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• 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"?
• 2021-01-26: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools.
• 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: 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.
• 2021-01-25: The night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina.
• 2021-01-26: LAMBDA: The ultimate Microsoft Excel worksheet function.
• 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: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part II.
• 2021-01-24: Libvirt: adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code.
• 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: Surprising ctags behaviour.
• 2021-01-10: The design of the Roland Juno synth oscillators.
• 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: Rust's SemVer snares: sizedness and size.
• 2021-01-08: Exploring RustFFT's SIMD architecture.
• 2021-01-08: Dark side of POSIX APIs: handling siginfo_t in Rust.
• 2021-01-08: nonymous + bore: DNS toys for Rust.
• 2021-01-08: Generic associated types encode higher-order functions on types in Rust.
• 2021-01-08: An introduction to property-based testing in Rust with quickcheck.
• 2021-01-08: Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
• 2021-01-08: Metaballs and marching squares.
• 2021-01-08: A guide to rendering metaballs (aka blobs).
• 2021-01-08: Doing symbolic math with SymPy.
• 2021-01-08: Greybox automatic exploit generation for heap overflows in language interpreters.
• 2021-01-07: Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
• 2021-01-08: Quorum availability.
• 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: Seamless file descriptor transfer between Linux processes with pidfd and pidfd_getfd.
• 2021-01-01: Floating Point Leviathan: a game based on floating point precision errors.
• 2021-01-01: The hyperbezier pen tool
• 2021-01-01: Counting the days: the origin of Julian day numbers.
• 2021-01-01: Multiscale Turing patterns in WebGL.
• 2021-01-01: Tectonic: a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
• 2021-01-01: How I improve my C code quality.
• 2021-01-01: A look at Rust tokio 1.0 API changes.