Tony Finch – link log

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2023‑12‑30: Git commit signing is kinda wack.
2023‑12‑26: What is a parser mismatch vulnerability?
2023‑12‑26: Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux.
2023‑12‑26: Reptar: an Intel x86 microcode bug.
2023‑12‑21: How to find secure hash collisions.
2023‑12‑16: Why aren't we SIEVE-ing? A new cache eviction algorithm.
2023‑12‑13: Unauthenticated Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS.
2023‑12‑11: Cutting out continuations.
2023‑12‑10: Lambda to SKI, semantically.
2023‑12‑08: A brief history of keyboard encoding.
2023‑12‑04: You don't need JavaScript for that.
2023‑11‑29: Why is Rust slower to read a file than Python?
2023‑11‑29: Destructing trees safely and cheaply.
2023‑11‑28: It's About Time! Accurate clocks in distributed systems.
2023‑11‑27: The largest number representable in 64 bits.
2023‑11‑24: FullControl: unconstrained gcode design for 3D printers.
2023‑11‑23: Wasmtime and Cranelift in 2023.
2023‑11‑23: Commercial flights driven off course by GPS spoofing attacks.
2023‑11‑22: Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
2023‑11‑21: How I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla.
2023‑11‑21: Drawing diagrams for TeX with MetaPost.
2023‑11‑20: A close encounter with false sharing in Rust.
2023‑11‑19: Checking Rust crate semver stability in the presence of doc(hidden) items.
2023‑11‑17: Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
2023‑11‑17: Why you need a "WTF notebook".
2023‑11‑16: Can your static type system handle linear algebra?
2023‑11‑16: A subtle Python SIGPIPE bug.
2023‑11‑15: Popcount walks: next, previous, toward and nearest.
2023‑11‑14: Replacing HLS/DASH with Media over QUIC.
2023‑11‑13: 37 is the median value for the second prime factor of an integer.
2023‑11‑12: A quick look at register allocation with destination-driven code generation.
2023‑11‑12: Space Invaders street art mosaics.
2023‑11‑07: Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay’s numbers.
2023‑11‑07: Jezebel and the question of women’s anger.
2023‑11‑05: A proposed fix for C/C++ relaxed atomics in practice.
2023‑10‑21: Analyzing data 180,000x faster with Rust.
2023‑10‑20: How to mitigate the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM attack.
2023‑10‑20: TLS MITM attack against a Russian XMPP / Jabber service.
2023‑10‑19: Stop your (business rules) engines!
2023‑10‑19: The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules.
2023‑10‑15: Faster compile times from simpler dependency graphs in Rust.
2023‑10‑13: Thumb calendar.
2023‑10‑13: Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing.
2023‑10‑10: Text showdown: gap buffers vs ropes.
2023‑10‑09: UK postal address oddities.
2023‑10‑05: Report ITU-R TF.2511-0 (10/2022): Content and structure of time signals to be disseminated by radiocommunication systems and various aspects of current and potential future reference time scales, including their impacts and applications in radiocommunication.
2023‑10‑05: The Terminal Escapes: Engineering unexpected execution from command line interfaces.
2023‑10‑03: The 300% production problem.
2023‑10‑03: x86 amd64 SIMD instruction list: SSE to AVX512.
2023‑10‑03: Arm64 SIMD instruction list: SVE instructions.
2023‑10‑02: The Marvin attack: Bleichenbacher returns, again.
2023‑09‑29: Who really invented the alphabet?
2023‑09‑29: A plot of all objects in the universe.
2023‑09‑25: The invisible problem with editing text on phones.
2023‑09‑24: Introducing geometric algebra to software developers: a computational thinking approach.
2023‑09‑21: Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem: polyfills gone rogue.
2023‑09‑19: Making Gaussian Splats smaller.
2023‑09‑14: Pagefind and URL search parameters.
2023‑09‑13: George Gorton Machine Co engraver typefaces.
2023‑09‑12: Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy.
2023‑09‑12: What’s the smallest variety of CHERI?
2023‑09‑11: Pure Wasm Life 2: optimizing webassembly and canvas with WebGL.
2023‑09‑11: The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A “Miyake Event” would be far worse.
2023‑09‑09: Black-box concurrent data structures for NUMA architectures.
2023‑09‑09: Good performance is not just big O.
2023‑09‑02: Spoofing certificates with MD5 collisions in 2022.
2023‑09‑01: A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet.
2023‑08‑31: Ad-hoc polymorphism erodes type-safety.
2023‑08‑31: Co-dfns versus BQN's implementation.
2023‑08‑31: The mystery of the Bloomfield bridge.
2023‑08‑29: Grave flaws in BGP error handling.
2023‑08‑23: ROMRAM: using QSPI RAM with RP2040's SSI in read-write mode.
2023‑08‑23: USB HID device class definition.
2023‑08‑22: Building and customizing a Kyria wireless ergonomic keyboard.
2023‑08‑21: Designing a PCB for the RP2040 Microcontroller | Microcontroller Tutorials
2023‑08‑21: Normal incidents.
2023‑08‑13: Virtualizing uxn.
2023‑08‑07: Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it’s so awesome).
2023‑08‑06: Why does libvirt support only 14 hot-plugged PCIe devices on x86-64?
2023‑08‑02: Why Python is terrible.
2023‑07‑31: The Fibonacci matrix.
2023‑07‑31: What John von Neumann really did at Los Alamos.
2023‑07‑30: Workarounds for C11 _Generic().
2023‑07‑29: LPython: novel, fast, retargetable Python compiler.
2023‑07‑22: Managing kitchen fruit flies with a Little Shop of Horrors.
2023‑07‑21: HP-1973: an HP calculator emulator.
2023‑07‑19: Local async executors should be the default in Rust.
2023‑07‑17: Appreciating RFC 8927 JSON type definition.
2023‑07‑16: Penrose: create beautiful diagrams by typing notation in plain text.
2023‑07‑11: salty: Ed25519 for ARM microcontrollers.
2023‑06‑24: No vehicles in the park: a game about content moderation.
2023‑06‑09: Monongahela: a design for a balanced ternary computer.
2023‑06‑04: Calculating position from raw GPS data.
2023‑05‑29: ITU News Magazine: The future of Coordinated Universal Time.
2023‑05‑29: SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes.
2023‑05‑28: Bcrypt at 25: a retrospective on password security.
2023‑05‑23: Unpacking 5 billion varints in only 4 billion CPU cycles.
2023‑05‑22: Wrench: an embedded interpreter.
2023‑05‑19: bilge: a bit fiddling proc macro for Rust.
2023‑05‑17: Logs said it was DNS, it looked like DNS, it had to be DNS, it wasn't DNS.
2023‑05‑13: Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically.
2023‑05‑12: PS-HTTP: a web server written in PostScript.
2023‑05‑11: Building an anycast secondary DNS service.
2023‑05‑11: Building the Micro Mirror free software CDN.
2023‑05‑10: Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers.
2023‑05‑08: On custom-width integer types.
2023‑05‑07: Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II.
2023‑05‑07: The tale of -mrtd in GCC and Clang.
2023‑05‑07: Prolly trees: Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit.
2023‑05‑07: On numbering hegemonies and namespace monopolies.
2023‑05‑03: I want to talk about WebGPU.
2023‑05‑01: A mirror for Rust: compile-time reflection.
2023‑04‑30: Basics of space flight: orbital mechanics.
2023‑04‑26: You could have invented futexes.
2023‑04‑22: The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion.
2023‑04‑10: Night of the living brain fog, or how I hacked my sleep apnea better thanks to open source software.
2023‑04‑10: Can you trust a compiler to optimize (even vectorize) your code?
2023‑04‑10: nsss: a secure NSS-like implementation for static linking.
2023‑04‑09: Modular errors in Rust.
2023‑04‑08: Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?
2023‑03‑15: No more DSLs: Implement and deploy a distributed system with a single program.
2023‑03‑14: Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone’s LiDAR sensor.
2023‑03‑10: \Device\Afd: what makes async Rust and libuv work on Windows.
2023‑03‑09: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux.
2023‑03‑08: The linguistic registers of Rust.
2023‑03‑08: Historical notes on computer word and byte sizes.
2023‑03‑07: How UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse.
2023‑02‑28: HOTscript: higher-order TypeScript, a library for type-level madness.
2023‑02‑05: Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK?
2023‑02‑03: Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator.
2023‑01‑28: C needs a new type qualifier: it’s time for null pointer safety.
2023‑01‑27: Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone network.
2023‑01‑27: Reverse engineering the original Lytro lightfield camera.
2023‑01‑25: Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor.
2023‑01‑08: User-level implementations of RCU (read copy update).
2023‑01‑08: The DIY scientist, the olympian, and the mutated gene.
2023‑01‑05: Reflecting on transducers in Scheme.
2023‑01‑01: How to get Xfinity Stream to work on Linux: a tale of Widevine, Chrome OS, and a patched glibc.
2023‑01‑01: Better binary search in Haskell.