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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: In January, the EU starts running bug bounties on free and open source software.
2018-12-29: The story of the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound.
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: Using C libraries in Rust: how to make a sys crate.
2018-12-27: A demo of Rust async io: from mio to stackless coroutines.
2018-12-27: Patterns for Array initialization in Rust.
2018-12-27: Rust Tokio end of year recap.
2018-12-27: Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E-Ink.
2018-12-27: Procedural macros in Rust 2018.
2018-12-27: JMAP is on the home straight.
2018-12-27: Post-mortem of the Word for Windows 1.0 project.
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: Ranges, code quality, coroutines, and the future of C++.
2018-12-27: Understanding throttling and debouncing.
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: ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan.
2018-12-26: Twitter's upcoming changes to PNG image support.
2018-12-26: 2018 Matrix year in review.
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: Wiv.js: a library for a more wiggly div.
2018-12-25: DOOMBA
2018-12-24: IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses.
2018-12-24: Lexically scopes type variables.
2018-12-24: Theft of NTP service for the Internet of Unprofitable Things.
2018-12-24: Partitioned consensus and its impact on Google Spanner's latency.
2018-12-24: Designing resilient systems with circuit breakers.
2018-12-24: Solving a murder with Prolog.
2018-12-24: Site reliability engineering is operations.
2018-12-24: HyperLogLog in Facebook Presto: faster cardinality estimation.
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: Standard ranges for C++.
2018-12-23: Ten simple rules for documenting scientific software.
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: Dear developer, the Web isn't about you.
2018-12-21: DNS over TLS from Cloudflare's recursive servers to Facebook's authoritative servers.
2018-12-21: When anti-virus software causes 15 minute GC pauses and crashes in a .NET Windows service.
2018-12-21: Five facts about smell.
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: WireGuard for iOS, now in the App Store.
2018-12-21: Manage virtual machines with virt-manager.
2018-12-21: WireGuard setup guide for iOS.
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.
2018-12-18: WaveFunctionCollapse: bitmap generation from one example using ideas from quantum mechanics.
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: How to build a real-time app with GraphQL subscriptions on PostgreSQL.
2018-12-17: Support Driven Engineering (SDE).
2018-12-17: Future fossils of the 21st Century.
2018-12-17: The best programming advice I ever got.
2018-12-17: Can repelling magnets replace the spring in a pogo stick?
2018-12-17: 5 German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany.
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: Bootstrapping Rust.
2018-12-15: Defense against dark arts: safely allowing full SQL access to untrusted users with SQLite.
2018-12-15: Does Scrabble need to be fixed? An experiment in controlling how much of the game is luck.
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: Modelling the true cost of software rewrites.
2018-12-15: Exploiting font parsing in LaTeX with CVE-2018-17407.
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: The Titanic was on fire for days before the iceberg hit.
2018-12-13: A history of the waterfall methodology.
2018-12-13: 50 CVEs in 50 days fuzzing Adobe Reader.
2018-12-13: Securing your web site like it's 1999.
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: AFLSmart: smart greybox fuzzing.
2018-12-13: Guaranteed copy elision in C++17 does not elide copies.
2018-12-12: Routing security roadmap.
2018-12-12: Clusters of re-used keys.
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: ATDT relief.
2018-12-12: Beware Java Attach API.
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: 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: Bezier moi, Julia.
2018-12-11: Seemingly impossible Swift programs.
2018-12-11: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
2018-12-11: The seductive diversion of ‘solving' bias in artificial intelligence.
2018-12-11: Human terrain: visualizing the world's population in 3D.
2018-12-11: The Empress of Facebook: a befuddling dinner With Sheryl Sandberg.
2018-12-10: Who ever said no two snowflakes are alike?
2018-12-10: Graphing the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words.
2018-12-10: jl: turn structured JSON logs into human-readable lines.
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.
2018-12-09: The computer technology that changed air travel.
2018-12-10: Autism from the inside is not the neurotypical cliché.
2018-12-09: Secrets of smooth Béziers and Euler spirals revealed.
2018-12-09: JIRA is an antipattern.
2018-12-09: Replacing the user story with the job story.
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: 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: Uncomfortable privacy research.
2018-12-08: Troubleshooting a connection timeout issue due to tcp_tw_recycle (which should not be used).
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: HTTPS in the real world.
2018-12-07: Goodbye, EdgeHTML.
2018-12-06: The rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
2018-12-07: Reverse engineering the ARM1 processor's microinstructions.
2018-12-07: Killing Microsoft Edge: Making the web worse through capitulation to Google.
2018-12-07: Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?
2018-12-07: Tesla's giant battery saved $40 million during its first year, and cost $66 million to install.
2018-12-07: WALL·E | Typeset In The Future
2018-12-07: IPv6 in the UK 6 years after World IPv6 day.
2018-12-07: How to game Apple's iOS App Store.
2018-12-06: 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: QUIC and HTTP/3 : Too big to fail?!
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: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Kubernetes apiserver.
2018-12-06: Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe.
2018-12-05: Unprivileged users with UID > INT_MAX can successfully execute any systemctl command.
2018-12-05: Why parking minimums almost destroyed my hometown and how we repealed them.
2018-12-05: Learning how AI makes decisions.
2018-12-05: How to write a modern C++ library in Rust.
2018-12-05: Our bipolar free-speech disorder and how to fix it.
2018-12-05: DOHA and ZIPPO make forty five dead gTLDs.
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: ICANN registry agreement termination information page: graveyard of new gTLDs.
2018-12-04: The case for reopening Edinburgh's lost circle line to passengers.
2018-12-04: Single-direction margin declarations in CSS.
2018-12-04: A look at CSS resets in 2018.
2018-12-04: PayPal, Square, and big banking's war on the sex industry.
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: The world's most efficient languages.
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: 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: Dynamic configuration at Twitter.
2018-11-30: UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8.
2018-11-30: Golang 2, here we come!
2018-11-29: Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth, and nobody knows why.
2018-11-29: Competition is dying, and taking capitalism with it.
2018-11-28: A perfect storm that brought down LinkedIn.com.
2018-11-29: Multi-level MDA-Lite Paris Traceroute.
2018-11-29: The baseline costs of JavaScript frameworks.
2018-11-29: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch: OpenSSL version numbering and licence change.
2018-11-29: Amazon's homegrown Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU.
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: 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: The state of WiFi vs mobile network experience.
2018-11-27: Preventing SQL injection with PostgreSQL and Python.
2018-11-27: AWS designed ARM processor: Graviton.
2018-11-27: Designing headers for HTTP compression (HPACK and QPACK).
2018-11-27: Is Copenhagen a city of cyclists? (A Dutch view.)
2018-11-27: Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (a British view).
2018-11-26: The "feel-good" horror of late-stage capitalism.
2018-11-26: Today's JavaScript trash fire and pile on: the flatmap-stream compromise.
2018-11-26: The power of Web Components.
2018-11-26: Integer overflow and SMT-solvers.
2018-11-26: No cutting corners cutting corners.
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).
2018-11-24: The code hiding on these Madrid security bollards.
2018-11-25: 5919 default passwords from Open Sez Me!
2018-11-24: Type-safe builders in Kotlin.
2018-11-25: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook.
2018-11-24: Riding the Space Shuttle's solid rocket booster.
2018-11-25: Why most of America is terrible at making biscuits.
2018-11-25: The Lisp Machines Inc. K-Machine.
2018-11-24: Enumerating the rationals (without duplication).
2018-11-24: Tworoutines in Python: easy mixing of synchronous and asynchronous code.
2018-11-24: NovaSolix hopes to make a 90% efficient solar cell using carbon nanotubes.
2018-11-24: How a mysterious tech billionaire created two fortunes and a global software sweatshop.
2018-11-24: U.S. finally legalizes modern, European-style train cars.
2018-11-24: Model View Controller isn't.
2018-11-24: ‘12 Monkeys': why Terry Gilliam's movie is so relevant today.
2018-11-24: Amazing time-lapse video of a rocket launch… seen from space!
2018-11-24: JavaScript modules.
2018-11-23: Nuisance calls: new UK law provides for company director liability.
2018-11-23: 6 strange facts about the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua.
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: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler.
2018-11-21: dav1d AV1 decoder: performance and completion of the first release.
2018-11-21: Undumping TeX.
2018-11-21: Django core no more.
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: The IBM z14 microprocessor and system control design.
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: A 3270 font in a modern format.
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: 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: Facebook, Google, Amazon, railroads, and the collapse of the tech mythology.
2018-11-19: The case against quantum computing.
2018-11-19: Analyzing the GitHub outage.
2018-11-19: The secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces.
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: Unscii: a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics.
2018-11-18: The invention of the AeroPress.
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: Bit fields in the Zig programming language.
2018-11-16: Tips on migrating SQL from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
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: Period-tracking apps are not for women.
2018-11-15: The Asus Eee: how close did we come to a Linux desktop?
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: The easiest way to debug node.js is with VSCode.
2018-11-12: Hob3l: 100x faster slicing of SCAD files for 3D printing.
2018-11-12: Distributed consistency at scale: Spanner vs. Calvin.
2018-11-12: Refactoring towards language with Objective C.
2018-11-11: Some notes on running new software in production.
2018-11-12: 25th anniversary of NCSA Mosaic 1.0.
2018-11-11: RocketLab's successful launch in New Zealand brings quick, cheap space access.
2018-11-11: Why Intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained.
2018-11-11: HTTP-over-QUIC will be HTTP/3.
2018-11-11: TLS: what can go wrong?
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: 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: Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest.
2018-11-09: Introducing Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang.
2018-11-09: Deliveroo's data shows cyclists are faster in cities than cars and motorbikes.
2018-11-09: A history of the sentence "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
2018-11-09: Haskell type checker complaint 184 of 698.
2018-11-09: GitHub reaches 100 million repositories.
2018-11-07: Profiling: the case of the missing milliseconds.
2018-11-07: Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by 99%.
2018-11-07: Donut math: how donut.c works.
2018-11-07: On dealing with owning and borrowing in public interfaces in Rust.
2018-11-07: .brand TLD observatory.
2018-11-07: Interprocedural borrow conflicts in Rust.
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: Colorful language: decoding utility markings spray-painted on city streets.
2018-11-06: Performance of SMT solving on an iPhone.
2018-11-06: British underground utility colour codes explained.
2018-11-06: SF writer Greg Egan and anonymous 4chan poster advance permutation problem.
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: How managers can decide which data science projects to pursue.
2018-11-04: AI ethics, impossibility theorems, and tradeoffs.
2018-11-04: How to manage connections efficiently in Postgres.
2018-11-02: ExploderBot: a slow-drip DDoS attack system.
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)
2018-11-01: Why pencils are yellow.
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.
2018-10-29: Atlassian incident management handbook.
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: HiDPI on dual 4K monitors with Linux.
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: 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: RobinHood tail latency aware caching: dynamic reallocation from cache-rich to cache-poor.
2018-10-26: From the endpoint to the cloud: Joanna Rutkowska says goodbye to Qubes OS.
2018-10-26: A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V.
2018-10-25: US copyright office ruling imposes sweeping right-to-repair reforms.
2018-10-25: MongoDB's Server Side Public License is likely unenforceable.
2018-10-26: The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous.
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: Bitcoin must die.
2018-10-25: Stardate 5928.5. USS Enterprise monthly catchup meeting with DS9.
2018-10-25: Investigating the implausible Bloomberg Supermicro stories.
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: A fast, reliable cuckoo hash table for Node.js.
2018-10-24: .br DNSSEC algorithm rollover report.
2018-10-24: Drivers wildly overestimate what "semiautonomous" cars can do.
2018-10-24: Why did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
2018-10-24: The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture.
2018-10-24: Consolidation, centralisation, and the Internet architecture.
2018-10-24: Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion-dollar ad fraud scheme.
2018-10-23: LLVM on SVN to GitHub migration.
2018-10-23: An alternative history of Silicon Valley disruption.
2018-10-23: Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin.
2018-10-23: Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?
2018-10-23: Hexagonal Architecture: three principles and an implementation example.
2018-10-23: Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables.
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: Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 October 2018 Update implement leap seconds in a UTC-compliant manner.
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: Facebook is now adding "fbclid" surveillance parameters to outbound links.
2018-10-22: First-class automatic differentiation in Swift: a manifesto.
2018-10-22: Superpermutations.
2018-10-22: Intel kills off its 10nm process.
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: It's not a bug, it's a feature.
2018-10-20: The elegance of deflate (zlib).
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: The illustrated TLS connection: every byte explained.
2018-10-20: Encrypted SNI comes to Firefox Nightly.
2018-10-20: JavaScript fat arrow functions: how, why, when, and when not to use them.
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: Orca: differential bug localization in large-scale services.
2018-10-19: Exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars is unlike what we see in our own system.
2018-10-19: Looking back at 20 years of ICANN.
2018-10-19: Fold N Fly paper aeroplane designs.
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: Accessibility Cheatsheet: practical approaches to universal design.
2018-10-17: MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ: design patterns for avoiding modal popups.
2018-10-17: Bankruptcy and destitution is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously.
2018-10-17: REPT: reverse debugging of failures in deployed software on Windows.
2018-10-15: A batpoo-eating pitcher plant.
2018-10-15: GitLab.com stability and performance after migration from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud.
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: Dropbox Debug connection diagnostics.
2018-10-11: GitHub Debug connection diagnostics.
2018-10-11: Uncoiling the spiral: Maths, hallucinations, and patterns in fur.
2018-10-11: Fastly Debug connection diagnostics.
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.
2018-10-11: Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network.
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: Web advertising, where your data is traded in the time it takes to click.
2018-10-10: A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety.
2018-10-10: pgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier.
2018-10-10: Secrets in serverless functions.
2018-10-10: Who is stealing my power? An ad network case study.
2018-10-10: Despite proposed solutions, DNS security issues remain.
2018-10-10: Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust.
2018-10-10: 12 factor CLI apps.
2018-10-09: Biscuit: a research OS written in Golang.
2018-10-09: Rust RAII is better than Haskell's bracket pattern.
2018-10-09: The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in Golang.
2018-10-08: bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux: source code now available.
2018-10-09: Reified generics: the search for a cure.
2018-10-08: The truth about traditional JavaScript benchmarks.
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.
2018-10-04: Sans Forgetica: a font designed to help you remember your study notes.
2018-10-04: Bloomberg's ‘The Big Hack'.
2018-10-05: Do you really know CORS?
2018-10-05: Peeking behind the curtains of serverless platforms.
2018-10-05: Ubuntu Linux performance over the past six years on an Intel Xeon server.
2018-10-04: The Big Hack: how China used a tiny chip to infiltrate American companies.
2018-10-03: The mystery of the continuously functioning battery from 1840.
2018-10-04: Bagpiper: decentralized secret management at Airbnb.
2018-10-04: TLS token-binding standard gains a foothold on the Web.
2018-10-04: How Dropbox rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever.
2018-10-03: Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work? (YouTube)
2018-10-03: A history of .NET runtimes.
2018-10-03: The rise of Netflix competitors pushed consumers back toward piracy.
2018-10-03: The remarkable persistence of 24x36mm.
2018-10-03: Arm offers free-as-in-beer Cortex IP for Xilinx FPGAs.
2018-10-03: Intel ME Manufacturing Mode and Apple MacBook vulnerability CVE-2018-4251.
2018-10-03: How cyber attackers stole £2.26m from Tesco Bank customers.
2018-10-03: Kubernetes: a surprisingly affordable platform for personal projects.
2018-10-03: Why are enterprises so slow?
2018-10-03: When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?
2018-10-02: The art of DNS subdomain enumeration.
2018-10-02: Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoder.
2018-10-02: Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology.
2018-10-02: What the heck is going on with measures of programming language popularity?
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: Innocent until proven guilty / believe the plaintiff.
2018-09-29: State of memory safety in Linux.
2018-09-29: Rust collections case study: BTreeMap.
2018-09-29: How 50 million Facebook accounts were hacked.
2018-09-29: The relative performance of C and Rust: AVL tree vs B-tree.
2018-09-28: How to visualize decision trees.
2018-09-28: Building Raspberry Pi systems with Yocto.
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: Review of the system failure that led to the 2018 tax day IRS outage.
2018-09-24: Computer scientists close in on a proof of the Unique Games conjecture.
2018-09-25: Taking algorithms to court: current strategies for litigating government use of algorithmic decision-making (in the USA).
2018-09-25: Am I logged in or not? GDPR and the Google Chrome browser sync change.
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: The Open Graph protocol: web page metadata for Facebook.
2018-09-21: Core Coroutines: making C++ coroutines simpler, faster, and more general.
2018-09-21: How to create a Twitter card.
2018-09-21: Titans of mathematics clash over epic "proof" of the ABC conjecture.
2018-09-21: Whatever happened to the semantic web?
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: RIPE's DNSSEC signer migration.
2018-09-18: Apple and Firefox aim to thwart Facebook and Google tracking.
2018-09-18: DDoS attacks on colleges and universities: who, when and why?
2018-09-18: What really happened to Apple's AirPower.
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: Bring back the shadows: the case against HDR.
2018-09-17: Bitslicing: an introduction.
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 five levels of logging.
2018-09-15: Most of the Daily Mail's 'commentors' don't even exist.
2018-09-15: The strange history of Myers-Briggs personality tests.
2018-09-15: The widely divergent life expectancy in every county in the USA.
2018-09-15: What most remote work companies don't tell you about remote work.
2018-09-15: We're measuring the economy all wrong.
2018-09-15: XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress.
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: What the GlobalFoundries retreat really means.
2018-09-13: UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark ECHR judgment.
2018-09-13: YANG alarms.
2018-09-12: Parallelizing PNG: choosing Rust for `mtpng`.
2018-09-13: European Commission proposes ending DST in March 2019.
2018-09-12: Adventures in Rust: DNS lookups with futures and Tokio.
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.
2018-09-12: 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: Let's Encrypt at scale, for 3000+ web sites at AutoTrader.
2018-09-12: Hashicorp Vault: why we need dynamic secrets.
2018-09-12: Brendan Eich's Brave browser files GDPR complaint against Google's adtech.
2018-09-11: The "developer experience" bait-and-switch: JavaScript is the web's greenhouse gas.
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.
2018-09-11: An IPv6 update: how APNIC measures the Internet.
2018-09-11: PostgreSQL 11 JIT compilation of queries.
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: Measuring information in millibytes
2018-09-11: Elegy for Larrabee: autovectorization is not a programming model.
2018-09-11: OpenSSL-1.1.1 released.
2018-09-10: Spoofing DNS with IP fragments.
2018-09-10: The first 15 years of PyPy: a personal retrospective.
2018-09-11: DoT and DoH: it's DNS, Jim, but not as we know it!
2018-09-10: A23D: a 3D-printed letterpress font.
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: `git log --follow` over-enthusiastically tracks empty files.
2018-09-10: Highlights from Git 2.19.
2018-09-10: libcurl gets a URL parser API.
2018-09-10: Starting an Internet service provider, part 2: deploying fiber.
2018-09-10: Why Rust closures are (somewhat) hard.
2018-09-10: Why can't apes talk? Considering primate speech.
2018-09-10: An introduction to inline classes in Kotlin.
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: 5 mistakes C/C++ devs make writing Golang.
2018-09-09: xsv: a CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
2018-09-09: 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn't.
2018-09-09: The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types.
2018-09-09: The two dualities of computation: negative and fractional algebraic data types.
2018-09-09: Java 11: Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK.
2018-09-09: DNS-over-TLS: thoughts and implementation.
2018-09-09: First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
2018-09-07: TLS session resumption allows Google and Facebook to track you without cookies.
2018-09-08: ripgrep 0.10.0 with pcre support.
2018-09-07: The mysterious case of Chrome's hidden URLs and Google's AMP.
2018-09-08: Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials.
2018-09-07: SQL style guide.
2018-09-08: Quarternions: the strange numbers that birthed modern algebra.
2018-09-07: Keybase's browser extension exposes decrypted messages to third party web sites.
2018-09-08: Zero overhead deterministic failure: a proposed mechanism for C and C++.
2018-09-07: Golang says WAT?
2018-09-07: The monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook.
2018-09-07: How gRPC uses HTTP/2.
2018-09-07: The new science of seeing around corners.
2018-09-07: How the Golang runtime implements maps efficiently (without generics).
2018-09-07: Google AMP can go to hell.
2018-09-07: Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a Python multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks.
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: Google wants to kill the URL.
2018-09-07: Best practices for mobile form design.
2018-09-07: Radical open-access plan could spell end to academic journal subscriptions.
2018-09-07: cOAlition S: a European initiative for full and immediate Open Access to research publications.
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: On Firefox moving DNS to a third party.
2018-09-05: Function poisoning in C++ with gcc.
2018-09-05: Burroughs B5500 emulator.
2018-09-05: Convergence of AIX and 4.3BSD.
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: Java's new Z Garbage Collector (ZGC).
2018-09-05: uvm: a BSD virtual memory system.
2018-09-04: Notes on Ousterhout's "Philosophy of Software Design".
2018-09-04: A bug story: data alignment in C on x86.
2018-09-03: A critique of resizable distributed hash tables: Riak Core vs random slicing.
2018-09-04: On-site group chat alternatives to HipChat or Slack.
2018-09-04: Hysteria was not treated with vibrators.
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.
2018-09-02: A story about tracking down TCP RSTs.
2018-09-02: Anycast TCP.
2018-09-03: Relativistic quantum chemistry: why gold is yellow and mercury is liquid.
2018-09-02: Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system.
2018-09-01: Zero-copy deserialization in Julia.
2018-08-31: Shifting solid bulk cargoes: an explanation of the process and dangers.
2018-08-31: The abelian sandpile model.
2018-08-31: Can Beethoven send copyright takedown requests?
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.
2018-08-30: Life-size drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron.
2018-08-31: C considered dangerous: mitigations in the Linux kernel.
2018-08-30: Firefox in-page pop-up reporter.
2018-08-31: On the worst-case complexity of TimSort.
2018-08-31: The performance cost of Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow mitigations on Linux 4.19.
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: 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: Lazy sequences in Swift and how they work.
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: A new Linux kernel AIO polling interface.
2018-08-28: RedHat and SUSE withdraw support for OpenLDAP.
2018-08-28: Goodbye VSCode, hello Emacs (again).
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: How Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and others are contributing to OpenStreetMap.
2018-08-28: wideNES: peeking past the edge of NES games.
2018-08-28: Spectrum of possibilities: a GUI color guide.
2018-08-28: Fixing slow MacBook WiFi reconnect after sleep.
2018-08-28: The rise of dismal sf: to understand our economic system, we need speculative stories.
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: A satellite engineer explains the challenges of space electronics.
2018-08-26: Emoji: in the beginning.
2018-08-26: The paradox of Karl Popper.
2018-08-26: The Great Barrier Reef is headed for ‘massive death'.
2018-08-26: The how and why of the design of the Lucida fonts.
2018-08-26: How the Netherlands feeds the world.
2018-08-26: The illegal ramen vendors of postwar Tokyo.
2018-08-26: Swan sanctuary says bread is good for wildfowl.
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.
2018-08-22: Home Assistant: open source home automation with Python.
2018-08-23: The war over supercooled water: a seven year scientific dispute caused by a coding error.
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: Why are record companies dumping their Spotify stock?
2018-08-22: Orkney tidal turbine generating 'phenomenal result'.
2018-08-22: Sex, religion, and a towering treatise on anatomy.
2018-08-22: The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business.
2018-08-22: New attack recovers RSA encryption keys from EM waves within seconds.
2018-08-22: Picycle: donate your unused Raspberry Pi for scientific research.
2018-08-22: Google's voracious data collection.
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: 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.
2018-08-20: Catching integer overflows in C.
2018-08-21: Live map of London Underground trains.
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: Tobacco cocktails are a terrible idea.
2018-08-19: Directional freezing: a method for making clear ice.
2018-08-18: Advice for data organization in spreadsheets.
2018-08-18: John Conway's method for walking up stairs.
2018-08-18: The Ramsey sweep: mark/sweep garbage collection in time proportional to the live data, not heap size.
2018-08-18: The T programming language: an early dialect of Scheme.
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: Pixelblaze V2: an advanced LED pattern development engine and controller.
2018-08-16: FastLED: an animation library for Arduino.
2018-08-16: Are patent claims coming for your WS2812 Neopixels?
2018-08-16: BARR-C:2018 embedded C coding standard, harmonized with MISRA C 2012.
2018-08-15: The "server-process-edition" branch of SQLite.
2018-08-15: Scientists discover how to make schwartzite (negatively curved carbon sheets) after decades of searching.
2018-08-15: Sequences, sequences, and sequences: Fred Sanger's academic autobiography.
2018-08-15: Not on your life: six means of sf transportation I would not use.
2018-08-15: Strongly universal string hashing is fast.
2018-08-15: Meltdown strikes back: the Intel L1 terminal fault (L1TF / Foreshadow) vulnerability.
2018-08-15: Fastly's response to the SegmentSmack vulnerability.
2018-08-15: Diagnosing a weak memory ordering bug.
2018-08-15: Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior.
2018-08-15: Open Journal Systems: open-source academic journal publishing software.
2018-08-15: Passive observations of a large DNS service.
2018-08-14: If quantum computers are not possible, why are classical computers possible?
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: Can you break a stick of spaghetti into just two pieces? Yes! (With a twist.)
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: Rosenbridge: a hardware backdoor in VIA C3 x86 processors.
2018-08-10: µUBSan: a clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime.
2018-08-09: An ingenious but failed BMW theft attempt.
2018-08-09: Julia 1.0
2018-08-10: Smoking around the world.
2018-08-09: Dark energy may be incompatible with string theory.
2018-08-09: Airtime for Hitler on BBC.
2018-08-09: "What have we done?" Silicon Valley engineers fear the gig economy they have created is a monster.
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: V8 JavaScript engine release v6.9
2018-08-08: A timesyncd total failure and systemd's complete lack of debugability.
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: What's going on in the Rosetta timelapse video from the surface of a comet.
2018-08-06: Polyhedra Viewer: visualize the relationships between the convex, regular-faced polyhedra.
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: The science behind non-Newtonian noodles.
2018-07-31: A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation.
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: When you need to rip the same CD 300 times.
2018-07-31: How to read an RFC.
2018-07-31: Elsevier's demands are unacceptable for the German academic community.
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: What economists still don't get about the 2008 financial crisis.
2018-07-30: Haskell: If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
2018-07-30: Announcing TypeScript 3.0.
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: 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: Secure boot on Apple Mac T2 computers.
2018-07-30: Doug McIlroy's C++ regular expression matching library.
2018-07-30: Routinator 3000: RPKI relying party software in Rust.
2018-07-29: When does white space matter in HTML?
2018-07-29: The rejected transistor at the heart of the iconic Roland TR-808.
2018-07-29: Ghost characters: a spectre is haunting Unicode.
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: 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: #ifdef considered harmful: portability experience with C News.
2018-07-28: Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion.
2018-07-28: Ryu: convert floating point numbers to decimal strings.
2018-07-28: A map showing the steepness of streets.
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: The death of a TLD.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>