Tony Finch – link log
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- 2021‑12‑28:
Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language. (troff source)
- 2021‑12‑26:
State of Valhalla, part 1: value types for the JVM.
- 2021‑12‑05:
Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility.
- 2021‑12‑05:
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.
- 2021‑11‑28:
Amethyst: an automatic tiling window manager for macOS.
- 2021‑11‑21:
DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system.
- 2021‑11‑13:
It's now possible to sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys.
- 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:
austral: a systems language with linear types.
- 2021‑10‑23:
A cool Rust optimization story.
- 2021‑10‑21:
Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.
- 2021‑10‑21:
Did the Big Bang begin from a singularity? Not anymore.
- 2021‑10‑18:
The undocumented Microsoft "Rich" PECOFF header.
- 2021‑10‑06:
How ISO C became unusable for operating system development.
- 2021‑09‑30:
Rust for the polyglot programmer.
- 2021‑09‑21:
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it, possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom.
- 2021‑09‑14:
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.
- 2021‑09‑12:
Okhsv and Okhsl: two new color spaces for color picking.
- 2021‑09‑04:
A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.
- 2021‑08‑30:
Most information about disinformation is misinformation.
- 2021‑08‑28:
jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.
- 2021‑08‑26:
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
- 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.
- 2021‑08‑20:
Encoding of immediate values on AArch64.
- 2021‑08‑18:
Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.
- 2021‑08‑07:
A USB adapter for a Depraz mouse.
- 2021‑08‑06:
HTTP/2 desync attacks.
- 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.
- 2021‑07‑11:
Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor.
- 2021‑07‑11:
Inline in Rust.
- 2021‑07‑08:
Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware.
- 2021‑06‑29:
British flag protocol: flying the union jack.
- 2021‑06‑29:
Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API.
- 2021‑06‑21:
Expanding TeX's \newif.
- 2021‑06‑16:
Introducing cap-std, a capability-based version of the Rust standard library.
- 2021‑06‑04:
Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes.
- 2021‑06‑04:
Firefox 89 tab appearance fixes with userchrome.css.
- 2021‑05‑25:
RefinedC: automating the foundational verification of C code with refined ownership types.
- 2021‑05‑05:
Linear Clock: Solar.
- 2021‑05‑03:
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part IV.
- 2021‑05‑02:
Handling time when programming.
- 2021‑04‑26:
Plan 9 history in git, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10.
- 2021‑04‑19:
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III.
- 2021‑04‑15:
Rust shenanigans: return type polymorphism.
- 2021‑04‑04:
paged.js: beautiful PDFs from HTML.
- 2021‑04‑04:
Why Julia is turning heads in 2021.
- 2021‑04‑01:
avo: Generate x86 assembly with Golang.
- 2021‑03‑23:
Automatic video editing for presentations.
- 2021‑03‑19:
Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
- 2021‑03‑19:
MOnSter 6502
- 2021‑03‑17:
frawk: an efficient awk-like programming language.
- 2021‑03‑16:
It’s time to stop using SMS for anything.
- 2021‑03‑07:
Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig.
- 2021‑03‑06:
Generating ePub from LaTeX.
- 2021‑02‑28:
Where everything went wrong: error handling in Rust.
- 2021‑02‑24:
Fuzzy string matching in PostgreSQL.
- 2021‑02‑23:
SEN and oj: pretty JSON.
- 2021‑02‑23:
mold: a modern linker, faster than cat.
- 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.