Tony Finch – link log

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2019‑12‑31: The university is a ticking time bomb.
2019‑12‑31: The old Internet died and we watched and did nothing.
2019‑12‑31: Hard work and success.
2019‑12‑31: CPU introspection: Intel load port snooping.
2019‑12‑31: Refactoring with defunctionalization: everybody does it, nobody talks about it.
2019‑12‑31: Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs.
2019‑12‑30: A few comments on the `age` encryption tool.
2019‑12‑30: Too much crypto: scientific selection of the number of rounds for symmetric primitives.
2019‑12‑30: Scaling React server-side rendering.
2019‑12‑29: DIY 'meta clock' of 24 analog clocks.
2019‑12‑29: Why are my Golang executable files so large?
2019‑12‑29: Apple Scorpius CPU architectural specification. (1989)
2019‑12‑29: The ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk.
2019‑12‑29: Google's monopoly is stifling free software.
2019‑12‑28: rage: a Rust implementation of `age` file encryption.
2019‑12‑28: A desperate plea for a Free Software alternative to Aspera.
2019‑12‑27: Writing a seqlock in Rust.
2019‑12‑27: Streams concurrency with async-std in Rust.
2019‑12‑27: Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates.
2019‑12‑27: Async exceptions in Haskell, and Rust.
2019‑12‑27: Betrusted: can we build trustable hardware?
2019‑12‑27: Tony Brooker and the Atlas Compiler Compiler.
2019‑12‑27: Source code linking in C2Rust: merging C headers into Rust modules.
2019‑12‑26: LEGO block structures as a sub-kelvin thermal insulator.
2019‑12‑25: Gameslab: an FPGA-powered handheld game console.
2019‑12‑24: SOICbite: a program/debug connector for an SOIC test clip.
2019‑12‑24: The shitty add-on standard v1.69bis for electronic con badges.
2019‑12‑24: A business card that runs Linux.
2019‑12‑24: Flattening quadratic Béziers.
2019‑12‑24: In praise of property-based testing.
2019‑12‑24: Implementing WebGPU in Gecko.
2019‑12‑24: Now you see it, now you don't: a large-scale analysis of early domain deletions.
2019‑12‑24: What broke the bank: the failed TSB IT migration.
2019‑12‑22: Winter Solstice, Camelot Station.
2019‑12‑20: Bisecting Rust compiler regressions with cargo-bisect-rustc.
2019‑12‑20: The common Rust traits.
2019‑12‑20: Encoding animated GIFs into pure CSS.
2019‑12‑20: On Linux's random number generator.
2019‑12‑20: A progress update on Game of Trees, an alternative git implementation.
2019‑12‑20: The use of the word 'robust' to describe software in UK law.
2019‑12‑20: Xor filters are faster and smaller than Bloom filters and cuckoo filters.
2019‑12‑19: The Atlas / Titan story.
2019‑12‑19: Google's dangerous monopoly-based foreign policy.
2019‑12‑19: The curious case of the table-locking UPDATE query on PostgreSQL.
2019‑12‑19: Eller's line-at-a-time maze drawing algorithm.
2019‑12‑18: Glush: a robust, human readable, top-down parser compiler.
2019‑12‑18: Stop worrying about blocking: Rust's new async-std runtime, inspired by Golang.
2019‑12‑18: Type families in Typescript.
2019‑12‑18: Don't use booleans.
2019‑12‑17: A letter from Gary Larson about The Far Side website.
2019‑12‑17: FizzBuzz at compile time using C++ constexpr.
2019‑12‑17: Runtime support for multicore Haskell: a retrospective.
2019‑12‑17: Superdeterminism: The path we didn't take.
2019‑12‑17: Hacking GitHub with Unicode's dotless 'i'.
2019‑12‑17: The architecture of a large-scale web search engine, circa 2019.
2019‑12‑17: Building a search engine from scratch.
2019‑12‑16: A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator.
2019‑12‑16: The SQL murder mystery!
2019‑12‑16: Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine.
2019‑12‑16: In service of the narrative in an operational surprise writeup.
2019‑12‑16: iter: a Golang implementation of C++ STL iterators and algorithms.
2019‑12‑15: Pointer authentication in LLVM / Clang.
2019‑12‑15: Best practices for designing a pragmatic RESTful API.
2019‑12‑15: Seven deadly sins of talking about "types".
2019‑12‑14: Modern garbage collection: Shenandoah and ZGC.
2019‑12‑14: How to enable IPv6 in Docker.
2019‑12‑14: Wine support for win32 on 64-bit-only macOS Catalina.
2019‑12‑14: How we increased our Node.js parallelism by 30x.
2019‑12‑14: Reimagining the PhD.
2019‑12‑14: DepHell: project management for Python.
2019‑12‑14: Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore.
2019‑12‑14: Three ways to reduce the bandwidth costs of your HTTPS API on AWS.
2019‑12‑14: The Amazon AWS premium.
2019‑12‑14: Soundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
2019‑12‑13: hyper v0.13: an async HTTP library for Rust.
2019‑12‑13: pg_query: parse PostgreSQL queries in Ruby.
2019‑12‑13: Introducing sqlc: compile SQL queries to type-safe Golang.
2019‑12‑13: Blocking inside async code in Rust.
2019‑12‑13: The seductive diversion of 'solving' bias in artificial intelligence.
2019‑12‑13: The surprising breadth of harbingers of failure: customers who buy products that fail.
2019‑12‑13: A better Internet is waiting for us.
2019‑12‑13: Conway's law: How do committees invent?
2019‑12‑13: Experiments in constraint-based graphic design.
2019‑12‑13: Solving the mystery of HRT shortages in the UK.
2019‑12‑13: Threads can infect each other with their low priority.
2019‑12‑13: PostgreSQL 12 EXPLAIN SETTINGS.
2019‑12‑13: Dynamically scoped variables in Golang.
2019‑12‑12: Building an Ansible training environment with FreeBSD jails.
2019‑12‑12: Make it simple: a tale about Robert Dewar, Ada, and GNAT.
2019‑12‑12: Odyssey: a scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler.
2019‑12‑11: Best practices for APIs, if you hate your customers.
2019‑12‑11: Results of a security audit of Unbound DNS.
2019‑12‑11: The Nintendo Switch switch.
2019‑12‑11: OpenLayers: easy dynamic maps on web pages.
2019‑12‑11: ZMOB: a multiprocessor computer with 256 Z80 CPUs. (1981)
2019‑12‑11: The ZedRipper multi-core Z80 laptop.
2019‑12‑10: Report of the Stanford workshop on network buffer sizing.
2019‑12‑10: DNS abuse framework.
2019‑12‑09: How simple rules 'bootstrap' the laws of physics.
2019‑12‑09: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is accidentally quadratic.
2019‑12‑09: SubX: bringing sub seasonal 3-to-4 week weather forecasts from research to operations.
2019‑12‑08: Don't learn to code, learn to automate.
2019‑12‑08: How to match "A B C" where A+B=C with a regex.
2019‑12‑06: Stepping up to the GraphQL buffet.
2019‑12‑06: Why ISOC sold .ORG to private equity.
2019‑12‑06: No to Google Chrome.
2019‑12‑06: Cliqz: a new search engine.
2019‑12‑05: How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer.
2019‑12‑05: How I defeated the Tolkien estate.
2019‑12‑05: Challenge: find Twitter memes with suffix arrays.
2019‑12‑04: The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system.
2019‑12‑04: Aerospace Corp's role in the development of GPS.
2019‑12‑04: Abusing PostgreSQL as a SQL beautifier.
2019‑12‑04: The Cannonball Run record has been broken again.
2019‑12‑04: How to build and market IPv6-only services.
2019‑12‑04: The science of Wi-Fi on airplanes.
2019‑12‑04: Sinkholed: story of a domain takedown.
2019‑12‑04: Flaws in HumanReadableByteCount(), the most copied StackOverflow snippet.
2019‑12‑03: Symptoms of groupthink.
2019‑12‑03: An interactive model-based calculator of cycling power vs. speed.
2019‑12‑03: Minesweeper and logical circuits.
2019‑12‑03: Internet Society says Ethos Capital's offer to buy .org for $1.14bn came out of the blue.
2019‑12‑03: niche-museums.com, powered by Datasette.
2019‑12‑03: datasette-atom: define an atom feed using a custom SQL query.
2019‑12‑03: I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo, and you should too.
2019‑12‑03: Did ISOC leave $1 billion on the table?
2019‑12‑03: The .org fire sale: how it sold for less than half its valuation.
2019‑12‑03: How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too).
2019‑12‑03: Notes on adding IEC power symbols to Unicode.
2019‑12‑02: TAGS, simplified.
2019‑12‑01: The world needs Cliqz. The world needs more search engines.
2019‑11‑30: Is inequality inevitable?
2019‑11‑29: Flow parallel multithreaded HTML5 browser, by Ekioh in Cambridge.
2019‑11‑29: DDR4 initialization and calibration.
2019‑11‑28: RedoxOS on real hardware, and self-hosting support for rustc.
2019‑11‑28: Automated front-end testing is not working.
2019‑11‑28: Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests.
2019‑11‑28: Student rental scams.
2019‑11‑27: Teacher effects on student achievement and height: a cautionary tale.
2019‑11‑27: AWS instance metadata service (IMDSv2) protection against server-side request forgery (SSRF).
2019‑11‑27: Comby: structural matching and rewriting for code.
2019‑11‑26: dy: construct YAML from a directory tree.
2019‑11‑26: Hours of daylight mapped as a function of latitude and time of year.
2019‑11‑26: How do you remove unused CSS from a web site?
2019‑11‑26: Independent review of TSB's failed 2018 banking platform migration.
2019‑11‑25: The big push! IBM 360 Model 20 transported to the UK.
2019‑11‑25: Mariana Mazzucato has reinvigorated the most important battle in economics.
2019‑11‑25: The infinite hows: an argument against Five Whys and an alternative approach.
2019‑11‑25: ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .ORG heist.
2019‑11‑24: git-subtrac: all your git submodules in one place.
2019‑11‑24: Critical perspectives on provable security: fifteen years of "Another Look" papers.
2019‑11‑23: Python Tutor: ten years as a solo maintainer of open-source software in academia.
2019‑11‑23: Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm.
2019‑11‑23: The ICs of 2030.
2019‑11‑23: Forging a path away from containers and config tools.
2019‑11‑23: AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence.
2019‑11‑23: Towards a unified theory of reactive UI.
2019‑11‑23: Save .ORG
2019‑11‑23: The power of one-state Turing machines.
2019‑11‑22: Wrapping images around Julia set fractals.
2019‑11‑22: A survey of error handling crates for Rust.
2019‑11‑22: Thermal performance of Raspberry Pi 4 firmware updates.
2019‑11‑22: Golang's features of last resort.
2019‑11‑22: Bits on the wire.
2019‑11‑22: Multi-value all the wasm with Rust!
2019‑11‑22: Thoughts on error handling in Rust.
2019‑11‑21: Stacked Borrows: an aliasing model for Rust. (paper)
2019‑11‑21: Rust compiler bug test case reduction techniques.
2019‑11‑21: The Firefox UI is now built with Web Components.
2019‑11‑21: An interview about PostgreSQL extensions.
2019‑11‑21: Myths programmers believe about CPU caches.
2019‑11‑20: Debian init systems: what, another GR?
2019‑11‑20: A memoir of working on "black" secret space programs.
2019‑11‑20: Restoring UNIX v0 on a PDP-7: a look behind the scenes.
2019‑11‑20: Allsorts: a font shaping engine in Rust.
2019‑11‑20: Accidentally breaking GitHub Actions with a shorthash collision.
2019‑11‑20: How to recognize AI snake oil.
2019‑11‑19: Clang format tanks performance?!
2019‑11‑19: UCB CSRG BSD source code history converted from SCCS to git.
2019‑11‑19: ISO C18 final committee draft.
2019‑11‑19: Google search results have more human help than you think.
2019‑11‑19: AT&T released Vyatta DANOS disaggregated network operating system to Linux Foundation.
2019‑11‑18: The difference between fault tolerance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
2019‑11‑18: Understanding Rust Serde.
2019‑11‑18: Brand hijacking and Amazon's China strategy.
2019‑11‑18: Welcome to China. You probably can't buy anything, though.
2019‑11‑18: What makes a good runbook?
2019‑11‑17: Instant stone (just add water!)
2019‑11‑17: Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices.
2019‑11‑17: The Consul outage that never happened.
2019‑11‑16: CSS utility classes and "separation of concerns".
2019‑11‑16: The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford.
2019‑11‑16: drgn: scriptable debugger library.
2019‑11‑16: Cue and the configuration complexity curse.
2019‑11‑15: The architecture of declarative configuration management.
2019‑11‑15: Me and monotropism: a unified theory of autism.
2019‑11‑15: SCION: scalability, control, and isolation on next-generation networks.
2019‑11‑15: Private equity company acquires .org registry.
2019‑11‑15: The early history of Usenet, part 1: the technological setting.
2019‑11‑15: Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4.
2019‑11‑14: Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
2019‑11‑14: Explaining 4K 60Hz video through USB-C hubs.
2019‑11‑14: Configure HAProxy with PostgreSQL using built-in pgsql-check.
2019‑11‑14: Making mystery-solving easier with auto_explain for PostgreSQL.
2019‑11‑14: The maturing of QUIC.
2019‑11‑13: Box. (YouTube)
2019‑11‑13: A weird Internet career in linguistics.
2019‑11‑13: Ancient earth: a visualization of continental drift. (WebGL)
2019‑11‑13: How linguists are using Urban Dictionary.
2019‑11‑13: Notes on type layouts and ABIs in Rust.
2019‑11‑12: The Google squeeze.
2019‑11‑12: CSS in librsvg is now in Rust, courtesy of Mozilla Servo.
2019‑11‑12: Test-driving ARM cloud servers by compiling LLVM.
2019‑11‑11: Staticcheck in action: catching bugs in Golang.
2019‑11‑10: The New Zealand Poly computer preservation project.
2019‑11‑09: The darker side of lean: an insider's perspective on the Toyota Production System.
2019‑11‑09: Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends.
2019‑11‑09: PostgreSQL is a great pubsub and job server.
2019‑11‑09: Everyone working in DevOps should read The Toyota Way.
2019‑11‑09: Nesting limits in JSON parsers.
2019‑11‑09: Kubernetes made my latency 10x higher.
2019‑11‑09: How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't.
2019‑11‑08: Type-driven design: parse, don't validate.
2019‑11‑08: Type-level programming in Rust for safer hardware abstractions.
2019‑11‑08: IBM terminals and the history of the 80×24 display.
2019‑11‑07: Gigabit ethernet over plastic optical fibre.
2019‑11‑07: Bypassing GitHub's OAuth flow with a HEAD request.
2019‑11‑06: postgres-checkup: deep analysis of PostgreSQL database health.
2019‑11‑06: The PostgreSQL billion tables project.
2019‑11‑06: Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy with AVX512.
2019‑11‑05: Typing errors: Dvorak is not better than QWERTY.
2019‑11‑05: The lost ⋮ key of QWERTY
2019‑11‑05: Systemd timer units hide errors in journald, unlike cron.
2019‑11‑04: Zola: a static site generator written in Rust.
2019‑11‑04: Light Commands: laser-based audio injection on voice-controllable systems.
2019‑11‑04: A portrait in baroque / flemish style, in pure CSS.
2019‑11‑04: David Rosenhan's flawed paper on psychiatric pseudopatients.
2019‑11‑04: DNS wars.
2019‑11‑04: View MySQL / MariaDB query progress with `pmonitor`.
2019‑11‑03: Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs.
2019‑11‑03: Web browsers will no longer have a single shared cache across all sites / origins.
2019‑11‑03: gendrendr: highlight the inaccuracy and violence of assigning genders to others.
2019‑11‑02: Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C gadget mode.
2019‑11‑02: Always bump downwards when allocating memory.
2019‑11‑02: A theorem of software engineering: the shortest possible schedule.
2019‑11‑02: U2F support in OpenSSH HEAD.
2019‑10‑31: Women's stories from the computer room.
2019‑10‑31: Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing.
2019‑10‑31: A gentle introduction to the wonderful world of Prometheus metrics.
2019‑10‑30: Hello, production!
2019‑10‑30: After using both, I regretted switching from Terraform to CloudFormation.
2019‑10‑30: Seamless application failover using libpq features in PostgreSQL.
2019‑10‑30: Fine tuning full text search with PostgreSQL 12.
2019‑10‑30: PostgreSQL major version upgrade using logical replication.
2019‑10‑30: Beating std::visit in D without really trying.
2019‑10‑30: unfork() is the inverse of fork(2). sort of.
2019‑10‑29: XML is almost always misused.
2019‑10‑29: Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects.
2019‑10‑29: Text editing hates you too.
2019‑10‑29: Operon: extreme performance for Ansible.
2019‑10‑28: Thatcher had a battle plan for her economic revolution. The left needs one too.
2019‑10‑28: Minimal Wim: a grid-based typography experiment.
2019‑10‑27: Why it is hard for Rust to support async fn in traits.
2019‑10‑27: Telling whiskey from whisky by evaporation residues.
2019‑10‑26: Commas in big numbers everywhere: an OpenType adventure.
2019‑10‑26: GCC's assembler syntax.
2019‑10‑26: The wonders of the suffix tree through the lens of Ukkonen's algorithm.
2019‑10‑25: Rust vs C++ on floating-point intensive code.
2019‑10‑25: The future of open access academic publication.
2019‑10‑25: The (quantum computing) Talk.
2019‑10‑25: A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the programmer's manual, 1971-1986.
2019‑10‑24: Why are terminal windows traditionally 80×25?
2019‑10‑23: Floorplan: spatial layout in memory management systems for Rust.
2019‑10‑22: Faster quaternion arithmetic by XORing floating point sign bits.
2019‑10‑22: Where `rustc` spends its time.
2019‑10‑22: Structural insight: Lisp and interpreted programming languages.
2019‑10‑22: 70 vs 100: if you can stop safely at the speed limit, how fast do you crash when speeding?
2019‑10‑22: Examining how AWS builds their own serverless apps.
2019‑10‑21: What breaks our systems: a taxonomy of black swans.
2019‑10‑21: Unix: a history and a memoir, by Brian Kernighan. (Amazon)
2019‑10‑21: International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
2019‑10‑21: Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
2019‑10‑19: Are aerospike engines better than traditional rocket engines?
2019‑10‑19: Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby.
2019‑10‑19: Ahh shhgit! Real-time detection of credentials leaked in git commits.
2019‑10‑18: libgcc: when exceptions collide.
2019‑10‑18: Problem details for HTTP APIs.
2019‑10‑18: REST is the new SOAP.
2019‑10‑18: Software testing anti-patterns.
2019‑10‑18: A £190M research programme around ARM's Morello, an experimental ARMv8-A CPU, SoC, and board with CHERI support.
2019‑10‑18: The earliest Unix code: an anniversary source code release.
2019‑10‑18: Types for units of measure in Rust.
2019‑10‑18: ARM leading a UK Government programme to create a capability-secure chip platform.
2019‑10‑18: Making a fast char searcher in C.
2019‑10‑17: Verb-noun vs noun-verb.
2019‑10‑17: Vulcain: HTTP/2 server push for fast and idiomatic client-driven REST APIs.
2019‑10‑17: The node experiment: exploring async basics with Rust
2019‑10‑17: Nondeterministic collations in PostgreSQL 12.
2019‑10‑17: No-one knows the type of char + char.
2019‑10‑16: I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system, and you should too.
2019‑10‑16: I hate Xlib and so should you.
2019‑10‑16: Beating C with an 80 line `wc` in Haskell.
2019‑10‑16: Google can't fix the Android update problem.
2019‑10‑16: Bloody story of Java and embedded databases in RIPE's RPKI validator.
2019‑10‑15: DNS security: threat modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH.
2019‑10‑15: Notes on porting from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
2019‑10‑15: Firefox privacy how-to guide.
2019‑10‑15: A Kubernetes crime story.
2019‑10‑14: Distributed types on the Erlang BEAM.
2019‑10‑14: Making Rust's Tokio scheduler 10x faster.
2019‑10‑14: How Heap failed, then succeeded, at migrating from CoffeeScript to TypeScript.
2019‑10‑14: Underscores and SEO arms races.
2019‑10‑13: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf.
2019‑10‑13: Binary arithmetic in the TypeScript type system.
2019‑10‑13: The tyranny of stucturelessness. (1971)
2019‑10‑13: Trashing: the dark side of sisterhood. (1976)
2019‑10‑13: HOWTO make Linux run blazing fast (again) on Intel CPUs.
2019‑10‑12: Response to "fibers under the magnifying glass".
2019‑10‑12: The surprising limitations of C++ ranges beyond trivial cases.
2019‑10‑12: The most important software design guideline. (YouTube)
2019‑10‑12: Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
2019‑10‑12: Solving remote build cache misses in Gradle Android builds.
2019‑10‑12: PostgreSQL when it's not your job.
2019‑10‑12: You cannot cURL under pressure.
2019‑10‑12: Fibers under the magnifying glass.
2019‑10‑12: How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2019.
2019‑10‑12: The new function prototype for objc_msgSend.
2019‑10‑11: How Monzo's security team handles secrets.
2019‑10‑11: BPF at Facebook (and beyond).
2019‑10‑11: A party parrot meme mystery has been solved.
2019‑10‑11: Video footage of the PDP-7 on which Unix started.
2019‑10‑11: 8 papers that were rejected before winning a Nobel prize.
2019‑10‑10: Build systems à la carte.
2019‑10‑10: What's going on with WhatFreeWords?
2019‑10‑10: Ownership and impl Trait in Rust.
2019‑10‑10: How kettles switch off when the water boils.
2019‑10‑10: Floppy disk history: The evolution of personal computing.
2019‑10‑10: Postmodern C tooling.
2019‑10‑09: Guix reduces reproducible build bootstrap seed TCB to 120MB.
2019‑10‑09: Formally modelling database migrations using Alloy.
2019‑10‑09: Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability.
2019‑10‑09: jtc: JSON manipulation and transformation tool.
2019‑10‑09: Defining types in the Shen programming language.
2019‑10‑08: How do individual contributors get stuck?
2019‑10‑08: Applying SRE principles to US government recruitment and hiring for technical staff.
2019‑10‑08: Kubernetes liveness probes are dangerous.
2019‑10‑08: URGENT/11 zero day vulnerabilities in the IPnet TCP/IP stack used by VxWorks and other RTOSs.
2019‑10‑08: A modern CSS reset.
2019‑10‑08: Effect of network traffic engineering on TCP connections between AWS regions.
2019‑10‑08: R, the master troll of statistical languages.
2019‑10‑08: R is a joy if you treat it like awk.
2019‑10‑07: Replication configuration changes in PostgreSQL 12.
2019‑10‑07: My application ran away and called home from Redmond.
2019‑10‑07: SLOG: cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff.
2019‑10‑07: Testing in production: the hard parts.
2019‑10‑07: id-objmodel: simple dynamic dispatch for C.
2019‑10‑06: High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself.
2019‑10‑06: Recommended tools for building geospatial web applications.
2019‑10‑06: Break before make, DevOps abstraction layers, and bad DNS.
2019‑10‑05: Turning over: why page turners matter.
2019‑10‑05: Whither literate programming: what went wrong?
2019‑10‑04: 25,000 RIPE LIRs: an end to the milestone highs?
2019‑10‑04: Pricing niche products: selling mechanical keyboard kits with a Vickrey auction.
2019‑10‑04: picolibc: a BSD licensed libc for embedded systems.
2019‑10‑04: Too many outer joins.
2019‑10‑04: SQL queries don't start with SELECT.
2019‑10‑03: Is "ass" the most complicated word in English?
2019‑10‑03: Autoantonyms.
2019‑10‑03: Stepping on Rakes: a review of Terry Eagleton's Humour and Peter Timms' Silliness.
2019‑10‑02: Same-site cookies by default.
2019‑10‑02: A new R6RS Scheme compiler for Linux and bare metal amd64.
2019‑10‑02: PDFex attack exfiltrates data from encrypted PDF files.
2019‑10‑01: A new online era of The Far Side is coming!
2019‑10‑01: Processing 40 TB of code from ~10 million project with scc.
2019‑10‑01: A guide to HTML <head> elements.
2019‑10‑01: Golang interfaces: the tricky parts.
2019‑10‑01: My god, it's full of dots!
2019‑10‑01: The failed political promise of Silicon Valley.
2019‑09‑30: The asymmetry of Internet identity.
2019‑09‑30: Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup.
2019‑09‑30: A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer.
2019‑09‑30: Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the npm ecosystem.
2019‑09‑30: Before the East India Company.
2019‑09‑30: Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix using a MIP solver.
2019‑09‑30: MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
2019‑09‑30: SCIP solver for mixed integer programming (MIP) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP).
2019‑09‑30: MIP formulations and linearizations quick reference.
2019‑09‑30: Cbc: open-source mixed integer linear programming solver.
2019‑09‑29: JSON for modern C++.
2019‑09‑29: Text rendering hates you.
2019‑09‑29: Representing and editing JSON with Google Sheets.
2019‑09‑29: Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
2019‑09‑29: Relaxed JSON.
2019‑09‑28: Games economists play.
2019‑09‑28: Poor man's PoE for Raspberry Pi.
2019‑09‑28: DevOps topologies.
2019‑09‑28: Abusing Kubernetes defaults for privilege escalation.
2019‑09‑28: A developer goes to a DevOps conference.
2019‑09‑28: Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains.
2019‑09‑26: Blind software development at 450 words per minute.
2019‑09‑26: Advanced SQL: window frames.
2019‑09‑26: Using PostgreSQL row level security to make large companies more secure.
2019‑09‑25: The async builder pattern in Rust.
2019‑09‑25: SNI proxy.
2019‑09‑25: Performance metrics for blazingly fast web apps.
2019‑09‑25: Georgia Tech Software Tools subsystem and C compiler for Prime computers.
2019‑09‑25: Reversing an unknown CPU at DSCTF 2019.
2019‑09‑24: Types for Python HTTP APIs at Instagram.
2019‑09‑24: Promising new hard disk technology.
2019‑09‑24: Excavating AI: the politics of images in machine learning training sets.
2019‑09‑24: ImageNet Roulette.
2019‑09‑24: A few special-case performance enhancements in PostgreSQL 12.
2019‑09‑23: Serverless: 15% slower and 8x more expensive.
2019‑09‑23: Measuring DNS resolver centrality.
2019‑09‑23: Weld: accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM.
2019‑09‑23: Folding paper polyhedral globes to print and make.
2019‑09‑22: How to serve 200Gbit/s of TLS from one FreeBSD server.
2019‑09‑22: Moore's Law graphed vs real CPUs & GPUs 1965-2019. (YouTube)
2019‑09‑21: How I collected the complete short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
2019‑09‑20: The state of uBlock Origin (and other blockers) for Safari.
2019‑09‑19: Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++.
2019‑09‑19: Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
2019‑09‑19: Apple push notification device tokens in iOS 13.
2019‑09‑19: Improved support for C variadic functions in Rust and C2Rust.
2019‑09‑18: Reflinks vs symlinks vs hard links, and how they can help machine learning projects.
2019‑09‑18: DVC: a version control system for machine learning data.
2019‑09‑17: Why is the fossil record mostly male?
2019‑09‑17: A radio telescope sundial for the Very Large Array in New Mexico.
2019‑09‑17: Hard disk prices from Amazon UK.
2019‑09‑16: A tenfold increase in Varnish throughput by replacing libvmod-curl with native request restarts.
2019‑09‑16: LastPass leaks credentials from previous site.
2019‑09‑16: BGP, 'screaming car wreck' of internet routing, needs a fire brigade.
2019‑09‑15: Reverse engineering game cartridge printed circuit boards.
2019‑09‑15: I have a feeling we're not in Emerald City anymore: a satirical history of Ada.
2019‑09‑14: How hackers invented kiteboarding.
2019‑09‑14: Parallel GCC research project.
2019‑09‑14: Save thousands of dollars by packing Kubernetes pods efficiently.
2019‑09‑14: $1,000,000 worth of invalid EV certificates revoked.
2019‑09‑13: "DevOps didn't exist when I started as a developer."
2019‑09‑13: BLUF: make your writing more powerful with the bottom line up front.
2019‑09‑13: Big features of TypeScript 3.7 and how to use them.
2019‑09‑12: The ultimate guide to HTML and CSS support in mail clients.
2019‑09‑12: bic: a C interpreter and API explorer.
2019‑09‑12: Efficient string copying and concatenation in C with memccpy().
2019‑09‑12: The electric eel is actually three species, and not an eel.
2019‑09‑12: Introducing caniemail.com: HTML and CSS interoperability in mail messages.
2019‑09‑12: Why Ada is the language you want to be programming your systems with.
2019‑09‑12: Debian Perl: digital detective.
2019‑09‑12: Improving the compile time of a Rust crate.
2019‑09‑11: Fairphone 3 teardown.
2019‑09‑11: NY payroll company vanishes with $35 million.
2019‑09‑11: How prohibition tossed a wet blanket on America's inventors.
2019‑09‑11: Quantum INTERCAL.
2019‑09‑11: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding.
2019‑09‑11: Why Teslas aren't the future.
2019‑09‑11: Face recognition, bad people, and bad data.
2019‑09‑11: A famous argument against free will has been debunked.
2019‑09‑10: Uber's path of destruction.
2019‑09‑10: What does "it's a good start" really mean?
2019‑09‑10: A guide to Aussie slang.
2019‑09‑10: American phrase book.
2019‑09‑10: The tale of the missing semaphore.
2019‑09‑10: How to chair an academic committee.
2019‑09‑10: Strategies for fast lexical analysis.
2019‑09‑10: Myths about USB-C.
2019‑09‑10: A checklist for empirical evaluation, against replication difficulties in computer science.
2019‑09‑10: Put down that banana, beekeeper.
2019‑09‑09: psychec: ML-style type inference for C.
2019‑09‑09: Towards a secured Android smartphone.
2019‑09‑09: Policy debt.
2019‑09‑09: Uses for the popcount instruction.
2019‑09‑08: On string lengths and Unicode encodings.
2019‑09‑07: DNS-over-HTTPS privacy and security concerns.
2019‑09‑07: Thoughts on presenting a talk.
2019‑09‑07: Does Sean Bean really die more than other actors?
2019‑09‑07: From mind control to murder: a deadly fall revealed the CIA's MK-Ultra secrets.
2019‑09‑07: Ronald Fisher, a bad cup of tea, and the birth of modern statistics.
2019‑09‑07: Links to pages about COBOL web programming.
2019‑09‑07: Can science survive without statistical significance?
2019‑09‑06: 42 is an answer to the question, what is the sum of three cubes?
2019‑09‑06: How to do a code review at Google.
2019‑09‑06: Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second.
2019‑09‑06: What the Uffington white horse reveals about the value of maintenance.
2019‑09‑06: Cytoscape.js: visualisation library for networks / graphs.
2019‑09‑06: dc.js: dimensional charting in JavaScript.
2019‑09‑06: An introduction to D3.js.
2019‑09‑06: DDSketch: a fast and fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees.
2019‑09‑05: Computer science from the bottom up.
2019‑09‑05: Active learning is more effective, but students don't think so.
2019‑09‑05: Universal adversarial triggers for attacking and analyzing NLP.
2019‑09‑05: Why you need plpgsql_check if you write stored procedures for PostgreSQL.
2019‑09‑05: Thunderbolt 3 cables longer than 0.5m generally don't support USB 3.1 speeds.
2019‑09‑05: The most gender-switched names in the US.
2019‑09‑04: Why does CD digital audio have a 44.1 kHz sample rate?
2019‑09‑04: pspg: table-aware pager for PostgreSQL.
2019‑09‑04: What happened to Hadoop?
2019‑09‑04: Semantic validation in Rust.
2019‑09‑04: Teardown of a failed Linux LTS Spectre fix.
2019‑09‑04: sqldef: idempotent MySQL/PostgreSQL schema management.
2019‑09‑04: Mangling dependent parameter types in C++, or, what happened to std::default_order.
2019‑09‑04: A century of “shrill”: how bias in technology has hurt women's voices.
2019‑09‑04: AssemblyScript: a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler.
2019‑09‑04: A static compiler for the TypeScript programming language to Thumb machine code.
2019‑09‑03: oreboot: a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
2019‑09‑03: Pseudorandom black swans: cache attacks on CTR_DRBG.
2019‑09‑03: Shenanigans with interface vtable hashing.
2019‑09‑03: Dave Jaggar's history of the ARM microprocessor architecture. (YouTube)
2019‑09‑03: NLP's Clever Hans moment has arrived.
2019‑09‑02: Tired of Stack Overflow.
2019‑09‑02: Linkers: a 20 part series.
2019‑09‑02: Beginner's guide to linkers.
2019‑09‑02: The GNU configure and build system.
2019‑09‑02: An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++.
2019‑09‑02: Unix at 50.
2019‑09‑02: 10 ways to tweak slow SQL queries.
2019‑09‑02: Building interactive SSH applications.
2019‑09‑01: Leon Sans: a geometric sans-serif typeface in JavaScript.
2019‑09‑01: The life sciences advance one funeral at a time.
2019‑09‑01: You should not run your mail server because mail is hard?
2019‑09‑01: The design of littlefs: a fail-safe filesystem for microcontrollers.
2019‑09‑01: What really happened in the UK blackouts?
2019‑08‑31: Power bends light.
2019‑08‑31: Croup and ipecac in Anne of Green Gables.
2019‑08‑31: What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
2019‑08‑31: Linux pressure stall information (PSI): better load averages.
2019‑08‑31: Why robots should have googly eyes.
2019‑08‑29: Write fuzzable code.
2019‑08‑29: Actually using crev / the problem of trusting software dependencies.
2019‑08‑29: DEC WRL Titan system manual. (1988)
2019‑08‑29: Async stack traces in Rust.
2019‑08‑28: Performance tuning PostgreSQL for SquareSpace's TLS certificate service.
2019‑08‑28: PostgreSQL row level security, views, and a lot of magic.
2019‑08‑28: Managing high availability in PostgreSQL: PAF vs repmgr vs Patroni.
2019‑08‑28: Lessons learned debugging an ssh scaling problem at GitLab.
2019‑08‑28: Pay a visit to Cambridge's computer museum.
2019‑08‑28: GoAccess: visual web log analyzer, in C, in the terminal.
2019‑08‑28: How web pages affect power usage.
2019‑08‑27: Just enough piracy can be a good thing.
2019‑08‑27: Dungeons & Deceptions: the first D&D players and the origins of the game.
2019‑08‑26: The astonishing gothic interior of David Parr's house.
2019‑08‑26: Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow?
2019‑08‑26: The difference between database isolation levels and consistency levels.
2019‑08‑26: Report on December's CenturyLink network outage.
2019‑08‑26: Complicated and complex systems in safety management.
2019‑08‑25: A flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers.
2019‑08‑25: Tweets about Dublin (some in Irish)
2019‑08‑25: Blame economists for the mess we're in.
2019‑08‑25: What the Code of Hammurabi can teach us about software liability.
2019‑08‑25: Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture.
2019‑08‑24: Does capital imply coercion?
2019‑08‑24: P99: preprocessor macros and functions for C99 and C11.
2019‑08‑24: C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms.
2019‑08‑24: Introducing nushell.
2019‑08‑23: Deadly superbug outbreak in humans linked to antibiotic spike in cows.
2019‑08‑23: Adding continuous rendering to the PlantUML server.
2019‑08‑23: Deconstructing Google's excuses on tracking protection.
2019‑08‑23: About GNU readline.
2019‑08‑23: Why does developing on Kubernetes suck?
2019‑08‑23: The crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics.
2019‑08‑23: The origins of JavaScript sandbox realms.
2019‑08‑23: How to build a JavaScript sandbox in a web browser.
2019‑08‑23: Some obscure C features.
2019‑08‑23: Irish firm's device to detect IBS triggers praised by researchers.
2019‑08‑22: Thoughts on Rust bloat.
2019‑08‑21: The web browser monopoly.
2019‑08‑21: git-filter-repo: a fast and flexible git-filter-branch replacement.
2019‑08‑21: Conventional Commits: A specification for formatted commit messages.
2019‑08‑21: A look at HS2's huge Old Oak Common station.
2019‑08‑21: Calculus is deeply irrational.
2019‑08‑21: Kaspersky in the middle: what could possibly go wrong?
2019‑08‑21: The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is "No."
2019‑08‑21: Where do interrupts happen?
2019‑08‑21: The financialization of the American elite.
2019‑08‑21: How Rust optimizes async/await.
2019‑08‑21: Ten simple rules for responsible referencing.
2019‑08‑21: "Patent troll" is opinion, not defamation.
2019‑08‑20: 21st century datacenter locations driven by 19th century politics.
2019‑08‑20: Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket.
2019‑08‑20: The power of speaking Polari.
2019‑08‑19: 4 rules for intuitive UX.
2019‑08‑19: A 3D map of building ages in the Netherlands.
2019‑08‑19: async-std: an async version of the Rust standard library.
2019‑08‑17: Rubber Band audio time stretcher library.
2019‑08‑16: The order of the JSON.
2019‑08‑16: Minimum benchmark times can be misleading.
2019‑08‑16: WebKit tracking prevention policy.
2019‑08‑15: Google fails to provide "One account. All of Google."
2019‑08‑15: A history and evaluation of IBM System R.
2019‑08‑15: Runtime configuration reloading in Rust.
2019‑08‑15: Parsing Rust strings into slices.
2019‑08‑14: A history of Slonik, the PostgreSQL elephant logo.
2019‑08‑14: Bamboozling X.509 certificate authorities with BGP.
2019‑08‑13: A short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers.
2019‑08‑13: DMTF Redfish: a standard RESTful LOM API.
2019‑08‑13: NFLX-2019-002: HTTP/2 denial of service vulnerabilities.
2019‑08‑13: Timeline to remove gcc 4.2.1 from FreeBSD.
2019‑08‑13: Bypass Windows user interface privilege isolation via the CTF input method protocol.
2019‑08‑13: Best practices for code review.
2019‑08‑13: Paged Out! a new experimental free magazine about programming.
2019‑08‑13: The rule of 140.
2019‑08‑13: Top seven myths of robust systems.
2019‑08‑13: R13Y: are NixOS builds reproducible?
2019‑08‑13: Banana-killing Panama disease TR4 has arrived in Latin America.
2019‑08‑13: IndieWeb link sharing.
2019‑08‑13: Await in Rust.
2019‑08‑13: The horror of Microsoft Teams.
2019‑08‑12: Extended Validation TLS certificates are really really dead.
2019‑08‑12: Home 3D metal printing: first results.
2019‑08‑12: Hall's Law: interchangeable parts and the 1800s industrial revolution prequel to Moore's Law.
2019‑08‑12: Spying on HTTPS.
2019‑08‑12: A personal history of modeless text editing and cut/copy-paste.
2019‑08‑11: Bec Hill's translation of Edith Piaf's "Non Je Ne Regrette Rien".
2019‑08‑11: Don't say "homoiconic".
2019‑08‑10: What does a coder do if they can't type?
2019‑08‑10: H3+: the molecules that made the universe.
2019‑08‑10: H2 in space explains dark matter and redshift.
2019‑08‑10: Kepler's forgotten ideas about symmetry help explain spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter.
2019‑08‑10: Porting Unix to the IBM Series-1 minicomputer.
2019‑08‑10: Game of Trees: an implementation of git for OpenBSD.
2019‑08‑10: Swift ExpressibleBy protocols: What they are and how they work.
2019‑08‑10: Parallelism in PostgreSQL.
2019‑08‑10: Measuring DNS qname minimization.
2019‑08‑09: The Erlang rationale.
2019‑08‑09: Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago.
2019‑08‑09: Unix commands for breaking out of restricted shells.
2019‑08‑08: Writing delightful HTTP middleware in Golang.
2019‑08‑07: HTTP desync attacks: request smuggling reborn.
2019‑08‑07: Understanding Rust through AVL trees.
2019‑08‑07: plpgsql_check: find compilation errors and profile functions in PostgreSQL.
2019‑08‑07: Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
2019‑08‑07: A formal investigation of diff3.
2019‑08‑07: Recording 660fps video on a $6 Raspberry Pi camera.
2019‑08‑07: 10 years of seL4: still the best, still getting better.
2019‑08‑07: Arend: a theorem prover based on Homotopy Type Theory.
2019‑08‑07: C-mera: Lisp macros for metaprogramming C-like languages.
2019‑08‑07: The last working Olivetti mainframe sits in a Tuscan high school.
2019‑08‑07: Fact check: What you may have heard from Elsevier about the dispute with UC.
2019‑08‑07: Don't underestimate grep based code security scanning.
2019‑08‑07: Wine on Windows 10. It works.
2019‑08‑06: Scalable scanning and automatic classification of TLS CBC padding oracle attacks.
2019‑08‑06: Vectorized emulation: hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second.
2019‑08‑06: Pwnie award nominations.
2019‑08‑05: Switching from Common Lisp to Julia.
2019‑08‑05: All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people.
2019‑08‑05: Rust language cheat sheet.
2019‑08‑04: Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself.
2019‑08‑04: Dissecting a dweet: Lorenz attractor.
2019‑08‑04: Securely issuing HTTP requests from the cloud.
2019‑08‑04: A technical analysis of the Capital One AWS S3 hack.
2019‑08‑04: Using PostgreSQL full text search with Golang.
2019‑08‑04: What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search.
2019‑08‑04: Mastering PostgreSQL full-text search and phrase search.
2019‑08‑04: PostgreSQL fulltext search with DBIx::Class.
2019‑08‑03: Tektronix schematic cartoons.
2019‑08‑03: How a 6,000-year-old dog cancer spread around the world.
2019‑08‑03: Killing a process and all of its descendants.
2019‑08‑03: Motion smoothing is ruining cinema.
2019‑08‑03: How Atlassian stopped XML vulnerabilities from landing in production.
2019‑08‑02: I assure you, medieval people bathed.
2019‑08‑02: Astronauts plan to bake cookies on the ISS.
2019‑08‑01: John Mashey on RISC vs CISC.
2019‑08‑01: The enduring mystery of 'jawn,' Philadelphia's all-purpose word.
2019‑08‑01: Touchpad, Interrupted.
2019‑08‑01: A history of Tetris randomizers.
2019‑08‑01: A discussion of the origins of UNIX filesystem permissions.
2019‑08‑01: Inquiry into the implications for the UK of the proposal to end seasonal clock changes in the EU.
2019‑08‑01: A brief guide to a few algebraic structures.
2019‑08‑01: In Australia, one cat seems to have destroyed an entire bird sanctuary.
2019‑08‑01: Rome's border walls were the beginning of its end.
2019‑07‑31: Golang experience report: generics in Kubernetes.
2019‑07‑31: Thoughts on package dependencies and scaling trust.
2019‑07‑31: After the warming. [1989] (YouTube)
2019‑07‑31: LoRaWAN distance world record: 766km at 25mW.
2019‑07‑31: Container security: a developer guide.
2019‑07‑31: ANTLR: an informal introduction.
2019‑07‑31: Gradual typing from theory to practice.
2019‑07‑31: AWS S3 event notifications have "probably once" delivery.
2019‑07‑30: Learn not to speak Esperanto.
2019‑07‑30: One-bit computing at 60 Hz.
2019‑07‑30: C++ modules might be dead on arrival.
2019‑07‑30: Modern C++ lamentations.
2019‑07‑30: A complete guide to the node.js event loop.
2019‑07‑29: Amazon Web Services: a practical guide.
2019‑07‑29: The encryption/surveillance debate is over, killed by Facebook.
2019‑07‑29: The Swiss Ephemeris is a GPL high precision ephemeris developed by Astrodienst.
2019‑07‑29: Comparisons in C++20.
2019‑07‑29: The hidden costs of automated thinking.
2019‑07‑28: The master of packing-tape calligraphy shares his story.
2019‑07‑28: Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk, they come from families with money.
2019‑07‑28: Goodbye Docker: using Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo instead.
2019‑07‑28: Tokyo subway's duct-tape typographer.
2019‑07‑27: OOP before OOP with Simula.
2019‑07‑27: Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for electronics.
2019‑07‑27: Efficient Golang APIs with the mid-stack inliner.
2019‑07‑26: Not so private thoughts at IETF 105.
2019‑07‑26: Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO₂.
2019‑07‑26: Safely rewriting Mixpanel's highest-throughput service from Python to Golang.
2019‑07‑26: Alpha compositing.
2019‑07‑26: Cosmic ray update: new results from the moon.
2019‑07‑26: No Moore left to give: enterprise computing after Moore's Law.
2019‑07‑26: Decades-old boolean sensitivity conjecture solved in two pages.
2019‑07‑26: Users hate change.
2019‑07‑26: Hacking a Transcend WiFiSD.
2019‑07‑26: SFTPGo: highly configurable SQL-backed SFTP server.
2019‑07‑26: Some criticisms of RISC-V.
2019‑07‑25: Open infrastructure map.
2019‑07‑25: The Internet golden age that wasn't.
2019‑07‑24: Use plaintext email.
2019‑07‑24: How (not) to sign a JSON object.
2019‑07‑24: Notes on a smaller Rust.
2019‑07‑24: Perils of constructors.
2019‑07‑24: Object-oriented programming in C: a case study of git and the Linux kernel.
2019‑07‑24: Automatic index recommendations in PostgreSQL using pg_qualstats and hypopg.
2019‑07‑24: The mysterious PostgreSQL "backend_flush_after" configuration setting.
2019‑07‑24: A client certificate authentication recipe for PostgreSQL Docker containers.
2019‑07‑24: How are PostgreSQL functions and stored procedures replicated?
2019‑07‑24: PostgreSQL tips for average and power users.
2019‑07‑24: BRIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
2019‑07‑24: Standby in production: scaling PostgreSQL for a large classified ads site.
2019‑07‑24: Unblocking second-generation smart meters.
2019‑07‑24: Python anti-patterns.
2019‑07‑24: How the retweet ruined the Internet.
2019‑07‑24: Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".
2019‑07‑24: Norvig and Pitman tutorial on good Lisp programming style.
2019‑07‑24: Pascal Costanza's highly opinionated guide to Lisp.
2019‑07‑24: A Common Lisp style guide.
2019‑07‑24: Algebraic effects for the rest of us.
2019‑07‑24: Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's Ponzi scheme.
2019‑07‑24: Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944-2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382...
2019‑07‑24: Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia.
2019‑07‑23: Kubernetes is in hospice.
2019‑07‑23: Unicode utilities.
2019‑07‑23: URLhaus: a database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution.
2019‑07‑23: Signs your bra may be the wrong size or a snake.
2019‑07‑23: Raspberry Pi time measurement performance.
2019‑07‑23: Racket2 possibilities.
2019‑07‑23: A pgp long key ID collider.
2019‑07‑22: Do-nothing scripting: a path to gradual automation.
2019‑07‑22: A2-class microSD cards offer no better performance for the Raspberry Pi.
2019‑07‑21: Browsers are pretty good at loading web pages, it turns out.
2019‑07‑21: LGP-30: a drum computer of significance.
2019‑07‑21: Intel prepares add support for Google's bfloat16.
2019‑07‑21: Satellite images show vast swaths of the arctic on fire.
2019‑07‑21: The little-known Soviet mission to rescue the dead space station Salyut 7.
2019‑07‑21: Models of generics and metaprogramming: Golang, Rust, Swift, D, and more.
2019‑07‑20: PuTTY 0.72 release following end of EU bug bounty.
2019‑07‑20: A list of private fusion projects.
2019‑07‑20: History and effective use of vim.
2019‑07‑19: A plan to mine the world's research papers.
2019‑07‑19: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off.
2019‑07‑19: DataSpill: browser extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users.
2019‑07‑19: The challenges of single toggle buttons.
2019‑07‑19: The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don't rely on billionaires.
2019‑07‑19: XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation.
2019‑07‑18: How developers use API documentation: an observation study.
2019‑07‑18: Analysis of the Galileo satellite navigation outage.
2019‑07‑17: QuickJS: Fabrice Bellard's JavaScript engine.
2019‑07‑17: Indexing documents for full text search in PostgreSQL.
2019‑07‑17: Not so fast: the performance of WebAssembly vs. native code.
2019‑07‑17: Zelda screen transitions are undefined behaviour.
2019‑07‑17: You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't!
2019‑07‑17: What's coming in Python 3.8?
2019‑07‑17: Certificate flooding, SKS and GnuPG issues, and the Sequoia pgp-in-Rust project.
2019‑07‑17: What is unsafe Rust?
2019‑07‑17: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019.
2019‑07‑17: Stream combinators implemented using for await syntax in Rust.
2019‑07‑17: An interview with Margaret Hamilton.
2019‑07‑17: Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?
2019‑07‑17: Modelling the mythical man-month with the universal scalability law.
2019‑07‑17: Minisign, based on libsodium, compatible with OpenBSD signify.
2019‑07‑17: The PGP problem.
2019‑07‑16: Extending the algebraic manipulability of differentials.
2019‑07‑16: Experience report: rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme.
2019‑07‑16: Elsa: Emacs Lisp static analyzer.
2019‑07‑16: BPF performance tools: Linux system and application observability. (book announcement)
2019‑07‑16: Ownership and borrowing in the D programming language.
2019‑07‑16: Cookies: what does 'good' look like to the UK ICO?
2019‑07‑16: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
2019‑07‑16: A summary of USB-C cable features.
2019‑07‑15: There are 6 kinds of USB-C cables.
2019‑07‑15: dnsfrag2tc: force DNS clients to retry fragmented UDP over TCP using nfqueue.
2019‑07‑15: OpenTTP: a platform for traceable time and frequency.
2019‑07‑15: Against IETF BCP190 on URI design.
2019‑07‑15: bulldohzer: DNS performance measurement tool for DoH and Do53.
2019‑07‑15: Jony Ive's mistakes: when beautiful design is bad design.
2019‑07‑14: What the hardware does is not what your program does with uninitialized memory.
2019‑07‑14: Plot maps of Star Wars.
2019‑07‑14: C++ curiosities: std::move doesn't move.
2019‑07‑13: Why does the C++ standard ship every three years?
2019‑07‑13: C++20 <version> header wreaks havoc on case-insensitive filesystems.
2019‑07‑13: rnp: an OpenPGP library in C++.
2019‑07‑13: notqmail: a collaborative open-source successor to netqmail and qmail.
2019‑07‑13: Tiles to curves: fun with Voronoi graphs.
2019‑07‑12: Literate commits.
2019‑07‑12: International typography on the Web: language support matrix.
2019‑07‑12: ARPANET: the subnet IMPs.
2019‑07‑12: Fuzzing DNS zone parsers.
2019‑07‑11: Lexical differential highlighting.
2019‑07‑11: How to read the international phonetic alphabet.
2019‑07‑11: DoX: a GUI utility for querying DNS via DoH, DoT, or Do53.
2019‑07‑11: Identifying the PDP-7 where Unix began.
2019‑07‑11: DNS fragmentation considered harmful.
2019‑07‑11: Fragmentation considered harmful. (1987)
2019‑07‑11: Pictures of the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory from the early 1970s.
2019‑07‑10: Raspberry Pi 4 PCI Express.
2019‑07‑10: For 40 years, crashing trains was ovne of America's favorite pastimes.
2019‑07‑10: Python consumes a lot of memory; how to reduce the size of objects?
2019‑07‑10: Impact of A1 and A2 microSD card application performance class.
2019‑07‑10: Raspberry Pi 4 microSD card performance comparisons.
2019‑07‑10: Emulating higher-kinded types in Rust.
2019‑07‑10: Rust async-await status report #2.
2019‑07‑09: The "platform" excuse is dying.
2019‑07‑09: Database transaction correctness anomalies under serializable isolation.
2019‑07‑09: The Riemann Hypothesis says 5040 is the last.
2019‑07‑09: Some Dockerfile best practices.
2019‑07‑08: Tips for reviewing code you don't like.
2019‑07‑08: Earth's eighth persistent lava lake confirmed in the South Sandwich Islands.
2019‑07‑08: Cryptographic key size and algorithm recommendations.
2019‑07‑08: Libsodium quick reference.
2019‑07‑08: Cryptographic right answers.
2019‑07‑08: Fuck RSA.
2019‑07‑08: Linux 5.2 release notes.
2019‑07‑07: Creating hardware where no hardware exists: using Intel SMM to emulate Apple SMC.
2019‑07‑07: Secure EcmaScript: a secure runtime for running third-party code without ambient authority.
2019‑07‑07: Deno: a runtime for TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.
2019‑07‑06: Collecting two electrons from each photon could break through the solar cell efficiency limit.
2019‑07‑06: Amazon is liable for defective products sold by their 3rd party marketplace vendors.
2019‑07‑06: Goodbye aberration: physicist solves 2,000-year-old optical problem.
2019‑07‑06: Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'. (YouTube)
2019‑07‑05: Why the Raspberry Pi 4 is incompatible with some USB-C chargers.
2019‑07‑05: Mistakes we make using JavaScript promises.
2019‑07‑05: Software woven into wire: Core rope memory and the Apollo Guidance Computer.
2019‑07‑05: The mystery of Florida's cannonball-eating Spanish fort.
2019‑07‑05: How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow.
2019‑07‑05: The good voting systems agreement.
2019‑07‑05: What is the female stress response and why is it interesting?
2019‑07‑05: Why not to use two axes on a chart, and what to use instead.
2019‑07‑05: Optimizing jieba-rs to be 33% faster than cppjieba.
2019‑07‑04: The forgotten trans history of the Wild West.
2019‑07‑04: A guide to peeling the trickiest foods.
2019‑07‑04: A better zip decompression bomb.
2019‑07‑04: The coming Boeing bailout?
2019‑07‑04: User Inyerface: a worst-practice UI experiment.
2019‑07‑04: Modern web design.
2019‑07‑03: Why GitLab is ending support for MySQL.
2019‑07‑03: Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python.
2019‑07‑03: D as a C replacement.
2019‑07‑03: Member function pointers in C++.
2019‑07‑03: Tabs are more accessible to the visually impaired than spaces.
2019‑07‑02: ReScue: a tool to detect exponential backtracking regex input.
2019‑07‑02: TLS performance: rustls versus OpenSSL.
2019‑07‑02: How Rust views tradeoffs.
2019‑07‑02: Erskine May, the bible of parliamentary procedure.
2019‑07‑02: Choose boring technology.
2019‑07‑02: Reviving Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser on NeXTSTEP 486.
2019‑07‑01: An astrobiologist tries cooking in Antarctica at -70°C.
2019‑07‑01: lazydocker: a text UI to manage everything Docker.
2019‑07‑01: How to pick a random number from 1-10 using only people.
2019‑07‑01: Strongly TypeScript Vue.
2019‑07‑01: AIs named by AIs.
2019‑07‑01: The convoy phenomenon in lock contention.
2019‑07‑01: jk: configuration as code with TypeScript.
2019‑06‑30: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof).
2019‑06‑30: jass: share secrets using SSH keys.
2019‑06‑30: age: A design for a simple file encryption tool and format.
2019‑06‑30: America's monopoly crisis hits the military.
2019‑06‑30: Blitcha.
2019‑06‑28: trustydns: DNS Over HTTPS proxy, server and query programs.
2019‑06‑27: Thin yet repairable devices: HP proves they exist.
2019‑06‑26: Implement with types, not your brain!
2019‑06‑26: RapidCheck: a QuickCheck clone for C++, simple to use with as little boilerplate as possible.
2019‑06‑26: Fuzzing vs property testing.
2019‑06‑26: The Software Tools Users Group archive.
2019‑06‑26: Google's llibc proposal vs musl libc.
2019‑06‑25: Bloom indexes in PostgreSQL.
2019‑06‑24: nom 5: parser combinators for Rust.
2019‑06‑24: Call-by-need is clairvoyant call-by-value.
2019‑06‑24: Facebook's Libra must be stopped.
2019‑06‑24: The Petrie multiplier: how oppression is amplified against minorities.
2019‑06‑24: In the wiggle of an ear, a surprising insight into bat sonar.
2019‑06‑24: Build a Debian Raspberry Pi 3 image.
2019‑06‑24: The spycraft revolution.
2019‑06‑24: Raspberry Pi 4.
2019‑06‑24: Before you use a password manager.
2019‑06‑24: How to avoid dangerous counterfeits on Amazon.
2019‑06‑24: What happens after Amazon's domination Is complete? Its bookstore offers clues.
2019‑06‑24: What does debugging a program look like?
2019‑06‑23: The simple essence of automatic differentiation.
2019‑06‑23: FPGAs have the wrong abstraction for software acceleration.
2019‑06‑23: Generative adversarial networks: the story so far.
2019‑06‑23: Wikipedia page view counts for lyrics in Billy Joel's "we didn't start the fire".
2019‑06‑23: json-table: Transform nested JSON data into tabular data.
2019‑06‑22: mimalloc: a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.
2019‑06‑22: Deprecating volatile in C++.
2019‑06‑22: C, Fortran, and single-character strings.
2019‑06‑22: A liquid helix model helps explain the dribbly teapot effect.
2019‑06‑22: The typestate pattern in Rust.
2019‑06‑21: Getting 2FA right.
2019‑06‑21: Confusing JavaScript browser globals.
2019‑06‑20: atexit() is broken.
2019‑06‑19: Debian riscv64 port status.
2019‑06‑19: Tools to set up macOS in QEMU / KVM.
2019‑06‑19: Accelerating Redis with Intel DPDK.
2019‑06‑19: Myths about testosterone and athletics.
2019‑06‑19: Journalism and the TRS-80 model 100.
2019‑06‑19: Nefarious LinkedIn exfiltrates a list of installed extensions from your browser.
2019‑06‑18: Graham Nelson on open sourcing Inform 7.
2019‑06‑18: Secure systems design principles.
2019‑06‑18: Security architecture anti-patterns.
2019‑06‑18: Containers, microservices, and service meshes.
2019‑06‑18: Michaelhouse: a lost Cambridge college, 1324-1540.
2019‑06‑18: Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried.
2019‑06‑17: MillionDollarHomepage domains for sale.
2019‑06‑16: Has "Homosexual" always been in the Bible?
2019‑06‑15: How Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' went from underground album cover to cultural ubiquity.
2019‑06‑14: Grit: mirror monorepo subtrees to GitHub.
2019‑06‑14: Using an iPad for LaTeX.
2019‑06‑14: DNSSEC negative answer synthesis: measuring missing queries for missing names.
2019‑06‑13: Teaching a cheap Dell ethernet switch new tricks.
2019‑06‑13: How to design for the web in 2019.
2019‑06‑13: Adding static type checking to Julia in 100 lines of code.
2019‑06‑13: Preemption is GC for memory reordering.
2019‑06‑13: CERN Microsoft alternatives project: taking back control using open software.
2019‑06‑12: A compilation of Kubernetes failure/horror stories.
2019‑06‑12: RAMbleed: reading bits in memory without accessing them.
2019‑06‑12: Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org foundation.
2019‑06‑12: Missions to Mars during the 2020 minimum energy launch window.
2019‑06‑12: "1984" at seventy: why we still read Orwell's book.
2019‑06‑12: Out of stock: how to survive the lack of LTO-8 tapes.
2019‑06‑12: A C++ access control pattern: the badge.
2019‑06‑12: IBM and the Holocaust.
2019‑06‑12: You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA.
2019‑06‑12: Using the Z3 SMT solver to find optimal GBA palettes.
2019‑06‑11: How the CIA flattened literature.
2019‑06‑11: Typed constants in Golang.
2019‑06‑11: From design patterns to category theory.
2019‑06‑11: From dependency injection to dependency rejection.
2019‑06‑11: Compiling to categories.
2019‑06‑11: Unicode programming, with examples in C.
2019‑06‑11: AMD Zen 2 microarchitecture analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome.
2019‑06‑10: The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS.
2019‑06‑09: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes.
2019‑06‑08: A mysterious crystal that melts at two different temperatures.
2019‑06‑08: World flags as Japanese cosplay.
2019‑06‑07: Using pointers in Ada SPARK.
2019‑06‑07: Why do Python lists let you += a tuple, when you can't + a tuple?
2019‑06‑07: Quantum leaps, long assumed to be instantaneous, take time.
2019‑06‑07: DSAC: why is NASA sending an atomic clock into space?
2019‑06‑07: Happy birthday, BGP.
2019‑06‑07: A lithium-glass battery that keeps getting better?
2019‑06‑06: Google street view hyperlapse. (Video)
2019‑06‑06: The weather forecaster: The man who decided D-Day.
2019‑06‑06: Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos.
2019‑06‑06: Using one RNG to sample another: the shrinking generator and stream ciphers.
2019‑06‑05: The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved.
2019‑06‑05: Good Omens: Neil Gaiman and creators talk about adapting the book for TV.
2019‑06‑05: Links to papers on the history of atomic clocks.
2019‑06‑05: This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
2019‑06‑04: Colons in computer-science paper titles.
2019‑06‑04: Challenges in time transfer using the network time protocol (NTP).
2019‑06‑04: The abominable Laffer curve.
2019‑06‑04: Google Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?
2019‑06‑03: Analyzing performance analysis performance: weird PostgreSQL slowness on Docker for Mac.
2019‑06‑03: Brython: Python 3 in the browser.
2019‑06‑03: Uh-oh .io: Question mark over trendy TLD as UN condemns British treatment of Chagos.
2019‑06‑03: What makes a (graphics / SIGGRAPH) systems paper beautiful.
2019‑06‑03: REIN: repetitive electrical impulse noise.
2019‑06‑02: Compiling C to WebAssembly without Emscripten.
2019‑06‑02: At least one Vim trick you might not know.
2019‑06‑02: Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry.
2019‑06‑02: A DIY microhydro plant.
2019‑06‑02: Reinventing the small wind turbine.
2019‑06‑02: Scaling to 1 million active GraphQL subscriptions with Hasura and PostgreSQL.
2019‑06‑01: How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years.
2019‑06‑01: Notes to myself on software engineering.
2019‑05‑30: Why Intel Ice Lake AVX512 is important: a bit-basher's perspective.
2019‑05‑30: Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web.
2019‑05‑30: runtypes: runtime validation for static types in TypeScript.
2019‑05‑30: io-ts: runtime types for IO decoding/encoding in TypeScript.
2019‑05‑30: Announcing TypeScript 3.5.
2019‑05‑30: WhatDoTheyKnow Pro helps TBIJ get the whole picture on council land sell-off.
2019‑05‑30: The author of uBlock on Google Chrome's proposal to cripple ad blockers.
2019‑05‑30: Google's IPv6 traffic stats: will 28% deployment really be the limit?
2019‑05‑30: Google goes ahead with ad-blocker crackdown, except for paid-up enterprise Chrome users.
2019‑05‑30: Goroutine local storage.
2019‑05‑28: Beating up on qsort with radix sort.
2019‑05‑28: inNative: WebAssembly as an architecture-neutral executable distribution format.
2019‑05‑27: An interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg.
2019‑05‑27: Ten simple rules for better charts and graphs.
2019‑05‑27: Pragmatic Debian packaging in 2019.
2019‑05‑27: How we found the source of the mystery signals at The Dish.
2019‑05‑27: Urbanism under Google: lessons from Sidewalk Toronto.
2019‑05‑27: Insulin pumps, decapped chips, and software defined radios.
2019‑05‑27: We need to talk about digital blackface in reaction GIFs.
2019‑05‑26: RCE without native code: exploiting a write-what-where vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
2019‑05‑26: The Euclid-Mullin sequence of prime numbers.
2019‑05‑26: Giving Haskell a promotion.
2019‑05‑26: Button placement and order in web forms and dialogs.
2019‑05‑26: What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 tells us about Python time handling bugs.
2019‑05‑26: Thinking with Types: type-level programming in Haskell.
2019‑05‑26: Higher-order type-level programming in Haskell.
2019‑05‑26: Self-distancing: what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions.
2019‑05‑26: Is SpaceX's Raptor the king of rocket engines?
2019‑05‑25: CSS rules that will make your life easier.
2019‑05‑25: The lingua franca of LaTeX.
2019‑05‑25: MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, profiles, and property exchange.
2019‑05‑24: Extending the slit-scan video special effect technique.
2019‑05‑24: How to ruin a perfectly good container.
2019‑05‑24: Creating C/C++ APIs in Rust.
2019‑05‑24: The definitive guide to running EC2 spot instances as Kubernetes worker nodes.
2019‑05‑24: A Kubernetes any% speedrun.
2019‑05‑24: Website popularity rankings: an extensive analysis.
2019‑05‑24: Hobbling Huawei: the 5G risks of China's tech giant.
2019‑05‑24: LEGO Braille bricks.
2019‑05‑23: Animagraffs: animated infographics about everything.
2019‑05‑23: 507 mechanical movements.
2019‑05‑23: When the AWS DNS resolver drops packets because you hit the query quota.
2019‑05‑23: Visualizing PostgreSQL vacuum progress.
2019‑05‑23: Analysis of various tricky Rust code.
2019‑05‑23: Efficiently searching in-memory sorted arrays: revenge of the interpolation search?
2019‑05‑23: Exploring new frontiers for Git push performance.
2019‑05‑23: Stupid git tricks: Combining two files into one while preserving line history.
2019‑05‑22: The physical kilogram is officially dead.
2019‑05‑22: It's a trap-ezoid: CSS Shapes aren't what you'd expect.
2019‑05‑22: ads.txt specification for authorized ad resellers.
2019‑05‑21: Heroines of chaos: Ellen Fetter and Margaret Hamilton.
2019‑05‑21: Make Linux fast again: when you don't need sidechannel vulnerability protection.
2019‑05‑20: Star Wars Vader vs Kenobi, reimagined.
2019‑05‑20: A tale of query optimization in PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑20: Fixing an XSS vulnerability in the Haskell search engine Hoogle.
2019‑05‑20: IBM 360 Model 20 rescue and restoration.
2019‑05‑19: When male runners lose to women.
2019‑05‑19: Virtual DOM is pure overhead.
2019‑05‑19: Using Ed25519 signing keys for encryption.
2019‑05‑18: Abusing SECURITY DEFINER functions in PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑18: Black, hot superionic ice may be nature's most common form of water.
2019‑05‑17: The 2019 Linux storage, filesystem, and memory-management summit.
2019‑05‑17: WireGuard on OpenBSD.
2019‑05‑17: The story male editors kept killing.
2019‑05‑17: Pointedly confusing: a longstanding sizeof() bug in Microsoft C.
2019‑05‑17: dnsfire: a proof-of-concept DNS-driven firewall enforcer.
2019‑05‑17: Writing a procedural puzzle generator.
2019‑05‑17: Fundamental design principles for non-designers.
2019‑05‑16: The 3.5% rule: a threshold of success for non-violent protest.
2019‑05‑16: A report from Google's AMP advisory committee meeting.
2019‑05‑15: Things you might not be using in Python 3, but should.
2019‑05‑15: Going Critical: diffusion models, disease, and knowledge.
2019‑05‑13: A horrifying globalThis polyfill in universal JavaScript.
2019‑05‑12: Linux iptables processing flowchart.
2019‑05‑12: The fully general system for learning to do hard things.
2019‑05‑12: Trial of overhead electric lines for HGVs in Germany.
2019‑05‑12: The peculiar blindness of experts.
2019‑05‑11: OCaml has some shiny new monadic and applicative syntax.
2019‑05‑11: Shenandoah GC in production: an experience report.
2019‑05‑11: Announcing GraalVM 19.
2019‑05‑11: 2D graphics on modern GPU.
2019‑05‑11: From collisions to chosen-prefix collisions, applied to full SHA-1.
2019‑05‑10: Agnotology and epistemological fragmentation.
2019‑05‑10: Compile-time coprocessor codegen with Rust macros.
2019‑05‑10: It's time to break up Facebook.
2019‑05‑10: Fourier synthesis vector CRT character generator.
2019‑05‑10: PostScript and Interpress: a comparison. (1985)
2019‑05‑10: Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
2019‑05‑09: Inside the recovery from the Firefox add-on certificate expiry failure.
2019‑05‑09: For better computing, liberate CPUs with a garbage collection coprocessor.
2019‑05‑09: Post-mortem and remediations for matrix.org's April security incident.
2019‑05‑09: When dates became regular and universal, it changed history.
2019‑05‑08: JSMpeg: an MPEG1 decoder in JavaScript for low-latency streaming.
2019‑05‑08: How C array sizes become part of a library's ABI.
2019‑05‑08: Google Ads malware seen in the wild.
2019‑05‑08: Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson. (YouTube)
2019‑05‑08: Ted Chiang returns with an awe-inducing collection "Exhalation".
2019‑05‑08: pg_auto_failover: Open source extension for high availability of PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑08: Dealing with software collapse / rot.
2019‑05‑08: Securing network time.
2019‑05‑08: Surprisingly Turing-Complete.
2019‑05‑08: Securing cookies with cookie prefixes.
2019‑05‑08: Building a URL shortener with only AWS Lambda.
2019‑05‑08: css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend.
2019‑05‑07: How Cloudflare serves up hate online.
2019‑05‑07: Halving metrics ingestion latency by (briefly) forking the Golang compiler.
2019‑05‑07: How Rust solves dependency hell.
2019‑05‑07: ups: an X11 debugger for C.
2019‑05‑06: May 1968: a chronology of events in France and internationally.
2019‑05‑06: Low-latency typing with pleasure.
2019‑05‑06: Rust await syntax considerations.
2019‑05‑06: A final proposal for await syntax in Rust.
2019‑05‑06: The existential crisis plaguing online extremism researchers.
2019‑05‑06: Lithium-ion batteries from Amazon are exploding.
2019‑05‑05: How twisted graphene became the big thing in physics.
2019‑05‑04: Unraveling the JPEG.
2019‑05‑04: Legit: an esoteric programming language encoded in a git commit graph.
2019‑05‑04: Don't do this with PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑03: Enforcing compile-time permission checking with TypeScript brands.
2019‑05‑03: Generic returns in Rust.
2019‑05‑03: Mathematical jargon failures.
2019‑05‑02: The myth of the impartial machine.
2019‑05‑01: The search for McLaren's extra pedal.
2019‑05‑01: YouTube's conspiracy to kill IE6.
2019‑05‑01: What we're learning about how the sector understands "digital".
2019‑05‑01: GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
2019‑04‑29: The weirdest JavaScript syntax.
2019‑04‑29: Too simple to be simple.
2019‑04‑29: Why isn't 1 a prime number?
2019‑04‑29: The saddest thing about the integers: you can't tune a piano.
2019‑04‑28: The structure of a programming language revolution.
2019‑04‑28: Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway.
2019‑04‑28: Psychology of human misjudgment.
2019‑04‑27: Stop memset()ing structures.
2019‑04‑27: A woman's work: the inside story.
2019‑04‑27: Turing completeness, weird machines, and muddled terminology.
2019‑04‑27: Open-sourcing F14: Facebook's memory-efficient hash tables.
2019‑04‑26: Ireland blocks the world on data privacy.
2019‑04‑26: Making the DNS more private with QNAME minimisation.
2019‑04‑25: Extensibility, XML Vocabularies, and XML Schema.
2019‑04‑24: Getting started with qemu.
2019‑04‑24: First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued.
2019‑04‑24: A 'blockchain bandit' is guessing private keys and scoring millions.
2019‑04‑24: Past the tipping point: the persistence of firefighting in product development.
2019‑04‑23: Consoles of IBM System/360 mainframes.
2019‑04‑23: When workers control the code.
2019‑04‑23: (Right to Left (The Mirror World
2019‑04‑23: TLS guidelines from NCSC-NL.
2019‑04‑23: Egg Clock, with photochromic paint and a laser. (YouTube)
2019‑04‑23: An overview of the C++ lifetime safety proposal.
2019‑04‑23: Lifetime safety: preventing common dangling pointer errors in C++.
2019‑04‑23: Modern C++ won't save us.
2019‑04‑22: Windows CreateProcess() is accidentally quadratic.
2019‑04‑22: Generating fractals with Postgres.
2019‑04‑22: Is everything an MLM?
2019‑04‑22: Some internet outages predicted soon as BGP '768k Day' approaches.
2019‑04‑22: Hardening SSH with 2FA.
2019‑04‑22: Facial recognition is the plutonium of AI.
2019‑04‑22: Optimize What? Silicon Valley is full of the stupidest geniuses you'll ever meet.
2019‑04‑21: The antique toaster that's better than yours. (YouTube)
2019‑04‑21: Computus, antisemitism, and the early christian debate over easter.
2019‑04‑21: Defeating Racket's separate compilation guarantee.
2019‑04‑20: Fairylog: a Racket DSL for generating Verilog.
2019‑04‑20: BYD, the world's biggest electric car maker.
2019‑04‑20: New features in Fortran 2018.
2019‑04‑20: What is Infocom ZIL anyway?
2019‑04‑19: 12 nice Rust libraries you should try.
2019‑04‑19: Custom allocators in C++.
2019‑04‑18: Neopentylglycol: a competitive solid refrigerant.
2019‑04‑18: Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware.
2019‑04‑18: Thundering herds and cached promises.
2019‑04‑18: Microsoft Windows Tiles vulnerable to a subdomain takeover attack.
2019‑04‑17: Let's Encrypt will transition to their own root CA in July.
2019‑04‑17: Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, with the help of a checklist.
2019‑04‑17: From the MCU to Star Wars: in praise of poorly built worlds.
2019‑04‑17: RFC 8546: the wire image of a network protocol.
2019‑04‑17: Nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.
2019‑04‑16: A look at IBM/360 core memory.
2019‑04‑16: More DoH.
2019‑04‑15: Convenient and idiomatic conversions in Rust.
2019‑04‑14: A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation.
2019‑04‑14: Moving to a provenance-aware memory object model for C: a proposal for C2x.
2019‑04‑14: Autonomous precision landing of space rockets.
2019‑04‑13: Languages I want to write.
2019‑04‑13: Automated testing of Rust examples in README files.
2019‑04‑13: Value categories and references to them in C++.
2019‑04‑13: Stable half-pixel filtering for video codecs.
2019‑04‑12: A novel compact VLF antenna for communicating where other radios fail.
2019‑04‑11: Using 6 page and 2 page documents to make organizational decisions.
2019‑04‑11: Visibility of IPv4 and IPv6 prefix lengths.
2019‑04‑11: EU agencies falsely report more than 550 archive.org URLs as terrorist content.
2019‑04‑10: Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second critical infrastructure site.
2019‑04‑10: Network boot to the rescue, with UEFI and IPv6.
2019‑04‑10: Building the System/360 mainframe nearly destroyed IBM.
2019‑04‑10: NVMM: NetBSD virtual machine manager.
2019‑04‑10: A fork() in the road.
2019‑04‑09: Amazon shoppers misled by 'bundled' star-ratings and reviews.
2019‑04‑09: Facebook's ad targeting algorithm is inherently biased.
2019‑04‑08: Most people do not expect Google to track their activities so pervasively.
2019‑04‑08: Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro.
2019‑04‑08: Angst about DNS privacy and DoH / DoC.
2019‑04‑08: Types for programming and reasoning.
2019‑04‑08: Compiling C to WebAssembly using clang/LLVM and WASI.
2019‑04‑07: How poor public transport explains the UK's productivity puzzle.
2019‑04‑07: Most browsers do not let you turn off hyperlink auditing third-party click tracking.
2019‑04‑07: Fast directory listing on Linux.
2019‑04‑05: Writing six-pagers at Amazon.
2019‑04‑05: "Problems" with git format-patch and Gmail.
2019‑04‑05: Using grub to patch the bios so Windows will boot with 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn't support it.
2019‑04‑04: Idiomatic monads in Rust.
2019‑04‑02: From gnuplot to Matplotlib and Pandas.
2019‑04‑01: Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
2019‑04‑01: Learning from The Economist's errors in data visualisation.
2019‑04‑01: A parser for the TLS data description language used in the IETF RFCs.
2019‑03‑31: Why are economists giving Piketty the cold shoulder?
2019‑03‑31: Transparent huge pages: measuring the performance impact on a large JVM application.
2019‑03‑31: Making chip packaging simpler.
2019‑03‑31: RaptorQ (RFC6330) performance optimization in Rust.
2019‑03‑30: The day the dinosaurs died.
2019‑03‑30: Common statistical tests are linear models, or, how to teach stats.
2019‑03‑30: DEC VT100 raster CRT typography.
2019‑03‑29: Five super helpful Rust things that you might not have been told about.
2019‑03‑29: mal: make a lisp.
2019‑03‑29: The filter bubble is actually a decision bubble.
2019‑03‑28: Lucet: Fastly's native WebAssembly compiler and runtime.
2019‑03‑28: Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful.
2019‑03‑28: The phantom builder in Rust.
2019‑03‑27: Appl still hasn't fixd its MacBook kyboad poblm.
2019‑03‑27: Some reasons why ASN.1 BER/CER/DER and other TLV encodings are bad.
2019‑03‑27: From L3 to seL4: what have we learnt in 20 years of L4 microkernels?
2019‑03‑27: An Intel programmer's impressions of ARM SIMD programming.
2019‑03‑27: Sum-of-three-cubes problem solved for stubborn number 33.
2019‑03‑27: A commentary on Arthur Whitney's b compiler.
2019‑03‑27: Unexpected DNSKEY query growth around the 2018 root zone KSK rollover.
2019‑03‑26: European parliament votes to delegate summer time rules to member states.
2019‑03‑26: An experimental DNS-over-QUIC to UDP proxy.
2019‑03‑26: Moral crumple zones: The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers.
2019‑03‑26: Moral crumple zones: cautionary tales in human-robot interaction.
2019‑03‑25: Gravitational lensing: a new Einstein cross is discovered.
2019‑03‑25: In defense of YAML.
2019‑03‑25: Hexagonal cross stitch.
2019‑03‑24: What has your microcode done for you lately?
2019‑03‑24: On the S-Box of GOST Streebog and Kuznyechik.
2019‑03‑24: Pyre: Facebook's static type checker for Python.
2019‑03‑24: PyType: Google's static type analyzer for Python.
2019‑03‑24: KaTeX: the fastest math typesetting library for the web.
2019‑03‑24: Symbols and functions available and not available in KaTeX.
2019‑03‑24: PyRight: a static type checker for Python written by Microsoft in TypeScript.
2019‑03‑23: Maybe you want Nomad rather than Kubernetes.
2019‑03‑23: A Julia interpreter and debugger.
2019‑03‑23: SRE case study: http load balancer confusion caused by broken back end web server.
2019‑03‑22: Under the hood of the new ARIN web site.
2019‑03‑22: So you want your app/website to work in China...
2019‑03‑21: Computer latency at human scale.
2019‑03‑20: Hacking JSON Web Tokens.
2019‑03‑20: The pneumatic clock network in Paris, 1880-1927.
2019‑03‑20: International space station docking standard.
2019‑03‑20: How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux.
2019‑03‑20: CVE-2019-6454: systemd (PID1) crash with specially crafted unprivileged D-Bus message.
2019‑03‑20: When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters.
2019‑03‑20: Optimizing a 350 line pathtracer in Rust From 48s to 5s.
2019‑03‑20: Hardware debugging with JTAG on a Raspberry Pi.
2019‑03‑20: Neo-Nazis bet big on Bitcoin (and lost).
2019‑03‑18: IPv6 address unmasking via UPnP.
2019‑03‑18: Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you.
2019‑03‑17: Questions on the future of Open Source.
2019‑03‑17: The 15 most famous transcendental numbers.
2019‑03‑17: Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right, after 2,469 years.
2019‑03‑17: On the hunt for Japan's elaborate, colorful utility access covers.
2019‑03‑17: What is Amazon?
2019‑03‑17: Unicode TOFU: detect changes to strings over time that might be spoofing.
2019‑03‑17: Association of cognitive function with carbon dioxide exposure in office workers.
2019‑03‑17: A gallery of early computers, 1940s - 1960s.
2019‑03‑16: DNS timeline.
2019‑03‑16: Analytical methods for mapping a circular disc to a square.
2019‑03‑16: Repairing brass instruments with magnets.
2019‑03‑16: William Jones: the man who invented π.
2019‑03‑15: XXH3: a new speed-optimized hash algorithm.
2019‑03‑15: What causes Ruby memory bloat?
2019‑03‑15: Gwern's law: ads cost you 10% of your traffic.
2019‑03‑14: Porting PuTTY to Windows on Arm.
2019‑03‑14: A curious case of intermittent test failures due to slow SSD TRIM.
2019‑03‑14: On the past, present, and future of COBOL.
2019‑03‑13: Alice 4: a tablet dedicated to old SGI demos.
2019‑03‑13: Fast / accurate floating point division with known divisor.
2019‑03‑13: Generating bit combinations with Gosper's hack.
2019‑03‑13: RFC 8555 ACME: universal encryption through automation.
2019‑03‑13: GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue >1 million certificates with short serial numbers.
2019‑03‑13: 'The Left Hand of Darkness' at fifty.
2019‑03‑13: Bugs and fixes for boot delays due to lack of random entropy on Linux.
2019‑03‑12: Tips for a JavaScript-free web frontend.
2019‑03‑12: Researchers find critical backdoor in Swiss online voting system.
2019‑03‑12: Font shaping is Turing complete.
2019‑03‑10: Usability improvements in GCC 9.
2019‑03‑10: Lvalue min and max in C++.
2019‑03‑08: Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception.
2019‑03‑07: A Golang malformed HTTP POST mystery.
2019‑03‑07: Why do remote meetings suck so much?
2019‑03‑07: Orchestrating false beliefs about gender discrimination.
2019‑03‑07: Gender imbalances in the world's leading orchestras.
2019‑03‑07: The precarious effort to continue traditional soy sauce production in Japan.
2019‑03‑06: Automated tools discriminate against Black American language.
2019‑03‑06: Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy.
2019‑03‑06: Why American rail construction costs are so high.
2019‑03‑06: Mathgen: Randomly generated mathematics research papers.
2019‑03‑04: Remote code execution and Domain Admin privileges due to a typo in PHP.
2019‑03‑04: A quick look at QUIC.
2019‑03‑04: What part of "No!" doesn't the DNS understand?
2019‑03‑04: TLS in F*: Generating C code that people actually want to use.
2019‑03‑04: Near misses, and how to avoid catastrophe.
2019‑03‑04: The birthday paradox: on Jupiter, and beyond!
2019‑03‑04: The MBA myth and the CEO cult.
2019‑03‑04: Discrete robot motion planning in a continuous domain.
2019‑03‑03: Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Golang.
2019‑03‑03: Debugging the Postgres query planner.
2019‑03‑03: Memory Models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware.
2019‑03‑03: Not quite so broken TLS.
2019‑03‑03: Lower bounds for the cost of multiplication via network coding.
2019‑03‑02: Your database migrations are bad and you should feel bad.
2019‑03‑02: Millions of binaries later: a look into Linux hardening in the wild.
2019‑03‑02: OpenSSL future architecture plans.
2019‑03‑01: DigiCert in-addr.arpa X.509 certificate mis-issuance.
2019‑03‑01: Casper's clever little nightlight.
2019‑03‑01: NASA is planning a space station in a weird lunar orbit.
2019‑03‑01: Transparent logs for skeptical clients.
2019‑03‑01: Formally specifying user interfaces.
2019‑03‑01: Twitter (un)official API keys.
2019‑03‑01: Reconstructing Twitter's firehose.
2019‑03‑01: re2c: a free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++.
2019‑03‑01: Hyperscan: a fast multi-pattern regex matcher for modern CPUs.
2019‑03‑01: University of California terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in support of open access.
2019‑03‑01: The other wrapping-the-Earth problem.
2019‑03‑01: Git over FTP.
2019‑02‑28: A deep dive on the recent widespread DNS hijacking attacks.
2019‑02‑28: The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register.
2019‑02‑28: We need Chrome no more.
2019‑02‑28: PostgreSQL BRIN indexes: performance for big data with minimal storage.
2019‑02‑28: The current state of open source backup management for PostgreSQL.
2019‑02‑28: ExSpectre: hiding malware in speculative execution.
2019‑02‑27: The soothing promise of our own artisanal Internet.
2019‑02‑27: Content moderation has no easy answers.
2019‑02‑27: Why women are underrepresented in clinical trials.
2019‑02‑27: The 1979 Delft cycle plan.
2019‑02‑27: Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL.
2019‑02‑26: Thunderclap: vulnerabilities in IOMMU protection against untrustworthy peripherals.
2019‑02‑26: The unscalable deadlock-prone thread pool.
2019‑02‑26: Normalization of deviance.
2019‑02‑26: Sisterhood of Cycling: the radical roots of the bicycle.
2019‑02‑26: Type systems and logic.
2019‑02‑25: Vim anti-patterns.
2019‑02‑25: Stabilizer: statistically sound performance evaluation.
2019‑02‑24: A meta approach to implementing programming languages.
2019‑02‑24: How does the measles vaccine protect against other infectious diseases?
2019‑02‑24: Stressing the elements: "illegal" Lego builds.
2019‑02‑24: Enquire: discover C limits.h and float.h machine and compiler properties.
2019‑02‑24: The cost of abstraction.
2019‑02‑24: PostgreSQL on Linux fsync failure fixed.
2019‑02‑24: The magical thinking of guys who love logic.
2019‑02‑23: Varieties of polymorphism in Haskell.
2019‑02‑23: Why does Julia work so well?
2019‑02‑23: How not to measure computer system performance.
2019‑02‑22: Gordon Ramsay's approach to food helped my family of autistic eaters.
2019‑02‑22: Password managers: under the hood of secrets management.
2019‑02‑22: Finally tagless, partially evaluated.
2019‑02‑21: TSMC's photoresist contamination incident: $550 million in lost revenue.
2019‑02‑21: COI: chat-over-IMAP.
2019‑02‑21: Delta Chat: chat-over-email.
2019‑02‑21: Patent exhaustion and open source.
2019‑02‑21: Exploitation from malicious PCI Express peripherals.
2019‑02‑21: simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second.
2019‑02‑21: How to get rid of sponsored Facebook posts.
2019‑02‑20: Lessons from six software rewrite stories.
2019‑02‑20: Mathematics, morally.
2019‑02‑20: Vector instructions are better then SIMD instructions.
2019‑02‑20: Maybe 'Oumuamua is an interstellar snowflake.
2019‑02‑19: AWS Nitro system.
2019‑02‑19: 3264 conics tangent to five conics.
2019‑02‑19: Linux kernel DNS resolver module.
2019‑02‑19: Why a grape turns into a fireball in a microwave.
2019‑02‑18: ASCII art in comments in code.
2019‑02‑18: Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution.
2019‑02‑18: Machine-learning in science is producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong.
2019‑02‑18: Differential privacy: an easy case.
2019‑02‑18: Dropgangs: darknet markets using systems of dead drops.
2019‑02‑18: Encrypted databases, searchable encryption, and the ever-expanding leakage function.
2019‑02‑18: Operable software: on simplicity, complexity, and observability.
2019‑02‑18: How GitLab used delayed replication for disaster recovery with PostgreSQL.
2019‑02‑18: Towards an understanding of technical debt.
2019‑02‑18: The log/event processing pipeline you can't have.
2019‑02‑18: LD_PRELOAD: the hero we need and deserve.
2019‑02‑17: The joy of standards.
2019‑02‑17: You probably don't need a single-page application.
2019‑02‑17: Mesh: compacting memory management for C/C++ applications.
2019‑02‑17: The rest of the world always knew Churchill was a villain.
2019‑02‑16: Information related to #dns on freenode.
2019‑02‑16: The Single Rotation rule: a remarkably simple and rich reversible cellular automaton.
2019‑02‑15: The complicated economy of Open Source software.
2019‑02‑15: Don't get clever with login forms.
2019‑02‑15: Dudle: online event coordination and survey application. (A Free alternative to Doodle.)
2019‑02‑15: Computing extremely accurate quantiles using t-digests.
2019‑02‑15: Tubes vs. transistors: a comparative study.
2019‑02‑15: Lessons from Google's geographical GDPR goof.
2019‑02‑15: Logical difficulties in modern mathematics.
2019‑02‑15: Why do the Northern and Southern Lights differ?
2019‑02‑15: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass.
2019‑02‑14: How white space killed an enterprise app, and why data density matters.
2019‑02‑13: A history of the Network Information Center.
2019‑02‑13: Is email making professors stupid?
2019‑02‑12: The curious case of disappearing buses.
2019‑02‑12: Kubernetes ndots 5 and long DNS search path.
2019‑02‑11: None of my web projects want to be single page applications.
2019‑02‑11: 1839 woven portrait of Jacquard: an important image from the early history of computing.
2019‑02‑11: CVE-2019-5736: Linux container breakout.
2019‑02‑11: A century of Noether's theorem.
2019‑02‑11: Chronos: a secure selection and filtering mechanism for NTP.
2019‑02‑11: Laziness does not exist, but unseen barriers do.
2019‑02‑11: The New Systems Engineer.
2019‑02‑11: Fact-checking Facebook was like playing a doomed game of Whack-A-Mole.
2019‑02‑11: Questions for a new technology.
2019‑02‑11: Make the web boring.
2019‑02‑11: The future of public access to Castle Mound.
2019‑02‑11: How do we know the history of extreme poverty?
2019‑02‑10: Five things that scare me about AI.
2019‑02‑10: DasKeyboard lights show blood sugar changes using my body's REST API.
2019‑02‑10: What PostgreSQL developers know about fsync() errors.
2019‑02‑10: Oh god, it's raining newsletters.
2019‑02‑10: Checking firewall equivalence with Z3.
2019‑02‑09: Building a RISC-V PC.
2019‑02‑09: A new Python kernel for Jupyter.
2019‑02‑08: Reflecting on a failure to build a billion-dollar company.
2019‑02‑08: Move fast and migrate things: how Benchling automated migrations in Postgres.
2019‑02‑08: Downgrade attack on TLS 1.3 and vulnerabilities in major TLS libraries.
2019‑02‑08: Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide.
2019‑02‑08: HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
2019‑02‑07: The big DNS privacy debate at FOSDEM.
2019‑02‑07: FOSDEM 2019: a new view from the NOC.
2019‑02‑07: What happened to the 100,000-hour LED bulbs?
2019‑02‑06: The Earth and the far side of the moon photographed by radio amateurs.
2019‑02‑06: A simple explanation for the existence of adversarial examples with small Hamming distance.
2019‑02‑06: Previous: a NeXT emulator.
2019‑02‑06: Vulnerability postmortem: A curious case of convexity confusion in Skia.
2019‑02‑05: There and Snack Again: How to eat everything in the Lord of the Rings.
2019‑02‑05: Analysis: Why the UK's CO2 emissions have fallen 38% since 1990.
2019‑02‑04: A 6502 assembly language monad in Haskell.
2019‑02‑04: Ten rules for a better conference name badge.
2019‑02‑04: Debugging Emacs or: how I learned to stop worrying and love DTrace.
2019‑02‑04: Asterius: A Haskell to WebAssembly compiler.
2019‑02‑03: A brief history of the UUID.
2019‑02‑03: Using BGP to calculate fastest paths around the London Underground.
2019‑02‑03: All late projects are the same.
2019‑02‑03: The death of transit and the future Internet.
2019‑02‑03: RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust.
2019‑02‑03: Machine learning leads mathematicians to undecidable problem.
2019‑02‑03: The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity.
2019‑02‑02: Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way.
2019‑02‑02: The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified.
2019‑02‑01: How many .com domain names are unused?
2019‑01‑30: The day I fell in love with fuzzing.
2019‑01‑30: Lock-free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019.
2019‑01‑30: The 26,000-year astronomical monument at the Hoover dam.
2019‑01‑30: Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/ month.
2019‑01‑29: How a teenage 'Fortnite' player found Apple's FaceTime bug. It was so hard to report!
2019‑01‑28: JVM issue: concurrency is affected by changing the system time!
2019‑01‑28: The story of Squeak/Pharo, a practical Smalltalk written in itself.
2019‑01‑28: Abusing 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change.
2019‑01‑28: World's oldest periodic table chart found in St Andrews.
2019‑01‑28: Smoothsort demystified.
2019‑01‑28: A SQL to C compiler in 500 lines of code.
2019‑01‑28: Outperforming LAPACK with Python and LLVM.
2019‑01‑27: tinykaboom: how to ray-trace an explosion.
2019‑01‑27: The legacy of Firefox OS.
2019‑01‑27: PostgreSQL backend flowchart.
2019‑01‑27: Why is it so hard to detect a key up event on Linux?
2019‑01‑26: MDT9100 Motorola mobile data terminal.
2019‑01‑26: Special cases are a code smell.
2019‑01‑26: JMAP: it's like IMAP but not really.
2019‑01‑26: Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are?
2019‑01‑26: It's time to move on from two phase commit.
2019‑01‑26: websocketd: WebSockets the Unix way.
2019‑01‑26: websocat: a command-line client for WebSockets.
2019‑01‑25: Women on the pill don't need a period.
2019‑01‑25: Oxford scientists successfully recreated a famous rogue wave in the lab.
2019‑01‑25: How much maintenance_work_mem does PostgreSQL need?
2019‑01‑24: How to make the Chord DHT correct.
2019‑01‑24: Why don't people use formal methods?
2019‑01‑24: 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism.
2019‑01‑24: How LiveJournal pioneered then lost blogging.
2019‑01‑23: pg_permission: Inspecting your PostgreSQL access controls.
2019‑01‑23: Ghostscript vulnerability: subroutines within pseudo-operators must themselves be pseudo-operators.
2019‑01‑23: proc-macro-rules: macro-rules pattern matching inside Rust procedural macros.
2019‑01‑23: A lifetime of systems thinking.
2019‑01‑22: Remote code execution vulnerability in Debian `apt`.
2019‑01‑22: Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns.
2019‑01‑22: HTML5 input types: where are they now?
2019‑01‑22: Build better forms by not taking away affordances.
2019‑01‑22: UTC time scales and leap second support in the Koka programming language.
2019‑01‑21: Advanced Mac Substitute: a 68k Mac emulator.
2019‑01‑20: Kubernetes failure stories.
2019‑01‑20: An obituary of Karen Sparck Jones, who pioneered natural language processing.
2019‑01‑20: The archetype of the haunted house: Winchester Mystery House.
2019‑01‑20: A history of Algol 68-R.
2019‑01‑20: MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file.
2019‑01‑19: AWS EC2 instance price guide.
2019‑01‑18: Introduction to TLA+ model checking on the command line.
2019‑01‑18: Is C++ fast?
2019‑01‑18: History of IEEE P1003.1 POSIX time.
2019‑01‑18: The malign incompetence of the British ruling class.
2019‑01‑18: How SMS set back the mobile internet by ten years.
2019‑01‑18: Why is storage on Kubernetes so hard?
2019‑01‑18: The route of a text message.
2019‑01‑17: CSRG Archive, now on DVD with extra non-BSD software.
2019‑01‑17: The heterosexual tragedy of Top Gun.
2019‑01‑17: The need for sustainable open source projects, like FRR.
2019‑01‑17: Isle Of Man is the first place in the British Isles to decriminalise abortion.
2019‑01‑17: Amazon Aurora: avoiding distributed consensus for IO, commits, and membership changes.
2019‑01‑17: More than you really wanted to know about patch.
2019‑01‑17: Crisis on the High Plains: the loss of America's largest aquifer, the Ogallala.
2019‑01‑17: A Pratt parser in TypeScript.
2019‑01‑17: A cascading failure of distributed systems in a large Kubernetes cluster.
2019‑01‑16: Battle of the axe men: who really built the first electric rock 'n' roll guitar?
2019‑01‑16: Field notes from an American in London.
2019‑01‑16: Gettier cases: the relevance to programming of a three-page paper that shook philosophy.
2019‑01‑15: A workflow for maintaining feature branches and submitting patches to PostgreSQL.
2019‑01‑15: Stepping away from Sass.
2019‑01‑14: The mysterious, stubborn appeal of mass-produced fried chicken.
2019‑01‑14: Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript.
2019‑01‑14: The rise and demise of RSS.
2019‑01‑14: Getting an IBM AS/400 midrange computer on the Internet.
2019‑01‑14: Designing resilient systems with retries.
2019‑01‑14: Courier and Dropbox's migration to gRPC.
2019‑01‑13: Sail ISA model of ARM-v8.5-a can boot Linux.
2019‑01‑12: The second GPS week number rollover is coming in April.
2019‑01‑12: Crochet relays.
2019‑01‑12: The Embroidered Computer.
2019‑01‑12: Spurious correlations.
2019‑01‑12: The holes in the map: England's unregistered land.
2019‑01‑11: The early history of F#.
2019‑01‑11: Factoring polynomials is not a shortcut to breaking RSA.
2019‑01‑11: Earth's magnetic field is acting up and geologists don't know why.
2019‑01‑11: How you can organize your GitHub repositories.
2019‑01‑11: Tony Hoare's proposal for record handling in ALGOL. (1965)
2019‑01‑11: Deriving traits in Rust with procedural macros.
2019‑01‑11: Find the hard work you are willing to do.
2019‑01‑10: The painful price of becoming Jackie Chan.
2019‑01‑10: AWS gives open source the middle finger.
2019‑01‑10: Why people in cities walk fast.
2019‑01‑10: The disappearing Windows DNS debug log.
2019‑01‑09: Looking back at the Berkeley Postgres project.
2019‑01‑09: An analysis of lapis lazuli in medieval dental plaque illuminates the forgotten history of female scribes.
2019‑01‑09: How cartographers for the U.S. military inadvertently screwed up international geoIP locations.
2019‑01‑09: Using TypeScript transforms to enrich runtime code.
2019‑01‑09: Think Sci-Hub is just downloading PDFs? Think again.
2019‑01‑09: Notes on test-case reduction.
2019‑01‑08: DHCP is hard: a story in five bugs.
2019‑01‑08: The FRRouting protocol suite: a descendent of Zebra and Quagga.
2019‑01‑08: The dangers of PostgreSQL streaming across versions of glibc with different collation orders.
2019‑01‑08: OneDev: git hosting and code review in Java.
2019‑01‑08: Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit in StarCraft: Remastered.
2019‑01‑07: How to make sure your talk doesn't suck.
2019‑01‑07: libeatmydata: disable fsync and speed up your tests!
2019‑01‑07: SQL is no excuse to avoid DevOps.
2019‑01‑07: Huawei unveils the highest-performance ARM-based CPU.
2019‑01‑07: Why SRE documents matter.
2019‑01‑07: Atomic clocks: it is important that they keep good time. (part 2)
2019‑01‑07: Atomic clocks: it is important that they keep good time. (part 1)
2019‑01‑07: Why isn't bamboo wood more popular?
2019‑01‑07: The state of software security in 2019
2019‑01‑07: A history of soap.
2019‑01‑07: ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety.
2019‑01‑06: Hints and principles for computer system design.
2019‑01‑06: Hints for computer system design.
2019‑01‑06: The verified CakeML compiler backend.
2019‑01‑06: The evolutionary mystery of left-handedness.
2019‑01‑06: Mapping and visualization by Scott Reinhard.
2019‑01‑05: Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?
2019‑01‑05: Towards a better Pythagorean cup.
2019‑01‑05: LEGO Porsche crashing in slow motion at 1000 fps . (YouTube)
2019‑01‑04: We'll never know whether monorepos are better.
2019‑01‑03: Some common CSS problems.
2019‑01‑03: Monorepos: Please don't!
2019‑01‑03: How 'magic angle' graphene is stirring up physics.
2019‑01‑03: Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer.
2019‑01‑03: Chip design at Apple in the 1980s.
2019‑01‑03: Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8.
2019‑01‑03: caro: if jq and xargs had a baby.
2019‑01‑02: POLA would have prevented the npm event-stream incident.
2019‑01‑02: STAMPing on the npm event-stream compromise.
2019‑01‑02: How 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' was animated.
2019‑01‑02: Fixing the nargs() subroutine on a PDP-11 with split I/D address space.
2019‑01‑02: Be Moore Like Chuck.
2019‑01‑01: Travels with Smalltalk.
2019‑01‑01: The 4th annual Tucker awards for excellence in swearing.
2019‑01‑01: Let's Encrypt looking forward to 2019.
2019‑01‑01: The Vimes boots theory: further reflections.