Tony Finch – link log

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2021‑12‑31: Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows.
2021‑12‑28: Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language. (troff source)
2021‑12‑28: Software Tools in C++.
2021‑12‑26: State of Valhalla, part 1: value types for the JVM.
2021‑12‑23: fq: jq for binary formats.
2021‑12‑18: age-plugin-yubikey: YubiKey plugin for age encryption.
2021‑12‑18: untwister: a PRNG seed recovery tool.
2021‑12‑18: PostgreSQL is a great pub/sub and job server.
2021‑12‑17: A brutally effective hash function in Rust.
2021‑12‑16: gRPC best practices.
2021‑12‑15: IPv4 address markets.
2021‑12‑05: Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility.
2021‑12‑05: Securing updates for GNU Guix.
2021‑12‑05: Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.
2021‑12‑03: Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
2021‑12‑02: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers .
2021‑12‑02: Tvix: we are rewriting Nix.
2021‑12‑01: libtree: ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not.
2021‑12‑01: An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation.
2021‑11‑28: Amethyst: an automatic tiling window manager for macOS.
2021‑11‑24: IDEs and macros and Rust.
2021‑11‑21: DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system.
2021‑11‑21: elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently; designed for manyclangs.
2021‑11‑18: Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
2021‑11‑18: Understanding HKDF.
2021‑11‑18: Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible.
2021‑11‑14: Tests aren’t enough: adding type hints to Python urllib3.
2021‑11‑13: The weirdest QNX bug I've ever encountered.
2021‑11‑13: It's now possible to sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys.
2021‑11‑12: Overview of the Rust compiler.
2021‑11‑11: Speed of Rust vs C.
2021‑11‑04: An oral history of Bank Python.
2021‑11‑01: C++ coroutines do not spark joy.
2021‑10‑26: Comparing open source BGP stacks.
2021‑10‑26: austral: a systems language with linear types.
2021‑10‑26: bitbottle: an archive file format (in Rust).
2021‑10‑25: blamer.el: A git blame plugin for emacs inspired by VS Code's GitLens plugin.
2021‑10‑23: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
2021‑10‑23: A cool Rust optimization story.
2021‑10‑23: Coding for non-programmers: we need better web GUI automation tools.
2021‑10‑21: Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.
2021‑10‑21: Context-preserving error handling in Rust.
2021‑10‑21: Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL using custom operators.
2021‑10‑21: Did the Big Bang begin from a singularity? Not anymore.
2021‑10‑21: Social media doesn't turn people into assholes, and everyone's wrong about echo chambers.
2021‑10‑20: I couldn’t debug the code because of my name: unicode pathname bugs in JetBrains IDEs.
2021‑10‑18: What every software engineer should know about search.
2021‑10‑18: The undocumented Microsoft "Rich" PECOFF header.
2021‑10‑13: Kathleen Stock, TERF.
2021‑10‑13: The problem with function namespaces and Lisp macros.
2021‑10‑11: MMP at 25: how proportional representation changed New Zealand forever.
2021‑10‑11: Benchmarking oksh (OpenBSD Korn shell) with lots of C compilers.
2021‑10‑06: How ISO C became unusable for operating system development.
2021‑10‑04: CBMC: C bounded model checker.
2021‑10‑03: OpenHaystack: tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network
2021‑10‑03: R, OpenMP, MKL, disaster.
2021‑10‑02: Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism.
2021‑09‑30: Rust for the polyglot programmer.
2021‑09‑30: The Biggest Churches in the World: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals.
2021‑09‑27: Dealing with the Roman Calendar.
2021‑09‑26: A history of library hand.
2021‑09‑21: HIBA: Host Identity Based Authorization for SSH.
2021‑09‑21: A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it, possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom.
2021‑09‑19: How does Ouroboros relate to RINA, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture?
2021‑09‑18: The Negro Subversive on Critical Race Theory.
2021‑09‑17: TRIPOS historical sources.
2021‑09‑16: Go to sleep little iPhone: lost broadcasts on WiFi.
2021‑09‑15: DART: the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool.
2021‑09‑15: Freedom of Information as a tool for making cycle routes more accessible.
2021‑09‑15: Taking legal action on inaccessible cycleway barriers.
2021‑09‑14: logos: create ridiculously fast lexers in Rust.
2021‑09‑14: Type-checked keypaths in Rust.
2021‑09‑14: A tale of making a company-wide psqlrc to use with pgbouncer.
2021‑09‑14: OLAP != OLAP Cube.
2021‑09‑14: Ora2PG now supports oracle_fdw to increase data migration speed.
2021‑09‑12: Okhsv and Okhsl: two new color spaces for color picking.
2021‑09‑09: Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
2021‑09‑06: Computational hierarchy of elementary cellular automata.
2021‑09‑05: Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
2021‑09‑04: A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.
2021‑09‑03: The scandalous history of the last rotor cipher machine.
2021‑09‑02: Netflix audio description style guide.
2021‑09‑01: Moiré no more: using FFT to remove halftone patterns.
2021‑09‑01: In defense of blub studies.
2021‑08‑30: Most information about disinformation is misinformation.
2021‑08‑29: Why is the S combinator an S?
2021‑08‑29: Four months with Ada.
2021‑08‑28: jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.
2021‑08‑26: Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
2021‑08‑26: Flexible microprocessor could enable an 'internet of everything'.
2021‑08‑26: PragmatIC Semiconductor made a flexible 6502 in two weeks.
2021‑08‑25: Hiding images in plain sight: an acrylic magic window that can project a picture.
2021‑08‑24: Life before Unicode in Russia.
2021‑08‑23: One does not simply calculate the absolute value.
2021‑08‑21: Tesla Dojo: a custom chip for very high capacity AI training.
2021‑08‑20: Encoding of immediate values on AArch64.
2021‑08‑20: Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild; here's what happened.
2021‑08‑20: Patterns in confusing explanations.
2021‑08‑18: Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.
2021‑08‑17: Speeding up `atan2f` by 50x.
2021‑08‑15: Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes.
2021‑08‑14: Emacs development charts, 10×10%.
2021‑08‑14: A probabilistic solution to the three-body problem.
2021‑08‑11: Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat?
2021‑08‑11: A little bit about PRNG stuff in Rust.
2021‑08‑09: How BCPL evolved from CPL.
2021‑08‑09: The rise of Meson.
2021‑08‑08: Edward Luper’s 36 Views of the BT Tower.
2021‑08‑07: A USB adapter for a Depraz mouse.
2021‑08‑07: The tao of Unicode sparklines.
2021‑08‑06: HTTP/2 desync attacks.
2021‑08‑03: Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987)
2021‑08‑03: Choosing properties for property-based testing.
2021‑07‑31: strcpy: a niche function you don't need.
2021‑07‑30: B-tree path hints.
2021‑07‑30: One tenth of a second.
2021‑07‑28: Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash.
2021‑07‑27: Why neoliberalism needs neofascists.
2021‑07‑21: Keyboard rollover and lockout.
2021‑07‑18: Inserting one billion rows into SQLite in under a minute.
2021‑07‑13: Updating the Golang memory model.
2021‑07‑11: Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor.
2021‑07‑11: It’s not always iCache.
2021‑07‑11: Inline in Rust.
2021‑07‑10: Against SQL.
2021‑07‑09: A survey of approaches to securing BGP and inter-domain routing.
2021‑07‑09: mull: Practical mutation testing for C and C++.
2021‑07‑08: Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware.
2021‑07‑07: Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming.
2021‑07‑07: rustviz: interactive visualization of ownership and borrowing.
2021‑07‑05: GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright.
2021‑07‑04: Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy.
2021‑07‑03: wasm2ps: compile a small subset of WebAssembly to PostScript. (using wasm2wat)
2021‑07‑03: Phase-in codes.
2021‑07‑01: Hardware memory models.
2021‑06‑29: British flag protocol: flying the union jack.
2021‑06‑29: Reinventing the automobile: the first skateboard platform for electric vehicles.
2021‑06‑29: Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API.
2021‑06‑28: How to evaluate Emacs Lisp in regex search and replace.
2021‑06‑27: systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective.
2021‑06‑27: Why did we ever think the first programming language didn't matter?
2021‑06‑22: What is CapTP, and what does it enable?
2021‑06‑21: Expanding TeX's \newif.
2021‑06‑20: What do you call a Rust pointer we stole the high bits off? An ointer.
2021‑06‑18: Eliminating data races in Firefox with Thread Sanitizer.
2021‑06‑16: Introducing cap-std, a capability-based version of the Rust standard library.
2021‑06‑15: Celebrating 30 years of Europe’s first root name server.
2021‑06‑13: How to handle secrets on the command line.
2021‑06‑11: Can memcpy be implemented in LLVM IR?
2021‑06‑11: cap: an allocator that can track and limit memory usage in Rust.
2021‑06‑11: Time and date syntax used by systemd.
2021‑06‑11: Don’t feed the thought leaders.
2021‑06‑11: Behavior inheritance in Rust.
2021‑06‑07: Using a SmartCard HSM for DNSSEC with BIND, Knot DNS, and LDNS/NSD.
2021‑06‑06: Ordnance Survey height benchmark locations.
2021‑06‑05: From Julia to Rust.
2021‑06‑04: Anatomy of a Linux DNS lookup.
2021‑06‑04: Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes.
2021‑06‑04: Firefox 89 tab appearance fixes with userchrome.css.
2021‑06‑03: Design issues in LLVM IR.
2021‑06‑03: How malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery.
2021‑06‑02: Practical Reed-Solomon for programmers.
2021‑05‑31: PostGIS at 20: the beginning.
2021‑05‑28: A year in the Nakagin tower’s metabolist future of 1972.
2021‑05‑27: An introduction to Jorvik, Ada’s new tasking profile.
2021‑05‑27: Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust.
2021‑05‑27: Reciprocals in Rust: baseline implementations should be predictable.
2021‑05‑25: RefinedC: automating the foundational verification of C code with refined ownership types.
2021‑05‑23: rustc_codegen_gcc can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them!
2021‑05‑20: Language compilation speed comparison.
2021‑05‑14: Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512.
2021‑05‑10: Better performance for dynamic linking with -fno-semantic-interposition.
2021‑05‑08: The byte order fiasco.
2021‑05‑06: EverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers.
2021‑05‑05: Linear Clock: Solar.
2021‑05‑04: Fully automated bootstrapping from source.
2021‑05‑03: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part IV.
2021‑05‑02: Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster).
2021‑05‑02: Handling time when programming.
2021‑05‑02: Query engines: push vs. pull.
2021‑04‑26: Plan 9 history in git, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10.
2021‑04‑25: Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C.
2021‑04‑19: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III.
2021‑04‑17: Lars Wirzenius would like to review your README.
2021‑04‑16: Actually, you are rolling your own crypto.
2021‑04‑15: Rust shenanigans: return type polymorphism.
2021‑04‑14: fuzzcheck-rs: Structure-aware, in-process, coverage-guided fuzzing engine for Rust.
2021‑04‑09: Asahi Linux for Apple M1: progress report, January / February 2021.
2021‑04‑07: Protecting PostgreSQL from FreeBSD's OOM killer.
2021‑04‑07: Fast and extensible equality saturation with egg and Rust.
2021‑04‑06: Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
2021‑04‑06: Foreign Data Wrappers for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
2021‑04‑06: Wuffs has the fastest, safest PNG decoder in the world.
2021‑04‑06: Ghosts of OSI: the spectre haunting the Internet.
2021‑04‑05: TextEdit TXT/HTML type sniffing vulnerability on macOS (CVE-2019-8761).
2021‑04‑04: paged.js: beautiful PDFs from HTML.
2021‑04‑04: A history of IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
2021‑04‑04: Why Julia is turning heads in 2021.
2021‑04‑01: Speeding up crash recovery and VACUUM in PostgreSQL 14.
2021‑04‑01: Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times.
2021‑04‑01: How does Golang know time.Now?
2021‑04‑01: avo: Generate x86 assembly with Golang.
2021‑03‑30: Terrible choices: MySQL.
2021‑03‑30: MySQL: do not pass this way again.
2021‑03‑29: Flicker-free Elite on the BBC Micro (like the BBC Master).
2021‑03‑29: The actual OSI model.
2021‑03‑28: Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps.
2021‑03‑28: Developer tools can be magic. Instead, they collect dust.
2021‑03‑28: Pin and suffering in async Rust.
2021‑03‑26: A look back at asynchronous Rust.
2021‑03‑26: Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.
2021‑03‑25: Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor.
2021‑03‑23: Automatic video editing for presentations.
2021‑03‑20: Regexploit: a tool for finding DoS-able regular expressions.
2021‑03‑19: Fontemon: the world’s first video game in a font!
2021‑03‑19: Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
2021‑03‑19: MOnSter 6502
2021‑03‑18: How GitHub found and fixed a rare race condition in session handling.
2021‑03‑18: Country centered map projections.
2021‑03‑18: Writing a PostgreSQL formatter / pretty printer in Rust.
2021‑03‑18: Memory saturated MySQL.
2021‑03‑17: frawk: an efficient awk-like programming language.
2021‑03‑17: Why COBOL isn't the problem.
2021‑03‑16: The origins and motivations of univalent foundations: computer proof verification to avoid mathematical mistakes.
2021‑03‑16: Correct register allocation in Cranelift by fuzzing with a symbolic checker.
2021‑03‑16: The prevalence, persistence, and perils of lame delegations.
2021‑03‑16: It’s time to stop using SMS for anything.
2021‑03‑15: Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust.
2021‑03‑12: Measuring frecency (a combination of frequency and recency) with exponential decay.
2021‑03‑12: Faster inverse BWT.
2021‑03‑11: Generalizing over generics aka higher kinded types in Rust.
2021‑03‑11: Safe flexible aliasing with deferred borrows in Rust.
2021‑03‑11: A history of CLU.
2021‑03‑11: inet.af/netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Golang.
2021‑03‑10: HTML5 genetic algorithm 2D car thingy.
2021‑03‑09: Debian running on Rust coreutils.
2021‑03‑08: yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR parser animations.
2021‑03‑07: Fast file copy with io_uring.
2021‑03‑07: Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig.
2021‑03‑07: Don’t use 7-segment displays.
2021‑03‑06: Cleaning up your PostgreSQL database.
2021‑03‑06: No one is prepared for hagfish slime.
2021‑03‑06: Generating ePub from LaTeX.
2021‑03‑06: Web browser architecture and the history of window systems.
2021‑03‑05: Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses.
2021‑03‑05: New Ansible data validation module(s).
2021‑03‑05: Project Champollion: reverse-engineering Rosetta 2.
2021‑03‑04: HTTPWTF?!
2021‑03‑04: Don't blindly prefer `emplace_back` to `push_back` in C++.
2021‑03‑04: Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov.
2021‑03‑02: typescript-is: generate run-time type-checks.
2021‑03‑02: Taking this serially.
2021‑03‑01: Eight million pixels and counting: improving texture atlas allocation in Firefox WebRender.
2021‑02‑28: How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%.
2021‑02‑28: Where everything went wrong: error handling in Rust.
2021‑02‑28: TLD graveyard.
2021‑02‑25: An exploration of JSON interoperability vulnerabilities.
2021‑02‑25: The ternary computing manifesto.
2021‑02‑25: Putting DNSSEC signers to the test: Knot vs Bind.
2021‑02‑25: rpi-open-firmware: Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi.
2021‑02‑25: Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack.
2021‑02‑24: Fuzzy string matching in PostgreSQL.
2021‑02‑24: Git as a tamperproof file archive using chained RFC3161 timestamps.
2021‑02‑23: SEN and oj: pretty JSON.
2021‑02‑23: mold: a modern linker, faster than cat.
2021‑02‑22: Stop your (business rules) engines!
2021‑02‑20: The modern packager’s security nightmare.
2021‑02‑19: Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals.
2021‑02‑19: Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee.
2021‑02‑18: Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
2021‑02‑18: Power-of-2-choices in practice.
2021‑02‑14: Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.
2021‑02‑13: SVG: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
2021‑02‑12: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in Linux TCP.
2021‑02‑12: Islands architecture for web pages.
2021‑02‑11: A reverse-engineered description of Adobe Type 1 fonts. (1989)
2021‑02‑11: 50 years of text games - 1976: Adventure.
2021‑02‑10: ANSI X3.64-1979: Additional control characters for use with ASCII.
2021‑02‑10: FreeBee: an AT&T 3B1 emulator.
2021‑02‑10: Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
2021‑02‑10: Dependency confusion: a novel supply chain attack against Apple, Microsoft, and dozens of other companies.
2021‑02‑10: Configuring PostgreSQL to avoid the Linux OOM killer.
2021‑02‑09: A practical look at 2G GSM security after three decades.
2021‑02‑09: Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
2021‑02‑09: Configuring Emacs for Rust development.
2021‑02‑08: The real novelty of the ARPANET.
2021‑02‑06: We have known the earth is round for about 2500 years.
2021‑02‑05: How to read and write Scheme code.
2021‑02‑05: 8 bits are enough for a version number...?
2021‑02‑05: In the future, even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs.
2021‑02‑04: The Dunning-Kruger effect probably is real.
2021‑02‑04: You don't really need a virtualenv: try PDM instead?
2021‑02‑03: Bluetooth trackball Mark II.
2021‑02‑02: 10 bad TypeScript habits to break this year.
2021‑02‑02: Polymorphisation: Improving Rust compilation times through intelligent monomorphisation.
2021‑02‑02: Recovering a bricked SSD with JTAG and a Raspberry Pi.
2021‑02‑01: An HAProxy back-end server port change gotcha.
2021‑02‑01: PostgreSQL partial indexes: the unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused space.
2021‑02‑01: Gadgetbahn: Is Cambridgeshire's new metro all it's cracked up to be?
2021‑02‑01: 67 years of Lego sets.
2021‑01‑31: A look at iMessage in iOS 14.
2021‑01‑31: Bringing stack clash protection to Clang / x86 with help from Firefox and Rust.
2021‑01‑31: Manless climbing: Dorothy Pilley Richards 1894-1986.
2021‑01‑31: CrayZee Eighty: a Z80 RC2014 backplane shaped like a Cray 1.
2021‑01‑31: Testing Proebsting's law: How does clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?
2021‑01‑31: Deluge and disaster: the politics of flooding risk.
2021‑01‑30: Log-structured merge for solid-state drives.
2021‑01‑30: Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
2021‑01‑29: Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/s IO on a single AMD ThreadRipper workstation.
2021‑01‑29: Discussing the future of RPKI.
2021‑01‑29: How we made Typerighter, the Guardian's style guide checker.
2021‑01‑29: Uniwidth typefaces for interface design.
2021‑01‑28: Automatic flamegraphs for benchmarks in Rust.
2021‑01‑28: Performance improvement on front-end generated by rustdoc.
2021‑01‑27: What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds with package maintainers.
2021‑01‑27: What color was "Apple Beige"?
2021‑01‑27: 12 requests per second in Python.
2021‑01‑26: Badger Seal mask fitter.
2021‑01‑26: Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine.
2021‑01‑26: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools.
2021‑01‑26: Postgres scaling advice for 2021.
2021‑01‑26: Window System Design: If James Gosling had it to do over again in 2002.
2021‑01‑26: System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021.
2021‑01‑26: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies.
2021‑01‑26: LAMBDA: The ultimate Microsoft Excel worksheet function.
2021‑01‑25: The night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina.
2021‑01‑25: Zig makes Golang (cgo) cross compilation Just Work.
2021‑01‑25: The PGM-index: a learned piecewise geometric model for small lookup indexes.
2021‑01‑24: DrScheme in space.
2021‑01‑24: Racket compiler and runtime status, January 2021.
2021‑01‑24: An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS.
2021‑01‑24: Tim Hayward and COVID: 10 days on life support.
2021‑01‑24: Libvirt: adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code.
2021‑01‑24: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part II.
2021‑01‑24: Use mmap() with care.
2021‑01‑22: Rust in production in 1Password.
2021‑01‑22: On the complexity of JSON serialization.
2021‑01‑22: What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
2021‑01‑21: XTerm does graphics in Tektronix mode.
2021‑01‑21: The new database servers powering Let's Encrypt.
2021‑01‑21: How Corellium ported Linux to the Apple M1.
2021‑01‑21: Container networking is simple.
2021‑01‑21: picodvi: Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 microcontroller.
2021‑01‑21: Datalegreya: interweave text and data.
2021‑01‑21: Parsing ASN.1: A troublesome problem?
2021‑01‑20: The year a "railway" ran inside Westminster Abbey.
2021‑01‑20: Software engineering is not special.
2021‑01‑20: Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon.
2021‑01‑20: Java on Truffle: going fully metacircular.
2021‑01‑20: An interactive review of the Oklab colour space.
2021‑01‑19: Cache poisoning vulnerabilities affect popular DNSmasq software.
2021‑01‑19: A high-speed computer vision pipeline for the universal LEGO sorting machine.
2021‑01‑19: Unicode superscript numeral rendering bugs.
2021‑01‑19: Down Underground: London Underground depth diagrams.
2021‑01‑18: Are programmers really engineers?
2021‑01‑18: BBC Micro Bot user guide.
2021‑01‑16: The problem with Gradle.
2021‑01‑16: Reverse engineering Prodigy.
2021‑01‑15: Fast commits for ext4.
2021‑01‑15: This was WhatsApp's plan all along.
2021‑01‑15: donut.c without a math library.
2021‑01‑15: Simplifying endian-specific file parsers in Rust with Omnom and type inference.
2021‑01‑15: Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JavaScript.
2021‑01‑14: A week with Plan 9.
2021‑01‑14: The most thoroughly commented linker script (probably).
2021‑01‑13: Use an iPhone as a webcam.
2021‑01‑13: OBS Studio: free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
2021‑01‑13: Cross-language interfaces between C and C++.
2021‑01‑12: The ABCD family tree.
2021‑01‑12: Who invented the alphabet?
2021‑01‑12: Futhark design decisions I do not regret.
2021‑01‑12: Developing new metrics for tracking DNS root server traffic.
2021‑01‑12: SUNSPOT: an implant in the SolarWinds Orion build process.
2021‑01‑11: XTerm: it's better than you thought.
2021‑01‑11: The Earth has been spinning faster lately.
2021‑01‑10: The design of the Roland Juno synth oscillators.
2021‑01‑10: Surprising ctags behaviour.
2021‑01‑10: The truth about cast iron pans.
2021‑01‑09: Radamsa: a general-purpose black-box fuzzer.
2021‑01‑09: kAFL: hardware-assisted feedback fuzzing for OS kernels.
2021‑01‑09: Redqueen: fuzzing with input-to-state correspondence.
2021‑01‑09: Grimoire: synthesizing structure while fuzzing.
2021‑01‑09: Earth is turning faster than it has in a half-century, which could mean a negative leap second.
2021‑01‑09: Ray tracing in pure CMake.
2021‑01‑08: nonymous + bore: DNS toys for Rust.
2021‑01‑08: Exploring RustFFT's SIMD architecture.
2021‑01‑08: Dark side of POSIX APIs: handling siginfo_t in Rust.
2021‑01‑08: Generic associated types encode higher-order functions on types in Rust.
2021‑01‑08: Rust's SemVer snares: sizedness and size.
2021‑01‑08: An introduction to property-based testing in Rust with quickcheck.
2021‑01‑08: A guide to rendering metaballs (aka blobs).
2021‑01‑08: Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
2021‑01‑08: Metaballs and marching squares.
2021‑01‑08: Doing symbolic math with SymPy.
2021‑01‑08: Greybox automatic exploit generation for heap overflows in language interpreters.
2021‑01‑08: Quorum availability.
2021‑01‑07: Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
2021‑01‑07: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU.
2021‑01‑07: Italian court rules that Deliveroo used a discriminatory algorithm.
2021‑01‑07: Xbox 20 year anniversary: an oral history.
2021‑01‑06: Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2.
2021‑01‑06: An uncommon cold.
2021‑01‑05: Cryptographic key length recommendations.
2021‑01‑05: Tutorial on precompilation for Julia.
2021‑01‑04: Ditherpunk: the article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering.
2021‑01‑04: Dream Minecraft speedrun investigation results.
2021‑01‑04: FuzixOS: a Unix-like system for 8-bit micros.
2021‑01‑03: kgames: reviving very old X code.
2021‑01‑03: Rust design patterns.
2021‑01‑03: Zig in 30 minutes.
2021‑01‑03: A new release for GNU Octave.
2021‑01‑03: Medley Interlisp Common Lisp.
2021‑01‑03: On repl-driven programming.
2021‑01‑03: cargo-supply-chain: Gather author, contributor and publisher data on crates in your dependency graph.
2021‑01‑02: Game of Life on Penrose tiles.
2021‑01‑01: The hyperbezier pen tool
2021‑01‑01: Floating Point Leviathan: a game based on floating point precision errors.
2021‑01‑01: Seamless file descriptor transfer between Linux processes with pidfd and pidfd_getfd.
2021‑01‑01: Counting the days: the origin of Julian day numbers.
2021‑01‑01: Multiscale Turing patterns in WebGL.
2021‑01‑01: How I improve my C code quality.
2021‑01‑01: Tectonic: a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
2021‑01‑01: A look at Rust tokio 1.0 API changes.