Tony Finch – link log

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2018‑12‑31: Fuzzing like it's 1989.
2018‑12‑31: The elements of UI engineering.
2018‑12‑31: For 30 years I've been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer.
2018‑12‑31: How not to canonicalize IPv6 addresses.
2018‑12‑31: μKanren: a minimal functional core for relational / logic programming.
2018‑12‑31: Adaptation decay has sucked the meaning out of "A Christmas Carol".
2018‑12‑30: Umlauts of Berlin, part 3: Ö.
2018‑12‑30: Little's Law: for estimation only.
2018‑12‑30: Why Microsoft Windows network performance is bad during media playback.
2018‑12‑30: Why Microsoft Windows filesystem access is much slower than Unix.
2018‑12‑29: Why are printed circuit boards usually green?
2018‑12‑29: A nice, little known C feature: static array sizes in parameter declarations.
2018‑12‑29: The story of the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound.
2018‑12‑29: In January, the EU starts running bug bounties on free and open source software.
2018‑12‑29: How Facebook keeps messenger from crashing on New Year's eve.
2018‑12‑28: A history of flavoring food with beaver butt juice.
2018‑12‑28: 22 ssh examples, practical tips, and tunnels.
2018‑12‑28: "Modern" C++ lamentations.
2018‑12‑28: Easy Postgres extensions in Rust with pg-extend-rs.
2018‑12‑28: Circular dependencies for provisioning systems.
2018‑12‑28: Securing the hardware supply chain.
2018‑12‑27: Patterns for Array initialization in Rust.
2018‑12‑27: A demo of Rust async io: from mio to stackless coroutines.
2018‑12‑27: Using C libraries in Rust: how to make a sys crate.
2018‑12‑27: Rust Tokio end of year recap.
2018‑12‑27: Procedural macros in Rust 2018.
2018‑12‑27: Post-mortem of the Word for Windows 1.0 project.
2018‑12‑27: Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E-Ink.
2018‑12‑27: JMAP is on the home straight.
2018‑12‑27: The wavefunction collapse algorithm explained very clearly.
2018‑12‑27: Much more than you wanted to know about melatonin.
2018‑12‑27: Understanding throttling and debouncing.
2018‑12‑27: Ranges, code quality, coroutines, and the future of C++.
2018‑12‑26: Unicode CLDR LDML date/time format patterns.
2018‑12‑26: Experience deploying IETF QUIC at Facebook.
2018‑12‑26: Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to (some) growth.
2018‑12‑26: The language of Brussels, translated.
2018‑12‑26: History of the Marshfield Mummers play.
2018‑12‑26: The many ways to launch FreeBSD in AWS EC2.
2018‑12‑26: White Hart Lane's movable football pitch in three pieces.
2018‑12‑26: Twitter's upcoming changes to PNG image support.
2018‑12‑26: 2018 Matrix year in review.
2018‑12‑26: ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan.
2018‑12‑26: A one-line Linux Dropbox client.
2018‑12‑25: Designing web page layouts for screen readers.
2018‑12‑25: Sloc Cloc and Code revisited: optimizing an already fast Golang program.
2018‑12‑25: Exclave: hardware testing in mass production, made easier.
2018‑12‑25: DOOMBA
2018‑12‑25: Wiv.js: a library for a more wiggly div.
2018‑12‑24: IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses.
2018‑12‑24: Theft of NTP service for the Internet of Unprofitable Things.
2018‑12‑24: Lexically scopes type variables.
2018‑12‑24: Partitioned consensus and its impact on Google Spanner's latency.
2018‑12‑24: HyperLogLog in Facebook Presto: faster cardinality estimation.
2018‑12‑24: Solving a murder with Prolog.
2018‑12‑24: Site reliability engineering is operations.
2018‑12‑24: Designing resilient systems with circuit breakers.
2018‑12‑24: Dropbox Cape service mesh technical deep dive.
2018‑12‑24: World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin.
2018‑12‑23: Ten simple rules for documenting scientific software.
2018‑12‑23: Standard ranges for C++.
2018‑12‑23: The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild.
2018‑12‑23: Finding a sparse file bug in GNU tar.
2018‑12‑23: The cyclical theory of Open Source, and new anti-cloud hybrid commercial licenses.
2018‑12‑22: The MGR window system.
2018‑12‑22: Offshore wind: bigger is better.
2018‑12‑22: gQUIC crypto and simple state machines.
2018‑12‑22: A new spline.
2018‑12‑21: DNS over TLS from Cloudflare's recursive servers to Facebook's authoritative servers.
2018‑12‑21: Dear developer, the Web isn't about you.
2018‑12‑21: When anti-virus software causes 15 minute GC pauses and crashes in a .NET Windows service.
2018‑12‑21: MySQL: do not pass this way again.
2018‑12‑21: Max Planck Society discontinues agreement with Elsevier; stands firm with Projekt DEAL negotiations.
2018‑12‑21: Five facts about smell.
2018‑12‑21: Manage virtual machines with virt-manager.
2018‑12‑21: WireGuard setup guide for iOS.
2018‑12‑21: WireGuard for iOS, now in the App Store.
2018‑12‑20: sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha.
2018‑12‑20: The state we're in: visualizing the health of an organization's IT estate.
2018‑12‑20: Why "just Google it" is now a synonym for "indoctrinate someone".
2018‑12‑20: The Guardian says, bye bye Mongo, Hello PostgreSQL.
2018‑12‑19: Did Google cripple Microsoft Edge's YouTube performance?
2018‑12‑19: GPS week rollover in 2019: what you need to know.
2018‑12‑19: Status of async in Rust at the end of 2018.
2018‑12‑19: Storing unboxed trait objects in Rust.
2018‑12‑19: Making Rust float parsing fast and correct.
2018‑12‑19: Evaluating high availability solutions for TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL.
2018‑12‑19: Hello, JIT World: the joy of simple JITs with dynasm.
2018‑12‑19: Stop trying to be so DRY, instead Write Everything Twice (WET).
2018‑12‑18: WaveFunctionCollapse: bitmap generation from one example using ideas from quantum mechanics.
2018‑12‑18: How to build a real-time app with GraphQL subscriptions on PostgreSQL.
2018‑12‑17: Future fossils of the 21st Century.
2018‑12‑17: Support Driven Engineering (SDE).
2018‑12‑17: The best programming advice I ever got.
2018‑12‑17: 5 German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany.
2018‑12‑17: Can repelling magnets replace the spring in a pogo stick?
2018‑12‑16: On rewriting code: No haunted forests.
2018‑12‑16: A collection of Pratt parsing articles.
2018‑12‑16: A brief history of just-in-time compilation.
2018‑12‑16: Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang.
2018‑12‑16: Algol 68: a retrospective.
2018‑12‑15: Does Scrabble need to be fixed? An experiment in controlling how much of the game is luck.
2018‑12‑15: Defense against dark arts: safely allowing full SQL access to untrusted users with SQLite.
2018‑12‑15: A remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite.
2018‑12‑15: Paxos made live: an engineering perspective from Google Chubby.
2018‑12‑15: Exploiting font parsing in LaTeX with CVE-2018-17407.
2018‑12‑15: Bootstrapping Rust.
2018‑12‑15: Modelling the true cost of software rewrites.
2018‑12‑14: An investigation of misunderstanding code patterns in C open-source software projects.
2018‑12‑14: Soup-salad-sandwich space.
2018‑12‑13: A history of the waterfall methodology.
2018‑12‑13: 50 CVEs in 50 days fuzzing Adobe Reader.
2018‑12‑13: The Titanic was on fire for days before the iceberg hit.
2018‑12‑13: Git your SQL together with a query library.
2018‑12‑13: Obituary of Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first true word processor.
2018‑12‑13: Securing your web site like it's 1999.
2018‑12‑13: AFLSmart: smart greybox fuzzing.
2018‑12‑13: Guaranteed copy elision in C++17 does not elide copies.
2018‑12‑12: Clusters of re-used keys.
2018‑12‑12: Routing security roadmap.
2018‑12‑12: Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve.
2018‑12‑12: Existential types in Rust.
2018‑12‑12: Hashbrown: Rust's Swiss army knife of hash tables.
2018‑12‑12: Patterns of refactoring C to Rust: the case of librsvg.
2018‑12‑12: GHC: from bug to merge.
2018‑12‑12: A guide to modern router architecture for network protocol designers.
2018‑12‑12: Inside Rust's async transform.
2018‑12‑12: Beware Java Attach API.
2018‑12‑12: ATDT relief.
2018‑12‑12: GraphIt: A high-performance graph DSL.
2018‑12‑12: How PowerDNS deals with security vulnerabilities.
2018‑12‑11: The cube rule of food.
2018‑12‑11: A tale of 132 e's on GitHub.
2018‑12‑11: A Unicode BMP codepoint chart.
2018‑12‑11: 20 years of open source Erlang.
2018‑12‑11: Troubleshooting obscure OpenSSH failures due to a broken firewall.
2018‑12‑11: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
2018‑12‑11: Human terrain: visualizing the world's population in 3D.
2018‑12‑11: Bezier moi, Julia.
2018‑12‑11: Seemingly impossible Swift programs.
2018‑12‑11: The Empress of Facebook: a befuddling dinner With Sheryl Sandberg.
2018‑12‑11: The seductive diversion of 'solving' bias in artificial intelligence.
2018‑12‑10: Who ever said no two snowflakes are alike?
2018‑12‑10: jl: turn structured JSON logs into human-readable lines.
2018‑12‑10: Graphing the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words.
2018‑12‑10: Rolling out EC2 Nitro instance types revealed AWS's 1024qps DNS query rate limit.
2018‑12‑10: Atomic clocks on a pair of eccentric Galileo satellites provided the first refinement of gravitational redshift since 1976.
2018‑12‑10: Pave the cowpaths.
2018‑12‑10: Spooky tales of testing in production.
2018‑12‑10: Billionaires are the leading cause of climate change.
2018‑12‑10: Autism from the inside is not the neurotypical cliché.
2018‑12‑09: The computer technology that changed air travel.
2018‑12‑09: Replacing the user story with the job story.
2018‑12‑09: JIRA is an antipattern.
2018‑12‑09: When the allocator works against you: memory fragmentation in Python on glibc.
2018‑12‑09: Fixing a tough memory leak involving C extensions in Python.
2018‑12‑09: The Programming Languages Zoo: miniature languages demonstrating concepts and techniques in design and implementation.
2018‑12‑09: Little languages for elucidating programming language design.
2018‑12‑09: Secrets of smooth Béziers and Euler spirals revealed.
2018‑12‑09: No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology.
2018‑12‑09: The curious tale of ICANN, Verisign, claims of subterfuge, and the $135m .web TLD.
2018‑12‑09: The CRISPR baby scandal gets worse by the day.
2018‑12‑09: Deep-comparing two 5GB JSON files 3x faster with jq.
2018‑12‑09: MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers.
2018‑12‑09: AMD EPYC 7371 aggressive pricing.
2018‑12‑09: Four days trapped at sea with crypto's nouveau riche.
2018‑12‑08: Troubleshooting a connection timeout issue due to tcp_tw_recycle (which should not be used).
2018‑12‑08: Uncomfortable privacy research.
2018‑12‑08: How to recognize fake AI-generated images.
2018‑12‑08: Eels stuck in Hawaiian monk seals' noses baffle scientists.
2018‑12‑08: Early mammals were thought to be small and unseen in the age of dinosaurs. An elephant-sized fossil complicates that story.
2018‑12‑08: Why ratings and feedback forms don't work.
2018‑12‑07: You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast.
2018‑12‑07: Understanding the type of call/cc.
2018‑12‑07: IPv6 in the UK 6 years after World IPv6 day.
2018‑12‑07: How to game Apple's iOS App Store.
2018‑12‑07: HTTPS in the real world.
2018‑12‑07: WALL᛫E | Typeset In The Future
2018‑12‑07: Reverse engineering the ARM1 processor's microinstructions.
2018‑12‑07: Tesla's giant battery saved $40 million during its first year, and cost $66 million to install.
2018‑12‑07: Rust 2018 is here... but what is it?
2018‑12‑07: Killing Microsoft Edge: Making the web worse through capitulation to Google.
2018‑12‑07: Goodbye, EdgeHTML.
2018‑12‑06: The rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
2018‑12‑06: Managing high availability in PostgreSQL with Pacemaker + Corosync + PAF.
2018‑12‑06: GNU Mes 0.17: towards bootstrappable builds for GuixSD.
2018‑12‑06: Bootstrappable builds.
2018‑12‑06: Postgres 12 highlight: DOS prevention.
2018‑12‑06: It's DNS Jim, but not as we know it!
2018‑12‑06: A well-known URL for changing passwords.
2018‑12‑06: A standard web site password change API.
2018‑12‑06: Eight #aabill predictions: consequences of Australia's new spying law.
2018‑12‑06: Anatomy of an AI system.
2018‑12‑06: QUIC and HTTP/3 : Too big to fail?!
2018‑12‑06: Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe.
2018‑12‑06: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Kubernetes apiserver.
2018‑12‑05: Why parking minimums almost destroyed my hometown and how we repealed them.
2018‑12‑05: Unprivileged users with UID > INT_MAX can successfully execute any systemctl command.
2018‑12‑05: How to write a modern C++ library in Rust.
2018‑12‑05: Learning how AI makes decisions.
2018‑12‑05: Our bipolar free-speech disorder and how to fix it.
2018‑12‑05: BT to remove Huawei from 4G infrastructure over security concerns.
2018‑12‑05: Constructive softwre engineering?
2018‑12‑05: The friendship that made Google huge.
2018‑12‑05: What is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS killer.
2018‑12‑05: Samsung used a DSLR photo to fake their phone's "portrait mode".
2018‑12‑05: The modality of mortality in domain names: an in-depth study of domain lifetimes.
2018‑12‑05: DOHA and ZIPPO make forty five dead gTLDs.
2018‑12‑05: ICANN registry agreement termination information page: graveyard of new gTLDs.
2018‑12‑04: A look at CSS resets in 2018.
2018‑12‑04: Single-direction margin declarations in CSS.
2018‑12‑04: PayPal, Square, and big banking's war on the sex industry.
2018‑12‑04: The case for reopening Edinburgh's lost circle line to passengers.
2018‑12‑04: Microsoft is replacing Edge in Windows 10 with a browser based on Google Chromium.
2018‑12‑04: A not-called function can cause a 5x slowdown.
2018‑12‑04: Yak shaving and fixing.
2018‑12‑04: How Facebook is fueling French populist rage.
2018‑12‑04: EverSet ES100 dev kit for receiving WWVB 60kHz new BPSK modulation.
2018‑12‑04: RSS to ActivityPub converter.
2018‑12‑03: Specter: Clojure's missing piece.
2018‑12‑03: Tadashi Tokieda collects maths and physics surprises.
2018‑12‑03: Tumblr will ban all adult content starting December 17th.
2018‑12‑03: Developers on call.
2018‑12‑03: Software sprawl, the golden path, and scaling teams with agency.
2018‑12‑03: Truths programmers should know about character case.
2018‑12‑03: Wiki Creole 1.0 lightweight markup language.
2018‑12‑02: AWS is competing with its customers.
2018‑12‑02: Making the best of MacBook Air touchpad on Ubuntu.
2018‑12‑02: Describe Chinese characters with the Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL).
2018‑12‑02: Portal for the Commodore 64.
2018‑12‑02: Linux Bcachefs status update.
2018‑12‑01: Bed a champion! A training course on urban design.
2018‑12‑01: Decentralizing social interactions with ActivityPub.
2018‑12‑01: Psychology's replication crisis is real, says the Many Labs 2 project.
2018‑12‑01: The world's most efficient languages.
2018‑12‑01: SSH performance.
2018‑12‑01: Falsehoods programmers believe about names, with examples.
2018‑12‑01: The 9 lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: new Cache ATtacks on TLS implementations.
2018‑11‑30: Google tried to patent someone else's work after a job interview.
2018‑11‑30: A crowdfunding customer patented the project they backed.
2018‑11‑30: UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8.
2018‑11‑30: Dynamic configuration at Twitter.
2018‑11‑30: Golang 2, here we come!
2018‑11‑29: Competition is dying, and taking capitalism with it.
2018‑11‑29: Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth, and nobody knows why.
2018‑11‑29: Multi-level MDA-Lite Paris Traceroute.
2018‑11‑29: The baseline costs of JavaScript frameworks.
2018‑11‑29: Amazon's homegrown Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU.
2018‑11‑29: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch: OpenSSL version numbering and licence change.
2018‑11‑29: Secrets of the magus: a profile of Ricky Jay. (1993)
2018‑11‑28: How GitLab spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel.
2018‑11‑28: What's in a Docker image? How to find out.
2018‑11‑28: A perfect storm that brought down LinkedIn.com.
2018‑11‑28: The datacenter as a computer: how Google designs warehouse-scale machines.
2018‑11‑28: A history of Unix man pages.
2018‑11‑28: Why do computers use so much energy?
2018‑11‑28: OpenBGPD: adding diversity to the route server landscape.
2018‑11‑27: What's the time? Measuring computer clocks on the Internet.
2018‑11‑27: How programmable calculators and an sf story brought Soviet teens into the digital age.
2018‑11‑27: Cryptocurrency collapse.
2018‑11‑27: Why women in psychology can't program.
2018‑11‑27: Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie.
2018‑11‑27: Preventing SQL injection with PostgreSQL and Python.
2018‑11‑27: The state of WiFi vs mobile network experience.
2018‑11‑27: Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (a British view).
2018‑11‑27: Is Copenhagen a city of cyclists? (A Dutch view.)
2018‑11‑27: AWS designed ARM processor: Graviton.
2018‑11‑27: Designing headers for HTTP compression (HPACK and QPACK).
2018‑11‑26: Today's JavaScript trash fire and pile on: the flatmap-stream compromise.
2018‑11‑26: The "feel-good" horror of late-stage capitalism.
2018‑11‑26: The power of Web Components.
2018‑11‑26: No cutting corners cutting corners.
2018‑11‑26: Integer overflow and SMT-solvers.
2018‑11‑26: Cuckoo breeding ground: a better cuckoo hash table.
2018‑11‑25: How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request.
2018‑11‑25: Motorists punish helmet-wearing cyclists with close passes, confirms data recrunch.
2018‑11‑25: WebAssembly doesn't make unsafe languages safe (yet).
2018‑11‑25: 5919 default passwords from Open Sez Me!
2018‑11‑25: Why most of America is terrible at making biscuits.
2018‑11‑25: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook.
2018‑11‑25: The Lisp Machines Inc. K-Machine.
2018‑11‑24: Type-safe builders in Kotlin.
2018‑11‑24: NovaSolix hopes to make a 90% efficient solar cell using carbon nanotubes.
2018‑11‑24: Model View Controller isn't.
2018‑11‑24: Tworoutines in Python: easy mixing of synchronous and asynchronous code.
2018‑11‑24: U.S. finally legalizes modern, European-style train cars.
2018‑11‑24: The code hiding on these Madrid security bollards.
2018‑11‑24: How a mysterious tech billionaire created two fortunes and a global software sweatshop.
2018‑11‑24: Enumerating the rationals (without duplication).
2018‑11‑24: Riding the Space Shuttle's solid rocket booster.
2018‑11‑24: Amazing time-lapse video of a rocket launch... seen from space!
2018‑11‑24: '12 Monkeys': why Terry Gilliam's movie is so relevant today.
2018‑11‑24: JavaScript modules.
2018‑11‑23: 6 strange facts about the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua.
2018‑11‑23: Nuisance calls: new UK law provides for company director liability.
2018‑11‑23: Are pop lyrics getting more repetitive?
2018‑11‑23: Twelve steps to enable IPv6 in government and enterprise networks.
2018‑11‑23: Killed by Google: the Google graveyard.
2018‑11‑22: Working on the engines while the plane is flying: eBay's router replacement project.
2018‑11‑21: dav1d AV1 decoder: performance and completion of the first release.
2018‑11‑21: Django core no more.
2018‑11‑21: Undumping TeX.
2018‑11‑21: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler.
2018‑11‑21: Falcon Heavy 1/48 scale model, flight 1. (YouTube)
2018‑11‑21: IBM's future system of the past.
2018‑11‑21: Herding the DNS camel.
2018‑11‑21: PhotoFunia Retro Wave neon 1980s image macro generator.
2018‑11‑21: Compile-time feature flags in Rust.
2018‑11‑21: The brown one, the honey eater, the shaggy coat, the destroyer: names for bears.
2018‑11‑21: Why we should let the Pantheon crack.
2018‑11‑21: Do you even bake, bro? How the Silicon Valley set fell in love with sourdough.
2018‑11‑21: IBM's 1970s future system (FS) project.
2018‑11‑21: A 3270 font in a modern format.
2018‑11‑21: The IBM z14 microprocessor and system control design.
2018‑11‑21: How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good.
2018‑11‑20: 4-year-old fixes a documentation bug in Linux.
2018‑11‑20: Techno-Sublime: a review of Benoit Mandelbrot's autobiography.
2018‑11‑20: Taking out the garbage: GC for GJS, the Gnome Shell SpiderMonkey JavaScript hooks.
2018‑11‑20: Surveillance marketing: Too much personalization can hurt your brand.
2018‑11‑20: Drop-down usability: when you should (and shouldn't) use them.
2018‑11‑19: Italy's olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads.
2018‑11‑19: Post-REST.
2018‑11‑19: Time is Partial: why do distributed consistency models and weak memory models look so similar?
2018‑11‑19: The case against quantum computing.
2018‑11‑19: Facebook, Google, Amazon, railroads, and the collapse of the tech mythology.
2018‑11‑19: The secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces.
2018‑11‑19: Analyzing the GitHub outage.
2018‑11‑19: That time a provider screwed CircleCI: remembering a security breach five years ago.
2018‑11‑18: Windows 10 vs. Linux performance on AMD Threadripper 2990WX.
2018‑11‑18: typed-html: Type checked JSX for Rust.
2018‑11‑18: The invention of the AeroPress.
2018‑11‑18: Unscii: a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics.
2018‑11‑17: Hurts so good: spicy foods and the compelling chemistry of chemesthesis.
2018‑11‑17: Resinferatoxin is so spicy hot it destroys nerve endings - in a good way.
2018‑11‑17: File mtime comparison considered harmful.
2018‑11‑17: As the toffs began to retreat: the decline and fall of Great Britain.
2018‑11‑17: Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life.
2018‑11‑17: Why sleep apnea patients rely on a CPAP machine hacker.
2018‑11‑16: International System of Units overhauled in historic vote at CGPM.
2018‑11‑16: He found the best burger place in America. And then he killed it.
2018‑11‑16: Tips on migrating SQL from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
2018‑11‑16: Bit fields in the Zig programming language.
2018‑11‑16: Fast line-following robots.
2018‑11‑15: Statistical rule of three: how to estimate the chances of something that hasn't happened yet.
2018‑11‑15: The "C" in CSS: a tutorial about the cascade.
2018‑11‑15: How Operation Libero tackled toxic right-wing politics in Switzerland.
2018‑11‑15: The Asus Eee: how close did we come to a Linux desktop?
2018‑11‑15: Period-tracking apps are not for women.
2018‑11‑14: Scaling millions of connections with zero-propagation dynamic DNS.
2018‑11‑14: Zero-cost abstractions in Julia: indexing vectors by name with LabelledArrays.
2018‑11‑14: Experiences with Unix on the Cray X/MP.
2018‑11‑13: Medium is a poor choice for blogging.
2018‑11‑12: The automation charade.
2018‑11‑12: Hello, and welcome to libh2o.
2018‑11‑12: C2x standard revision now in progress.
2018‑11‑12: Distributed consistency at scale: Spanner vs. Calvin.
2018‑11‑12: Hob3l: 100x faster slicing of SCAD files for 3D printing.
2018‑11‑12: Refactoring towards language with Objective C.
2018‑11‑12: The easiest way to debug node.js is with VSCode.
2018‑11‑12: 25th anniversary of NCSA Mosaic 1.0.
2018‑11‑11: TLS: what can go wrong?
2018‑11‑11: HTTP-over-QUIC will be HTTP/3.
2018‑11‑11: Why Intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained.
2018‑11‑11: Some notes on running new software in production.
2018‑11‑11: How bicycles have changed in the last 25 years.
2018‑11‑11: Cross shard transactions at 10 million requests per second.
2018‑11‑11: RocketLab's successful launch in New Zealand brings quick, cheap space access.
2018‑11‑11: iSH: Linux emulator for iOS.
2018‑11‑11: Should you use www or not in your web site host name?
2018‑11‑11: Exploiting coroutines to reduce cache miss latency "killer nanoseconds".
2018‑11‑10: The semiconductor industry and economic growth theory.
2018‑11‑10: Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking.
2018‑11‑09: Against software development.
2018‑11‑09: Deliveroo's data shows cyclists are faster in cities than cars and motorbikes.
2018‑11‑09: Introducing Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang.
2018‑11‑09: A history of the sentence "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
2018‑11‑09: Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest.
2018‑11‑09: GitHub reaches 100 million repositories.
2018‑11‑09: Haskell type checker complaint 184 of 698.
2018‑11‑07: Profiling: the case of the missing milliseconds.
2018‑11‑07: Donut math: how donut.c works.
2018‑11‑07: Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by 99%.
2018‑11‑07: On dealing with owning and borrowing in public interfaces in Rust.
2018‑11‑07: Interprocedural borrow conflicts in Rust.
2018‑11‑07: .brand TLD observatory.
2018‑11‑06: SideTrail: verifying time-balancing countermeasures against side-channel attacks against cryptosystems.
2018‑11‑06: AMD announces 64-core 7nm Rome CPUs, 7nm MI60 GPUs, and Zen 4.
2018‑11‑06: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition.
2018‑11‑06: The copyleft bust up.
2018‑11‑06: British underground utility colour codes explained.
2018‑11‑06: Colorful language: decoding utility markings spray-painted on city streets.
2018‑11‑06: SF writer Greg Egan and anonymous 4chan poster advance permutation problem.
2018‑11‑06: Performance of SMT solving on an iPhone.
2018‑11‑05: Julia: dynamism and performance reconciled by design.
2018‑11‑05: Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs).
2018‑11‑05: Who called 1688 a "Glorious Revolution"?
2018‑11‑05: Envoy proxy and gRPC-web: a fresh new alternative to REST.
2018‑11‑05: Deadlines, lies and videotape: The tale of a gRPC bug.
2018‑11‑05: Impact of daylight saving time on the clinical laboratory.
2018‑11‑05: Epic fail: daylight saving time stumps hospital record keeping.
2018‑11‑05: When Unix time was measured in 1/60 second ticks.
2018‑11‑05: The origin of C's cast operator.
2018‑11‑05: 6502 programming language Implementation survey.
2018‑11‑05: A Google Books OCR cliche: into his/her anus.
2018‑11‑04: AI ethics, impossibility theorems, and tradeoffs.
2018‑11‑04: How managers can decide which data science projects to pursue.
2018‑11‑04: How to manage connections efficiently in Postgres.
2018‑11‑02: ExploderBot: a slow-drip DDoS attack system.
2018‑11‑01: Why pencils are yellow.
2018‑11‑01: sdns: Golang recursive DNS server with DNSSEC support.
2018‑10‑31: Apple XNU kernel RCE vulnerability due to buffer overflow in ICMP packet handling. (CVE-2018-4407)
2018‑10‑31: The evolution of character codes, 1874-1968.
2018‑10‑31: Analyzing the root DNSSEC key rollover.
2018‑10‑31: The recent root DNSSEC key rollover: summary and next steps.
2018‑10‑31: Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking.
2018‑10‑30: GitHub October 21 post-incident analysis.
2018‑10‑30: Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia.
2018‑10‑30: Post-mortem: helium leak from MRI disables every iOS device in facility.
2018‑10‑30: Ira Magaziner's view of ICANN's creation.
2018‑10‑29: Chocolate has a origin 1500 years earlier than we thought.
2018‑10‑29: Honeycomb.io postmortem: RDS clogs and cache-refresh crash loops.
2018‑10‑29: Atlassian incident management handbook.
2018‑10‑29: To err is human: mistakes and slips in skydiving and other disciplines.
2018‑10‑29: The core practical problems with HiDPI on Linux.
2018‑10‑29: HiDPI on dual 4K monitors with Linux.
2018‑10‑29: Exploring C semantics and pointer provenance.
2018‑10‑29: Ten platform commandments.
2018‑10‑29: Status page updates: It's all about timing.
2018‑10‑28: IBM nears deal to acquire Red Hat.
2018‑10‑28: One Windows kernel.
2018‑10‑28: Why logical clocks are easy.
2018‑10‑27: Windows Defender Antivirus can now run in a sandbox.
2018‑10‑27: Legal curiosities: fact or fable?
2018‑10‑27: Systemd is bad parsing DHCPv6 packets and its programmers should feel bad.
2018‑10‑26: Proposal: Golang 2 transition.
2018‑10‑26: Detecting Agile BS.
2018‑10‑26: A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V.
2018‑10‑26: RobinHood tail latency aware caching: dynamic reallocation from cache-rich to cache-poor.
2018‑10‑26: The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous.
2018‑10‑26: From the endpoint to the cloud: Joanna Rutkowska says goodbye to Qubes OS.
2018‑10‑25: MongoDB's Server Side Public License is likely unenforceable.
2018‑10‑25: US copyright office ruling imposes sweeping right-to-repair reforms.
2018‑10‑25: What application developers should know about leap seconds on Windows 10.
2018‑10‑25: A mini biography of Sidney Darlington.
2018‑10‑25: Stardate 5928.5. USS Enterprise monthly catchup meeting with DS9.
2018‑10‑25: Investigating the implausible Bloomberg Supermicro stories.
2018‑10‑25: Bitcoin must die.
2018‑10‑24: Yelp production engineering documentation style guide.
2018‑10‑24: Rust has higher kinded types already, but only sinners can use them.
2018‑10‑24: Towards fearless SIMD.
2018‑10‑24: .br DNSSEC algorithm rollover report.
2018‑10‑24: Drivers wildly overestimate what "semiautonomous" cars can do.
2018‑10‑24: The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture.
2018‑10‑24: Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion-dollar ad fraud scheme.
2018‑10‑24: Consolidation, centralisation, and the Internet architecture.
2018‑10‑24: Why did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
2018‑10‑24: A fast, reliable cuckoo hash table for Node.js.
2018‑10‑23: An alternative history of Silicon Valley disruption.
2018‑10‑23: LLVM on SVN to GitHub migration.
2018‑10‑23: Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?
2018‑10‑23: Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin.
2018‑10‑23: Hexagonal Architecture: three principles and an implementation example.
2018‑10‑23: Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables.
2018‑10‑23: Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 October 2018 Update implement leap seconds in a UTC-compliant manner.
2018‑10‑23: Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time.
2018‑10‑23: PrEP is stopping HIV in Sydney, a world-first study shows.
2018‑10‑22: WebAssembly's post-MVP future.
2018‑10‑22: Superpermutations.
2018‑10‑22: First-class automatic differentiation in Swift: a manifesto.
2018‑10‑22: Intel kills off its 10nm process.
2018‑10‑22: Facebook is now adding "fbclid" surveillance parameters to outbound links.
2018‑10‑22: RISC OS relicensed under Apache 2.0.
2018‑10‑22: Pronouncing SQL: "S-Q-L" or "sequel"?
2018‑10‑22: Uptime Institute standards for data centre design.
2018‑10‑22: LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation.
2018‑10‑22: Parsing Timeline version 3.1.
2018‑10‑22: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others. You'll never guess what happens next.
2018‑10‑21: The indefatigable efforts of J. M. Keynes.
2018‑10‑21: Oral tradition: the oldest true stories in the world.
2018‑10‑21: Basic features that will hopefully return to the MacBook Pro.
2018‑10‑21: Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge.
2018‑10‑21: Massachusetts gas explosions: Another technological tragedy.
2018‑10‑21: Alzheimer's disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause.
2018‑10‑21: Pando, the most massive organism on Earth, Is shrinking.
2018‑10‑21: Inside the poisonous British fight over transgender acceptance.
2018‑10‑21: So you want to open a small press bookstore / artist-run space?
2018‑10‑20: Did Uber steal Google's intellectual property?
2018‑10‑20: The elegance of deflate (zlib).
2018‑10‑20: It's not a bug, it's a feature.
2018‑10‑20: The future's so bright, I gotta wear blinders.
2018‑10‑20: Notes on type layouts and ABIs in Rust.
2018‑10‑20: JavaScript fat arrow functions: how, why, when, and when not to use them.
2018‑10‑20: The illustrated TLS connection: every byte explained.
2018‑10‑20: Encrypted SNI comes to Firefox Nightly.
2018‑10‑19: Let's talk about PAKE: password authenticated key exchange.
2018‑10‑19: (Semi-)plausible strategies for moving a whole damn planet.
2018‑10‑19: Flight rules for git.
2018‑10‑19: Exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars is unlike what we see in our own system.
2018‑10‑19: Fold N Fly paper aeroplane designs.
2018‑10‑19: Orca: differential bug localization in large-scale services.
2018‑10‑19: Looking back at 20 years of ICANN.
2018‑10‑18: Ada Lovelace day: important type theory researchers to follow.
2018‑10‑18: Did Facebook's faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
2018‑10‑17: REPT: reverse debugging of failures in deployed software on Windows.
2018‑10‑17: Bankruptcy and destitution is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously.
2018‑10‑17: Accessibility Cheatsheet: practical approaches to universal design.
2018‑10‑17: MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ: design patterns for avoiding modal popups.
2018‑10‑15: GitLab.com stability and performance after migration from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud.
2018‑10‑15: A batpoo-eating pitcher plant.
2018‑10‑14: The reason we have not detected dark matter.
2018‑10‑13: DOH! An overview of DNS-over-HTTPS.
2018‑10‑12: Vector space model: the most influential paper Gerard Salton never wrote.
2018‑10‑12: Oil droplets guided by "pilot waves" have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment.
2018‑10‑12: Asterisks in Python: what they are and how to use them.
2018‑10‑12: Deduplicating files in Public Git Archive.
2018‑10‑11: Uncoiling the spiral: Maths, hallucinations, and patterns in fur.
2018‑10‑11: Fastly Debug connection diagnostics.
2018‑10‑11: Dropbox Debug connection diagnostics.
2018‑10‑11: GitHub Debug connection diagnostics.
2018‑10‑11: Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network.
2018‑10‑10: How a fraudster got $12 million out of a Canadian university: spear phishing.
2018‑10‑10: sql-indent.el: Syntax based indentation for SQL in GNU Emacs.
2018‑10‑10: Protobuffers are wrong.
2018‑10‑10: Helium leak from MRI disabled all Apple devices in the facility.
2018‑10‑10: Rust has a static garbage collector.
2018‑10‑10: Secrets in serverless functions.
2018‑10‑10: Who is stealing my power? An ad network case study.
2018‑10‑10: pgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier.
2018‑10‑10: A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety.
2018‑10‑10: Web advertising, where your data is traded in the time it takes to click.
2018‑10‑10: Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust.
2018‑10‑10: Despite proposed solutions, DNS security issues remain.
2018‑10‑10: 12 factor CLI apps.
2018‑10‑09: Rust RAII is better than Haskell's bracket pattern.
2018‑10‑09: Reified generics: the search for a cure.
2018‑10‑09: Biscuit: a research OS written in Golang.
2018‑10‑09: The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in Golang.
2018‑10‑08: The truth about traditional JavaScript benchmarks.
2018‑10‑08: bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux: source code now available.
2018‑10‑08: Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast.
2018‑10‑08: How newline characters affect Linux kernel performance.
2018‑10‑08: Google+ to shut down after coverup of data-exposing bug.
2018‑10‑08: The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn online payments startup.
2018‑10‑08: SRE: the biggest lie since Kanban?
2018‑10‑08: detect-secrets: prevent new secrets from being committed, and gradually eliminate old ones.
2018‑10‑08: Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 update after reports of documents being deleted.
2018‑10‑08: Perl 5 static analysis: how to hide errors in macros.
2018‑10‑07: A classification of comments in code.
2018‑10‑06: The Python Unicode mess.
2018‑10‑06: How blind players succeed at sports video games they've never seen.
2018‑10‑06: The $250 biohack that's revolutionizing life with diabetes.
2018‑10‑06: A journey into the heart of bragging: 17 modes of showing off.
2018‑10‑05: How Etsy localizes addresses.
2018‑10‑05: Making sense of the Supermicro motherboard attack.
2018‑10‑05: Peeking behind the curtains of serverless platforms.
2018‑10‑05: Do you really know CORS?
2018‑10‑05: Ubuntu Linux performance over the past six years on an Intel Xeon server.
2018‑10‑04: Sans Forgetica: a font designed to help you remember your study notes.
2018‑10‑04: Bloomberg's 'The Big Hack'.
2018‑10‑04: The Big Hack: how China used a tiny chip to infiltrate American companies.
2018‑10‑04: TLS token-binding standard gains a foothold on the Web.
2018‑10‑04: Bagpiper: decentralized secret management at Airbnb.
2018‑10‑04: How Dropbox rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever.
2018‑10‑03: The mystery of the continuously functioning battery from 1840.
2018‑10‑03: Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work? (YouTube)
2018‑10‑03: The rise of Netflix competitors pushed consumers back toward piracy.
2018‑10‑03: Intel ME Manufacturing Mode and Apple MacBook vulnerability CVE-2018-4251.
2018‑10‑03: A history of .NET runtimes.
2018‑10‑03: Arm offers free-as-in-beer Cortex IP for Xilinx FPGAs.
2018‑10‑03: The remarkable persistence of 24x36mm.
2018‑10‑03: Why are enterprises so slow?
2018‑10‑03: Kubernetes: a surprisingly affordable platform for personal projects.
2018‑10‑03: When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?
2018‑10‑03: How cyber attackers stole £2.26m from Tesco Bank customers.
2018‑10‑02: The art of DNS subdomain enumeration.
2018‑10‑02: What the heck is going on with measures of programming language popularity?
2018‑10‑02: Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology.
2018‑10‑02: Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoder.
2018‑10‑01: Think globally, act local-ly: restoring environment variables for a subprocess in Perl.
2018‑10‑01: Rethinking Netflix's edge load balancing.
2018‑10‑01: Reimagining of Schrödinger's cat breaks quantum mechanics, and stumps physicists.
2018‑10‑01: UK telecomms access hatch covers.
2018‑10‑01: What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?
2018‑09‑30: NanoLog: high performance nanosecond scale logging system for C++ with a printf-like API.
2018‑09‑30: Peter Flynn set up the first web server in Ireland, and caused the first broken link 404 error.
2018‑09‑30: Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws.
2018‑09‑29: Tesla big battery defies skeptics, sends industry bananas over performance.
2018‑09‑29: State of memory safety in Linux.
2018‑09‑29: How 50 million Facebook accounts were hacked.
2018‑09‑29: Innocent until proven guilty / believe the plaintiff.
2018‑09‑29: Rust collections case study: BTreeMap.
2018‑09‑29: The relative performance of C and Rust: AVL tree vs B-tree.
2018‑09‑28: Building Raspberry Pi systems with Yocto.
2018‑09‑28: How to visualize decision trees.
2018‑09‑27: Bizarre particles keep flying up out of Antarctica's ice, and they don't fit the Standard Model.
2018‑09‑26: Why scatter plots suggest causality, and how diamond plots can compensate.
2018‑09‑26: How to build a LOW←TECH solar-powered web site.
2018‑09‑26: Deploying anycast DNS using OpenBSD and BGP.
2018‑09‑26: ARIN routing security deployment stymied by legal restrictions on trust anchor distribution.
2018‑09‑26: What I learned about trash collection from a Taipei alley.
2018‑09‑25: The sorry state of TLS security in enterprise interception appliances.
2018‑09‑25: Although many thought Koko the ape used sign language, science tells us that probably wasn't really true.
2018‑09‑25: Which countries are most resilient to a tier 1 Internet provider failure?
2018‑09‑25: Build systems à la carte.
2018‑09‑25: Taking algorithms to court: current strategies for litigating government use of algorithmic decision-making (in the USA).
2018‑09‑25: Review of the system failure that led to the 2018 tax day IRS outage.
2018‑09‑25: Am I logged in or not? GDPR and the Google Chrome browser sync change.
2018‑09‑24: Computer scientists close in on a proof of the Unique Games conjecture.
2018‑09‑24: Inside a demo of NSO Group's powerful iPhone malware.
2018‑09‑23: Instagram is the unlikely savior of concrete Brutalist architecture.
2018‑09‑23: PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone.
2018‑09‑23: Qualcomm's bid to chase Intel in servers fell victim to Broadcom.
2018‑09‑23: Common cyborg.
2018‑09‑22: A mathematical pattern that fails after about 10^43 examples.
2018‑09‑22: How the GNU coreutils are tested.
2018‑09‑21: NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and Google Spanner is to blame.
2018‑09‑21: Writing documentation when you aren't a technical writer.
2018‑09‑21: Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua.
2018‑09‑21: Core Coroutines: making C++ coroutines simpler, faster, and more general.
2018‑09‑21: Whatever happened to the semantic web?
2018‑09‑21: The Open Graph protocol: web page metadata for Facebook.
2018‑09‑21: How to create a Twitter card.
2018‑09‑21: Titans of mathematics clash over epic "proof" of the ABC conjecture.
2018‑09‑20: Why aren't users more happy with programming language JIT VMs?
2018‑09‑20: Persistent DNS connections for reliability and performance.
2018‑09‑19: Javascript: call functions without using parentheses, Lua style.
2018‑09‑19: Scaling AFL to a 256 thread machine.
2018‑09‑19: ICANN board approval of the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2018‑09‑18: Why mathematicians can't find the hay in a haystack.
2018‑09‑18: How to kill your tech industry: British computing after the war.
2018‑09‑18: Ruby's Hashes and Perl's Autovivification, in JavaScript.
2018‑09‑18: DDoS attacks on colleges and universities: who, when and why?
2018‑09‑18: Apple and Firefox aim to thwart Facebook and Google tracking.
2018‑09‑18: What really happened to Apple's AirPower.
2018‑09‑18: RIPE's DNSSEC signer migration.
2018‑09‑17: Writers' HQ privacy policy.
2018‑09‑17: Good and Mad: American women are furious; politics and culture will never be the same.
2018‑09‑17: Tim Hayward's grilled cheese sandwich.
2018‑09‑17: Bitslicing: an introduction.
2018‑09‑17: Bring back the shadows: the case against HDR.
2018‑09‑17: A summary of the draft EU directive that might abolish DST next year.
2018‑09‑16: GT Zirkon: a sans-serif font with an animated website.
2018‑09‑16: The next ten billion years.
2018‑09‑16: The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world.
2018‑09‑15: The strange history of Myers-Briggs personality tests.
2018‑09‑15: Most of the Daily Mail's 'commentors' don't even exist.
2018‑09‑15: What most remote work companies don't tell you about remote work.
2018‑09‑15: The five levels of logging.
2018‑09‑15: XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress.
2018‑09‑15: The widely divergent life expectancy in every county in the USA.
2018‑09‑15: We're measuring the economy all wrong.
2018‑09‑15: Handling the iPhone notch in CSS.
2018‑09‑15: Making a hash of things: changing the comment character in git commit messages.
2018‑09‑14: Golang and algebraic data types.
2018‑09‑14: How the Weather Channel made that awesome Hurricane Florence storm surge animation.
2018‑09‑14: If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double check the time.
2018‑09‑14: A discussion of local time in Ethiopia, where 12:00 is dawn.
2018‑09‑13: On recipes as software, and empathy for the user.
2018‑09‑13: The factorization of RSA230.
2018‑09‑13: A cartogram of world population in 2018.
2018‑09‑13: YANG alarms.
2018‑09‑13: UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark ECHR judgment.
2018‑09‑13: European Commission proposes ending DST in March 2019.
2018‑09‑13: How we found a missing Scala class.
2018‑09‑13: HHVM ends PHP support; Facebook's Hack language will rapidly break compatibility.
2018‑09‑13: What the GlobalFoundries retreat really means.
2018‑09‑12: Adventures in Rust: DNS lookups with futures and Tokio.
2018‑09‑12: Parallelizing PNG: choosing Rust for `mtpng`.
2018‑09‑12: Let's Encrypt at scale, for 3000+ web sites at AutoTrader.
2018‑09‑12: How to generate SSL certificates for custom domains using Let's Encrypt, OpenResty, nginx, and Lua.
2018‑09‑12: Writing a simple SQL interpreter in Julia.
2018‑09‑12: Brendan Eich's Brave browser files GDPR complaint against Google's adtech.
2018‑09‑12: Hashicorp Vault: why we need dynamic secrets.
2018‑09‑12: A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners.
2018‑09‑12: The British Airways breach: how Magecart claimed 380,000 victims.
2018‑09‑12: Pigeon Maps: ReactJS maps without external dependencies.
2018‑09‑11: The effectiveness of publicly shaming bad security (after private reports fall on deaf ears).
2018‑09‑11: The "developer experience" bait-and-switch: JavaScript is the web's greenhouse gas.
2018‑09‑11: PostgreSQL 11 JIT compilation of queries.
2018‑09‑11: An IPv6 update: how APNIC measures the Internet.
2018‑09‑11: Measuring information in millibytes
2018‑09‑11: Elegy for Larrabee: autovectorization is not a programming model.
2018‑09‑11: OpenSSL-1.1.1 released.
2018‑09‑11: DoT and DoH: it's DNS, Jim, but not as we know it!
2018‑09‑10: Why big companies squander good ideas.
2018‑09‑10: Fast, furious, and insecure: hacking passive keyless entry and start in the Tesla model S.
2018‑09‑10: Spoofing DNS with IP fragments.
2018‑09‑10: A23D: a 3D-printed letterpress font.
2018‑09‑10: Highlights from Git 2.19.
2018‑09‑10: `git log --follow` over-enthusiastically tracks empty files.
2018‑09‑10: The first 15 years of PyPy: a personal retrospective.
2018‑09‑10: Starting an Internet service provider, part 2: deploying fiber.
2018‑09‑10: libcurl gets a URL parser API.
2018‑09‑10: Why Rust closures are (somewhat) hard.
2018‑09‑10: An introduction to inline classes in Kotlin.
2018‑09‑10: Why can't apes talk? Considering primate speech.
2018‑09‑10: UK's worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440.
2018‑09‑10: Future directions for optimizing compilers.
2018‑09‑10: Things you probably don't want on your [airline] website's payment pages.
2018‑09‑09: On compositionality.
2018‑09‑09: The two dualities of computation: negative and fractional algebraic data types.
2018‑09‑09: The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types.
2018‑09‑09: xsv: a CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
2018‑09‑09: Java 11: Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK.
2018‑09‑09: 5 mistakes C/C++ devs make writing Golang.
2018‑09‑09: 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn't.
2018‑09‑09: DNS-over-TLS: thoughts and implementation.
2018‑09‑09: First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
2018‑09‑08: Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials.
2018‑09‑08: Quarternions: the strange numbers that birthed modern algebra.
2018‑09‑08: ripgrep 0.10.0 with pcre support.
2018‑09‑08: Zero overhead deterministic failure: a proposed mechanism for C and C++.
2018‑09‑07: SQL style guide.
2018‑09‑07: TLS session resumption allows Google and Facebook to track you without cookies.
2018‑09‑07: Keybase's browser extension exposes decrypted messages to third party web sites.
2018‑09‑07: Golang says WAT?
2018‑09‑07: The mysterious case of Chrome's hidden URLs and Google's AMP.
2018‑09‑07: The new science of seeing around corners.
2018‑09‑07: The monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook.
2018‑09‑07: How gRPC uses HTTP/2.
2018‑09‑07: How the Golang runtime implements maps efficiently (without generics).
2018‑09‑07: Google AMP can go to hell.
2018‑09‑07: Google wants to kill the URL.
2018‑09‑07: Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate.
2018‑09‑07: How we massively reduced our AWS Lambda bill with Golang.
2018‑09‑07: Best practices for mobile form design.
2018‑09‑07: Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a Python multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks.
2018‑09‑07: cOAlition S: a European initiative for full and immediate Open Access to research publications.
2018‑09‑07: Radical open-access plan could spell end to academic journal subscriptions.
2018‑09‑07: Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code.
2018‑09‑06: Upgrading PostgreSQL 10 to 11 using logical replication.
2018‑09‑06: Tealemetry: an IoT tea coaster and thermometer.
2018‑09‑06: What drives IPv6 deployment?
2018‑09‑06: Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses.
2018‑09‑05: Political sextant.
2018‑09‑05: Electromagnetic Field hacker camp featured open source phones as badges and DIY IMSI catchers.
2018‑09‑05: A Rust pattern: iterating over an Rc<Vec<T>>.
2018‑09‑05: The history of a security hole in OpenBSD on i386.
2018‑09‑05: Function poisoning in C++ with gcc.
2018‑09‑05: On Firefox moving DNS to a third party.
2018‑09‑05: Diffy: a server comparison engine for digital forensics in the cloud.
2018‑09‑05: A tour of the Golang memory allocator and garbage collector.
2018‑09‑05: Convergence of AIX and 4.3BSD.
2018‑09‑05: uvm: a BSD virtual memory system.
2018‑09‑05: Java's new Z Garbage Collector (ZGC).
2018‑09‑05: Burroughs B5500 emulator.
2018‑09‑04: Notes on Ousterhout's "Philosophy of Software Design".
2018‑09‑04: A bug story: data alignment in C on x86.
2018‑09‑04: On-site group chat alternatives to HipChat or Slack.
2018‑09‑04: Hysteria was not treated with vibrators.
2018‑09‑03: A critique of resizable distributed hash tables: Riak Core vs random slicing.
2018‑09‑03: Doom II's final secret has been found, after 24 years.
2018‑09‑03: zombodb: allow Postgres to use Elasticsearch as an index provider.
2018‑09‑03: I don't want to learn your garbage query language.
2018‑09‑03: BBC Horizon documentary: a week without lying, the honesty experiment.
2018‑09‑03: SonarSnoop: active acoustic side-channel attacks against smartphone unlock codes.
2018‑09‑03: Optical TEMPEST: progress since 2002.
2018‑09‑03: Tips for making video walls using Matrox C-series graphics cards.
2018‑09‑03: ParseDMARC: open source DMARC report analyzer and visualizer.
2018‑09‑03: ICANN's guide on what to expect during the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2018‑09‑03: Relativistic quantum chemistry: why gold is yellow and mercury is liquid.
2018‑09‑02: Anycast TCP.
2018‑09‑02: A story about tracking down TCP RSTs.
2018‑09‑02: Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system.
2018‑09‑01: Zero-copy deserialization in Julia.
2018‑08‑31: Can Beethoven send copyright takedown requests?
2018‑08‑31: Shifting solid bulk cargoes: an explanation of the process and dangers.
2018‑08‑31: The abelian sandpile model.
2018‑08‑31: The ships that sink due to solid bulk cargo liquefaction.
2018‑08‑31: LeBron James's tattoos at issue in a copyright lawsuit.
2018‑08‑31: On the worst-case complexity of TimSort.
2018‑08‑31: C considered dangerous: mitigations in the Linux kernel.
2018‑08‑31: The performance cost of Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow mitigations on Linux 4.19.
2018‑08‑30: Life-size drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron.
2018‑08‑30: Firefox in-page pop-up reporter.
2018‑08‑30: Linux kernel developer criticizes Intel's Meltdown bug secrecy.
2018‑08‑30: Firefox Nightly DNS-over-HTTPS experimental results.
2018‑08‑30: In the near future, Firefox will - by default - protect users by blocking tracking.
2018‑08‑29: This Tudor London map overlay is marvelous.
2018‑08‑29: Miami's other water problems.
2018‑08‑29: Lazy sequences in Swift and how they work.
2018‑08‑29: Awesome and crazy Kotlin examples.
2018‑08‑29: Surety, the world's oldest blockchain, has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995.
2018‑08‑29: DarkRISCV: opensouce RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night!
2018‑08‑29: Postgres 11 has fast column creation with defaults.
2018‑08‑29: hardened_malloc: an experimental hardened allocator in a very early stage of development.
2018‑08‑28: Tide: TypeScript interactive development environment for Emacs.
2018‑08‑28: RedHat and SUSE withdraw support for OpenLDAP.
2018‑08‑28: Goodbye VSCode, hello Emacs (again).
2018‑08‑28: A new Linux kernel AIO polling interface.
2018‑08‑28: Why U.S. corporate boards don't include workers.
2018‑08‑28: GlobalFoundries stops all 7nm development, instead focuses on specialized processes.
2018‑08‑28: wideNES: peeking past the edge of NES games.
2018‑08‑28: The rise of dismal sf: to understand our economic system, we need speculative stories.
2018‑08‑28: Spectrum of possibilities: a GUI color guide.
2018‑08‑28: How Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and others are contributing to OpenStreetMap.
2018‑08‑28: Fixing slow MacBook WiFi reconnect after sleep.
2018‑08‑28: From PFI to privatisation, our national accounting rules encourage daft decisions. It's time to change them.
2018‑08‑27: Stop telling women how they should talk.
2018‑08‑27: Why did Prolog lose steam?
2018‑08‑27: Real world write loads and SSD wearout.
2018‑08‑27: VSCodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing.
2018‑08‑26: Women's pockets are inferior.
2018‑08‑26: Emoji: in the beginning.
2018‑08‑26: A satellite engineer explains the challenges of space electronics.
2018‑08‑26: The how and why of the design of the Lucida fonts.
2018‑08‑26: The paradox of Karl Popper.
2018‑08‑26: The Great Barrier Reef is headed for 'massive death'.
2018‑08‑26: The illegal ramen vendors of postwar Tokyo.
2018‑08‑26: Swan sanctuary says bread is good for wildfowl.
2018‑08‑26: How the Netherlands feeds the world.
2018‑08‑26: There's no room in the Room of My Own.
2018‑08‑26: The origins of opera and the future of programming.
2018‑08‑26: The worst stories from a decade-plus of Ask A Manager.
2018‑08‑26: Patterns for authentication in the CDN.
2018‑08‑25: The sugar conspiracy.
2018‑08‑25: quicktype: generate types and converters from JSON, Schema, and GraphQL.
2018‑08‑25: Lessons from JupyterCon.
2018‑08‑25: Four ways that Internet ex-idealists explain where it all went wrong.
2018‑08‑25: AT commands: attacking Android phones using modem control sequences over USB.
2018‑08‑25: Zork: how to fit a large program in a small machine.
2018‑08‑24: Firefox's :screenshot command.
2018‑08‑24: The rise and rise of JSON.
2018‑08‑24: Eerie skyglow called 'Steve' isn't an aurora, Is 'completely unknown' to science.
2018‑08‑23: The war over supercooled water: a seven year scientific dispute caused by a coding error.
2018‑08‑22: Home Assistant: open source home automation with Python.
2018‑08‑22: Kubernetes anti-patterns: let's do GitOps, not CIOps!
2018‑08‑22: GitOps: a path to more self-service IT.
2018‑08‑22: Automatic code formatting for partially-staged files in git.
2018‑08‑22: Sex, religion, and a towering treatise on anatomy.
2018‑08‑22: Orkney tidal turbine generating 'phenomenal result'.
2018‑08‑22: New attack recovers RSA encryption keys from EM waves within seconds.
2018‑08‑22: Why are record companies dumping their Spotify stock?
2018‑08‑22: The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business.
2018‑08‑22: Picycle: donate your unused Raspberry Pi for scientific research.
2018‑08‑22: Many more Ghostscript security vulnerabilities.
2018‑08‑22: The first million integers, represented as binary vectors of prime factors, laid out using the UMAP dimensionality reduction algorithm.
2018‑08‑22: Google's voracious data collection.
2018‑08‑22: The Packard Merlin: how Detroit mass-produced Britain's hand-built powerhouse.
2018‑08‑21: A galactic visualization of the prime factors of the first million numbers.
2018‑08‑21: On the iron law of megaprojects, the break-fix model of management, survival of the unfittest, and more.
2018‑08‑21: Fast multiplication with slow additions.
2018‑08‑21: Live map of London Underground trains.
2018‑08‑20: Catching integer overflows in C.
2018‑08‑20: High school students learning programming do better with block-based languages.
2018‑08‑20: DNSSEC and DNS over TLS.
2018‑08‑20: Performance of ranged accesses into arrays: modulo, multiply-shift, and masks.
2018‑08‑20: Hacking a brand new Mac remotely, right out of the box, using the device enrolment program.
2018‑08‑20: A visual guide to git.
2018‑08‑20: Singularity of Origin: a tool to perform DNS rebinding attacks.
2018‑08‑20: Propagation of error: approving citations of retracted papers.
2018‑08‑19: MATLAB is a terrible programming language.
2018‑08‑19: An introduction to Golang modules.
2018‑08‑19: One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel.
2018‑08‑19: Pseudo constant time implementations ofTLS are only pseudo secure.
2018‑08‑19: Directional freezing: a method for making clear ice.
2018‑08‑19: Tobacco cocktails are a terrible idea.
2018‑08‑18: Advice for data organization in spreadsheets.
2018‑08‑18: John Conway's method for walking up stairs.
2018‑08‑18: The T programming language: an early dialect of Scheme.
2018‑08‑18: The Ramsey sweep: mark/sweep garbage collection in time proportional to the live data, not heap size.
2018‑08‑18: Samba DNS problems with DNAME records and large replies.
2018‑08‑18: Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust.
2018‑08‑17: Battery breakthrough: Doubling performance with lithium metal that doesn't catch fire.
2018‑08‑17: Caveat troglodytarum: how to deal with patent trolls.
2018‑08‑17: Working at Superior Software in Leeds in the 1980s.
2018‑08‑17: A sound card before its time.
2018‑08‑17: 24-core CPU and I can't type an email: Google Chrome performance debugging.
2018‑08‑17: Secure Socket API: an easy-to-use TLS extension to BSD sockets.
2018‑08‑17: Introducing the Windows pseudo console (ConPTY).
2018‑08‑17: Who left open the cookie jar?
2018‑08‑17: Who is answering my queries? Understanding and characterizing interception of the DNS resolution path.
2018‑08‑17: How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times.
2018‑08‑16: BARR-C:2018 embedded C coding standard, harmonized with MISRA C 2012.
2018‑08‑16: Are patent claims coming for your WS2812 Neopixels?
2018‑08‑16: FastLED: an animation library for Arduino.
2018‑08‑16: Pixelblaze V2: an advanced LED pattern development engine and controller.
2018‑08‑15: Sequences, sequences, and sequences: Fred Sanger's academic autobiography.
2018‑08‑15: Scientists discover how to make schwartzite (negatively curved carbon sheets) after decades of searching.
2018‑08‑15: The "server-process-edition" branch of SQLite.
2018‑08‑15: Strongly universal string hashing is fast.
2018‑08‑15: Not on your life: six means of sf transportation I would not use.
2018‑08‑15: Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior.
2018‑08‑15: Meltdown strikes back: the Intel L1 terminal fault (L1TF / Foreshadow) vulnerability.
2018‑08‑15: Diagnosing a weak memory ordering bug.
2018‑08‑15: Passive observations of a large DNS service.
2018‑08‑15: Open Journal Systems: open-source academic journal publishing software.
2018‑08‑15: Fastly's response to the SegmentSmack vulnerability.
2018‑08‑14: If quantum computers are not possible, why are classical computers possible?
2018‑08‑14: Can you break a stick of spaghetti into just two pieces? Yes! (With a twist.)
2018‑08‑14: Protecting against the new "L1TF" speculative vulnerabilities.
2018‑08‑14: Foreshadow: breaking Intel's virtual memory abstraction with transient out-of-order execution.
2018‑08‑14: Dijkstra's in disguise.
2018‑08‑14: The 10:1 rule of work:output in writing and programming.
2018‑08‑14: Faxploit: compromising a network via an all-in-one printer's POTS fax line.
2018‑08‑13: The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users.
2018‑08‑13: Celebrating 10 years of BGP routing insecurity.
2018‑08‑13: An overview of the BBC's work on TV over IP with optional multicast.
2018‑08‑13: What do I need to know about the "SegmentSmack" TCP reassembly DoS attack?
2018‑08‑12: The evolution of LED backlights for LCDs.
2018‑08‑12: USA temperature charts: can I sucker you?
2018‑08‑12: Dismantling the USS Enterprise: The US Navy has never disposed of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier before.
2018‑08‑12: What the fuck is the "edge"?
2018‑08‑10: DNS: A look back at a look back from 1988.
2018‑08‑10: Which cryptographic attack deserves to win the 2018 Pwnie?
2018‑08‑10: µUBSan: a clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime.
2018‑08‑10: Smoking around the world.
2018‑08‑10: Rosenbridge: a hardware backdoor in VIA C3 x86 processors.
2018‑08‑09: Julia 1.0
2018‑08‑09: Airtime for Hitler on BBC.
2018‑08‑09: An ingenious but failed BMW theft attempt.
2018‑08‑09: "What have we done?" Silicon Valley engineers fear the gig economy they have created is a monster.
2018‑08‑09: Dark energy may be incompatible with string theory.
2018‑08‑09: How to crash a node.js email server with a single message.
2018‑08‑09: In search of a bigger boom: multi-stage thermonuclear hydrogen bombs.
2018‑08‑09: On Beavers, nature's perfect analogy for Silicon Valley tech.
2018‑08‑09: Systemd's DynamicUser feature is dangerous.
2018‑08‑09: Bloaty McBloatface 1.0: a size profiler for binaries.
2018‑08‑09: Scalable media delivery on the Web with HTTP server push and multicast QUIC to the browser.
2018‑08‑09: BBC R&D scalable Internet broadcasting using multicast QUIC.
2018‑08‑09: GLB: GitHub's open source layer 4 load balancer.
2018‑08‑08: A collection of dataviz caveats.
2018‑08‑08: Stacked Borrows: an aliasing model for Rust.
2018‑08‑08: High uptime headaches due to floating point high resolution timers.
2018‑08‑08: A timesyncd total failure and systemd's complete lack of debugability.
2018‑08‑08: V8 JavaScript engine release v6.9
2018‑08‑08: New York's Vision Zero success provides a road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths.
2018‑08‑07: Hacking commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes.
2018‑08‑07: Meet the street artist transforming London's railway bridges into works of art.
2018‑08‑07: Rust and the case of the redundant comparison.
2018‑08‑06: How fast is a PS/2 keyboard?
2018‑08‑06: Let's Encrypt is now directly trusted by all major X.509 root CA programs.
2018‑08‑06: Facebook deploys TLS 1.3 with Fizz, a new high-performance open source TLS library.
2018‑08‑06: The mythical Brown Windsor Soup.
2018‑08‑06: Pollen calendar.
2018‑08‑06: Polyhedra Viewer: visualize the relationships between the convex, regular-faced polyhedra.
2018‑08‑06: What's going on in the Rosetta timelapse video from the surface of a comet.
2018‑08‑05: Mozilla's new DNS-over-HTTPS resolution is dangerous.
2018‑08‑04: On system rollback and totalised fields: An algebraic approach to system change.
2018‑08‑04: What is philosophy of science, and should scientists care?
2018‑08‑04: Transparency logs via append-only authenticated dictionaries.
2018‑08‑04: Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines: the difficult sources of old pigments.
2018‑08‑04: Arxiv Vanity: read academic papers from Arxiv as web pages.
2018‑08‑03: In pursuit of production minimalism at Heroku.
2018‑08‑03: The oldest building in every state of the USA.
2018‑08‑03: Our logo looks like underpants: a case study in internationalization.
2018‑08‑03: DOCSIS time protocol: PTP over cable for 5G microcells.
2018‑08‑03: History of the BASIC Engine.
2018‑08‑03: A ray-tracing pioneer explains how he stumbled into global illumination.
2018‑08‑02: Australian Computer Museum Society's historical collection is due to be bulldozed next week.
2018‑08‑02: saltpack: a modern crypto messaging format, a NaCL-based replacement for PGP.
2018‑08‑02: Why a typical home solar setup does not work without mains power, and what you can do about it.
2018‑08‑01: One line of Javascript made FT.com 10 times slower.
2018‑08‑01: Introduction to compute shaders.
2018‑08‑01: A new HTTP security header: Feature-Policy.
2018‑08‑01: Swift's "Never" type.
2018‑08‑01: Cherry MX history: a German company with American roots.
2018‑07‑31: A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation.
2018‑07‑31: The science behind non-Newtonian noodles.
2018‑07‑31: Bootable CD with retro game in a tweet.
2018‑07‑31: The IPv4 address space transfer market: 2018 mid-year report.
2018‑07‑31: An Empire of Stars: How Britain beat the odds to independently achieve space flight, and then abandoned it on the very same day.
2018‑07‑31: 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved there is no quantum computing speedup for the “recommendation problem”.
2018‑07‑31: First successful test of Einstein's general relativity near a supermassive black hole.
2018‑07‑31: Highlights from IETF 102.
2018‑07‑31: Why the new V8 JavaScript engine is so damn fast.
2018‑07‑31: How to read an RFC.
2018‑07‑31: Elsevier's demands are unacceptable for the German academic community.
2018‑07‑31: When you need to rip the same CD 300 times.
2018‑07‑31: A collection of quotes on interesting notations as tools of thought.
2018‑07‑31: Porting Coreboot to the 51NB X210.
2018‑07‑30: Haskell: If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
2018‑07‑30: Announcing TypeScript 3.0.
2018‑07‑30: What economists still don't get about the 2008 financial crisis.
2018‑07‑30: How to read a legal opinion.
2018‑07‑30: When Bussard ramjets ruled sf.
2018‑07‑30: Why salt was so important throughout history.
2018‑07‑30: Doug McIlroy's C++ regular expression matching library.
2018‑07‑30: Routinator 3000: RPKI relying party software in Rust.
2018‑07‑30: Pure CSS logical styling based on the number of elements.
2018‑07‑30: The evolution of writing.
2018‑07‑30: Iran's Gorgan Wall, second-longest in the world, is still shrouded in mystery.
2018‑07‑29: The rejected transistor at the heart of the iconic Roland TR-808.
2018‑07‑29: Secure boot on Apple Mac T2 computers.
2018‑07‑29: When does white space matter in HTML?
2018‑07‑29: Measuring the brightest iPhone ever: iPhone X.
2018‑07‑29: The 'scutoid' is geometry's newest shape, and it could be all over your body.
2018‑07‑29: Ghost characters: a spectre is haunting Unicode.
2018‑07‑29: Cheap FPGA development boards.
2018‑07‑29: Microfilm lasts half a millennium.
2018‑07‑29: Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they marry?
2018‑07‑29: The troubled quest for the superconducting wind turbine.
2018‑07‑29: Color or fruit? On the unlikely etymology of "orange".
2018‑07‑28: Ryu: convert floating point numbers to decimal strings.
2018‑07‑28: A map showing the steepness of streets.
2018‑07‑28: Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion.
2018‑07‑28: #ifdef considered harmful: portability experience with C News.
2018‑07‑28: uBlock has been taken over by AdBlock.
2018‑07‑28: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet.
2018‑07‑28: Why restaurants became so loud, and what you can do about it.
2018‑07‑28: The death of a TLD.
2018‑07‑28: Keep a Changelog.
2018‑07‑27: RSSAC023: a history of the DNS root nameserver system.
2018‑07‑27: Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are not reducing traffic in American cities.
2018‑07‑26: NetSpectre: read arbitrary memory over the network.
2018‑07‑26: Prefix sums and their applications.
2018‑07‑26: 15 years of SparkFun.
2018‑07‑26: WebAssembly security model.
2018‑07‑26: The Shipping Forecast.
2018‑07‑26: The Finkbeiner Test: a tool for writing about women in their professions.
2018‑07‑26: Testing for divisibility by 7.
2018‑07‑26: Is WebAssembly the return of Java applets and Flash?
2018‑07‑26: Notes on secure BGP from IETF 102.
2018‑07‑26: Breaking Bluetooth pairing with an ECC fixed coordinate invalid curve attack.
2018‑07‑26: Compile-time function evaluation and Rust's type system.
2018‑07‑26: What's with sf's fixation on single-gendered planets?
2018‑07‑26: Is it possible to make floating point calculations completely deterministic?
2018‑07‑26: On impl blocks, injection and surjection in Rust.
2018‑07‑25: Big tech warns of Japanese millennium bug ahead of Akihito's abdication. (Also affects Unicode!)
2018‑07‑24: Getting to know Graal, the new Java JIT compiler.
2018‑07‑24: In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics.
2018‑07‑24: How Rust #[test] function attributes work.
2018‑07‑23: Minimal DMARC.
2018‑07‑21: Why mobile phones are safe.
2018‑07‑21: psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO. (Linux WIP)
2018‑07‑21: Frank's compulsive guide to international postal addresses.
2018‑07‑21: Inside the Windows Console.
2018‑07‑21: The wrong abstraction.
2018‑07‑21: Into the Borg: an SSRF vulnerability inside Google's production network.
2018‑07‑21: Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique.
2018‑07‑21: Doing Windows, part 5: version 2 and Excel.
2018‑07‑21: Regex character ranges and locales: a long sad story.
2018‑07‑21: The octonion math that could underpin physics.
2018‑07‑20: Microsoft Windows Server 2019 will include support for leap seconds.
2018‑07‑20: The uncertainty of measuring the DNS.
2018‑07‑20: British broadband speed map.
2018‑07‑19: The Java type system is unsound.
2018‑07‑18: A primer on synchronization and data races, and a bug in Rust Arc atomic reference counts.
2018‑07‑18: Auditing popular Rust crates: how one line of unsafe code nearly ruined everything.
2018‑07‑18: JSON isn't a good configuration language.
2018‑07‑18: Looking at TDD: an academic survey.
2018‑07‑18: Writing asynchronous code for Android using coroutines in Kotlin.
2018‑07‑18: Don't feed the trolls, and other hideous lies.
2018‑07‑18: Getting Disney's Moana island scene to render well with pbrt.
2018‑07‑17: Britain's busses are in crisis, and no-one seems to care.
2018‑07‑17: H2O: an optimized http/2 web server.
2018‑07‑17: Lwan: a lightweight web server scriptable with Lua.
2018‑07‑17: The story of Golang's garbage collector.
2018‑07‑17: Alan Bagley's long and satisfying career in time, frequency, and atomic clocks at Hewlett-Packard.
2018‑07‑17: Formal reasoning about the security of AWS.
2018‑07‑17: The two-time pad: midwife of information theory?
2018‑07‑17: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
2018‑07‑16: LIDL cancels SAP project after spending €500M.
2018‑07‑16: Google Cloud Platform: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
2018‑07‑16: Lean testing: why integration tests are better than unit tests.
2018‑07‑15: How the BBC lost the plot on Brexit.
2018‑07‑15: The new henge of Newgrange: a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
2018‑07‑15: The hotel bathroom puzzle.
2018‑07‑14: Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator.
2018‑07‑14: A history of the inverse-T arrow key layout.
2018‑07‑14: How to port your OS to Amazon EC2.
2018‑07‑13: The Spiral Language: an ML family functional language with intensional polymorphism and first-class staging.
2018‑07‑13: The battle of the schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS.
2018‑07‑13: Crayon the grids: maps of street layouts colored by orientation.
2018‑07‑13: Street orientation of Dutch cities.
2018‑07‑13: Dhall: a programmable configuration language that is not Turing-complete.
2018‑07‑13: How to write a good software design doc.
2018‑07‑13: City street orientations around the world.
2018‑07‑12: British Rail corporate identity 1965-1994.
2018‑07‑12: HeyPhone: open hardware cave rescue communication system, used in the Thai cave rescue.
2018‑07‑11: Cambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propaganda.
2018‑07‑11: Why is there an inc bp in function prologues on 16-bit Windows? Pointer tagging!
2018‑07‑10: The role of personality, authoritarianism, and cognition in Brexit.
2018‑07‑10: Shutting down Bitcanal, a BGP hijack factory.
2018‑07‑10: Speculative buffer overflows: attacks and defenses. (Spectre BCBS)
2018‑07‑10: The CSS paint API.
2018‑07‑10: Cropmarks reveal ancient sites during the drought in Wales.
2018‑07‑09: Inside the paper: Build Systems a la Carte.
2018‑07‑09: Worse is worse.
2018‑07‑09: Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong.
2018‑07‑09: Saving a non-profit six figures a year using Squarespace, Airtable and Glitch.com.
2018‑07‑08: A resource list for domestic abuse victims targeted using Internet of Things devices.
2018‑07‑08: Social and cultural aspects of drinking: drunkenness is learned behaviour.
2018‑07‑08: Against academic meritocracy.
2018‑07‑08: OAuth 2 simplified.
2018‑07‑08: Why Mastercard doesn't use OAuth 2.0.
2018‑07‑08: OAuth for the Open Web.
2018‑07‑08: The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work.
2018‑07‑08: PuzzleScript: an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.
2018‑07‑08: Version control before Git with CVS.
2018‑07‑08: Dark Side of the Mac: APIs for appearance, background materials, and foreground vibrancy.
2018‑07‑08: Why revolutionaries love spicy food: a history of the chilli pepper.
2018‑07‑07: Why and how Java developers break APIs.
2018‑07‑05: In 2018, Tumblr is a joyless black hole.
2018‑07‑05: A review of Gödel, Escher, Bach.
2018‑07‑05: How to design frictionless APIs.
2018‑07‑05: Nginx tuning tips for TLS and https.
2018‑07‑05: Testing memory allocators: ptmalloc2 vs tcmalloc vs hoard vs jemalloc.
2018‑07‑05: Measurements of the impact of open offices on collaboration.
2018‑07‑04: Speaking in code: how to program by voice.
2018‑07‑04: Evaluating the evaluation: a benchmarking checklist.
2018‑07‑04: How we solved GitLab's CHANGELOG conflict crisis.
2018‑07‑04: A proposal for UUID version 6, that naturally sorts in time order.
2018‑07‑04: The git commit-graph file format and other optimizations.
2018‑07‑03: Fake "radical feminist" group is actually a paid political front for anti-LGBT religious right organization.
2018‑07‑03: Article 13 of the EU copyright directove considered harmful.
2018‑07‑02: Amber Case: the argument against blue.
2018‑07‑02: Fictitious route names from a neural network trained on UK Climbing logbooks.
2018‑07‑02: California passes its own GDPR to stymie a data protection ballot initiative.
2018‑07‑02: Sereal: Fast, compact, schema-less, binary serialization and deserialization for Perl and other dynamic languages.
2018‑07‑02: Reclaiming RSS.
2018‑07‑02: Extractive contributors: How open is too open?
2018‑07‑02: Computational Necromancy: MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM on the TI Explorer.
2018‑07‑02: The independent researcher.
2018‑07‑02: A survey of programming language package systems.
2018‑07‑01: Design case history: the Commodore 64.
2018‑07‑01: On C++ random number generator quality.
2018‑07‑01: Bringup is hard: some hints and tips on porting NetBSD to a new hardware platform.
2018‑07‑01: Developers. Our last, best hope for ethics?
2018‑07‑01: How we discovered three poisonous books in our university library.
2018‑07‑01: No, you don't need ML/AI. You need SQL.
2018‑07‑01: TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation: a war story.
2018‑07‑01: aLTEr: breaking LTE on layer two.
2018‑07‑01: Debugging with C-Reduce.
2018‑07‑01: Rust pointers for C programmers.
2018‑07‑01: Why you should not use Google Cloud.
2018‑07‑01: A sea change coming for water cooling in datacenters.
2018‑06‑30: Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe.
2018‑06‑30: American collapse is extraordinary: why it's melting down faster than anyone believed.
2018‑06‑29: Sphericons.
2018‑06‑28: Python 3 at Facebook.
2018‑06‑28: New GPU-accelerated supercomputers change the balance of power on the TOP500.
2018‑06‑28: Turbine-powered optical isolator: a spinning glass ball that rejects light from one direction.
2018‑06‑28: Hannah Gadsby's 'Nanette' is a radical, transformative work of comedy.
2018‑06‑28: How BuzzFeed migrated from a Perl monolith to Golang and Python microservices.
2018‑06‑28: How to get away with financial fraud.
2018‑06‑28: Apple engineers its own downfall with the Macbook Pro keyboard.
2018‑06‑28: Supercharging the Git commit graph.
2018‑06‑27: Algebraic blindness: Boolean blindness for modern type systems.
2018‑06‑27: Safe API design with the ghosts of departed proofs.
2018‑06‑27: Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool.
2018‑06‑27: Making Rust Arc more atomic.
2018‑06‑27: Massacring C Pointers: the worst C programming textbook ever written.
2018‑06‑26: Anti-if: the missing patterns.
2018‑06‑26: Another 10 years of Internet evolution.
2018‑06‑26: Issues and requirements for SNI encryption in TLS.
2018‑06‑26: Oh, what a fragile web we weave: third-party dependencies in modern web services, and their implications.
2018‑06‑26: A prescient warning to Boeing on its 787 trouble.
2018‑06‑26: Out-sourced profits: the cornerstone of successful subcontracting. (Hart-Smith / Boeing)
2018‑06‑26: Java tricks with 'var' and anonymous classes (that you should never use at work).
2018‑06‑26: CheckTLS secure email.
2018‑06‑26: STARTTLS everywhere: how well does your mail server support TLS?
2018‑06‑26: Letting neural networks be weird: The Visual Chatbot.
2018‑06‑25: .gov.?? 2LDs in various European countries.
2018‑06‑25: Parsing with derivatives. (Paper)
2018‑06‑25: Parsing with derivatives. (Slides)
2018‑06‑25: A history of CPAN.
2018‑06‑25: Attacking IoT devices from the Internet with DNS rebinding.
2018‑06‑24: Isaac Asimov asks, "how do people get new ideas?"
2018‑06‑24: Compiler fuzzing with AFL.
2018‑06‑24: Design patterns as higher order datatype-generic programs.
2018‑06‑24: Rebel girls and children's books: well-behaved women make history too.
2018‑06‑23: TWISTED BRAIN: This demo will twist the 6845 CRTC video chip in your BBC Master computer in new and previously untested ways.
2018‑06‑23: Some of my favourite lost buildings of Cambridge.
2018‑06‑23: Hasbro says it owns the Scrabble dictionary. Players beg to differ.
2018‑06‑23: All the perfect pangrams in English.
2018‑06‑23: Break down of a C64 demo effect.
2018‑06‑22: BOLT optimizes placement of instructions in memory to reduce CPU execution time by 2 percent to 15 percent.
2018‑06‑22: The ARM scalable vector extension.
2018‑06‑22: Disambiguating the first computer.
2018‑06‑22: Wavethrough: a web browser security bug.
2018‑06‑21: Zen magnets: 6 years of litigation ends In victory.
2018‑06‑21: edn: extensible data notation, a subset of Clojure.
2018‑06‑21: SDLang: a simple declarative language with an XML-like structure.
2018‑06‑21: Jsonnet: a data templating language.
2018‑06‑21: HOCON: human-optimized config object notation.
2018‑06‑21: JSON5: JSON for humans.
2018‑06‑21: Hjson: a user interface for JSON.
2018‑06‑21: zish: A data serialization format.
2018‑06‑21: YAML: probably not so great after all.
2018‑06‑21: TLS certificates for localhost.
2018‑06‑20: barrier: Open-source KVM software (a fork of Synergy).
2018‑06‑20: PostgreSQL features you may not have tried but should.
2018‑06‑20: A broad overview of how modern Linux systems boot.
2018‑06‑20: From Ruby + ActiveRecord to Rust + Diesel.
2018‑06‑20: The man who saw the dangers of Cambridge Analytica years ago.
2018‑06‑20: Rust MIR-based borrow check (non-lexical lifetimes) status update.
2018‑06‑20: The four most expensive words in the English language: cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network.
2018‑06‑20: Holy Grails and Thameslink Fails: the timetable that went wrong.
2018‑06‑19: Microsoft has ported Windows, Linux, and LLVM to E2, its homegrown processor architecture.
2018‑06‑18: How long would you have before you ran into trouble if you were given a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour?
2018‑06‑18: A performance cheat sheet for PostgreSQL
2018‑06‑18: Patterson's cipher for Jefferson: ahallenge solved after 200 years.
2018‑06‑18: Why Skylake CPUs are sometimes 50% slower at highly threaded code: higher PAUSE latency.
2018‑06‑18: 'Like' is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovative.
2018‑06‑18: A brief history of the Erlang BEAM compiler.
2018‑06‑18: Web Prolog: Erlang-style distributed concurrency in SWI-Prolog.
2018‑06‑18: Fo: an experimental language that adds generics to Golang.
2018‑06‑17: zapcc: a fork of clang that caches C++ template instantiations.
2018‑06‑16: Functional baby talk: analysis of code fragments from novice Haskell programmers.
2018‑06‑16: A new form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table.
2018‑06‑15: Visual methods of comparison, compared.
2018‑06‑15: Unlocking intersection types with `var` in Java 10.
2018‑06‑15: How ScyllaDB uses control theory to keep table compaction under control.
2018‑06‑15: SigSpoof: Spoofing signatures in GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg.
2018‑06‑15: LiteBSD: 4.4BSD for microcontrollers.
2018‑06‑15: RetroBSD: Unix for microcontrollers.
2018‑06‑15: Where do Rust threads come from?
2018‑06‑14: Making key parts of the Ordnance Survey (OS) MasterMap freely available.
2018‑06‑14: A convenient excuse: tech's discrimination problem.
2018‑06‑13: Let's Encrypt adds random entries to the ACME directory to avoid protocol ossification.
2018‑06‑13: The land before binary.
2018‑06‑13: Automatic type coercions with procedural macros in Rust.
2018‑06‑12: Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks.
2018‑06‑12: I fear Google's control of the web.
2018‑06‑12: Between the coats: a sensitivity read changed my life.
2018‑06‑12: DasBetterC: converting make.c to D.
2018‑06‑12: The legend of Old Man Henderson.
2018‑06‑11: Golang refactoring : a 23x performance hunt.
2018‑06‑11: Anders Hejlsberg on modern compiler construction. (YouTube)
2018‑06‑10: slaacd: userland IPv6 interface autoconfiguration in OpenBSD.
2018‑06‑10: Forget reusability, aim for perfection: New lessons from mandoc in OpenBSD.
2018‑06‑10: xoshiro/xoroshiro random number generators and the PRNG shootout.
2018‑06‑10: PCG: a family of better random number generators.
2018‑06‑10: Minimalist C libraries.
2018‑06‑10: pledge() and unveil() in OpenBSD.
2018‑06‑09: San Francisco's project to build an open source paper-ballot voting system.
2018‑06‑09: The power of pi: design patterns for dependently-types programming.
2018‑06‑08: Living APIs, and the case for GraphQL.
2018‑06‑08: A complete history of the Millennium Falcon.
2018‑06‑07: New payments architecture: the next big innovation in UK banking.
2018‑06‑06: Juno solves the 39-year-old mystery of Jupiter's lightning.
2018‑06‑06: 10 things Ryan Dahl regrets about node.js.
2018‑06‑06: Some notes on high speed networking on PCs.
2018‑06‑05: Attacks against machine learning: an overview.
2018‑06‑05: "I'll take real toilet paper over standards any day, because at least that way I won't have splinters and ink up my arse." (Linus on C99 union type punning)
2018‑06‑05: Nightmare.js: A high-level browser automation library based on Electron.
2018‑06‑05: Observations from running 2 million headless browser sessions.
2018‑06‑05: Zip slip: widespread directory traversal vulnerabilities in archive decompressers.
2018‑06‑05: How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018.
2018‑06‑05: The anatomy of change: what we've learned from our gender bias workshop.
2018‑06‑04: Sloc, cloc, and code: what happened on the way to the faster cloc.
2018‑06‑04: What will the post-journal scientific publishing world look like?
2018‑06‑04: Part spider, part scorpion creature found fossilized in amber.
2018‑06‑04: BitHubLab: search three open source hosting platforms simultaneously.
2018‑06‑04: A scope safe universe of syntaxes with binding, their semantics and proofs.
2018‑06‑03: The human scalability of DevOps.
2018‑06‑03: Women used to wear huge pockets like these under their petticoats.
2018‑06‑03: Inside Firefox's DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) engine.
2018‑06‑03: CVE-2018-11235 git RCE write-up.
2018‑06‑03: Quick and dirty PoC for git CVE-2018-11235.
2018‑06‑03: String trepanation.
2018‑06‑03: One year of C.
2018‑06‑03: Cuntroversy: on reclaiming the C-word.
2018‑06‑03: AI4Animation: quadruped animation in Unity3D using biologically-inspired deep learning.
2018‑06‑03: The secrets of a diary written under the floorboards of a French château.
2018‑06‑03: How Ireland beat dark ads in their abortion referendum.
2018‑06‑03: China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other.
2018‑06‑03: Catching up with sf writers at Nebula Con.
2018‑06‑02: A 280-character active transport manifesto, unpacked.
2018‑06‑02: It's 2018, and that means it's DMCA exemptions time again! EFF presents John Scalzi's story in support of the right to repair.
2018‑06‑02: It's 2018, and that means it's DMCA exemptions time again! EFF presents Mur Lafferty's story in support of fair use of video.
2018‑06‑02: It's 2018, and that means it's DMCA exemptions time again! EFF presents Cory Doctorow's story in support of jailbreaking.
2018‑06‑02: Deep learning: a critical appraisal.
2018‑06‑02: The academic / ISO view of the NSA Simon/Speck encryption algorithms.
2018‑06‑01: Avoid under-prepared meetings.
2018‑06‑01: Improving DNS privacy in Firefox with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).
2018‑06‑01: IETF PRECIS and i18n. (successor to stringprep)
2018‑05‑31: C standard undefined behaviour vs Wittgenstein.
2018‑05‑31: When the dike breaks: dissecting DNS defenses during DDoS attacks.
2018‑05‑31: Signed Integers are Two's Complement.
2018‑05‑31: European Data Protection Board backs ban on 'cookie walls'.
2018‑05‑31: Random Slicing: efficient and scalable data placement for large-scale storage systems.
2018‑05‑31: I am a computer: gorgeous gifs of marvellous micros.
2018‑05‑31: Golang gotcha: when nil != nil.
2018‑05‑31: Ireland shows us how to run a referendum.
2018‑05‑30: The diameter of the Rubik's Cube group is 20.
2018‑05‑30: Hashlife: an algorithm for compressing space and time.
2018‑05‑30: GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google.
2018‑05‑30: Typed key pattern: using PhantomData to tie a string key to the type of its associated value.
2018‑05‑30: Brian Eno on genius and "scenius".
2018‑05‑30: The law of "fuck yes!" or "no".
2018‑05‑30: Affine subscripts: strength reduction for array indexing in early Fortran.
2018‑05‑30: A large collection of links on capability theory.
2018‑05‑30: Introduction to the gfortran array descriptor / dope vector.
2018‑05‑30: Why picture frames tilt forward.
2018‑05‑30: Post-Spectre threat model re-think for Google Chrome.
2018‑05‑30: Cautioning health-care professionals: bereaved persons are misguided through the "stages" of grief.
2018‑05‑29: We will never find extraterrestrial life, because we will wipe it all out in a manner that is unintentional, yet horribly unavoidable.
2018‑05‑29: A map of dogs of the world and their countries of origin.
2018‑05‑29: The deceptively complex world of calendar events and RRULEs.
2018‑05‑29: UTC is enough for everyone, right?
2018‑05‑29: From npm to yarn and back again.
2018‑05‑29: Remote code execution vulnerability in git (CVE 2018-11234 and CVE 2018-11235).
2018‑05‑29: A comparison of adaptive radix trees and hash tables.
2018‑05‑29: Revealing Internet latency clusters in Africa.
2018‑05‑29: A new fast hash table.
2018‑05‑29: So your startup received a nightmare GDPR letter...
2018‑05‑29: Effectiveness of anonymization in double-blind peer review.
2018‑05‑29: DNS flag day: stop working around broken EDNS servers after 2019-02-01.
2018‑05‑29: When FFI function calls beat native C.
2018‑05‑28: Cloud computing sticker shock is now a monthly occurrence at many companies.
2018‑05‑28: The birth of a new American aristocracy.
2018‑05‑28: Remember the Vasa! Endangering the future of C++?
2018‑05‑28: Elon Musk is a modern Henry Ford. That's bad.
2018‑05‑28: A map of station pubs.
2018‑05‑28: NetBSD network stack security audit.
2018‑05‑28: Evaluating the cost of atomic operations on modern CPU architectures.
2018‑05‑28: Infographic: operation costs in CPU clock cycles.
2018‑05‑28: What the world's fascination with nüshu, a female-only Chinese script, says about cultural appropriation.
2018‑05‑28: Ditch your scumbag friend: a life hack for men who want to be feminists.
2018‑05‑28: Invisible asymptotes, and strategic planning at Amazon.
2018‑05‑28: Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization, a "horrible mistake" from 1997.
2018‑05‑27: Iterators vs. cursors: a case study in objects vs. values in Java.
2018‑05‑27: Comparing the c ffi overhead on various programming languages.
2018‑05‑27: Zero-overhead tree processing with the visitor pattern.
2018‑05‑26: Versions of Han Solo's blaster already exist, and they're way more powerful than lightsabers would be.
2018‑05‑26: The making of TANK. (YouTube)
2018‑05‑26: TANK, by Stu Maschwitz. (YouTube)
2018‑05‑26: Tube heartbeat.
2018‑05‑26: The DisplayPort pin 20 problem.
2018‑05‑26: Scientists are more efficient at producing high-quality research when they have more academic freedom.
2018‑05‑26: Why media companies fear, and photographers love, this voracious copyright lawyer.
2018‑05‑26: SmoothLife: Game of Life on a continuous domain in Python with Numpy.
2018‑05‑25: Can we please talk about privacy, not GDPR, now?
2018‑05‑25: prettier-emacs: Minor mode to format JS code when you save.
2018‑05‑25: Prettier: an opinionated code formatter for JavaScript etc.
2018‑05‑25: Black: an uncompromising Python code formatter.
2018‑05‑25: Chasing missing SIGINT signals down the SSH rabbit hole.
2018‑05‑24: A simple mental health pain scale.
2018‑05‑23: Bill Gates: A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it.
2018‑05‑23: Don't use Hadoop: your data isn't that big.
2018‑05‑23: Today Mac OS X is as old as Classic Mac OS was.
2018‑05‑23: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org, to be replaced by metacpan.org.
2018‑05‑23: Deconstructing Kitty.
2018‑05‑22: The EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster.
2018‑05‑22: Hidden sheep in the original Macintosh bitmap fonts.
2018‑05‑22: snpm: a proof of concept to ensure consistency between NPM packages and their source code.
2018‑05‑22: Simple compile-time prevention of SQL injection in Rust.
2018‑05‑22: Finding a Google App Engine RCE bug.
2018‑05‑22: Playing battleships over BGP.
2018‑05‑22: Various ways to disable stdio buffering from the command line.
2018‑05‑22: Happy 21st Century!
2018‑05‑20: Lafable: large agile framework appropriate for big lumbering enterprises.
2018‑05‑20: Twitter for Academics 101.
2018‑05‑20: What do we mean when we say "show the thing"?
2018‑05‑20: A guide to agile communication.
2018‑05‑20: Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip: digital logic implemented with I2L.
2018‑05‑20: Datalog and emerging applications: a tutorial.
2018‑05‑20: Datafrog: a relatively simple Datalog engine used for Rust's borrow checker.
2018‑05‑19: Hippos crap so much that sometimes all the fish die.
2018‑05‑19: Five whys and the cult of the root cause.
2018‑05‑19: Was early modern writing paper expensive?
2018‑05‑19: OPAQUE: an asymmetric PAKE protocol secure against pre-computation attacks.
2018‑05‑19: GDPR hysteria: don't panic.
2018‑05‑19: Seven steps to solve any dynamic programming interview problem.
2018‑05‑19: NumWorks open hardware calculator teaches us about quality documentation.
2018‑05‑19: Sweden cancels Elsevier contract as open-access dispute spreads.
2018‑05‑19: Performance impact of removing Ruby out-of-band garbage collection at GitHub.
2018‑05‑19: Introducing Git protocol version 2.
2018‑05‑18: Towards built-in sharding for PostgreSQL.
2018‑05‑17: Was the Efail disclosure horribly screwed up?
2018‑05‑17: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of our devices by 68GW per month.
2018‑05‑17: Painting by numbers: visualizing IP addressing plans.
2018‑05‑17: Unique IPv6 prefix per host.
2018‑05‑17: "We don't need IPv6".
2018‑05‑17: IPv6 excuse bingo.
2018‑05‑16: isomorphic-git: a JavaScript implementation of git for node.js and web browsers.
2018‑05‑16: The spectacular power of Big Lens.
2018‑05‑16: Lightweight CML-style concurrency in Lua for Snabb.
2018‑05‑16: Fragmented IPv6 router advertisement handling on different operating systems.
2018‑05‑16: Towards IPv6 only: A large scale RFC 7596 lw4o6 deployment for broadband users.
2018‑05‑16: Lightweight 4over6: one step further for dual-stack lite networks.
2018‑05‑16: Is large-scale DNS over TCP practical?
2018‑05‑16: nom 4.0: faster, safer, simpler parsers in Rust.
2018‑05‑16: Has wine gone bad?
2018‑05‑15: Filling in PDF forms from the Linux command line.
2018‑05‑15: John Regehr's software engineering course.
2018‑05‑15: A job building software to kill people, but don't get distracted by that.
2018‑05‑15: The collateral damage of Internet censorship by DNS injection.
2018‑05‑15: Humans killed off the megafauna.
2018‑05‑15: How copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston's new book from the public.
2018‑05‑15: apgdiff: another PostgreSQL diff tool.
2018‑05‑15: pgquarrel: compare PostgreSQL database schemas, and emit SQL DDL representing the diff.
2018‑05‑15: EveryRFC: an RFC search engine.
2018‑05‑15: Drawables, reparenting, compositing, etc. in X11.
2018‑05‑14: Joan Taylor's tilings.
2018‑05‑14: The Taylor-Socolar aperiodic tile.
2018‑05‑14: Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?
2018‑05‑14: Why "Agile" and especially Scrum are terrible.
2018‑05‑14: How a Rust upgrade more than tripled the speed of some multiprecision arithmetic.
2018‑05‑14: Measuring DNS ATR, additional truncated responses.
2018‑05‑14: Who invented the computer? The debate from the viewpoint of computer architecture.
2018‑05‑13: Performance experiments with matrix multiplication in Rust.
2018‑05‑13: GDPR will pop the adtech bubble.
2018‑05‑13: Visualizing Thameslink-related changes to rail services.
2018‑05‑13: The libtom projects: cryptography and multiprecision arithmetic.
2018‑05‑12: Microsoft Windows command line reference manual.
2018‑05‑12: Git submodules revisited.
2018‑05‑12: Clang++ `[[trivial_abi]]` 101.
2018‑05‑12: The PostgreSQL "shared_buffers smile" performance trough.
2018‑05‑12: Tesla's giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%.
2018‑05‑11: Pyre: fast static type checking for Python.
2018‑05‑11: First, let's fire all the managers.
2018‑05‑11: Tech's two philosophies.
2018‑05‑11: Mermaid: a Markdown-like language for generating charts from text with Javascript.
2018‑05‑11: Generating SQL syntax railroad diagrams using Tcl/Tk.
2018‑05‑10: Working LEGO pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks features Benny in all his Classic Space glory.
2018‑05‑10: The importance of time synchronization in the FOAM proof-of-location protocol.
2018‑05‑10: Scientists stuffed a crocodile Into an MRI machine to see if it likes Bach.
2018‑05‑09: Modern garbage collection vs golang's GC strategy.
2018‑05‑08: The Honeyman idiom: `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn`.
2018‑05‑08: Choosing fonts for complex data.
2018‑05‑08: As easy as 1,2,3: how the Indian decimal place system came to Europe.
2018‑05‑07: Concorde 'B'.
2018‑05‑07: Are you in a bullshit job? In academia, you're hardly alone.
2018‑05‑07: American energy use, in one diagram.
2018‑05‑07: Thermal paper Polaroid camera.
2018‑05‑07: Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex.
2018‑05‑06: SUE the T. Rex is a nonbinary icon.
2018‑05‑06: Lessons learned from the .SE DNSSEC algorithm rollover.
2018‑05‑06: The quadratic equation and low-precision arithmetic.
2018‑05‑06: Grass: an esoteric programming language based on A-normalized, lambda lifted, De Bruijn indexed, untyped lambda calculus.
2018‑05‑06: Denotational design: API refinement by following a denotation.
2018‑05‑06: Oracle Access Manager's identity crisis. (Padding oracle attack!)
2018‑05‑05: Troubled times for alternatives to Einstein's theory of gravity.
2018‑05‑05: The epic mistake about manufacturing that's cost Americans millions of jobs.
2018‑05‑05: Establishing identity without certification authorities. (1996)
2018‑05‑05: How to be a systems thinker.
2018‑05‑05: Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
2018‑05‑05: 6 things I've learned in my first 6 months using serverless.
2018‑05‑04: Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes.
2018‑05‑04: Open sourcing BBC R&D's Mellanox kernel bypass work.
2018‑05‑03: Yubikey/Smartcard backed TLS servers.
2018‑05‑03: 7-Zip: from uninitialized memory to remote code execution.
2018‑05‑03: Where does the money go when you buy a domain name?
2018‑05‑03: Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 709,000 years ago?
2018‑05‑02: PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise.
2018‑05‑02: Rust in production.
2018‑05‑02: Surveying the new optical form factors for 400 gigabit Ethernet.
2018‑05‑02: Python startup is too slow.
2018‑05‑02: WS-* web services standards overview.
2018‑05‑02: Morse code in the music.
2018‑05‑02: Efficient float32 arithmetic in JavaScript on Firefox.
2018‑05‑02: When the C compiler bites.
2018‑05‑02: Into the depths of C: elaborating the de facto standards.
2018‑05‑02: A Bayesian statistical solution to discrepancies in the Hubble constant.
2018‑05‑02: Linux /dev/random flaws.
2018‑05‑02: 7 inexcusable yet common UX gaffes that make you look like a total amateur.
2018‑05‑01: C is not a low-level language.
2018‑05‑01: KRust: a formal executable semantics of Rust.
2018‑04‑30: A history of what we do in the dark.
2018‑04‑30: The Scylla DB I/O scheduler: better latencies under any circumstance.
2018‑04‑30: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018.
2018‑04‑28: How to refactor a monolithic codebase.
2018‑04‑28: Scaling a high-traffic rate limiting service with Redis Cluster.
2018‑04‑26: Titus: the Netflix container management platform.
2018‑04‑26: On incomplete HTTP reads and the requests library in Python.
2018‑04‑25: Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful.
2018‑04‑25: One giant leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 released.
2018‑04‑25: Magna charta universitatum: the Bologna declaration.
2018‑04‑25: GLib/GIO async operations and Rust futures + async/await.
2018‑04‑24: Delta pointers: buffer overflow checks without the checks.
2018‑04‑24: What you get is what you C: Controlling side effects in mainstream C compilers.
2018‑04‑24: Statically typed PostgreSQL queries and TypeScript schemats.
2018‑04‑24: Web security for single page applications: great impact with little effort.
2018‑04‑23: Union types in Facebook's Flow and Reason programming languages.
2018‑04‑23: Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it.
2018‑04‑23: On user interface development: appending to the event log. (React/Redux)
2018‑04‑23: Ask me first: What self-assessments can tell us about autism.
2018‑04‑23: A look at JWT vulnerabilities and mitigations.
2018‑04‑22: Why is the Linux kernel replacing iptables with BPF?
2018‑04‑22: Error handling advice for node.js programmers.
2018‑04‑21: Untangling Khan Academy's Python code.
2018‑04‑20: Statically typed data validation with JSON Schema and TypeScript.
2018‑04‑19: io-ts: both static and dynamic type checking for JSON API data in TypeScript.
2018‑04‑19: The quest for the next billion-dollar colour.
2018‑04‑19: A lesson in wifi antenna engineering from the Raspberry Pi.
2018‑04‑19: Important flatland research: day and night on the Dymaxion map.
2018‑04‑19: What's the length of shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet?
2018‑04‑18: San Francisco's big seismic gamble.
2018‑04‑18: Mitigating data movement bottlenecks by processing in memory, for a 50% performance boost.
2018‑04‑17: The C++ committee has taken off its backwards-compatibility ball and chain.
2018‑04‑17: For mathematicians, = does not mean equality.
2018‑04‑17: Parsing: a timeline.
2018‑04‑17: Roman numerals: A familiar set with an unexpected order type.
2018‑04‑17: D3.js in depth.
2018‑04‑16: The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font.
2018‑04‑16: DNS timeline.
2018‑04‑16: Zuckerberg can't blame Cambridge University for Facebook's privacy violations.
2018‑04‑16: Jupyter, Mathematica, and the future of the research paper.
2018‑04‑16: Programming languages and empiricism.
2018‑04‑16: How could we tell if there was a civilization on Earth before Humans?
2018‑04‑13: tdns: a teaching authoritative DNS server, written from scratch in 1100 lines of code.
2018‑04‑13: An introduction to PostgreSQL materialized views.
2018‑04‑13: Post-quantum confidentiality for TLS.
2018‑04‑13: A taxonomy of technical debt.
2018‑04‑12: lua-protobuf: Lua support for Google's protocol buffers.
2018‑04‑12: protobuf-lua: Lua protobuf library and proton output plugin.
2018‑04‑12: lua-protobuf: A Lua module to work with Google protobuf.
2018‑04‑11: protozero: minimalist protobuf decoder and encoder in C++.
2018‑04‑11: prototool: a Swiss army knife for protobufs.
2018‑04‑11: Do you have too many microservices? Five design attributes that can help.
2018‑04‑10: Sequoia: OpenPGP implemented in Rust.
2018‑04‑10: Construction begins on new "lowboom" quiet supersonic NASA X-Plane.
2018‑04‑09: fadvise(DONTNEED): another reason why your Docker containers may be slow
2018‑04‑09: Next generation video codec: introducing AV1.
2018‑04‑09: Consistent hashing: algorithmic tradeoffs:
2018‑04‑09: Preliminary analysis of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) survey.
2018‑04‑08: Hash-based signatures: an illustrated primer.
2018‑04‑08: TDOP / Pratt parser in pictures.
2018‑04‑08: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware.
2018‑04‑08: A list of command line tools for manipulating structured text: json, xml, yaml, ini, etc.
2018‑04‑07: Looking back at ten years of availability zone compartmentalization at AWS.
2018‑04‑07: AlterEgo: a personalized wearable silent speech interface.
2018‑04‑07: The role of cellular networks in the Internet.
2018‑04‑06: PubGrub: a version solving algorithm for Dart's package manager.
2018‑04‑06: How did we end up with containers?
2018‑04‑06: The secret life of NaN: an intro to a boxed value hack for dynamic languages.
2018‑04‑06: The scientific paper is obsolete. Jupyter is what's next.
2018‑04‑06: Several cool features in git 2.17.
2018‑04‑04: Fifty or sixty years of processor development and the end of performance scaling.
2018‑04‑04: DNSSD roadmap: an overview of DNS-based service discovery.
2018‑04‑04: Intersecting polygons: A geometric Rust adventure.
2018‑04‑03: Reliable setproctitle() for Linux containers.
2018‑04‑03: "I'm a female chef. Here's how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers."
2018‑04‑03: "If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man." Here's how the paper is trying to change that.
2018‑04‑03: The end-to-end back-pressure mechanism inside Wallaroo and Ponylang.
2018‑04‑03: A Linux kernel memory model!
2018‑04‑03: Swedes turn against cashlessness: a fully digital system is vulnerable to fraud and attack.
2018‑04‑03: It is weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg's trash.
2018‑04‑03: MesaLink: a memory-safe and OpenSSL-compatible TLS library.
2018‑04‑03: On the hunt for the lost wonders of medieval Britain.
2018‑04‑03: How 'Oumuamua got shredded.
2018‑04‑02: Techniques of Twitter trolls that support the Kremlin: "dismiss, distort, distract, dismay."
2018‑04‑01: tinydoh: minimal Golang DNS-over-HTTPS server.
2018‑04‑01: You can't Rust that.
2018‑04‑01: The joy of max(): Linux C macro hackery.
2018‑03‑31: Seventy maxims of maximally effective mercenaries.
2018‑03‑31: Antisemitism matters: Jews are the canary in the coalmine.
2018‑03‑31: A walk round the Festival of Britain.
2018‑03‑31: DNS RFC dependency graph.
2018‑03‑30: De-Google-ify the Internet.
2018‑03‑30: How not to make claims about genetic differences between races.
2018‑03‑30: Amethyst: a tiling window manager for Mac OS X.
2018‑03‑30: IETF 101 highlights.
2018‑03‑30: Ferrofluid 'font' produces trippy, one-of-a-kind art.
2018‑03‑30: The evolution of 15,596 documented unix facilities.
2018‑03‑30: Cassina: the forgotten drink that caffeinated North America for centuries.
2018‑03‑29: CHIVES: an old DNS server.
2018‑03‑29: Jeeves: the first DNS server.
2018‑03‑29: Golang proposal: non-cooperative goroutine preemption.
2018‑03‑29: Hello, and welcome to DNS!
2018‑03‑29: Junk traffic to 1.0.0.0/8.
2018‑03‑29: Dragonfly: an optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lenses.
2018‑03‑29: Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter.
2018‑03‑29: Detecting integer constant expressions in C macros.
2018‑03‑29: Securing the Kubernetes dashboard.
2018‑03‑29: How I erased 5000+ Facebook comments and likes.
2018‑03‑28: Total Meltdown? Windows "fix" opens read/write access to all memory.
2018‑03‑28: Crowdfunding the Mitogen Ansible accelerator: day 23.
2018‑03‑28: Making IXFR small again.
2018‑03‑28: Finding alternative music scales.
2018‑03‑28: Just one QUIC bit.
2018‑03‑27: Security keys, web authentication, U2F, and CTAP.
2018‑03‑27: "It all made sense when we found out we were autistic".
2018‑03‑27: Ditching a bunch of stuff and moving to Emacs and org-mode.
2018‑03‑27: How to disable all of Windows 10's built-in advertising.
2018‑03‑26: Job's BGP camel RFC metrics viewer.
2018‑03‑26: The Isle of Wight's railway is having trouble replacing its ex-tube rolling stock.
2018‑03‑26: Mapping OpenSSL cipher suite names to RFC names.
2018‑03‑26: Tracing stolen bitcoin, using a precedent from 1816.
2018‑03‑26: We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack.
2018‑03‑26: Privacy International's history with web site security and what they do now.
2018‑03‑26: Numbers and strings in JSON and Perl.
2018‑03‑25: What men need to know (and women need to tell them) about working together.
2018‑03‑25: Queen Mary's dollhouse and the lost Vita Sackville-West children's story that may have inspired Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando'.
2018‑03‑25: The rebel bank, printing its own notes and buying back people's debts.
2018‑03‑25: You could have invented monads! (And maybe you already have.)
2018‑03‑25: Fredkin's Paradox.
2018‑03‑25: Non-Google searchable Usenet archives.
2018‑03‑25: A quick guide to federated social networks.
2018‑03‑24: Bert's DNS camel RFC metrics viewer.
2018‑03‑24: Recounting the rationals: twice!
2018‑03‑24: Managing db schema changes without downtime in Rails.
2018‑03‑24: New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children.
2018‑03‑24: Latrines: how Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea.
2018‑03‑24: Chernoff faces: how do we kill bad ideas in visualization?
2018‑03‑24: Facebook's surveillance machine.
2018‑03‑24: How genetics is changing our understanding of race.
2018‑03‑24: How the chili spread from its South American home and spiced up world cuisine.
2018‑03‑24: A cheap, brief "growth mindset" intervention shifted struggling students onto a more successful trajectory.
2018‑03‑24: The myth of the male bumbler.
2018‑03‑24: Lara Croft lives dangerously in this amazing animated Tomb Raider LEGO diorama! (video)
2018‑03‑24: How to find things to work on? Look for the duct tape.
2018‑03‑23: Shkreli vs. Holmes: two frauds, two divergent outcomes. Were they fair?
2018‑03‑23: What roots do DNS resolvers use? // Top NXDOMAINs to the IANA root.
2018‑03‑23: A wild IPv6 attack appears! Open DNS resolvers on IPv6.
2018‑03‑23: Recommendations for engineering authoritative DNS servers.
2018‑03‑23: Whither deprecating TCP-MD5?
2018‑03‑23: Developing DNS-over-HTTPS clients and servers at the IETF101 hackathon.
2018‑03‑23: A "tamper-proof" cryptocurrency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old.
2018‑03‑23: AssembleAR: a mock-up Ikea manual of the future looks amazing.
2018‑03‑23: The machine learning reproducibility crisis.
2018‑03‑22: The DNS camel: the relentless rise in protocol complexity.
2018‑03‑22: How to write seemingly unhygienic and referentially opaque Scheme macros with syntax-rules.
2018‑03‑22: Arbitrarily reorderable items in PostgreSQL.
2018‑03‑22: Fractions in The Farey Sequences and the Stern-Brocot Tree.
2018‑03‑22: Peer review: the end of an error?
2018‑03‑22: How hard is it to get a cartoon Into the New Yorker?
2018‑03‑22: How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze.
2018‑03‑21: Project Nimble: faster AWS region evacuation.
2018‑03‑21: Ten reasons why not to like Golang.
2018‑03‑21: Network Architecture Tester: a gift for outgoing IAB members based on a Raspberry Pi running open source software.
2018‑03‑21: ISC Kea and NETCONF in 2018: towards automated configurability.
2018‑03‑21: A guide to writing a DNS server from scratch in Rust (complete with classic name decompression DOS vulnerability).
2018‑03‑21: Type-directed metaprogramming in Rust.
2018‑03‑21: Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain.
2018‑03‑21: Pre-publication peer review subtracts value.
2018‑03‑20: Mediaeval helpdesk.
2018‑03‑20: Breaking a wine glass in Python by detecting the resonant frequency.
2018‑03‑20: Exercises in Programming Style.
2018‑03‑20: ABA: always be automating, because manual work is a bug.
2018‑03‑19: Real world DNSSEC+DANE for secure inter-domain mail transport.
2018‑03‑19: Level 3 technician's misstep causes largest telephone outage ever reported.
2018‑03‑18: The Northern Lights as seen from a U-2 at 70,000 feet.
2018‑03‑18: Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia.
2018‑03‑18: Why inheritance never made any sense.
2018‑03‑16: WebKit's protection against HSTS supercookie abuse.
2018‑03‑16: I watched all 629 episodes of The Simpsons in a month. Here's what I learned.
2018‑03‑16: Usability improvements in GCC 8.
2018‑03‑16: How PostgreSQL just might replace your Oracle database.
2018‑03‑15: The surprising creativity of digital evolution: anecdotes from evolutionary computation and artificial life research.
2018‑03‑15: Kickstarting free software: getting financial support for the Mitogen Ansible accelerator.
2018‑03‑15: Ephemeris time vs universal time: two kinds of time, two kinds of time scale. (1954)
2018‑03‑15: Physicists still don't know what puts the curl in curling.
2018‑03‑15: Intel's Spectre and Meltdown mitigation plans.
2018‑03‑15: Evaluation and consideration of multiple answers in one DNS response.
2018‑03‑15: The German Society of Auto-Correction.
2018‑03‑15: All tease, no tale: Hollywood's misplaced lady lands.
2018‑03‑15: A look at a comic that touched on everything that makes Batman great.
2018‑03‑15: Poetic License: 3-clause BSD in rhyme.
2018‑03‑15: Why is OOF an OOF and not an OOO?
2018‑03‑15: Decoding the Signals in the Prime Minister's speech on the Russian poisoning of Sergei Skripal.
2018‑03‑15: Canopy: Facebook's end-to-end performance tracing and analysis system.
2018‑03‑14: All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years.
2018‑03‑14: What PostgreSQL full-text search has to do with VACUUM.
2018‑03‑14: Why the UCU strike matters.
2018‑03‑14: The 'Badass Army' is training revenge porn victims to fight back.
2018‑03‑14: The chemicals used to make bacon do cause cancer. So how did the meat industry convince us it was safe?
2018‑03‑13: Scaling up with Google Kubernetes Engine: a review after 6 months in production.
2018‑03‑13: Building Windows: 4 million commits, 10 million work items.
2018‑03‑13: What's left to do after your open source project is done.
2018‑03‑13: Siccar Point: the cliff that changed our understanding of time.
2018‑03‑13: A recreation of late 13th - 14th c. unhopped English ales.
2018‑03‑13: Attacking Merkle trees with a second preimage attack.
2018‑03‑13: How we built our PostgreSQL cluster in a box using Patroni.
2018‑03‑12: How a book warehouse is changing Columbia's library system.
2018‑03‑12: Migrating from MariaDB Galera to PostgreSQL and Patroni.
2018‑03‑12: The magic (and maths) of skating on thin ice without falling in.
2018‑03‑12: API versioning and evolution with proxies.
2018‑03‑12: OMG-WTF-8: optimized matching generalized wobbly transformation format (8-bit).
2018‑03‑12: Why museum professionals need to talk about Black Panther.
2018‑03‑12: Transgender men see sexism from both sides.
2018‑03‑12: Virtual private networks with WireGuard.
2018‑03‑12: Enduring file references in macOS.
2018‑03‑12: The KK Computer: a radical 6502 extension.
2018‑03‑12: Slack's bait-and-switch.
2018‑03‑12: Rogue GPL enforcement: Linux beats legal threat from one of its own developers.
2018‑03‑12: Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition.
2018‑03‑11: Secure access to 100 AWS accounts.
2018‑03‑11: Avoid nonreferential this.
2018‑03‑11: Rainbow deploys with Kubernetes.
2018‑03‑11: How to change the course of human history (at least, the part that's already happened).
2018‑03‑11: Secret management design decisions: theory plus an AWS example.
2018‑03‑11: A huge WhatsApp leak reveals the full fury of the Tories' Brexit split.
2018‑03‑11: The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease.
2018‑03‑11: Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
2018‑03‑11: The three mistakes of centrism.
2018‑03‑11: How Wikipedia chose the image for the 'Human' entry.
2018‑03‑11: Literate DevOps with Emacs org-mode.
2018‑03‑11: Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird uses a very weak KDF.
2018‑03‑11: Will the quantum nature of gravity finally be measured?
2018‑03‑10: This CPU instruction set architecture tastes like microarchitecture.
2018‑03‑10: Analyzing and mitigating privacy with the DNS root service.
2018‑03‑10: How well does DNS ATR (additional truncated responses) work around dropped UDP fragments?
2018‑03‑10: Is vitamin D really a cure-all? And how should we get our fix?
2018‑03‑10: Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression.
2018‑03‑10: Tell me everything about that guy who died on your show.
2018‑03‑10: Britain's Serious Fraud Office is getting too good at its job.
2018‑03‑09: The quantum thermodynamics revolution.
2018‑03‑09: Are the IETF unreasonable cryptography zealots?
2018‑03‑09: UK faces €2 billion EU tab for China customs fraud.
2018‑03‑09: Tex-Mex is the most important, least understood regional cuisine in America.
2018‑03‑09: Year-round daylight saving time? Florida says yes, but It's not so simple.
2018‑03‑08: The curious case of the crippling DS record.
2018‑03‑08: Measuring efficiency of DNSSEC negative answer synthesis (RFC 8198).
2018‑03‑08: DNSSEC for a large enterprise.
2018‑03‑08: Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB.
2018‑03‑08: The Rubik's contraption solves a cube in 0.38 seconds.
2018‑03‑08: Elementary knightship found in Conway's Life: a travelling pattern with a new slope.
2018‑03‑08: The uniquely versatile stinkbug is decimating crops and infiltrating houses all across the USA.
2018‑03‑08: 3D lightning calculated from two simultaneous photographs.
2018‑03‑08: Accidentally two photographs of the same scene taken at the same millisecond.
2018‑03‑08: The left hand of equals: object oriented equality in the Grace programming language.
2018‑03‑07: Let's Encrypt: securing the automation of ACME DNS challenge validation.
2018‑03‑07: Much ado about latency: Mitogen and the BFG9000 of import hooks.
2018‑03‑07: Quadrupling Ansible performance with Mitogen.
2018‑03‑07: Why Rust has macros.
2018‑03‑07: Supermassive black holes or their galaxies: which came first?
2018‑03‑07: Prototype to production: Building your first PCB prototype.
2018‑03‑07: bsdnt: a BSD licensed bignum library.
2018‑03‑07: BFG repo-cleaner: a faster `git filter-branch`, written in Scala.
2018‑03‑07: The male glance: how we approach male vs. female work is ruining our ability to see good art.
2018‑03‑07: How self-aware are people, really, according to science?
2018‑03‑07: Dayton Miller's experiment to "prove" the theory of relativity incorrect.
2018‑03‑07: Tiangong-1 reentry updates / latest predictions.
2018‑03‑07: Tiangong-1 destructive re-entry frequently asked questions.
2018‑03‑07: A malicious vehicle can block "smart" intersections in the USA.
2018‑03‑07: Ten zombie statistics.
2018‑03‑07: I'm a Sinn Féin MP. This is why I won't go to Westminster, even over Brexit.
2018‑03‑07: Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity.
2018‑03‑07: Exploiting Exim CVE-2018-6789: one byte buffer overflow leads to remote code execution.
2018‑03‑07: Exploiting hash collisions, by Ange Albertini.
2018‑03‑06: libbf: Fabrice Bellard's big float library.
2018‑03‑06: The default TV settings aren't necessarily the best.
2018‑03‑06: The evolution of distributed systems management.
2018‑03‑06: How generics were added to .NET and C#.
2018‑03‑06: The mystery of the slow downloads.
2018‑03‑06: Why the investor class hates pensions.
2018‑03‑06: ebtree: elastic binary trees. (Like embedded crit-bit trees.)
2018‑03‑06: Progressive locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks.
2018‑03‑06: The great lightbulb conspiracy.
2018‑03‑06: World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster for very low orbit satellites.
2018‑03‑06: zheap: a new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat.
2018‑03‑06: git-sizer: is your Git repository bursting at the seams?
2018‑03‑05: A RocksDB backend for Apache Cassandra, with a 10x reduction in tail latency.
2018‑03‑05: Rendering in camera space(ish), to avoid floating point precision problems.
2018‑03‑05: The result of placing a camera lens 300 feet from a rocket launch.
2018‑03‑05: Understanding and overcoming coder's block.
2018‑03‑05: Practical tips for cheating at design: improving your designs with tactics instead of talent.
2018‑03‑05: Representing impractical and impossible types with Java 10 "var".
2018‑03‑05: Spooky action at a distance: how an AWS outage broke a service that's not hosted in AWS.
2018‑03‑04: How will "Enterprise Blockchain" change the way future enterprise applications are architected?
2018‑03‑04: Italy's present is the future of politics.
2018‑03‑04: Constructing human-grade parsers.
2018‑03‑04: March is endometriosis awareness month.
2018‑03‑04: Exploring the Chomsky hierarchy, the linguistics behind regular expressions.
2018‑03‑04: Updated PostgreSQL Meltdown benchmarks.
2018‑03‑04: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot: how to clean up a skeleton.
2018‑03‑04: Scotland's floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be.
2018‑03‑04: How not to be a crank: ten rules for not being a science-dick.
2018‑03‑04: SlimerJS: a replacement for PhantomJS using recent Firefox.
2018‑03‑04: The world of Linux handhelds in 2018.
2018‑03‑03: The first unified calendar and the invention of world history.
2018‑03‑03: GDPR: a practical guide for developers.
2018‑03‑03: Postmortem: performance issues and failures in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services.
2018‑03‑03: Experience designing and building gRPC services.
2018‑03‑03: 50 shades of Go: traps, gotchas, and common mistakes for new Golang devs.
2018‑03‑03: Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative.
2018‑03‑03: Sortix: a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation.
2018‑03‑03: Joy veh! What makes Jewish comedy Jewish?
2018‑03‑03: khwasan: kernel hardware assisted address sanitizer for arm64.
2018‑03‑03: 10 years ago, the Internet gave us "mansplain". A woman explains why it still matters.
2018‑03‑02: Firefox configuration guide for privacy freaks and performance buffs.
2018‑03‑02: Mac OS versus FreeBSD: a comparative evaluation.
2018‑03‑02: Billions of birds migrate. Where do they go?
2018‑03‑02: What happens to us does not happen to most of you.
2018‑03‑02: What to expect when you decide to migrate from Javascript to Typescript.
2018‑03‑01: Nominet's proposed GDPR whois policy.
2018‑03‑01: Clay codes: moulding MDS codes to yield an MSR code; optimal erasure coding for Ceph.
2018‑03‑01: Review: Coding Freedom by E. Gabriella Coleman.
2018‑03‑01: gitleaks: search full repo history for secrets and keys.
2018‑02‑28: Peace for Triple Piano.
2018‑02‑28: SIDN says DNSSEC validation errors can be eliminated.
2018‑02‑28: Do TLS X.509 certificate warranties protect you? As much as rocks keep tigers away...
2018‑02‑28: Rust status on Debian on various CPU architectures.
2018‑02‑28: Typestates in Rust.
2018‑02‑28: Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here's what our telescopes actually capture.
2018‑02‑28: On the nature of wine.
2018‑02‑27: SAML vulnerabilities affecting multiple implementations, due to inconsistent XML canonicalization.
2018‑02‑27: Beautiful folds in Haskell.
2018‑02‑27: Carte complète du SNCF réseau ferré français en 2017.
2018‑02‑27: Typescript : class vs interface.
2018‑02‑27: Why enterprise agile teams fail.
2018‑02‑27: The unavailable Linux server: when TLS certificate validation fails.
2018‑02‑27: O API: an alternative to REST.
2018‑02‑27: Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet.
2018‑02‑27: PostgreSQL internals: avoid error context stack corruption.
2018‑02‑27: Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple.
2018‑02‑27: The lost art of bending over: how other cultures spare their spines.
2018‑02‑27: The struggles of women who mask their autism.
2018‑02‑27: Peak DNSSEC?
2018‑02‑26: Life as a woman with colour blindness, and Enchroma glasses.
2018‑02‑26: Golang laws of reflection.
2018‑02‑26: Golang 2017 survey results.
2018‑02‑26: Safely load untrusted YAML in Perl.
2018‑02‑26: New features for sequences in PostgreSQL 10.
2018‑02‑26: The Hypothesis continuous release process.
2018‑02‑26: Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows kernel bug.
2018‑02‑26: Scientists aim to pull peer review out of the 17th century.
2018‑02‑25: CTTK: constant-time toolkit.
2018‑02‑25: How Black Panther asks us to examine who we are to one another.
2018‑02‑25: 'Black Panther': choose your weapons.
2018‑02‑25: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know.
2018‑02‑25: A long two months working on Spectre/Meltdown mitigations in Illumos.
2018‑02‑25: Google AMP's speed comes from preloading, and other controversies.
2018‑02‑24: Backlogs! Backlogs everywhere: how Wikipedia deals with spam and bad actors.
2018‑02‑23: The US experience with the phasedown of lead in gasoline.
2018‑02‑23: 10,000 year Clock of the Long Now gets lowered into Texas mountain.
2018‑02‑23: Words for "yes" in Romance languages.
2018‑02‑23: Pwned Passwords V2: half a billion passwords for download, and a k-anonymity query service.
2018‑02‑23: Mysterious origin of domesticated horses 'turned upside down' by DNA analysis.
2018‑02‑23: A python development environment for 2018.
2018‑02‑23: The quest for the missing DNSSEC keytags.
2018‑02‑23: Escaping hell with monads.
2018‑02‑21: When whisper networks let us down: how communities struggle — and sometimes fail — to stop sexual assault.
2018‑02‑21: fugit: *really* lightweight git access control.
2018‑02‑21: Three ways to open up closed code.
2018‑02‑21: Black Panther: the tale of two different viewing experiences.
2018‑02‑21: Prestigious science journals struggle to reach even average reliability.
2018‑02‑21: vgo: golang += package versioning.
2018‑02‑21: Package management for Golang: thoughts on vgo and dep.
2018‑02‑21: Ruby's new JIT.
2018‑02‑21: Adventures with memory barriers and Seastar on Linux.
2018‑02‑20: Two x86 instruction sequences usually resynchronize after a few instructions because of the Kruskal Count.
2018‑02‑20: Kruskal Count and Kangaroo Method.
2018‑02‑20: Superset disassembly: statically rewriting x86 binaries without heuristics.
2018‑02‑20: The dark money driving the Scottish Tory surge.
2018‑02‑20: Lärmkarte Berlin: so laut ist es vor Ihrer Haustür.
2018‑02‑20: The wall is the wall: why fortresses fail.
2018‑02‑20: Python async simplified.
2018‑02‑19: Risks of TLS/1.3 0RTT data.
2018‑02‑19: Fabric linear motor.
2018‑02‑19: Existential crisis: heterogeneous collections in Haskell.
2018‑02‑19: ZGC: a low-latency garbage collector for Java / HotSpot / Linux / amd64.
2018‑02‑19: Norris numbers: walls programmers hit as programs scale up.
2018‑02‑19: DeepState augments C/C++ test-driven development with symbolic execution.
2018‑02‑18: IPv4 route lookup on Linux: level compressed trie.
2018‑02‑18: What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications, language-specific tooling.
2018‑02‑18: How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave.
2018‑02‑18: Container patterns.
2018‑02‑18: Someone is sending sex toys to strangers. Amazon has no idea how to stop it.
2018‑02‑18: The cabinet files: second-hand filing cabinets turned out to be full of classified Australian documents.
2018‑02‑18: Ghost in the DCL shell: OpenVMS, touted as ultra reliable, had a local root hole for 30 years.
2018‑02‑18: 'Black Panther' is not the movie we deserve.
2018‑02‑17: Google AMP is an anticompetitive attempt to fork the web.
2018‑02‑17: Guy spends almost a year gluing 42,000 matches to make a giant sphere, then sets it on fire.
2018‑02‑16: Choosing a perl templating system.
2018‑02‑16: Travis encrypted variables and external contributions.
2018‑02‑16: Replacing jQuery with Vue.js: no build step necessary.
2018‑02‑16: The Kautz graph.
2018‑02‑16: Making propellor safer with GADTs and type families.
2018‑02‑16: Indic scripts and Unicode: picking apart the crashing iOS string.
2018‑02‑16: Hed, dek, lede, graf, tk: live with it.
2018‑02‑16: (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)
2018‑02‑16: 'Lede' vs. 'Lead'.
2018‑02‑16: Jim Roskind's C/C++ grammar.
2018‑02‑16: The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble.
2018‑02‑16: The Bishop Fox cybersecurity style guide.
2018‑02‑15: DMCA lawsuit between Cox and BMG: redirecting abuse@ to /dev/null can be expensive.
2018‑02‑15: Evolution of CSS layout: 1990s to the future.
2018‑02‑14: Dtrace for Linux: Oracle does the right thing.
2018‑02‑14: IRS clutches its modernization holy grail: converting their 50yo assembler codebase to Java.
2018‑02‑14: CSS grid for UI layouts.
2018‑02‑14: The SCRAM SASL authentication mechanism.
2018‑02‑14: LLVM's garbage collection facilities and SBCL's generational GC.
2018‑02‑14: PDP-7 Unix: building a development environment from scratch.
2018‑02‑14: Picture of a single strontium atom in an ion trap wins science photo contest.
2018‑02‑14: A detailed timeline of the IMAGE satellite recovery.
2018‑02‑13: Drawing better-looking Bézier curves.
2018‑02‑13: Developers on call.
2018‑02‑13: The Big Switch: a view of the advent of cloud computing, ten years on.
2018‑02‑13: Lessons from optics, the other deep learning.
2018‑02‑13: Metacrap: putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia.
2018‑02‑13: What's wrong with Metcalfe's Law?
2018‑02‑13: QQ Browser's textbook RSA fails to protect the privacy of hundreds of millions of users.
2018‑02‑13: DNS RFC dependency graph.
2018‑02‑12: Moomin noir.
2018‑02‑12: SafeYAML
2018‑02‑12: Let's talk about usernames.
2018‑02‑12: The songs that bind: musical tastes are formed at puberty.
2018‑02‑11: A sampled virtual music box.
2018‑02‑10: GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction.
2018‑02‑10: The incomplete vision of John Perry Barlow.
2018‑02‑10: An opinionated guide to Haskell in 2018.
2018‑02‑10: The configuration complexity clock.
2018‑02‑10: Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown.
2018‑02‑09: KPTI/Meltdown initial performance regressions.
2018‑02‑09: FreeBSD Broadcom WiFi improvements.
2018‑02‑09: When will the world reach 'peak child'?
2018‑02‑09: PostgreSQL on a VAX.
2018‑02‑09: The special data device SpaceX's Falcon Heavy sent to orbit.
2018‑02‑09: People notice there's something wrong with The Rock's new movie poster, and things escalate quickly.
2018‑02‑09: Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible.
2018‑02‑09: Computer manpower: is there a crisis? (1982)
2018‑02‑09: A history of capacity challenges in computer science education.
2018‑02‑08: Paris flooding harks back to one of the great breakthroughs in hydrology.
2018‑02‑08: The many faces of the Petersen graph.
2018‑02‑08: How many Amazon Mechanical Turk workers are there?
2018‑02‑07: Design notes on inline caches in Guile.
2018‑02‑07: The EM2S 60kHz radio receiver module and the MSF time signal.
2018‑02‑07: Googlebot's Javascript random() function is deterministic.
2018‑02‑07: Why paper jams persist.
2018‑02‑07: In Rust, ordinary vectors are values.
2018‑02‑07: From telegram to tweet: a history of laws against malicious communications.
2018‑02‑07: PostgreSQL and compressed documents.
2018‑02‑07: Keyboard dissolves in acetone. (YouTube)
2018‑02‑07: Data retention, national security, and the ECJ: the continuing saga.
2018‑02‑06: Two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in a science writer's stories.
2018‑02‑06: Why the tz database should not record sub-second offsets.
2018‑02‑06: Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite.
2018‑02‑06: A tale of two moons: Peter Lik's photographs called out by science.
2018‑02‑06: SRFI 110: sweet-expressions, an indentation-based syntax for Scheme.
2018‑02‑06: The marbled crayfish clones itself, and it's taking over Europe.
2018‑02‑06: Confessions of a typewriter addict.
2018‑02‑06: MITRE CVE numbering authorities.
2018‑02‑06: DWF CNA registry: distributed weakness filing CVE numbering authorities.
2018‑02‑05: Ignoring the domain when authenticating your Dovecot users.
2018‑02‑05: Modern CSS explained for dinosaurs.
2018‑02‑05: Almost-classics: sf concepts and settings that deserve better execution.
2018‑02‑05: Wales is leading the way on democratic reform.
2018‑02‑05: Using Git for Debian packaging.
2018‑02‑05: DragonFFI: foreign function interface and JIT for calling C using Clang/LLVM.
2018‑02‑05: How and why to write a Rude Q&A.
2018‑02‑05: How the Super Bowl halftime show gets set up in just six minutes.
2018‑02‑04: Make your own make, with Cargo and Rust.
2018‑02‑04: Why dolphins are deep thinkers.
2018‑02‑04: Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors.
2018‑02‑04: JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM.
2018‑02‑03: Amazon Aurora Postgres: first thoughts.
2018‑02‑03: Combine pgreplay with pgBadger.
2018‑02‑03: ECMAScript 2018: the final feature set.
2018‑02‑03: How Google Chrome's new ad blocker works.
2018‑02‑03: Faux Shu follies: cheating at magic squares.
2018‑02‑03: Why would I care about Mikhail Bongard's problems?
2018‑02‑03: What is going to happen with WHOIS and GDPR?
2018‑02‑03: git .mailmap: fix up deadnames in old commits.
2018‑02‑02: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes.
2018‑02‑02: Measuring QUIC vs TCP on desktop and mobile.
2018‑02‑02: NIS Directive: EU directive on security of network and information systems.
2018‑02‑02: How Christine Peterson coined the term 'open source'.
2018‑02‑01: Monitoring with Prometheus 2.0.
2018‑02‑01: OpenPnP: open source SMT pick and place.
2018‑02‑01: Unboxing a cheap desktop pick and place machine.
2018‑02‑01: Postgres hidden gems.
2018‑02‑01: Spying on a Ruby process's memory allocations with eBPF.
2018‑01‑31: Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment.
2018‑01‑31: GRV: a terminal/curses interface for viewing git repositories.
2018‑01‑31: The cult of Mary Beard.
2018‑01‑31: The peculiar case of NSEC processing using expanded wildcard records.
2018‑01‑31: The Jaffer-Humphreys test: A Bechdel test for museums.
2018‑01‑30: DO or UNDO, there is no VACUUM: what if PostgreSQL didn't need VACUUM at all?
2018‑01‑30: Ten days in Shenzhen.
2018‑01‑30: A techie's rough guide to GDPR.
2018‑01‑30: GDPR and Google Analytics.
2018‑01‑30: The view from the TOP500.
2018‑01‑30: MPEG: a crisis, the causes, and a solution.
2018‑01‑29: Git signed commits are a bad idea.
2018‑01‑29: Table partitioning for storing logs in PostgreSQL.
2018‑01‑29: Debug tools for generating crafted DNS responses.
2018‑01‑29: When Perl isn't fast enough.
2018‑01‑29: An overview of the Perl 5 engine.
2018‑01‑29: Gray failure: the Achilles' heel of cloud-scale systems.
2018‑01‑28: Your instant Kubernetes cluster.
2018‑01‑28: Taking a pubsub message broker approach to logging.
2018‑01‑28: The setenv fiasco.
2018‑01‑28: Do compilers take inline as a hint?
2018‑01‑28: How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras.
2018‑01‑27: Moving 1Password from CloudFormation to Terraform.
2018‑01‑27: My Delorean runs Perl.
2018‑01‑26: How to prepare a talk.
2018‑01‑26: Some obscure C features you might not know about.
2018‑01‑26: Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck.
2018‑01‑26: NASA's long dead 'IMAGE' satellite is alive!
2018‑01‑26: A practitioner's guide to reading programming languages papers.
2018‑01‑25: Why apt should use https.
2018‑01‑25: Bike-share schemes improve safety; helmet laws do not.
2018‑01‑25: STGi: spineless tagless G-machine interpreter.
2018‑01‑25: dns2doh: test DNS over HTTP.
2018‑01‑25: Sweden's gender-balanced snow-clearing as a template for adjusting Canadian budgets.
2018‑01‑25: Typed capability-based APIs in Rust.
2018‑01‑25: Bringing DNS security and privacy to the end user.
2018‑01‑25: Railway station traffic statistics visualized.
2018‑01‑25: Ref patterns, destructuring, and invisible borrows in Rust.
2018‑01‑24: The new anti-Spectre microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features.
2018‑01‑24: How to chroot to a Raspberry Pi SD card on an Ubuntu box.
2018‑01‑24: How to emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OSX (El Capitan).
2018‑01‑24: Abolished in Scotland, it's time the feudal leftover of leasehold ownership expired in the rest of Britain.
2018‑01‑24: Think your country is crowded? These maps reveal the truth about population density across Europe.
2018‑01‑23: How a fix in Golang 1.9 sped up GitLab's Gitaly service by 30x.
2018‑01‑23: An introduction to algebraic data types and structural pattern matching in TypeScript.
2018‑01‑23: Why is Jepsen-style random testing effective for partition tolerance bugs?
2018‑01‑22: The good operation: an induction tool and reference guide for policy professionals within MOD.
2018‑01‑22: In search of 0xffffffffff600400: troubleshooting containers, system calls, and performance.
2018‑01‑22: The policy hack.
2018‑01‑22: Nighttime long exposures of rotating helicopter blades.
2018‑01‑22: In defence of swap: common misconceptions.
2018‑01‑22: The limitations of chaos engineering.
2018‑01‑21: Network latencies and speed of light.
2018‑01‑21: Code alignment and microbenchmark performance.
2018‑01‑21: A brief YAML reference.
2018‑01‑21: How to talk to angry people: the CLARA method of de-escalation.
2018‑01‑21: The difference between liberalism and centrism.
2018‑01‑21: What is XML good at?
2018‑01‑21: Brave new I/O for embedded Rust.
2018‑01‑21: Why is only half of Mars magnetized?
2018‑01‑21: The London Time Machine.
2018‑01‑20: The Carillion whitewash: insolvent, not illiquid.
2018‑01‑20: Testing microservices, the sane way.
2018‑01‑20: JavaScript things I never knew existed.
2018‑01‑20: Fuzzing TCP servers.
2018‑01‑19: A brief overview of the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi's Queen Liliʻuokalani.
2018‑01‑19: Who the hell uses onion juice?
2018‑01‑19: Cornell barbecue chicken sauce.
2018‑01‑19: Nominet abandons its charitable trust.
2018‑01‑19: Ridiculously fast base64 encoding and decoding.
2018‑01‑19: Oxidizing JavaScript source maps with Rust and WebAssembly.
2018‑01‑19: Rust and Qt/QML: a timely example
2018‑01‑18: Trackball history: Canada's earliest gift to computing.
2018‑01‑18: How to measure the working set size on Linux.
2018‑01‑18: The 1969 Easter Mass incident.
2018‑01‑17: Followup attacks based on Spectre and Meltdown to look forward to.
2018‑01‑16: Finding a CPU design bug in the Xbox 360.
2018‑01‑15: Antineutrino Global Map 2015 chatacterizes Earth's radioactivity.
2018‑01‑15: Firefox will require TLS for all new web features.
2018‑01‑15: Amdahl's law, the universal scalability law, and coherence penalty.
2018‑01‑15: The death of microservice madness.
2018‑01‑15: The secret history of the Russian consulate in San Francisco.
2018‑01‑15: stm-containers: concurrent HAMT for Haskell.
2018‑01‑15: Cherry's new low-profile switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops.
2018‑01‑14: Benchmarking crimes: an emerging threat in systems security.
2018‑01‑13: Firefox bullshit removal via about:config.
2018‑01‑13: Cuckoo hashing can outperform learned indexes.
2018‑01‑13: Mechanical computing systems using only links and rotary joints.
2018‑01‑13: Isn't it obvious? Avoiding just-so stories about visualizations.
2018‑01‑13: The Bestiary: scaly-foot gastropod / iron snail.
2018‑01‑13: fluxcapacitor: how to sleep a million years.
2018‑01‑12: What it's like being a creative professional and a mother.
2018‑01‑12: Let's Encrypt update regarding ACME TLS-SNI and shared hosting infrastructure.
2018‑01‑12: The "Clarke Gap" of a technology is the degree to which it is distinguishable from magic.
2018‑01‑12: Down the "shithole": why lexicographers need your profanity.
2018‑01‑12: Fast strong hash functions: SipHash and HighwayHash.
2018‑01‑11: Fundamental physics is frustrating physicists.
2018‑01‑11: IPv6 flow label: misuse in hashing.
2018‑01‑11: Report on the npm operations incident of 6th Jan.
2018‑01‑11: Detecting Spectre and Meltdown using hardware performance counters.
2018‑01‑11: Making the pizza cinnamon rolls from Mario Batali's sexual misconduct apology letter.
2018‑01‑10: PiTubeDirect: a Raspberry Pi as a BBC Micro second processor.
2018‑01‑10: The fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs Is nearly won.
2018‑01‑10: Let's Encrypt issue with TLS-SNI-01 and shared hosting infrastructure.
2018‑01‑09: Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a gateway with a BeagleBone.
2018‑01‑09: What Spectre and Meltdown mean for WebKit.
2018‑01‑09: Legends of the ancient web.
2018‑01‑09: Control-C handling in Python and Trio.
2018‑01‑09: Birth order effects exist and are very strong.
2018‑01‑09: Pepper: the spice of life.
2018‑01‑09: A vast 430-year-old world map, full of places and creatures, real and imagined.
2018‑01‑08: Meltdown and Spectre information update for DragonflyBSD.
2018‑01‑08: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep.
2018‑01‑08: Golang's hidden #pragmas.
2018‑01‑08: Why Brigade doesn't do YAML: scripting for Kubernetes clusters.
2018‑01‑08: NSEC3 hash performance in NSD and Unbound.
2018‑01‑08: The bad neighbor: out-of-order execution and its applications.
2018‑01‑08: The Python decorators they won't tell you about
2018‑01‑08: Four groups of researchers independently found Meltdown and Spectre within mere months of each other.
2018‑01‑08: PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86.
2018‑01‑07: Ancient browser wars history: MD5-hashed posts declassified.
2018‑01‑07: From 200K lines of CoffeeScript to zero: making decaffeinate super-stable.
2018‑01‑07: Full-text search in Django with PostgreSQL.
2018‑01‑07: An 8-tube module from a 1954 IBM 705 mainframe: it's a key debouncer.
2018‑01‑06: I'm harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here's how.
2018‑01‑06: Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status.
2018‑01‑06: Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments.
2018‑01‑06: A type system for the Nix purely functional package manager.
2018‑01‑06: Racket-on-Chez status, January 2018.
2018‑01‑05: Spectre/Meltdown security holes will devastate Intel's marketshare.
2018‑01‑05: Intel analysis of speculative execution side channels.
2018‑01‑05: Random with care.
2018‑01‑05: The fresh prints of 'bell-end'.
2018‑01‑05: Apple's notice aboit speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs.
2018‑01‑05: Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge.
2018‑01‑05: Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ.
2018‑01‑05: How Wendy Carlos changed music forever.
2018‑01‑04: The "retpoline" x86 mitigation technique for the Spectre branch target injection attack.
2018‑01‑04: Notes from the Intelpocalypse.
2018‑01‑04: What I learned in 2017 writing Golang.
2018‑01‑04: Decrypting PgBouncer's diagnostic information.
2018‑01‑03: Google Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel. (Meltdown/Spectre)
2018‑01‑03: Life as a New York Times reporter on the national security beat.
2018‑01‑03: What does it mean for code to be "explicit"?
2018‑01‑03: Making TRust-DNS faster than BIND9.
2018‑01‑03: Initial benchmarks of the performance impact of page table isolation.
2018‑01‑03: How the Å came to be.
2018‑01‑03: Genetic study supports carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.
2018‑01‑03: We saw some really bad Intel CPU bugs in 2015, and we should expect to see more in the future.
2018‑01‑03: PostgreSQL benchmarks showing performance regressions due to page table isolation.
2018‑01‑03: The Golang type system for newcomers.
2018‑01‑02: 'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux and Windows redesign.
2018‑01‑02: NeoPG: a cleaned-up fork of GnuPG 2.
2018‑01‑02: Star Wars: Regency.
2018‑01‑02: SQL keys in depth.
2018‑01‑02: Negative result: reading kernel memory from user mode via speculative execution.
2018‑01‑02: Water's odd behavior stems from its ability to exist in two liquid states.
2018‑01‑02: Oumuamua pursued: the path of an interstellar asteroid.
2018‑01‑02: The fat in a perfect croissant.
2018‑01‑02: The death and life of the 13-month calendar.
2018‑01‑02: Warnsdorff's rule for finding knight's tours.
2018‑01‑01: Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors.
2018‑01‑01: Esperanto exits stealth mode, aiming at AI with a 4,096-core 7nm RISC-V monster.
2018‑01‑01: How Hotmail changed Microsoft (and email) forever.
2018‑01‑01: The story of the Gömböc.
2018‑01‑01: The mysterious case of the Linux page table isolation patches.
2018‑01‑01: In-place editing gets safer in perl 5.28.