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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: Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs.
2019-12-31: Refactoring with defunctionalization: everybody does it, nobody talks about it.
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: Async exceptions in Haskell, and Rust.
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: 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: Flattening quadratic Béziers.
2019-12-24: SOICbite: a program/debug connector for an SOIC test clip.
2019-12-24: A business card that runs Linux.
2019-12-24: Now you see it, now you don't: a large-scale analysis of early domain deletions.
2019-12-24: The shitty add-on standard v1.69bis for electronic con badges.
2019-12-24: In praise of property-based testing.
2019-12-24: Implementing WebGPU in Gecko.
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: Hacking GitHub with Unicode's dotless 'i'.
2019-12-17: Superdeterminism: The path we didn't take.
2019-12-16: A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator.
2019-12-17: Building a search engine from scratch.
2019-12-17: The architecture of a large-scale web search engine, circa 2019.
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: How to enable IPv6 in Docker.
2019-12-14: Modern garbage collection: Shenandoah and ZGC.
2019-12-14: How we increased our Node.js parallelism by 30x.
2019-12-14: Soundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
2019-12-14: DepHell: project management for Python.
2019-12-14: Wine support for win32 on 64-bit-only macOS Catalina.
2019-12-14: Reimagining the PhD.
2019-12-14: Three ways to reduce the bandwidth costs of your HTTPS API on AWS.
2019-12-14: The Amazon AWS premium.
2019-12-13: pg_query: parse PostgreSQL queries in Ruby.
2019-12-14: Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore.
2019-12-13: The seductive diversion of ‘solving' bias in artificial intelligence.
2019-12-13: hyper v0.13: an async HTTP library for Rust.
2019-12-13: Blocking inside async code in Rust.
2019-12-13: Introducing sqlc: compile SQL queries to type-safe Golang.
2019-12-13: The surprising breadth of harbingers of failure: customers who buy products that fail.
2019-12-13: Conway's law: How do committees invent?
2019-12-13: A better Internet is waiting for us.
2019-12-13: Experiments in constraint-based graphic design.
2019-12-13: Threads can infect each other with their low priority.
2019-12-13: Dynamically scoped variables in Golang.
2019-12-13: PostgreSQL 12 EXPLAIN SETTINGS.
2019-12-13: Solving the mystery of HRT shortages in the UK.
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: ZMOB: a multiprocessor computer with 256 Z80 CPUs. (1981)
2019-12-11: The Nintendo Switch switch.
2019-12-11: OpenLayers: easy dynamic maps on web pages.
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: Challenge: find Twitter memes with suffix arrays.
2019-12-05: How I defeated the Tolkien estate.
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: 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: Notes on adding IEC power symbols to Unicode.
2019-12-03: An interactive model-based calculator of cycling power vs. speed.
2019-12-03: niche-museums.com, powered by Datasette.
2019-12-03: Symptoms of groupthink.
2019-12-03: I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo, and you should too.
2019-12-03: datasette-atom: define an atom feed using a custom SQL query.
2019-12-03: The .org fire sale: how it sold for less than half its valuation.
2019-12-03: Did ISOC leave $1 billion on the table?
2019-12-03: How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too).
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: Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests.
2019-11-28: Automated front-end testing is not working.
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: Thoughts on error handling in Rust.
2019-11-22: Bits on the wire.
2019-11-22: Multi-value all the wasm with 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: Myths programmers believe about CPU caches.
2019-11-21: An interview about PostgreSQL extensions.
2019-11-21: The Firefox UI is now built with Web Components.
2019-11-20: A memoir of working on "black" secret space programs.
2019-11-20: Debian init systems: what, another GR?
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: Welcome to China. You probably can't buy anything, though.
2019-11-18: Understanding Rust Serde.
2019-11-18: What makes a good runbook?
2019-11-18: Brand hijacking and Amazon's China strategy.
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: drgn: scriptable debugger library.
2019-11-16: The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford.
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: The early history of Usenet, part 1: the technological setting.
2019-11-15: Private equity company acquires .org registry.
2019-11-15: Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4.
2019-11-14: Explaining 4K 60Hz video through USB-C hubs.
2019-11-14: Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
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: PostgreSQL is a great pubsub and job server.
2019-11-09: Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends.
2019-11-09: Everyone working in DevOps should read The Toyota Way.
2019-11-09: Kubernetes made my latency 10x higher.
2019-11-09: Nesting limits in JSON parsers.
2019-11-09: How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't.
2019-11-08: Type-level programming in Rust for safer hardware abstractions.
2019-11-08: Type-driven design: parse, don't validate.
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: Systemd timer units hide errors in journald, unlike cron.
2019-11-05: The lost ⋮ key of QWERTY
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: View MySQL / MariaDB query progress with `pmonitor`.
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.
2019-11-03: 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: Fine tuning full text search with PostgreSQL 12.
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: 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: Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
2019-10-21: International 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 Xlib and so should you.
2019-10-16: I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system, and you should too.
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 most important software design guideline. (YouTube)
2019-10-12: Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
2019-10-12: The surprising limitations of C++ ranges beyond trivial cases.
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: The new function prototype for objc_msgSend.
2019-10-12: You cannot cURL under pressure.
2019-10-12: How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2019.
2019-10-12: Fibers under the magnifying glass.
2019-10-11: How Monzo's security team handles secrets.
2019-10-11: BPF at Facebook (and beyond).
2019-10-10: Build Systems à la Carte.
2019-10-11: 8 papers that were rejected before winning a Nobel prize.
2019-10-11: A party parrot meme mystery has been solved.
2019-10-11: Video footage of the PDP-7 on which Unix started.
2019-10-10: 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: jtc: JSON manipulation and transformation tool.
2019-10-09: Defining types in the Shen programming language.
2019-10-09: Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability.
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!
2019-09-30: Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup.
2019-10-01: The failed political promise of Silicon Valley.
2019-09-30: The asymmetry of Internet identity.
2019-09-29: JSON for modern C++.
2019-09-30: Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix using a MIP solver.
2019-09-30: Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the npm ecosystem.
2019-09-30: MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
2019-09-30: Before the East India Company.
2019-09-30: SCIP solver for mixed integer programming (MIP) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP).
2019-09-30: A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer.
2019-09-30: Cbc: open-source mixed integer linear programming solver.
2019-09-30: MIP formulations and linearizations quick reference.
2019-09-29: Representing and editing JSON with Google Sheets.
2019-09-29: Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
2019-09-29: Text rendering hates you.
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: Using PostgreSQL row level security to make large companies more secure.
2019-09-26: Advanced SQL: window frames.
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: Save thousands of dollars by packing Kubernetes pods efficiently.
2019-09-14: Parallel GCC research project.
2019-09-14: $1,000,000 worth of invalid EV certificates revoked.
2019-09-13: BLUF: make your writing more powerful with the bottom line up front.
2019-09-13: "DevOps didn't exist when I started as a developer."
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: Efficient string copying and concatenation in C with memccpy().
2019-09-12: Why Ada is the language you want to be programming your systems with.
2019-09-12: bic: a C interpreter and API explorer.
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: 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: Why Teslas aren't the future.
2019-09-11: Quantum INTERCAL.
2019-09-11: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding.
2019-09-11: A famous argument against free will has been debunked.
2019-09-11: Face recognition, bad people, and bad data.
2019-09-10: Uber's path of destruction.
2019-09-10: What does "it's a good start" really mean?
2019-09-10: American phrase book.
2019-09-10: A guide to Aussie slang.
2019-09-10: The tale of the missing semaphore.
2019-09-10: How to chair an academic committee.
2019-09-10: Myths about USB-C.
2019-09-10: Strategies for fast lexical analysis.
2019-09-10: Put down that banana, beekeeper.
2019-09-10: A checklist for empirical evaluation, against replication difficulties in computer science.
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: From mind control to murder: a deadly fall revealed the CIA's MK-Ultra secrets.
2019-09-07: Thoughts on presenting a talk.
2019-09-07: DNS-over-HTTPS privacy and security concerns.
2019-09-07: Does Sean Bean really die more than other actors?
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: An introduction to D3.js.
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: DDSketch: a fast and fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees.
2019-09-05: Computer science from the bottom up.
2019-09-05: Why you need plpgsql_check if you write stored procedures for PostgreSQL.
2019-09-05: Active learning is more effective, but students don't think so.
2019-09-04: Why does CD digital audio have a 44.1 kHz sample rate?
2019-09-05: Universal adversarial triggers for attacking and analyzing NLP.
2019-09-05: The most gender-switched names in the US.
2019-09-05: Thunderbolt 3 cables longer than 0.5m generally don't support USB 3.1 speeds.
2019-09-04: pspg: table-aware pager for PostgreSQL.
2019-09-04: What happened to Hadoop?
2019-09-04: Teardown of a failed Linux LTS Spectre fix.
2019-09-04: Semantic validation in Rust.
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: A static compiler for the TypeScript programming language to Thumb machine code.
2019-09-04: AssemblyScript: a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler.
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: Beginner's guide to linkers.
2019-09-02: Tired of Stack Overflow.
2019-09-02: Linkers: a 20 part series.
2019-09-02: An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++.
2019-09-02: The GNU configure and build system.
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: Linux pressure stall information (PSI): better load averages.
2019-08-31: What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
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: Complicated and complex systems in safety management.
2019-08-26: Report on December's CenturyLink network outage.
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: Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture.
2019-08-25: What the Code of Hammurabi can teach us about software liability.
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: The origins of JavaScript sandbox realms.
2019-08-23: About GNU readline.
2019-08-23: The crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics.
2019-08-23: Why does developing on Kubernetes suck?
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: 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: The web browser monopoly.
2019-08-21: A look at HS2's huge Old Oak Common station.
2019-08-21: Where do interrupts happen?
2019-08-21: The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is "No."
2019-08-21: Calculus is deeply irrational.
2019-08-21: Kaspersky in the middle: what could possibly go wrong?
2019-08-21: "Patent troll" is opinion, not defamation.
2019-08-21: Ten simple rules for responsible referencing.
2019-08-21: The financialization of the American elite.
2019-08-21: How Rust optimizes async/await.
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: Parsing Rust strings into slices.
2019-08-15: Runtime configuration reloading in Rust.
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: Top seven myths of robust systems.
2019-08-13: Best practices for code review.
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: The rule of 140.
2019-08-13: Paged Out! a new experimental free magazine about programming.
2019-08-13: IndieWeb link sharing.
2019-08-13: Banana-killing Panama disease TR4 has arrived in Latin America.
2019-08-13: R13Y: are NixOS builds reproducible?
2019-08-13: Await in Rust.
2019-08-12: Extended Validation TLS certificates are really really dead.
2019-08-13: The horror of Microsoft Teams.
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: Game of Trees: an implementation of git for OpenBSD.
2019-08-10: Parallelism in PostgreSQL.
2019-08-10: H3+: the molecules that made the universe.
2019-08-10: Kepler's forgotten ideas about symmetry help explain spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter.
2019-08-10: H2 in space explains dark matter and redshift.
2019-08-10: Porting Unix to the IBM Series-1 minicomputer.
2019-08-10: Measuring DNS qname minimization.
2019-08-10: Swift ExpressibleBy protocols: What they are and how they work.
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: Arend: a theorem prover based on Homotopy Type Theory.
2019-08-07: A formal investigation of diff3.
2019-08-07: C-mera: Lisp macros for metaprogramming C-like languages.
2019-08-07: Recording 660fps video on a $6 Raspberry Pi camera.
2019-08-07: Understanding Rust through AVL trees.
2019-08-07: The last working Olivetti mainframe sits in a Tuscan high school.
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: 10 years of seL4: still the best, still getting better.
2019-08-07: Don't underestimate grep based code security scanning.
2019-08-07: Fact check: What you may have heard from Elsevier about the dispute with UC.
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: Pwnie award nominations.
2019-08-06: Vectorized emulation: hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second.
2019-08-05: Switching from Common Lisp to Julia.
2019-08-05: Rust language cheat sheet.
2019-08-05: All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people.
2019-08-04: Dissecting a dweet: Lorenz attractor.
2019-08-04: Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself.
2019-08-04: Using PostgreSQL full text search with Golang.
2019-08-04: A technical analysis of the Capital One AWS S3 hack.
2019-08-04: Securely issuing HTTP requests from the cloud.
2019-08-04: Mastering PostgreSQL full-text search and phrase search.
2019-08-04: What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web 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 brief guide to a few algebraic structures.
2019-08-01: A discussion of the origins of UNIX filesystem permissions.
2019-08-01: Rome's border walls were the beginning of its end.
2019-08-01: Inquiry into the implications for the UK of the proposal to end seasonal clock changes in the EU.
2019-08-01: In Australia, one cat seems to have destroyed an entire bird sanctuary.
2019-07-31: Golang experience report: generics in Kubernetes.
2019-07-31: Thoughts on package dependencies and scaling trust.
2019-07-31: ANTLR: an informal introduction.
2019-07-31: After the warming. [1989] (YouTube)
2019-07-31: Container security: a developer guide.
2019-07-31: LoRaWAN distance world record: 766km at 25mW.
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: Notes on a smaller Rust.
2019-07-24: How (not) to sign a JSON object.
2019-07-24: Use plaintext email.
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: Norvig and Pitman tutorial on good Lisp programming style.
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: A Common Lisp style guide.
2019-07-24: Standby in production: scaling PostgreSQL for a large classified ads site.
2019-07-24: Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".
2019-07-24: Unblocking second-generation smart meters.
2019-07-24: Pascal Costanza's highly opinionated guide to Lisp.
2019-07-24: Python anti-patterns.
2019-07-24: Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
2019-07-24: How the retweet ruined the Internet.
2019-07-24: Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia.
2019-07-24: Algebraic effects for the rest of us.
2019-07-24: Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's Ponzi scheme.
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: The little-known Soviet mission to rescue the dead space station Salyut 7.
2019-07-21: Satellite images show vast swaths of the arctic on fire.
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: DataSpill: browser extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users.
2019-07-19: A plan to mine the world's research papers.
2019-07-19: The challenges of single toggle buttons.
2019-07-19: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off.
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.
2019-07-17: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019.
2019-07-17: Indexing documents for full text search in PostgreSQL.
2019-07-17: Certificate flooding, SKS and GnuPG issues, and the Sequoia pgp-in-Rust project.
2019-07-17: Not so fast: the performance of WebAssembly vs. native code.
2019-07-18: Analysis of the Galileo satellite navigation outage.
2019-07-17: QuickJS: Fabrice Bellard's JavaScript engine.
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: Stream combinators implemented using for await syntax in Rust.
2019-07-17: What is unsafe 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: The PGP problem.
2019-07-17: Minisign, based on libsodium, compatible with OpenBSD signify.
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: A summary of USB-C cable features.
2019-07-16: Ownership and borrowing in the D programming language.
2019-07-16: Cookies: what does ‘good' look like to the UK ICO?
2019-07-15: There are 6 kinds of USB-C cables.
2019-07-16: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
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.
2019-07-11: Lexical differential highlighting.
2019-07-12: International typography on the Web: language support matrix.
2019-07-12: ARPANET: the subnet IMPs.
2019-07-11: How to read the international phonetic alphabet.
2019-07-12: Fuzzing DNS zone parsers.
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: Raspberry Pi 4 microSD card performance comparisons.
2019-07-10: Impact of A1 and A2 microSD card application performance class.
2019-07-10: Python consumes a lot of memory; how to reduce the size of objects?
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.
2019-07-08: Tips for reviewing code you don't like.
2019-07-09: Some Dockerfile best practices.
2019-07-09: The Riemann Hypothesis says 5040 is the last.
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: How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow.
2019-07-05: Why the Raspberry Pi 4 is incompatible with some USB-C chargers.
2019-07-05: Why not to use two axes on a chart, and what to use instead.
2019-07-05: The good voting systems agreement.
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: What is the female stress response and why is it interesting?
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 -70ºC.
2019-07-01: Strongly TypeScript Vue.
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: 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: jass: share secrets using SSH keys.
2019-06-30: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof).
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: Before you use a password manager.
2019-06-24: The spycraft revolution.
2019-06-24: Raspberry Pi 4.
2019-06-24: What happens after Amazon's domination Is complete? Its bookstore offers clues.
2019-06-24: How to avoid dangerous counterfeits on Amazon.
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: The typestate pattern in Rust.
2019-06-22: C, Fortran, and single-character strings.
2019-06-22: A liquid helix model helps explain the dribbly teapot effect.
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: Adding static type checking to Julia in 100 lines of code.
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: Preemption is GC for memory reordering.
2019-06-13: CERN Microsoft alternatives project: taking back control using open software.
2019-06-12: RAMbleed: reading bits in memory without accessing them.
2019-06-12: A compilation of Kubernetes failure/horror stories.
2019-06-12: Missions to Mars during the 2020 minimum energy launch window.
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: Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org foundation.
2019-06-12: "1984" at seventy: why we still read Orwell's book.
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: Uh-oh .io: Question mark over trendy TLD as UN condemns British treatment of Chagos.
2019-06-03: Brython: Python 3 in the browser.
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: A DIY microhydro plant.
2019-06-02: Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry.
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: Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web.
2019-05-30: Why Intel Ice Lake AVX512 is important: a bit-basher's perspective.
2019-05-30: Goroutine local storage.
2019-05-30: WhatDoTheyKnow Pro helps TBIJ get the whole picture on council land sell-off.
2019-05-30: runtypes: runtime validation for static types in TypeScript.
2019-05-30: Announcing TypeScript 3.5.
2019-05-30: The author of uBlock on Google Chrome's proposal to cripple ad blockers.
2019-05-30: io-ts: runtime types for IO decoding/encoding in TypeScript.
2019-05-30: Google goes ahead with ad-blocker crackdown, except for paid-up enterprise Chrome users.
2019-05-30: Google's IPv6 traffic stats: will 28% deployment really be the limit?
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: Higher-order type-level programming in Haskell.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>