‑11: The programmer-archaeologist sees the GPL and asks, "What is this?"
2017‑01‑11: Box is a special type in Rust.
2017‑01‑11: Chris Lattner is joining Tesla.
2017‑01‑11: Chris Lattner is leaving Apple.
2017‑01‑11: The Rust module system is too confusing.
2017‑01‑10: How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack.
2017‑01‑10: Think you understand the link between money supply and inflation? Think again.
2017‑01‑10: Kali: a Linux distribution for penetration testing and ethical hacking.
2017‑01‑10: The web application hacker's handbook.
2017‑01‑10: Tron: a Windows cleanup script that fights for the user.
2017‑01‑10: On the portability of Algol68 and BLISS vs C and Pascal in the 1970s.
2017‑01‑10: How to make select(2) go faster.
2017‑01‑10: select(2) is fundamentally slow.
2017‑01‑09: The history of select(2).
2017‑01‑09: ouxr: old Unix source cross-reference.
2017‑01‑09: The Riemann Hypothesis, explained.
2017‑01‑09: Free As In Health Care: freedom vs restraint, software vs liability.
2017‑01‑08: GCC code generation for C++ constant loops of various sizes.
2017‑01‑08: A tour of the CS Responder trans-oceanic cable laying ship.
2017‑01‑08: Maja Kuczyńska, skydance junior world champion.
2017‑01‑08: I wore men's clothes for a month, and it changed my life.
2017‑01‑08: The Irish ether drinking craze of the 1800s.
2017‑01‑08: A collection of debugging stories.
2017‑01‑08: Why are the data formats in Star Wars such an awful mess?
2017‑01‑08: GNU sed 4.3 now uses GNU grep's DFA regex matcher, for a 10x speedup.
2017‑01‑07: Alacritty: a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
2017‑01‑07: LLVM target for VideoCore4 (Raspberry Pi VPU).
2017‑01‑07: vc4-toolchain: A port of gcc + binutils to the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore4 processor.
2017‑01‑07: Tools and information for the Broadcom VideoCore IV (RaspberryPi).
2017‑01‑07: Did media literacy backfire? On critical reading, doubt, and distrust of experts.
2017‑01‑07: Brexit: remaining angry.
2017‑01‑07: Adventures in PKI and pkcs-11.
2017‑01‑06: Compiling Rust to Wasm.
2017‑01‑06: KLF / Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu to return in August 2017.
2017‑01‑06: A tourist's guide to the LLVM source code.
2017‑01‑06: Rust at OneSignal.
2017‑01‑06: Graph isomorphism strikes back.
2017‑01‑06: dnsfwd: aggregate DNS queries over a single TCP/TLS connection.
2017‑01‑06: Cepheus: a practically perfect AI poker player.
2017‑01‑06: Google reveals anonymous online test of AlphaGo, which beat top players.
2017‑01‑05: The real name fallacy.
2017‑01‑05: State of the VMS port to x86_64 as of sep 2016.
2017‑01‑05: Renewing Medium's focus, veering away from ad-supported writing.
2017‑01‑04: Everything you never wanted to know about PKI but were forced to find out.
2017‑01‑04: X.509 style guide.
2017‑01‑04: Progress with sentiment analysis of FOSS communities.
2017‑01‑04: Grumpy: a Python to Golang compiler.
2017‑01‑04: On the reversed layouts of phone and calculator keypads.
2017‑01‑04: Conclusion of the SpaceX launch pad explosion investigation.
2017‑01‑04: Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
2017‑01‑04: Square-mile street network visualization: how big are your city blocks?
2017‑01‑04: Did inadequate women's healthcare destroy Star Wars' Old Republic?
2017‑01‑03: How to write tests.
2017‑01‑02: 650Gbps DDoS attack from the Leet botnet.
2017‑01‑02: Does Googlebot execute JavaScript?
2017‑01‑02: The moving sofa problem.
2017‑01‑02: Boost the wisdom of crowds by accounting for metaknowledge.
2017‑01‑01: Trump, Putin, and the oil pipelines to nowhere.
2017‑01‑01: Princess Leia's revolutionary hairstyle.
2017‑01‑01: Gitea: a lightweight git hosting service written in Golang, forked from Gogs.
2017‑01‑01: A quick introduction to RISC-V assembly language.