Tony Finch – link log

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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.
2020‑12‑31: Unsafe string interning in Golang for scoped IPv6 addresses.
2020‑12‑30: The quirks of City of London livery company coats of arms.
2020‑12‑30: Getting started in BBC BASIC with Owlet.
2020‑12‑30: In Python 2, node.example.com is an IPv6 address.
2020‑12‑29: Five intersecting tetrahedra in origami.
2020‑12‑29: Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithms.
2020‑12‑29: Flow Browser preview on the Raspberry Pi 400.
2020‑12‑28: Buttplug: a haptics abstraction library in Rust for controlling vibrators and other intimate hardware.
2020‑12‑28: Cosmopolitan C library: build-once run-anywhere.
2020‑12‑28: A review of the Lean theorem prover.
2020‑12‑28: Rust in a KDE project.
2020‑12‑27: Systems design explains the world.
2020‑12‑27: Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing.
2020‑12‑26: A complete guide to LLVM for programming language creators.
2020‑12‑25: 'static trait bounds in Rust.
2020‑12‑23: Interactive C++ for data science with LLVM cling.
2020‑12‑23: How to favicon in 2021: six files that fit most needs.
2020‑12‑23: Flix: a functional / logic programming language for the JVM.
2020‑12‑23: KLEE: finding software bugs using symbolic execution.
2020‑12‑23: Build a tiny certificate authority for your homelab.
2020‑12‑23: An LSP client maintainer's view of the language server protocol.
2020‑12‑23: Don't think, just defunctionalize.
2020‑12‑21: Raft does not guarantee liveness in the face of network faults.
2020‑12‑20: Swirled Series: the result.
2020‑12‑19: The Psion Organiser II: laying the groundwork of our smartphone world.
2020‑12‑19: The algorithmic beauty of plants.
2020‑12‑19: Perceus: garbage free reference counting with reuse.
2020‑12‑18: Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration.
2020‑12‑17: Git commits are snapshots, not diffs.
2020‑12‑17: The git parable.
2020‑12‑17: Moving a large TypeScript codebase to use strict null checks.
2020‑12‑17: Notes on cross-compiling Rust on a Mac for a Raspberry Pi.
2020‑12‑17: Adding BPF target support to the Rust compiler.
2020‑12‑17: Rust on the BBC micro:bit.
2020‑12‑17: rpitx: radio transmission from a Raspberry Pi GPIO pin.
2020‑12‑17: Why CockroachDB chose to be compatible with PostgreSQL.
2020‑12‑17: FFI-safe polymorphism with thin trait objects in Rust.
2020‑12‑16: Niue has launched a major effort to win back control of .nu
2020‑12‑16: What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries.
2020‑12‑16: To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language.
2020‑12‑15: Rockstar: a language for creating programs that are also hair metal power ballads.
2020‑12‑14: The case of the extra 40ms. (Not TCP delayed ACKs!)
2020‑12‑14: The cleverest BBC Micro floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd.
2020‑12‑14: Pointer provenance is complicated: we need better language specs.
2020‑12‑14: XML round-trip vulnerabilities in the Golang standard library affecting SAML.
2020‑12‑14: A Golang-style defer mechanism for C.
2020‑12‑14: K: a rewrite-based executable semantic framework for programming languages.
2020‑12‑13: if-then-else had to be invented.
2020‑12‑13: The HP-35.
2020‑12‑12: More batteries included with emacs.
2020‑12‑12: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPV4 addresses.
2020‑12‑11: Monads and generic associated types in nightly Rust.
2020‑12‑10: An explanation of cameras and lenses with interactive 3D graphics.
2020‑12‑09: "A damn stupid thing to do": CPL and the origins of C.
2020‑12‑09: Architecting the future: Arm, CHERI, and Morello.
2020‑12‑08: Where did combinators come from? Hunting the story of Moses Schönfinkel.
2020‑12‑08: Connecting an ASR33 Teletype to an ESP32.
2020‑12‑08: The Galileo eccentric satellite surprise.
2020‑12‑06: Interval tree clocks.
2020‑12‑06: Exotic Programming Ideas: Datalog and Souffle.
2020‑12‑06: std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++
2020‑12‑06: The future of 32-bit Linux.
2020‑12‑05: Auto for types, but not for concepts in C++.
2020‑12‑05: A Microsoft custom floating point type for efficient inference.
2020‑12‑04: A tale of Template Haskell and cross compilation.
2020‑12‑04: Browser cache partitioning means it is time to say goodbye to Google Fonts.
2020‑12‑03: Painful lessons from the Web PKI, and how you can avoid them.
2020‑12‑03: Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise git repos and other hash graphs.
2020‑12‑03: Generic traits and associated types in Rust.
2020‑12‑03: Futures explained in 200 lines of Rust.
2020‑12‑03: Obsolete trigonometry functions and why we don't use them anymore.
2020‑12‑02: Hey Alexa what did I just type?
2020‑12‑02: Faster asynchronous WAL archiving with pgBackRest to avoid PostgreSQL WAL backlog.
2020‑12‑02: PostgreSQL PostGIS trajectories through space and time.
2020‑12‑02: TenDRA: an architecture-neutral compiler framework with C and C++ front ends.
2020‑12‑02: libFirm: an optimizing compiler back-end.
2020‑12‑02: Cutting up a capsized cargo ship for salvage.
2020‑12‑02: The rendering equation.
2020‑12‑01: Naming the Net: the Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
2020‑12‑01: Design of the Mozilla Firefox CRLite infrastructure.
2020‑12‑01: Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more exciting than it sounds.
2020‑12‑01: The road to the Erlang JIT.
2020‑12‑01: Computer graphics from scratch.
2020‑12‑01: I am an 80 column purist.
2020‑12‑01: How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
2020‑12‑01: ARM and lock-free programming.
2020‑11‑30: biVector.net: geometric algebra for computer graphics, vision, and engineering.
2020‑11‑30: Geometric algebra for computer graphics.
2020‑11‑30: Imaginary numbers are not real: the geometric algebra of spacetime.
2020‑11‑30: ganja.js: geometric algebra for Javascript.
2020‑11‑29: Summary of the Amazon Kinesis outage in the AWS us-east-1 region.
2020‑11‑28: Raytracing in one weekend.
2020‑11‑28: SCION EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture.
2020‑11‑28: L4S: low latency, low loss, scalable throughput Internet service architecture.
2020‑11‑28: Network topology design at 17,000 km/h: LEO satellite Internet.
2020‑11‑28: MP-DCCP multipath tunneling and congestion control in congestion control.
2020‑11‑28: On congestion control (un)fairness and active queue management (AQM).
2020‑11‑28: k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
2020‑11‑28: The great Internet TCP congestion control census.
2020‑11‑27: Existential Haskell.
2020‑11‑27: 1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby.
2020‑11‑27: Rebuilding the Racket compiler with Chez Scheme.
2020‑11‑27: The most unusual murder weapons in crime fiction.
2020‑11‑27: An introduction to geometric algebra.
2020‑11‑27: Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction.
2020‑11‑26: An introduction to quaternions.
2020‑11‑26: How io_uring and eBPF will revolutionize programming in Linux.
2020‑11‑26: CBOR for embedded C with a Rust server.
2020‑11‑26: Testing a Rust crate's C API.
2020‑11‑26: Strengthening memory safety in Rust: exploring CHERI capabilities for a safe language.
2020‑11‑26: An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools.
2020‑11‑26: WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report.
2020‑11‑26: Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.
2020‑11‑26: Reasoning about colours.
2020‑11‑26: A list of magic numbers encountered while debugging.
2020‑11‑26: Electromagnetism using geometric algebra versus components.
2020‑11‑26: Versor: a generic C++ library for geometric algebras.
2020‑11‑26: Origin of the trefoil radiation warning sign.
2020‑11‑25: An intro to bivectors and rotors: Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine.
2020‑11‑25: An API is a user interface.
2020‑11‑25: Mlang: a modern compiler for the French tax code.
2020‑11‑25: Protect domains that don't send email.
2020‑11‑25: How do people find bugs?
2020‑11‑25: Preserving Flash: why emulation is better than migration.
2020‑11‑25: Making PostgreSQL stored procedures 9X faster in Citus.
2020‑11‑25: PAM bypass: when nullok is not OK.
2020‑11‑24: TypeScript performance.
2020‑11‑24: More subtle TCP performance problems due to Nagle's algorithm and delayed ACKs.
2020‑11‑24: What went wrong with libdispatch: a cautionary tale for async concurrency.
2020‑11‑23: Building your color palette.
2020‑11‑23: The origin of the MIT License.
2020‑11‑22: What if the world is made of cubes? Uncovering the universal geometry of geology.
2020‑11‑22: Even faster bash startup.
2020‑11‑22: Booting from a vinyl record.
2020‑11‑20: Swirled series.
2020‑11‑20: It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
2020‑11‑20: How to abuse and fix authenticated encryption without key commitment.
2020‑11‑20: UNIX NEWS and ;login: archives from the 1970s.
2020‑11‑19: Microsoft FrontPage: the good, the bad, the ugly.
2020‑11‑19: Flash animations live forever at the Internet Archive.
2020‑11‑19: The C standard library is not dependency free (but part of Rust's is).
2020‑11‑19: The usability of ownership in Rust.
2020‑11‑19: LambdaDelta: an emulator of the LMI Lambda Lisp Machine.
2020‑11‑19: Archive of LISP Machine, Inc.
2020‑11‑19: Wiby: a search engine for the classic web.
2020‑11‑19: Forensic Architecture investigation of the Beirut port explosion.
2020‑11‑19: On-demand linked libraries for Nix.
2020‑11‑19: Power-cycling a USB port should be simple, right?
2020‑11‑19: I should have loved biology.
2020‑11‑18: Microsoft Pluton: a security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs.
2020‑11‑18: Automatic syntax error recovery in lrpar.
2020‑11‑17: Skija graphics for JVM.
2020‑11‑17: CXX.rs: safe interop between Rust and C++.
2020‑11‑17: The Rust performance book.
2020‑11‑17: 2020 Mac Mini: putting Apple Silicon M1 to the test.
2020‑11‑17: Servo moves from Mozilla to the Linux Foundation.
2020‑11‑17: Sponge4: a sponge-like hash function for seeding PRNGs.
2020‑11‑17: From Russia With Love: moving a time series data service from Citus to ClickHouse.
2020‑11‑16: Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA.
2020‑11‑16: PostgreSQL psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet.
2020‑11‑16: pgcli: a command line interface for PostgreSQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
2020‑11‑16: Build systems à la carte: theory and practice (revised and expanded).
2020‑11‑16: How I failed to make LinkedIn fix their broken international domain URL parser.
2020‑11‑16: How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
2020‑11‑15: MLS: message layer security for better encrypted group chat.
2020‑11‑15: Charles proxy for web scraping.
2020‑11‑14: The making of a masterpiece: Bohemian Rhapsody. (YouTube)
2020‑11‑14: Python, the Full Monty: a tested semantics for the Python programming language.
2020‑11‑14: On the expressive power of programming languages.
2020‑11‑14: We need less powerful languages.
2020‑11‑14: Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83.
2020‑11‑14: When 13.3 > 14.
2020‑11‑13: udp2raw-tunnel: UDP over encrypted fake TCP to bypass firewalls.
2020‑11‑13: Why TCP over TCP is a bad idea.
2020‑11‑12: Build your own gpg in Rust.
2020‑11‑12: Replication conflicts in PostgreSQL and how to deal with them.
2020‑11‑12: PostgreSQL observability: a diagram of views and functions for inspecting your database.
2020‑11‑12: Full-text search performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
2020‑11‑12: 40ms bug: a missing writev, Nagle's algorithm, and delayed ACKs.
2020‑11‑12: AndroWish: run Tcl/Tk programs on Android.
2020‑11‑12: Propeller: a framework for post-link optimizations.
2020‑11‑12: BOLT: a post-link binary layout optimizer for speeding up large applications.
2020‑11‑12: Exploring PGO for the Rust compiler.
2020‑11‑11: Miniselect: practical and generic (sorted) selection algorithms.
2020‑11‑11: Undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git: choose your own adventure.
2020‑11‑11: What mother never told you about IBM VM service.
2020‑11‑10: Fast Flexible Paxos.
2020‑11‑09: Hegel: an advanced static type checker for JavaScript.
2020‑11‑09: Turing incomplete languages.
2020‑11‑09: Lox: a word that hasn't changed sound or meaning in 8,000 years.
2020‑11‑09: dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python.
2020‑11‑09: Structured concurrency in C++.
2020‑11‑09: dog: a command-line DNS client.
2020‑11‑09: Towards Pijul 1.0.
2020‑11‑09: Parsing the infamous Japanese postal CSV.
2020‑11‑08: LLVM clang 12 support for amd64 micro-architecture levels.
2020‑11‑08: New amd64 micro-architecture levels.
2020‑11‑07: Go in production: what I learned 1 month later.
2020‑11‑07: vt52-fpga
2020‑11‑07: Kristian's interactive 3D printed Stargate with wormhole effect.
2020‑11‑06: Standing on our own two feet: Let's Encrypt trust anchor rollover.
2020‑11‑06: Exception safety in Rust: using transient droppers to prevent memory leaks.
2020‑11‑06: AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review.
2020‑11‑06: The elements of style: Unix as literature.
2020‑11‑05: Draft design for generic type parameters in Golang.
2020‑11‑05: Linear scan register allocation.
2020‑11‑05: A first look at the Erlang JIT.
2020‑11‑05: UK's £55M MAST Upgrade fusion experiment (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) has achieved first plasma.
2020‑11‑05: Notes on Paxos.
2020‑11‑04: BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools.
2020‑11‑03: Eight months of NixOS.
2020‑11‑03: Hardware performance counter support (via rdpmc) in Rust.
2020‑11‑03: How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free.
2020‑11‑03: Rust design-for-testability: a survey.
2020‑11‑02: Two workers are quadratically better than one: modelling a queue with PRISM.
2020‑11‑02: Extreme bioinformatics debugging.
2020‑11‑02: Hyper-regional chippy traditions of Britain and Ireland.
2020‑11‑02: Mac OS boot volume layout.
2020‑11‑01: Flutter Web: a fractal of bad design.
2020‑11‑01: NAT Slipstreaming: firewall bypass using SIP ALG.
2020‑11‑01: Using TLA+ to understand a real-world glibc bug.
2020‑11‑01: WordTsar: a Wordstar clone.
2020‑11‑01: WordPerfect for DOS on modern computers.
2020‑10‑31: Dijkstra: the man who carried computer science on his shoulders.
2020‑10‑30: 3 Gbps ethernet on the Raspberry Pi compute module.
2020‑10‑30: It's called Medium because it's neither rare nor well done.
2020‑10‑30: A12: advancing network transparency on the desktop.
2020‑10‑30: XPath injection issues are severely underrated.
2020‑10‑30: A tale of a build system bug. (ninja/gcc/Windows)
2020‑10‑30: Experience in production with Flask, Bottle, Tornado, and Twisted.
2020‑10‑30: For complex applications (IDEs) Rust is as productive as Kotlin.
2020‑10‑30: Using a 3D printer "defect" to create a new quasi-textile.
2020‑10‑30: I hate GIS coordinate systems!
2020‑10‑30: Errol: binary floating-point to decimal string conversion algorithm.
2020‑10‑30: Errol: an always correct method for printing floating-point numbers.
2020‑10‑29: SRI and Cambridge University release CHERI software stack for Arm Morello.
2020‑10‑29: The remarkable number 1/89 and the Fibonacci series.
2020‑10‑29: Scaling attacks to hide/spoof one image in another.
2020‑10‑28: Optimizing a join using LIKE by using PostgreSQL FTS instead.
2020‑10‑28: EDSAC 1951 (YouTube)
2020‑10‑28: The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML.
2020‑10‑28: Verona: a research programming language for concurrent ownership.
2020‑10‑27: Better performance with Envoy HTTP connection pooling for PHP applications at Wikipedia.
2020‑10‑27: plocate: a much faster locate.
2020‑10‑27: samurai: a ninja-compatible build tool written in C.
2020‑10‑27: Why was Rachel Whiteread's House demolished?
2020‑10‑27: OpenMPTCProuter uses multipath TCP (MPTCP) to aggregate multiple Internet connections with OpenWrt.
2020‑10‑27: Covenants, easements, and wayleaves: the hidden urban interfaces of the London Underground.
2020‑10‑27: Improving PostgreSQL connection scalability with faster snapshots.
2020‑10‑26: Standard ML in 2020.
2020‑10‑25: PARI/GP: a computer algebra system for fast computations in number theory.
2020‑10‑25: GAP: a system for computational discrete algebra.
2020‑10‑24: Efficient text editing on a PDP-10.
2020‑10‑24: Four dangerous animals of product development.
2020‑10‑24: Static single assignment for functional programmers.
2020‑10‑24: A new map of the standard model of particle physics.
2020‑10‑24: Rejuvenating autoconf.
2020‑10‑24: Ungrammar: a DSL for rust-analyzer's concrete syntax tree.
2020‑10‑24: Understanding static single assignment (SSA) form.
2020‑10‑24: Compiling with continuations, or without? Whatever.
2020‑10‑24: Compiling without continuations.
2020‑10‑23: Deprecating SHA-1 in OpenPGP.
2020‑10‑23: Avoiding overload in AWS distributed systems by putting the smaller service in control.
2020‑10‑23: RPKI secure BGP routing Q&A.
2020‑10‑23: cson: CoffeeScript object notation.
2020‑10‑23: jacl: just another configuration language.
2020‑10‑23: Better than JSON?
2020‑10‑23: StrictYAML.
2020‑10‑23: How Apple is organized for innovation.
2020‑10‑23: Journeying into XDP implementing DNS RRL.
2020‑10‑23: Debugging async generator errors in Rust.
2020‑10‑23: Private methods on a public trait in Rust.
2020‑10‑23: Inside Rust std::io::Error.
2020‑10‑22: Proving that 1 + 1 = 10 in Rust.
2020‑10‑22: A pitfall of Rust's move/copy/drop semantics and zeroing data.
2020‑10‑22: The story behind Markdown.
2020‑10‑22: Non-generic inner functions in Rust.
2020‑10‑22: Nickel: better configuration for less, inspired by Nix.
2020‑10‑22: Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
2020‑10‑22: What's new in OAuth 2.1?
2020‑10‑22: AWS NLBs and mixed up TCP connections.
2020‑10‑22: TPC-H performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
2020‑10‑22: PEG: ambiguity, precision, and confusion.
2020‑10‑21: The TRIPS project: an explicit data graph execution (EDGE) processor.
2020‑10‑21: Roofline model of computer performance for HPC applications.
2020‑10‑21: The asymptotic cost of address translation on memory access time.
2020‑10‑21: The myth of RAM.
2020‑10‑21: Lezer: a parser system in JavaScript.
2020‑10‑21: A list of attempts to make Python faster.
2020‑10‑20: AWS and their billions of dollars of IPv4 addresses.
2020‑10‑20: Why mmap is faster than system calls.
2020‑10‑20: Validating UTF-8 in less than one instruction per byte.
2020‑10‑20: The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance.
2020‑10‑20: Lambda the penultimate / lambda to SKI, semantically.
2020‑10‑20: Binary lambda calculus.
2020‑10‑20: Assorted thoughts on Zig and Rust.
2020‑10‑20: Building a computer in Conway's Game of Life.
2020‑10‑19: Euler's formula: a complex guide.
2020‑10‑19: The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux.
2020‑10‑19: BlockQuicksort: avoiding branch mispredictions in Quicksort.
2020‑10‑19: ips4o: in-place parallel superscalar samplesort.
2020‑10‑19: The case for a learned sorting algorithm.
2020‑10‑19: MONOSPACE: a JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes.
2020‑10‑18: Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd.
2020‑10‑17: Keeping secrets: Diffie-Hellman and the NSA.
2020‑10‑17: What they don't tell you about demand paging in school.
2020‑10‑17: Building a 10BASE5 "Thick Ethernet" network.
2020‑10‑17: Cryptographic signing using ssh-keygen(1) with a FIDO authenticator.
2020‑10‑17: MyST: a markdown flavor and parser for Sphinx.
2020‑10‑16: So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
2020‑10‑16: The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences.
2020‑10‑15: The fascinating influence of the Cyclone programming language.
2020‑10‑15: Optional parameters in Rust.
2020‑10‑15: Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC codec in Rust.
2020‑10‑15: Improving security in s2n, Amazon's TLS implementation.
2020‑10‑15: Unifying the technical interview.
2020‑10‑14: Room-temperature superconductivity achieved for the first time (at high pressure between diamond anvils).
2020‑10‑14: libsixel: DEC terminal graphics.
2020‑10‑14: Improving Bluetooth audio quality on Linux.
2020‑10‑13: Applying union-find for real life performance wins.
2020‑10‑12: Building the mathematical library of the future with Lean.
2020‑10‑12: Overloading by return type in C++.
2020‑10‑11: GPU-accelerated ODE solving in R with Julia.
2020‑10‑11: Why we need a C-compatible Rust crate for bitfields.
2020‑10‑10: Asterisk.
2020‑10‑10: Crux: exhaustive symbolic testing for C, C++, and Rust.
2020‑10‑10: Alphora-style database diagramming.
2020‑10‑10: Progress report on Rust Cranelift backend.
2020‑10‑10: xchg rax, rax; x64 Assembly for the advanced.
2020‑10‑10: CSV parser benchmark game.
2020‑10‑10: Loading a CSV file at the speed limit of NVMe storage.
2020‑10‑08: The Eisel-Lemire string to double precision floating point conversion algorithm.
2020‑10‑08: OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
2020‑10‑08: Using CTE to do a binary search of a large table with non-indexed correlated data in PostgreSQL.
2020‑10‑07: The origin of the VM/370 time-sharing system.
2020‑10‑07: zheap: reinvented PostgreSQL storage.
2020‑10‑07: Notes on reviving and extending Marvin, a typeface for Visions magazine.
2020‑10‑07: From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on with Grapefruit.
2020‑10‑07: USB3: why it's a bit harder than USB2.
2020‑10‑06: DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion.
2020‑10‑06: Telharmonium: the first significant electronic musical instrument.
2020‑10‑06: Q3 Linux touchpad like Macbook update.
2020‑10‑06: TIME for a WTF MySQL moment.
2020‑10‑06: From object algebras to tagless-final interpreters.
2020‑10‑06: Cyclone Scheme: a new R7RS compiler.
2020‑10‑06: FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
2020‑10‑06: Incompatible validation criteria for Ed25519.
2020‑10‑06: s7: Scheme as an extension language for other applications.
2020‑10‑04: Type-level programming in Rust.
2020‑10‑04: How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU, with our home-built C compiler.
2020‑10‑04: Lambda calculus, Church numerals, and Graham's number.
2020‑10‑04: Drop order in Rust: it's tricky.
2020‑10‑04: A future for debugging Rust.
2020‑10‑04: Revisiting a 'smaller Rust'.
2020‑10‑04: Applying "make invalid states unrepresentable".
2020‑10‑04: Tales from the science fiction bar-room.
2020‑10‑04: Saving space (basically) for free by re-ordering columns in PostgreSQL.
2020‑10‑04: Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator.
2020‑10‑04: Magic Wand Rechargeable teardown.
2020‑10‑04: SaferNode: a Python script to isolate npm inside short-lived Docker containers.
2020‑10‑04: A web of trust for npm.
2020‑10‑04: HOPL: an online historical encyclopaedia of programming languages.
2020‑10‑04: chibicc: a small C compiler.
2020‑10‑04: Lambda calculus diagrams.
2020‑10‑03: Computer science metanotation is a barrier to entry.
2020‑10‑03: System font typography on 8 bit micros.
2020‑10‑03: Falsehoods programmers believe about map coordinates.
2020‑10‑03: Compiler hardening and exploit mitigations for unsafe Rust.
2020‑10‑02: Toward an API for the real numbers: exact arithmetic with decidable equality comparisons.
2020‑10‑01: outflank-mailman: stop Mailman from breaking DKIM signatures.
2020‑09‑29: Rob Pike on colour blindness.
2020‑09‑28: FPspy: Spying on the floating point behavior of existing, unmodified scientific applications.
2020‑09‑28: The weight of buildings and the raising of Chicago.
2020‑09‑28: BBC Micro Elite source code and commentary.
2020‑09‑27: A typed, algebraic approach to parser combinators.
2020‑09‑27: Modular, composable, typed optimizations in the tagless-final style.
2020‑09‑26: Guided tour of Bunnie's Precursor motherboard.
2020‑09‑26: Techade quiz: A near-impossible guessing game of tech through the decades.
2020‑09‑25: A PEG parser for CPython.
2020‑09‑25: Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM with Julia and rr.
2020‑09‑25: Finding a goroutine bug with TLA+.
2020‑09‑25: A pipeline made of airbags: live upgrades vs immutable infrastructure.
2020‑09‑24: Traits as an emergent feature of Julia.
2020‑09‑24: Bean Machine: a declarative probabilistic programming language for efficient programmable inference.
2020‑09‑24: How the CPython compiler works.
2020‑09‑24: Fast incremental compilation of Kotlin.
2020‑09‑24: Void in Haskell is a smell.
2020‑09‑24: Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS.
2020‑09‑23: Delivering 45x faster percentiles using PostgreSQL, Citus, and t-digest.
2020‑09‑23: JuliaCon2020: Julia is production ready!
2020‑09‑23: Haskell's children: Rust, Idris, Julia.
2020‑09‑23: On YOLOsec and FOMOsec.
2020‑09‑22: Data and Reality, 2nd edition.
2020‑09‑21: Range: My least favorite Rust type.
2020‑09‑21: John Regehr's integers in C quiz.
2020‑09‑21: A new X.509 certificate chain validator for LibreSSL.
2020‑09‑21: Tail call optimization and debugging.
2020‑09‑21: A new backend for Cranelift: instruction selection.
2020‑09‑21: Speeding up C++ compilation.
2020‑09‑21: Dennis Ritchie's reflections on software research.
2020‑09‑20: Why not Rust?
2020‑09‑20: Taking MonetDB/e for a taxi ride.
2020‑09‑20: FreeBSD's Subversion to Git migration: Why?
2020‑09‑20: LLVM's getelementptr, by example.
2020‑09‑19: What's the fastest way to chill your beer?
2020‑09‑19: "Fake COTS" and the one-day rule.
2020‑09‑18: A Cuban numbers station cryptologic mystery.
2020‑09‑18: Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
2020‑09‑18: Surfaces vs airborne: what we know now about Covid-19 transmission.
2020‑09‑18: Taming nalgebra's Rustdoc.
2020‑09‑18: Let's Encrypt's new ECDSA root and intermediate certificates.
2020‑09‑17: DNS Flag Day 2020: what you need to know.
2020‑09‑17: Maximizing DNS qname minimization.
2020‑09‑17: Search and replace tricks with ripgrep.
2020‑09‑16: The plot against Birmingham.
2020‑09‑16: USB-C was supposed to simplify, but it's a total mess.
2020‑09‑16: How America became obsessed with dips, sauces, dressings, and "food lube".
2020‑09‑16: Efficient parallel and incremental parsing of practical context-free languages.
2020‑09‑16: The missing datacenter OS.
2020‑09‑16: Tips for PostgreSQL bulk data loading.
2020‑09‑16: Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System.
2020‑09‑16: A formalization and correctness proof of the CGOL language system / Pratt parser. (1975)
2020‑09‑16: Differentiable dithering with gradient descent.
2020‑09‑15: Which parsing approach?
2020‑09‑15: Keeping time at NIST.
2020‑09‑15: Debian-installer, mdadm configuration, and the bad blocks controversy.
2020‑09‑14: Creating high-quality PDF/A documents using LaTeX.
2020‑09‑14: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
2020‑09‑13: Diversity Explorer: ethnicity across England and Wales.
2020‑09‑13: Design out waste in household electrical goods.
2020‑09‑12: How GitLab.com upgraded PostgreSQL.
2020‑09‑11: Getting MacOS style hotkeys working in GNU/Linux.
2020‑09‑10: Leonardo da Vinci's ingenious design for a self-supporting bridge.
2020‑09‑10: 5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day.
2020‑09‑09: Hacking Ethernet out of FibreChannel cards.
2020‑09‑09: Loko Scheme: an optimizing R6RS Scheme compiler.
2020‑09‑08: An explainer on Ed25519 clamping.
2020‑09‑08: What we didn't get: science fiction technologies that remained fictional.
2020‑09‑07: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time.
2020‑09‑07: Named parameters using designated initializers in C++20.
2020‑09‑07: The Capsule hash trie collections library for Java.
2020‑09‑06: Lessons from the GNOME patent troll incident.
2020‑09‑05: TOTP in 20 lines of Python.
2020‑09‑05: The origins of XXX as a FIXME comment marker.
2020‑09‑04: Some historical reflections on NSFNET.
2020‑09‑04: Don't forget: the plural of anecdote is data.
2020‑09‑04: Property testing and formal verification / symbolic execution in Rust with KLEE.
2020‑09‑03: A demonstrator's guide to helmets.
2020‑09‑03: The femme's guide to riot fashion: this season's hottest looks for the discerning anarchist.
2020‑09‑02: Butler Lampson's updated and expanded hints and principles for computer system design.
2020‑09‑02: On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap.
2020‑09‑02: Write tracking for Nim.
2020‑09‑02: The problem with C compatibility in C++.
2020‑09‑02: jsonptr: using the wuffs memory-safe, zero-allocation JSON decoder.
2020‑09‑02: The wuffs programming language: wrangling untrusted file formats safely.
2020‑09‑01: Lunar: a Mac OS X utility to adjust the brightness of your external display.
2020‑09‑01: PostgreSQL 13: don't let replication slots kill your primary.
2020‑09‑01: This is not a sonic boom, it's a vapor cone.
2020‑09‑01: Taking a look at Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations.
2020‑09‑01: How Arlo got injected into Ruby.
2020‑09‑01: Understanding the X.500 directory.
2020‑08‑31: Cracking Dlang Phobos pseudorandom UUIDs.
2020‑08‑31: WebAssembly reference types in Wasmtime.
2020‑08‑31: Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
2020‑08‑31: Sum types in Julia and Rust.
2020‑08‑30: Python daemon ate my syslog message.
2020‑08‑30: contained.af CTF.
2020‑08‑29: WebAssembly troubles: WebAssembly is not a stack machine.
2020‑08‑29: Travel demand modeling: the broken algorithm that poisoned American transportation.
2020‑08‑28: Objective Rust.
2020‑08‑28: Finger trees explained anew, and slightly simplified.
2020‑08‑28: 100 years to solve an integral: a history of the Mercator projection and the integral of the secant.
2020‑08‑28: Rust-style futures in C with libuv.
2020‑08‑28: Using Microsoft Word with git and pandoc.
2020‑08‑27: PiSight: a Raspberry Pi inside an Apple iSight webcam.
2020‑08‑27: Making QUIC quicker with NIC offload.
2020‑08‑27: The design and implementation of BIND, a "Domain Names" resolver.
2020‑08‑27: The design and implementation of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) servers.
2020‑08‑27: BIND: the Berkeley Internet Name Domain server.
2020‑08‑26: UMASH: a fast and universal enough hash.
2020‑08‑26: HTMLified C standard ISO/IEC 9899:2017.
2020‑08‑26: PCI Express retimers vs. redrivers: an eye-popping difference.
2020‑08‑25: Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7.
2020‑08‑25: Functional programming in m4.
2020‑08‑25: Oracle to PostgreSQL: cursors and common table expressions.
2020‑08‑25: Signifier: a brutalist response to the 17th century Oxford Fell typefaces.
2020‑08‑25: Keeping CALM: when is distributed consistency easy?
2020‑08‑25: Updating the PostgreSQL root.crt file for TLS client auth.
2020‑08‑24: Recent advances in IPv6 security: Addressing.
2020‑08‑24: Writing a fuzzer test case generator in Rust for a programming language such as Wasm.
2020‑08‑24: BPF CO-RE: compile once, run everywhere for BPF portability.
2020‑08‑24: Draw your own fourier epicycles.
2020‑08‑24: Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
2020‑08‑24: Building resilient services at Amazon Prime Video with chaos engineering.
2020‑08‑24: Here I stand, free: noexcept allocators and an inclusive C++ STL.
2020‑08‑24: A clean start for the web?
2020‑08‑24: Javascript generators, meet XPath.
2020‑08‑24: Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window.
2020‑08‑24: The BLISS programming language: a history.
2020‑08‑24: Never run `python` in your downloads folder.
2020‑08‑23: As above, so below: Bare metal Rust generics.
2020‑08‑23: Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics.
2020‑08‑22: Mesh: a compacting memory allocator for C/C++.
2020‑08‑22: Understanding memory fragmentation in GHC Haskell.
2020‑08‑21: How NAT traversal works.
2020‑08‑21: Nyxt: an extensible keyboard-oriented web browser written in Common LISP.
2020‑08‑21: Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons from Firefox?
2020‑08‑21: Google Chromium's impact on root DNS traffic.
2020‑08‑21: Adding a microSD slot to a reMarkable tablet.
2020‑08‑21: ARX, Arthur and RISC OS.
2020‑08‑20: Code smell: concrete abstraction.
2020‑08‑20: How the Linux kernel starts on ARM32.
2020‑08‑20: Can't you just right click? Running unsigned code on Mac OS X.
2020‑08‑20: A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python.
2020‑08‑20: A documentation system: tutorials / howtos / reference / explanation.
2020‑08‑19: Leading-trim: a future CSS spec for better vertical spacing in digital typography.
2020‑08‑19: How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL.
2020‑08‑19: Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
2020‑08‑19: Contention adapting search tree: Erlang's new scalable ETS ordered set data structure.
2020‑08‑19: Open problems in robotics.
2020‑08‑19: Speeding up json parsing in Golang.
2020‑08‑19: Switching from i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04.
2020‑08‑19: The case of the top secret iPod.
2020‑08‑18: The medieval university duopoly in England.
2020‑08‑18: How to break everything by fuzz testing.
2020‑08‑18: Fuzzing a C/C++ API with DeepState.
2020‑08‑18: Testing GNU coreutils with KLEE.
2020‑08‑18: Measuring the coverage achieved by symbolic execution.
2020‑08‑17: Responsible and effective bugfinding.
2020‑08‑17: Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux.
2020‑08‑17: Proposed register-based Golang calling convention.
2020‑08‑17: A first look at IPv4 transfer market misuse.
2020‑08‑17: A 35-year-old bug in patch found during the 2.11BSD restoration project.
2020‑08‑16: The Gartner hype cycle is ... hype.
2020‑08‑16: Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom.
2020‑08‑16: daScript: a high performance scripting language.
2020‑08‑15: How the Intel 8086 distributes power and clock signals.
2020‑08‑14: The optical mouse, and an architectural methodology for smart digital sensors. (Xerox PARC, 1981)
2020‑08‑14: Constructive vs predicative data types.
2020‑08‑14: Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types.
2020‑08‑14: Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary Linux kernel modules.
2020‑08‑14: The newspaper of the air: early experiments with radio facsimile.
2020‑08‑14: DNS problems with conntrack and Kubernetes.
2020‑08‑14: Mpemba effect: what conditions make hot water freeze faster than cold water?
2020‑08‑13: Rust does not have a stable ABI.
2020‑08‑13: Interactive HTML trees with no JavaScript and no CSS.
2020‑08‑13: Handles are the better pointers.
2020‑08‑13: A guide to contiguous data in Rust.
2020‑08‑12: Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
2020‑08‑12: Building a better Golang linker.
2020‑08‑11: Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
2020‑08‑11: Take a virtual tour of ORNL's supercomputer center.
2020‑08‑11: Exposing and circumventing China's censorship of TLS/1.3 ESNI.
2020‑08‑10: Surviving Rust async interfaces.
2020‑08‑10: The great American sci-fi utopia or dystopia? (Kim Stanley Robinson)
2020‑08‑10: 9 crappy paradoxes that shape nonprofit and philanthropy.
2020‑08‑09: UK radon maps.
2020‑08‑09: Tracking running processes on Linux.
2020‑08‑09: EdgeQL: we can do better than SQL.
2020‑08‑09: The '-ize' have it!
2020‑08‑08: A star went supernova in 1987. Where is it now?
2020‑08‑07: Hello! You've been referred here because you're wrong about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
2020‑08‑07: How hard is it to type-check your favorite language?
2020‑08‑07: After nearly a century, elusive CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected.
2020‑08‑07: Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors.
2020‑08‑07: crush: a command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language.
2020‑08‑07: Steve Crocker on the history of RFCs.
2020‑08‑06: lacc: a simple, self-hosting C89 compiler.
2020‑08‑06: The Myrddin programming language.
2020‑08‑06: cproc: a C11 compiler using QBE as a backend.
2020‑08‑06: A project to restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes.
2020‑08‑06: Monads and intensionality: Lucid is not an abberation.
2020‑08‑06: Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch.
2020‑08‑05: TikTok and the Sorting Hat.
2020‑08‑05: What alternate reality games can teach us about QAnon.
2020‑08‑05: Myth and monolith: the Nine Elms Cold Store.
2020‑08‑04: Syntax changes in lambda expressions between C++11 and C++20.
2020‑08‑04: Swift type checking is undecidable.
2020‑08‑03: The UX of Lego interface panels.
2020‑08‑03: Lecture notes on static program analysis.
2020‑08‑03: Julia 1.5 release highlights.
2020‑08‑03: COVID-19: We need to talk about airborne transmission and ventilation.
2020‑08‑02: Rich: a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
2020‑08‑02: How a cheese goes extinct.
2020‑08‑02: Time traveling in Haskell: how it works and how to use it.
2020‑08‑02: Measuring and examining TLS 1.3, IPv4, and IPv6 performance.
2020‑08‑02: Measuring linux performance: how to avoid typical mistakes.
2020‑08‑02: The lost history of PReP: Windows NT 3.5x on PowerPC and the RS/6000 40p.
2020‑08‑02: Why are we using black box models in AI when we don't need to?
2020‑08‑02: Low latency tuning guide for x86 Linux systems.
2020‑08‑02: GPU.js: GPU accelerated JavaScript.
2020‑08‑02: Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer.
2020‑08‑02: Homemade pasta.
2020‑08‑01: How to harvest credit card numbers and passwords from lots of web sites.
2020‑08‑01: WordSafety: check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages.
2020‑08‑01: Compressing authority with cryptographic accumulators.
2020‑08‑01: The politics of optimism.
2020‑08‑01: Defragmenting DNS: determining the optimal maximum UDP response size for DNS.
2020‑07‑31: Can I use CSS and HTML in email?
2020‑07‑31: Apple emails reveal internal debate on right to repair.
2020‑07‑31: Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
2020‑07‑30: How Dropbox migrated from Nginx to Envoy.
2020‑07‑30: Refactoring the FreeBSD kernel with Checked C.
2020‑07‑30: Lockless algorithms for mere mortals?
2020‑07‑30: Solving the expiring. X.509 root CA certificate-mageddon, partly at least.
2020‑07‑30: Parallel stream processing with Rayon in Rust.
2020‑07‑30: If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?
2020‑07‑30: Sizedness in Rust.
2020‑07‑30: An introduction to data oriented design with Rust.
2020‑07‑30: Speculative compilation in WebKit JavaScriptCore.
2020‑07‑30: Pluto's dark side spills its secrets, including hints of a hidden ocean.
2020‑07‑30: PostgreSQL 9.3's powerful new join type: LATERAL.
2020‑07‑30: Some SQL tricks from an Application DBA.
2020‑07‑30: RBS type signature files in Ruby 3.
2020‑07‑29: Unicode normalization in PostgreSQL 13.
2020‑07‑29: In October 1953, Paul Niquette coined the word 'software'.
2020‑07‑29: Historic Usenet archive is disappearing from Google Groups.
2020‑07‑28: The inescapable whiteness of Avatar: The Legend of Korra, and its uncomfortable implications.
2020‑07‑28: DINR2020: DNS and Internet Naming Research Directions workshop.
2020‑07‑28: Why inter-domain multicast now makes sense.
2020‑07‑28: When Unix learned to reboot(2).
2020‑07‑28: Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph.
2020‑07‑27: Can applications recover from fsync() failures?
2020‑07‑27: Apache Arrow and the 10 things I hate about pandas.
2020‑07‑27: What is Apache Arrow?
2020‑07‑27: Highlights from git 2.28.
2020‑07‑27: Fanout and latency percentiles in distributed systems.
2020‑07‑27: Monads and mom.
2020‑07‑27: remake: GNU make with enhanced tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more.
2020‑07‑27: Compiling with a sea of nodes.
2020‑07‑27: Should I block ICMP?
2020‑07‑27: CVE-2020-13777 GnuTLS passive plaintext recovery vulnerability.
2020‑07‑26: Preliminary benchmarking results for a Haskell I/O manager backend based on io_uring.
2020‑07‑26: Colorize your CLI.
2020‑07‑26: Corecursion and coinduction: what they are and how they relate to recursion and induction.
2020‑07‑26: The history, status, and future of FPGAs.
2020‑07‑26: Why people tend to appreciate men's humor so much more than women's.
2020‑07‑25: Cryptography is not magic.
2020‑07‑25: Bloom filters debunked: dispelling 30 years of bad math with Coq!
2020‑07‑24: Meritocracy is not only false, it's bad for you.
2020‑07‑24: Shadow attacks: hiding and replacing content in signed PDFs.
2020‑07‑24: Cold showers on overhyped topics in computer science.
2020‑07‑24: TechEmpower web framework benchmarks.
2020‑07‑24: Demystifying MLsub: the simple essence of algebraic subtyping.
2020‑07‑23: Why is CSS the way it is?
2020‑07‑23: Buzzy: dependency management for C.
2020‑07‑23: Exploring Algol 68 in the 21st century.
2020‑07‑23: New features in gnuplot 5.4.
2020‑07‑22: MineSweeper implemented in CSS and HTML and no JavaScript.
2020‑07‑22: How to check the status of Rust features.
2020‑07‑22: caniuse.rs: Rust feature search.
2020‑07‑22: Next steps for single ownership and RAII. (C++/Vale/Rust)
2020‑07‑21: The null process.
2020‑07‑21: UTN #39: bidi brackets for dummies.
2020‑07‑21: Essays on programming I think about a lot.
2020‑07‑21: Lisp: the many faces of an undying programming language.
2020‑07‑21: Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel.
2020‑07‑21: An explanation of Rust's module system.
2020‑07‑20: Certificate Transparency: a bird's-eye view.
2020‑07‑20: Three architectures for a responsive IDE.
2020‑07‑20: Journeying into XDP (express data path) for in-kernel eBPF DNS acceleration.
2020‑07‑20: Ireland donates its COVID tracker app to Linux Foundation.
2020‑07‑20: The quest for very wide outlines: optimized GPU silhouettes.
2020‑07‑19: The cpio trailer problem.
2020‑07‑19: How Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica came to be published.
2020‑07‑17: Repurposing FPGA-based products as development kits.
2020‑07‑17: Unicode for Mayan hieroglyphs.
2020‑07‑17: Straightened trees.
2020‑07‑17: The impact of Heartbleed on OpenSSL's development practices.
2020‑07‑17: DDR5 memory specification released.
2020‑07‑16: Shipping const generics for Rust in 2020.
2020‑07‑16: Patricia Crowther inspired one of the first hit video games by mapping the world's longest cave.
2020‑07‑16: Hacking Reolink IP cameras for fun and profit.
2020‑07‑16: Python pickle's nine flaws.
2020‑07‑16: IPv6 and the DNS.
2020‑07‑16: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition.
2020‑07‑16: Back into FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac.
2020‑07‑16: Introducing the GitHub availability report.
2020‑07‑16: Lezer: a JavaScript parser generator for the CodeMirror 6 editor.
2020‑07‑16: What's new in Lua 5.4.
2020‑07‑16: Why even unused data needs to be valid in Rust.
2020‑07‑16: Two beautiful Rust programs.
2020‑07‑15: PgTyped: raw SQL in TypeScript with guaranteed type-safety.
2020‑07‑15: Rewriting FORTRAN software in Rust.
2020‑07‑14: In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released.
2020‑07‑14: MessagePack vs CBOR (RFC7049).
2020‑07‑14: SIGred: exploiting a 17 year-old bug in Windows DNS servers.
2020‑07‑14: Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad.
2020‑07‑14: How Futhark implements array bounds checking on the GPU.
2020‑07‑14: SSSE3 fast popcount.
2020‑07‑14: The GDPR explained by Americans.
2020‑07‑14: Understanding the F5 Networks BIG-IP remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2020-5902.
2020‑07‑14: Too many objects: Reducing memory overhead from Python instances.
2020‑07‑14: Color e-ink displays are arriving soon in ebook and e-note devices.
2020‑07‑14: Why are LED indicator lights (especially blue ones) so annoying?
2020‑07‑14: Making system(3) and popen(3) use posix_spawn(3) on NetBSD.
2020‑07‑13: A PostgreSQL developer's .psqlrc
2020‑07‑13: pgx: build PostgreSQL extensions with Rust.
2020‑07‑13: Fuzzing rumpkernel syscalls.
2020‑07‑13: Optimizations in C++ compilers: a practical journey.
2020‑07‑13: The rectangle rule for code formatting style.
2020‑07‑13: The computing demands of deep learning are so great that progress is stalling.
2020‑07‑13: ARM64 popcount in Golang and assembler.
2020‑07‑13: ELF statifier: create a static executable from a binary and its libraries.
2020‑07‑12: When master/slave does not make sense.
2020‑07‑12: Xerox 48-bit absolute internet and Ethernet host numbers. (1981)
2020‑07‑12: sed-bin: a sed to C translator written in sed.
2020‑07‑12: Land of monopolists: private equity 'roll-ups' hit virtually everything.
2020‑07‑12: Infrastructure: our cyborg collective body, ourselves.
2020‑07‑12: When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery.
2020‑07‑11: mbeddr: integrated and extensible languages for embedded software, plus an IDE.
2020‑07‑11: The Frink is good, the unit is evil.
2020‑07‑10: A history of Usenet and FidoNet.
2020‑07‑09: The Prancing Pony vending machine at SAIL.
2020‑07‑09: The top types any and unknown in TypeScript.
2020‑07‑09: C++ hashmaps benchmarks.
2020‑07‑09: The "smol" Rust async runtime.
2020‑07‑09: Low accuracy solar position equations.
2020‑07‑09: Sunrise / sunset algorithm.
2020‑07‑09: FPGA softcore SoC shootout.
2020‑07‑08: GNU: a heuristic for bad cryptography.
2020‑07‑08: cwrap: testing Samba (or your full software stack) on a single machine.
2020‑07‑08: Symbolic execution with SymCC: don't interpret, compile!
2020‑07‑08: yubikey-agent: a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
2020‑07‑08: ip2unix: turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets.
2020‑07‑08: Tech confronts its use of the labels 'master' and 'slave'.
2020‑07‑07: Google Common Lisp style guide.
2020‑07‑07: The Pyret Code: a rationale for the Pyret programming language.
2020‑07‑07: Don't Panic! Better, fewer, syntax errors for LR parsers.
2020‑07‑07: Statically sized higher-kinded polymorphism.
2020‑07‑07: An autoscaling-related outage at Slack.
2020‑07‑07: 1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders.
2020‑07‑07: Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ.
2020‑07‑06: Small strings in Rust.
2020‑07‑06: Licklider's memorandum for members and affiliates of the intergalactic computer network. (1963)
2020‑07‑06: Behind the scenes at the Marmite factory in Burton-on-Trent.
2020‑07‑06: UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster.
2020‑07‑04: Noisia: a harmful workload generator for PostgreSQL.
2020‑07‑04: Hamilton on film now is a very different experience than the Broadway show was then.
2020‑07‑04: Many newsrooms are now capitalizing the B in Black. Here are some of the people who made that happen.
2020‑07‑04: Websites that look like desktop GUIs.
2020‑07‑04: The unplanned impact of mathematics.
2020‑07‑03: Code only says what it does.
2020‑07‑03: BLOB storage in PostgreSQL.
2020‑07‑02: Encrypted DNS support in iOS 14 and macOS 11.
2020‑07‑02: The alias method for efficiently sampling from a discrete probability distribution.
2020‑07‑02: Weighted round robin / weighted random integers with the golden ratio low discrepancy sequence.
2020‑07‑02: On the closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs.
2020‑07‑02: Generics for Golang.
2020‑07‑02: Taking over Azure DevOps accounts with 1 click using a subdomain takeover.
2020‑07‑01: Complete spatial safety for C and C++ using CHERI capabilities.
2020‑07‑01: Implementing the exponential function.
2020‑07‑01: Join strategies and performance in PostgreSQL.
2020‑07‑01: Inside Apple Lightning.
2020‑07‑01: Spies, lies, and stonewalling: what it's like to report on Facebook.
2020‑07‑01: The ARM Morello board: porting experimental capability extensions from CHERI-MIPS.
2020‑07‑01: Getting to the bottom of Noether's theorem.
2020‑07‑01: Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge "chip".
2020‑07‑01: Rendering multimedia in pure C.
2020‑07‑01: What is Zig's “colorblind” async/await?
2020‑07‑01: What is the Scudo hardened allocator? (used by LLVM sanitizers and Android)
2020‑06‑30: Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation.
2020‑06‑30: What is prototype pollution in JavaScript?
2020‑06‑30: Why aren't regular expressions a lingua franca? An empirical study of re-use and portability.
2020‑06‑30: To what does the harmonic series converge? (in IEEE754 floating point)
2020‑06‑29: A few more reasons Rust compiles slowly.
2020‑06‑29: Why birds can fly over Mount Everest.
2020‑06‑29: Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E (802.11 n/ac/ax).
2020‑06‑29: Minkowski asteroids.
2020‑06‑28: Whither chroot?
2020‑06‑28: Roy Fielding's misappropriated REST dissertation.
2020‑06‑28: Implementing a type-safe printf in Rust.
2020‑06‑28: Property-based testing in Rust with Proptest.
2020‑06‑28: String formatting is unreasonably expensive for embedded Rust.
2020‑06‑28: ELF: better symbol lookup via DT_GNU_HASH.
2020‑06‑27: Examining ARM vs x86 memory models with Rust.
2020‑06‑25: World capitals Voronoi map.
2020‑06‑25: Implementations for Gray code encoding and decoding.
2020‑06‑25: Query-based compiler architectures.
2020‑06‑25: Zealandia: Earth's 8th continent.
2020‑06‑24: Exploiting an Envoy http proxy heap vulnerability.
2020‑06‑24: Control theory for fun and profit.
2020‑06‑24: Path building vs path verifying X.509 certificate validation implementation showdown.
2020‑06‑24: Faster integer parsing.
2020‑06‑24: The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box.
2020‑06‑24: Incommensurability: the structure of a programming language revolution.
2020‑06‑24: What I've learnt so far about writing research papers.
2020‑06‑24: Indexing JSONB columns in PostgreSQL.
2020‑06‑24: Iceland's CO2 emissions could be reduced by 30% by replacing carbon electrodes in aluminium smelters.
2020‑06‑24: Announcing Perl 7: it's just Perl 5 with more modern defaults.
2020‑06‑24: GRIN: LLVM-based whole program optimizer for lazy and strict functional languages.
2020‑06‑24: Transport for London's impossible finances during the pandemic.
2020‑06‑23: Is WebP really better than JPEG?
2020‑06‑23: Oilpan: high-performance garbage collection for C++ in V8.
2020‑06‑23: Being glue.
2020‑06‑23: Stretching the Commodore 64 palette.
2020‑06‑23: Cheap tricks for high-performance Rust.
2020‑06‑23: Fujitsu's Fugaku and Arm A64FX in the fastest supercomputer at 415 petaFLOPs.
2020‑06‑23: Ego graphs and the Google 'vs' trick.
2020‑06‑23: Rust's huge compilation units.
2020‑06‑22: The archetype of a message-passing bug in Rust.
2020‑06‑22: Measuring route origin validation.
2020‑06‑22: Maersk, notPetya, and me.
2020‑06‑20: Why you hate contemporary architecture.
2020‑06‑20: Everything I've learned about solar storm risk and EMP attacks.
2020‑06‑20: Discovering Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation.
2020‑06‑19: Errors in Rust: a deep dive.
2020‑06‑19: Memory consistency models: a tutorial.
2020‑06‑19: A concise guide to the Golang generics draft design.
2020‑06‑19: Linear types for Haskell are merged into GHC.
2020‑06‑19: The Go+ language for data science.
2020‑06‑19: poica: algebraic data types with pattern matching and type introspection for C.
2020‑06‑18: Consistency models for concurrent and distributed systems.
2020‑06‑18: The Apollo 11 lunar ranging experiment at the Lick Observatory.
2020‑06‑18: The magnetic amplifier: a lost technology of the 1950s.
2020‑06‑17: Oracle to PostgreSQL: basic architecture.
2020‑06‑17: TERF wars: why transphobia has no place in feminism.
2020‑06‑17: Composite data type performance issues in PostgreSQL.
2020‑06‑16: The next step for generics in Golang.
2020‑06‑16: How browsers work: behind the scenes of modern web browsers.
2020‑06‑16: Generics and compile time in Rust.
2020‑06‑16: Understanding user management in PgBouncer.
2020‑06‑16: Intel's port 7 AGU blunder.
2020‑06‑15: Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
2020‑06‑15: The Postgres and Illustra codelines.
2020‑06‑15: Unix® certified products.
2020‑06‑15: Looking back at Postgres.
2020‑06‑15: Guix further reduces bootstrap seed to 60MB.
2020‑06‑14: META II: a syntax-oriented compiler writing language. (1964)
2020‑06‑14: ACM HOPL IV proceedings.
2020‑06‑14: Intel vs AWS Graviton ARM performance for MinIO S3-compatible object storage.
2020‑06‑14: The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT.
2020‑06‑14: Fast 2D rendering on GPU.
2020‑06‑13: fortraith: evaluate Forth at compile time using Rust traits.
2020‑06‑13: Bugs found in database management systems with SQLancer.
2020‑06‑13: Bicycle geometry terminology.
2020‑06‑12: Event Tracing for Windows: the worst API ever made.
2020‑06‑12: Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3.
2020‑06‑12: Memory-safety challenge considered solved? An empirical study of Rust CVEs.
2020‑06‑12: The story of tail call optimization in Rust.
2020‑06‑12: How to implement search-by-colour using Color Thief and PostgreSQL.
2020‑06‑12: Async Python is not faster.
2020‑06‑12: V8's RegExp engine in SpiderMonkey.
2020‑06‑12: Graph and tree traversals in Rust.
2020‑06‑12: Bringing my Emacs from the past.
2020‑06‑12: Essential and relevant: a unit test balancing act.
2020‑06‑12: In search of the original Fortran compiler.
2020‑06‑12: A history of the LISP 2 project.
2020‑06‑11: Unicode security considerations.
2020‑06‑11: Merkle trees and build systems with OSTree and ninja.
2020‑06‑11: Flat UI elements attract less attention and cause uncertainty.
2020‑06‑11: Speeding up a Git monorepo.
2020‑06‑11: Global kernel locks in Mac OS X APFS.
2020‑06‑08: Failover replication slots for PostgreSQL.
2020‑06‑08: Bifrost meets GNOME: Onward and upward to zero graphics blobs.
2020‑06‑08: The pain points of Haskell: a practical summary.
2020‑06‑08: Getting hands-on with io_uring using Golang.
2020‑06‑06: USB-C is still a mess.
2020‑06‑06: Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science.
2020‑06‑06: How to organize your Rust tests.
2020‑06‑05: printf-tac-toe, and a guide to printf-oriented programming.
2020‑06‑05: Featherweight Golang.
2020‑06‑04: Modern router architecture and IPv6.
2020‑06‑04: Overcoming the challenges of IPv6 support in BIND.
2020‑06‑03: Testing Rust with manual coverage marks.
2020‑06‑03: Autovectorization for AVX and AVX2 in Rust.
2020‑06‑03: Fuzzing Sequoia-PGP.
2020‑06‑03: Programming Servo: integrating streams.
2020‑06‑03: Drawing a Sierpiński triangle with recursive SQL and SVG.
2020‑06‑03: Locks in PostgreSQL.
2020‑06‑03: Removing PostgreSQL bottlenecks caused by high traffic.
2020‑06‑03: Software development as advanced damage control.
2020‑06‑03: The rise and fall of commercial Smalltalk.
2020‑06‑03: A Smalltalk 80 implementation and tools.
2020‑06‑03: A Kea developer's take on IPv6 and DHCP.
2020‑06‑02: Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter.
2020‑06‑02: IPv6 and Rust.
2020‑06‑02: Book review: the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
2020‑05‑31: List of well-known web sites that port scan their visitors.
2020‑05‑31: Hoare's rebuttal and bubble sort's comeback: a fast quicksort.
2020‑05‑29: The radix 2^51 trick.
2020‑05‑29: Algol 60 implementation. (1964)
2020‑05‑29: Oxidizing the technical interview.
2020‑05‑29: 40th anniversary of uuencode.
2020‑05‑28: What science can tell us about C and C++'s security.
2020‑05‑27: ISO 7000 graphical symbols for use on equipment.
2020‑05‑27: What is FETCH FIRST WITH TIES in PostgreSQL 13?
2020‑05‑27: PostgreSQL tips for optimizing Django and Python performance.
2020‑05‑27: PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE may be lying to you.
2020‑05‑27: How to kill a dinosaur in 10 minutes.
2020‑05‑27: History of UNIX manpages.
2020‑05‑27: eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs.
2020‑05‑27: Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of 'black goo'.
2020‑05‑27: Random worldbuilding: the nation in history.
2020‑05‑27: macOS 10.15 Catalina: slow by design.
2020‑05‑27: C++20: the unspoken features.
2020‑05‑27: By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80.
2020‑05‑26: Who says C is simple?
2020‑05‑26: Coolest features of non-Java JVM languages.
2020‑05‑26: How Internet communities function.
2020‑05‑26: Science fiction timeline of inventions.
2020‑05‑26: Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries.
2020‑05‑26: Using ASDL to describe ASTs in CPython.
2020‑05‑26: Datamash: command-line computation on tabular files.
2020‑05‑26: Adventures of porting MUSL libc to Sony PS4 BSD.
2020‑05‑26: Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?
2020‑05‑25: libfirm/cparser: C99 parser and frontend.
2020‑05‑25: 7 scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor.
2020‑05‑25: std::format in C++20.
2020‑05‑23: DuckDB: an embeddable analytical SQL database.
2020‑05‑23: Porting BSD to GCC and ANSI C. (1988)
2020‑05‑21: Why upgrade PostgreSQL?
2020‑05‑21: Three bugs in the Golang MySQL driver.
2020‑05‑20: A guide to global data in Rust.
2020‑05‑20: The next few years for Rust Analyzer.
2020‑05‑20: Taking advantage of auto-vectorization in Rust.
2020‑05‑20: Structuring and handling errors in Rust.
2020‑05‑20: 15 years later: remote code execution in qmail.
2020‑05‑20: The death of corporate research labs.
2020‑05‑20: Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old Conway knot problem.
2020‑05‑20: A KVM host in a few lines of code.
2020‑05‑19: Computerized flight booking: a technology that changed air travel.
2020‑05‑19: Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
2020‑05‑15: Writing a Wayland compositor in Rust.
2020‑05‑15: GPU architecture resources.
2020‑05‑15: Notes on io-uring.
2020‑05‑15: time_it! a case study in Rust macros.
2020‑05‑15: Rust verification tools.
2020‑05‑15: What's the difference between a Rust char and a Go rune? Unicode scalar values vs code points.
2020‑05‑15: Yak shaving #ifdef-style conditional compilation in Rust.
2020‑05‑15: Building an ASN1 codec with the Rust FFI.
2020‑05‑15: Rust closures in FFI.
2020‑05‑15: Five years of Rust.
2020‑05‑14: Differential testing for software (such as compilers).
2020‑05‑14: Bosque: a TypeScript-like programming language that compiles to native code.
2020‑05‑14: Typesetting Markdown with Pandoc, Lua, and ConTeXt.
2020‑05‑14: Hardware store elimination.
2020‑05‑14: This word does not exist.
2020‑05‑14: Why do dragons have eyes on the sides of their heads?
2020‑05‑14: Deno 1.0: TypeScript and v8 on the command line, in Rust.
2020‑05‑13: PostgreSQL now() vs. 'NOW'::timestamp vs. clock_timestamp().
2020‑05‑13: The case of the missing DNS packets.
2020‑05‑13: Why AES-GCM sucks.
2020‑05‑13: A no_std Rust binary.
2020‑05‑12: The success and failure of the Ninja build system.
2020‑05‑12: The science of ginger milk curd.
2020‑05‑12: Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who killed WannaCry.
2020‑05‑11: John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous yet surprisingly deep language.
2020‑05‑10: Ensmallening Go binaries by prohibiting comparisons.
2020‑05‑09: Using integer linear programming to solve complex logic.
2020‑05‑09: The original cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant.
2020‑05‑06: Rules for writers.
2020‑05‑06: Cheating higher ranked types with traits in Rust.
2020‑05‑06: Take care editing bash scripts.
2020‑05‑05: A map of trees in London.
2020‑05‑04: Backup manifests and pg_verifybackup in PostgreSQL 13.
2020‑05‑04: Lessons learned improving RPKI.
2020‑05‑04: How to read UTF-8 passwords on the Windows console.
2020‑05‑04: 7 things that could be improved in PostgreSQL.
2020‑05‑04: Oracle vs PostgreSQL: a first glance.
2020‑05‑04: Bit twiddling hacks: check for borrows in bitwise operations.
2020‑05‑03: Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
2020‑05‑03: Some medium-hard data analyst SQL interview questions.
2020‑05‑02: Psychic paper: an iOS entitlement XML plist parsing bug.
2020‑05‑02: Concurrent hash tables: fast and general?!
2020‑05‑02: An embedded Rust pattern: zero sized references.
2020‑05‑01: Notes on writing parsers in Rust.
2020‑05‑01: Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04.
2020‑04‑30: Announcing the SourceHut project hub.
2020‑04‑30: Game of Life in 32 bytes.
2020‑04‑30: HashiCorp Vault is overhyped, and Mozilla SOPS with KMS and git is underrated.
2020‑04‑30: Troubleshooting systemd with SystemTap.
2020‑04‑29: Reducing the size of a Rust GStreamer plugin.
2020‑04‑29: Why strace doesn't work in Docker.
2020‑04‑29: A collection of weird debugging stories.
2020‑04‑29: CSS for i18n.
2020‑04‑29: Postgres.app: an easy Mac OS installer for PostgreSQL.
2020‑04‑29: Paxosmon: gotta consensus them all!
2020‑04‑28: The many flavours of the arcane SQL MERGE statement.
2020‑04‑28: A warm welcome to ASN.1 and DER.
2020‑04‑28: Paxos vs Raft: have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
2020‑04‑27: First release of rust-analyzer.
2020‑04‑27: For better videoconferencing at home on lousy links.
2020‑04‑27: Towards Sequoia PGP v1.0.
2020‑04‑27: TEMPEST@Home: finding radio frequency side channels.
2020‑04‑27: Byrne's Euclid.
2020‑04‑26: Teleforking a process onto a different computer!
2020‑04‑25: Numerous ways to say "thousand years" in a scientific paper.
2020‑04‑25: Myths about USB multi-key rollover and how USB HID works.
2020‑04‑23: Incremental regular expressions.
2020‑04‑23: From Pratt parsing to the Dijkstra shunting yard.
2020‑04‑23: Better debug stack fixing for Firefox using Rust.
2020‑04‑22: Full text search in milliseconds with Rails and PostgreSQL, without triggers.
2020‑04‑22: Unicode technical note 27: known anomalies in Unicode character names.
2020‑04‑22: Outsourcing reduces productivity.
2020‑04‑22: Things I wished more developers knew about databases.
2020‑04‑22: Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality.
2020‑04‑21: The chairs of Blake's 7.
2020‑04‑21: herbstluftwm: a manual tiling window manager for X11.
2020‑04‑21: OAuth2 best practices cheat sheet.
2020‑04‑21: How the "Memories" 256-byte MS DOS intro works.
2020‑04‑21: API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them.
2020‑04‑21: RPKI and RIR 0/0 trust anchors.
2020‑04‑19: SHISHUA: the fastest pseudo-random generator.
2020‑04‑19: Boost UDP transaction performance.
2020‑04‑19: An evaluation of password generation, storage, and autofill in browser-based password managers.
2020‑04‑19: Analysis of DTLS implementations using protocol state fuzzing.
2020‑04‑19: Forecasting logistic curves is hard.
2020‑04‑19: The unpatchable silicon: a full break of the bitstream encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs.
2020‑04‑18: Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor.
2020‑04‑18: Sneaky marketing: WD, Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure.
2020‑04‑17: The decline of usability.
2020‑04‑17: SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
2020‑04‑17: GNU binutils: the ELF Swiss Army knife.
2020‑04‑17: Surrounded by Elligators: implementing crypto with nothing to compare to.
2020‑04‑17: SMART: string matching algorithms research tool.
2020‑04‑17: Fix Boyer-Moore with the Rytter correction.
2020‑04‑16: Embedding binary data into programs.
2020‑04‑16: Embedding binary objects in C / ELF.
2020‑04‑16: regex2fat: encode a regular expression into a DFA represented as a graph of FAT32 directories.
2020‑04‑16: Didn't I write this story already? When your fictional pandemic becomes reality.
2020‑04‑16: GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses.
2020‑04‑15: Types instead of strings for extensible architectures in Rust.
2020‑04‑15: Fallible iterator adapters in Rust.
2020‑04‑15: Cranelift: a possible new backend for Rust.
2020‑04‑15: IJON: exploring deep state spaces via fuzzing.
2020‑04‑15: Gluu: open source IAM / SSO.
2020‑04‑14: Keycloak: open source identity and access management.
2020‑04‑14: Defining the Really Habitable Zone.
2020‑04‑14: Zig programming language 0.6.0 release notes.
2020‑04‑14: Making Unix a little more like Plan9.
2020‑04‑14: What's the type of JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(x)) in TypeScript?
2020‑04‑14: libcpu: a library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM.
2020‑04‑14: beebjit: clocking a 6502 to 15GHz!
2020‑04‑13: Simple but powerful Pratt parsing in Rust.
2020‑04‑13: Computers can be understood.
2020‑04‑13: Benchmarking programming language VM JIT warmup.
2020‑04‑12: Braid: an experimental team chat application.
2020‑04‑12: Verification: why it's so hard to create new processors.
2020‑04‑12: The US government runs on COBOL, and now it's falling apart
2020‑04‑11: Error handling in a correctness-critical Rust project.
2020‑04‑11: Eytzinger binary search.
2020‑04‑10: Understanding JavaScript module formats and tools.
2020‑04‑09: Optimizing lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization.
2020‑04‑09: Error handling in Rust: from `failure` to `fehler`.
2020‑04‑08: Rules for data modelling with DynamoDB.
2020‑04‑08: The ECHELON affair: the European Parliament and the global interception system.
2020‑04‑08: Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation.
2020‑04‑08: How owls fly without making a sound.
2020‑04‑08: The COBOL problem.
2020‑04‑07: entr: run arbitrary commands when files change.
2020‑04‑05: pg_hint_plan: execution plan hints for PostgreSQL.
2020‑04‑04: 6 things Markdown got wrong.
2020‑04‑04: 10 things I hate about PostgreSQL.
2020‑04‑04: On generic traits and associated types in Rust.
2020‑04‑03: Some more advanced aspects of pattern matching in Rust.
2020‑04‑03: The Omit helper type in TypeScript.
2020‑04‑03: Reducing tail latencies with automatic yielding in Tokio on Rust.
2020‑04‑03: Bug bounty platforms buy researcher silence and violate labor and privacy laws.
2020‑04‑03: Anatomy of CVE-2019-5736, a runc container escape.
2020‑04‑03: RISC OS and NetBSD running on the same SoC.
2020‑04‑02: CO2meter: a Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices.
2020‑04‑02: The open air factor: coronavirus and the sun.
2020‑04‑02: Fish can reduce the methane emissions from rice paddies.
2020‑04‑02: PID without a PhD.
2020‑04‑01: Conditions and restarts in Common Lisp.
2020‑04‑01: How is the Linux kernel tested?
2020‑04‑01: Writing an OS in Rust: support for async/await.
2020‑04‑01: Analysis of Google Chromium C++ compilation times.
2020‑04‑01: Videogame doesn't infringe tattoo copyright by depicting basketball players.
2020‑03‑31: 32 bit time_t in Linux: the end of an epoch.
2020‑03‑31: QuineDB: a quine that is also a key-value store.
2020‑03‑31: The long and complicated history of why there are 360 degrees in a circle.
2020‑03‑30: Lead-free solder is better for you.
2020‑03‑29: Golang quirks.
2020‑03‑29: PostgreSQL schema design with row-level security.
2020‑03‑29: Leonardo Torres y Quevedo: an early computer designer from Spain.
2020‑03‑29: Percy Ludgate: an early computer designer from Ireland.
2020‑03‑29: Lessons from the Unix stdio ABI.
2020‑03‑29: Setting up git identities.
2020‑03‑29: Seven stages of open software.
2020‑03‑28: How are Unix pipes implemented?
2020‑03‑28: In-memory compute using off-the-shelf DRAM.
2020‑03‑28: Protecting log records at 30,000 feet with syslog-ng.
2020‑03‑28: Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter.
2020‑03‑28: Icons for obsolete technology in Unicode.
2020‑03‑28: Hyperlinks in terminal emulators.
2020‑03‑28: Static analysis in gcc 10.
2020‑03‑28: The Chapel parallel programming language.
2020‑03‑26: Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler.
2020‑03‑26: Thomas Piketty takes on the ideology of inequality.
2020‑03‑26: Fast and simple interned strings in Rust.
2020‑03‑26: Optimising the size and performance of std::borrow::Cow<T> in Rust.
2020‑03‑26: 10 most(ly dead) influential programming languages .
2020‑03‑26: BBC computer literacy project archive.
2020‑03‑25: Investigating DNS lookup failures in Kubernetes.
2020‑03‑25: git-2.26 release highlights.
2020‑03‑25: Learn d3.js.
2020‑03‑25: Breaking the random numbers in two Linux KASLR patches.
2020‑03‑25: Coyote: Making it easier for .NET developers to build reliable asynchronous software.
2020‑03‑24: zig cc: a powerful drop-in replacement for gcc or clang.
2020‑03‑24: Concurrent programming, with examples.
2020‑03‑24: X.509 web PKI insecurity.
2020‑03‑23: Three typefaces for mathematics: The development of Times 4-line Mathematics, AMS Euler, and Cambria Math.
2020‑03‑23: Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
2020‑03‑23: JANET LINX connection outage report.
2020‑03‑23: An ineresting Discord outage report. (Elixir / Golang / Python / etcd)
2020‑03‑23: Nornir: an automation framework in Python.
2020‑03‑23: Napalm network automation.
2020‑03‑21: An illustrated jq tutorial.
2020‑03‑20: How to write documentation for a Rust crate.
2020‑03‑19: ARIN VM cluster outage due to SAN failure.
2020‑03‑18: JavaScript: the first 20 years. (HOPL)
2020‑03‑17: Rewriting the heart of Dropbox's sync engine in Rust.
2020‑03‑16: Getting started with Rust and Rocket for http services.
2020‑03‑15: Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack.
2020‑03‑15: MathJax turns 3.0.
2020‑03‑15: Best practices for ACME client implementations.
2020‑03‑15: Out of the Box dynamic dispatch in Rust.
2020‑03‑15: xmake: a cross-platform build utility based on lua.
2020‑03‑15: An Introduction to modern CMake.
2020‑03‑15: A history of the trampoline.
2020‑03‑14: Foundations of databases. (1995)
2020‑03‑14: Automatic chess boards.
2020‑03‑14: Cut / fold templates for paper mechanisms.
2020‑03‑13: EdDSA, Ed25519, Ed25519-IETF, Ed25519ph, Ed25519ctx, HashEdDSA, PureEdDSA, WTF?
2020‑03‑13: Analog computer museum.
2020‑03‑13: Cyberpunk: then and now.
2020‑03‑13: David Rumsey historical map collection at Stanford University.
2020‑03‑13: HTTP desync attacks: request smuggling reborn.
2020‑03‑13: The SOC2 starting seven.
2020‑03‑11: How BBsmart email viewer worked, the best-selling BlackBerry app of all time.
2020‑03‑11: The story of PS1/PS2 backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it.
2020‑03‑11: Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life.
2020‑03‑11: TRRespass: rowhammer target row refresh bypass.
2020‑03‑11: Thinking psycopg3.
2020‑03‑11: Actually using wasm with Rust.
2020‑03‑11: What's the deal with IPv6 link-local addresses?
2020‑03‑11: Your circuit breaker timeouts are probably misconfigured.
2020‑03‑10: Defunctionalization: the best refactoring you've never heard of.
2020‑03‑10: Setting height and width on HTML <img> tags is important again.
2020‑03‑09: Green's dictionary of slang.
2020‑03‑09: An experimental study on the effect of procedure under unexpected situations.
2020‑03‑09: The TAOS operating system. (Byte, 1991)
2020‑03‑09: Cryptographic signatures, surprising pitfalls, and ACME / Let's Encrypt.
2020‑03‑08: Capability-based computer systems. (1984)
2020‑03‑06: Recent and future pattern matching improvements in Rust.
2020‑03‑04: IBM VS. MIT: an Apollo computer showdown.
2020‑03‑04: The core memory inside an Apollo Saturn V rocket's computer.
2020‑03‑04: Bluespec hardware description language compiler.
2020‑03‑04: An introduction to d3.js.
2020‑03‑03: A layman's guide to a subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER.
2020‑03‑03: The growth of command line options, 1979-present.
2020‑03‑03: The problem with single-threaded shared mutability.
2020‑03‑03: Kill the newsletter!
2020‑03‑02: Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN!)
2020‑03‑02: New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect heat.
2020‑03‑02: CRLite: Finally a fix for broken TLS certificate revocation?
2020‑03‑02: The Odin programming language.
2020‑03‑02: The Beef programming language.
2020‑03‑02: The Worst programming language.
2020‑03‑01: There's an entire industry dedicated to making foods crispy.
2020‑03‑01: Concurrent programming with effect handlers in multicore OCaml.
2020‑02‑29: A half-hour to learn Rust.
2020‑02‑28: Why did I wake up just before my alarm clock went off?
2020‑02‑28: Dave Prosser's C preprocessor algorithm.
2020‑02‑28: TeleHammer: cross-privilege-boundary rowhammer through implicit DRAM accesses.
2020‑02‑28: Show me your clipboard data.
2020‑02‑27: What can you preseed when installing Debian?
2020‑02‑27: How old are the symbols on these keys?
2020‑02‑27: MLIR: a compiler infrastructure for the end of Moore's Law.
2020‑02‑26: Delphinusdnsd: a small authoritative DNS server.
2020‑02‑26: Why I'm not fan of UUIDs in databases.
2020‑02‑26: PostgreSQL parallelism, what next?
2020‑02‑26: UK public transport API.
2020‑02‑26: The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi access point placement.
2020‑02‑26: JSPaint.
2020‑02‑25: Smithsonian Institution open access.
2020‑02‑25: Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and tips.
2020‑02‑25: Securing Firefox with RLBox: WebAssembly sandboxes for C++ libraries.
2020‑02‑25: Selectors explained: translate CSS selectors into plain English.
2020‑02‑23: A guide to running Elasticsearch in production.
2020‑02‑23: Stangenkunst: mechanical transmission of power.
2020‑02‑23: A pragmatic approach to global state in a 3rd party library called from Rust.
2020‑02‑23: Some nuances of undefined behavior in Rust.
2020‑02‑23: Coverage-based fuzzing with libfuzzer.
2020‑02‑23: QUIC and OpenSSL 3.0.
2020‑02‑23: Insights: visually explore a PostgreSQL database.
2020‑02‑23: Learn TLA+
2020‑02‑23: Taking care of code ... more and more code ...
2020‑02‑22: Hell of a handshake: abusing TCP for reflective amplification DDoS attacks.
2020‑02‑22: Container security: nobody knows what it means but it's provocative.
2020‑02‑22: Paris mayor pledges a greener '15-minute city'.
2020‑02‑22: Does register selection matter to performance on x86 CPUs?
2020‑02‑21: Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript in a web browser.
2020‑02‑21: Racket-on-Chez Scheme status, February 2020.
2020‑02‑20: Computer animation in 1961: the Stanford card stunt program. (YouTube)
2020‑02‑20: PUB: an early scriptable markup language.
2020‑02‑19: Recovering from useless vacuuming in PostgreSQL.
2020‑02‑19: Taking back control from systemd networking.
2020‑02‑19: Transaction isolation repeatable read in PostgreSQL vs MySQL.
2020‑02‑19: Elixir, PostgreSQL, and query plan cache performance oddities.
2020‑02‑18: The first computers in East Africa, and what became of them.
2020‑02‑18: 3-way FTP: Pushing files around with silly and unusual methods.
2020‑02‑18: C++ move, simply (with appendices).
2020‑02‑17: An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation.
2020‑02‑17: playwright: a Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
2020‑02‑16: The human hemisphere.
2020‑02‑16: OCSP checks for EV certificates make the web slow and unreliable.
2020‑02‑16: The worst of time64 breakage.
2020‑02‑15: Open access journals get a boost from librarians, much to Elsevier's dismay.
2020‑02‑15: Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux.
2020‑02‑15: Creating a logical replica from a snapshot in RDS PostgreSQL.
2020‑02‑15: Designing a performant row level security schema in PostgreSQL.
2020‑02‑15: How sustainable is a solar powered website?
2020‑02‑15: Improving compilation time of C/C++ projects.
2020‑02‑15: What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
2020‑02‑13: The myth of the barter economy.
2020‑02‑13: The parliamentary electoral system in Denmark.
2020‑02‑13: Summer time clock changes: is it time for change in the UK and EU?
2020‑02‑13: A bestiary of single-file programming language implementations.
2020‑02‑13: Stage magic and software design.
2020‑02‑12: Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE parity between Clang and GCC.
2020‑02‑12: Nuvia's ex-Apple CPU design team throws down the gauntlet to the server processor incumbents.
2020‑02‑12: Gears.
2020‑02‑12: ParaSail: parallel specification and implementation language.
2020‑02‑12: How to escalate privileges and steal secrets in Google Cloud Platform.
2020‑02‑12: Circllhist: a log-linear histogram quantile sketch for IT infrastructure monitoring.
2020‑02‑11: Rotary dial cellphone.
2020‑02‑11: A popular self-driving car machine learning dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians.
2020‑02‑11: Investigating the performance overhead of C++ exceptions.
2020‑02‑11: The Linux kernel /dev/urandom CSPRNG is now good!
2020‑02‑10: Fax on the beach: The story of EO GO, the audacious, totally calamitous iPad of the 1990s.
2020‑02‑10: Memory bandwidth napkin math and benchmarks.
2020‑02‑10: A partial tour through the UNIX Bourne shell.
2020‑02‑10: The discovery of metastability in digital computer circuits.
2020‑02‑10: OmniXtend cache-coherent memory fabric over Ethernet for RISC-V.
2020‑02‑10: Alpha: a history in facts and comments.
2020‑02‑09: Deep sea diving: undersea telecommunication cables.
2020‑02‑09: Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck.
2020‑02‑09: 50 years ago, better transistors and switching regulators revolutionized computer power supplies.
2020‑02‑09: They called it "big iron" for a reason: Cray-1M site planning reference manual.
2020‑02‑09: Stacked borrows: an aliasing model for Rust.
2020‑02‑09: Librem 5: an open source phone shows the cost of being different.
2020‑02‑09: Combinatris: Tetris with SKI combinators.
2020‑02‑08: Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale.
2020‑02‑07: Measuring space-time behaviours of piano keys with Rust.
2020‑02‑06: Apollo 11 guidance computer vs USB-C chargers.
2020‑02‑06: The JVM's mysterious AllocatePrefetch options: what do they actually do?
2020‑02‑06: Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT
2020‑02‑05: Security flaw in WhatsApp desktop app.
2020‑02‑05: Units of measure in Rust with refinement types.
2020‑02‑05: On the process that led to the introduction of leapseconds.
2020‑02‑03: unsmear: convert to and from timescales with smeared leap seconds.
2020‑02‑03: The state of full text search in PostgreSQL 12.
2020‑02‑02: Watching for software inefficiencies with Valgrind.
2020‑02‑02: JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
2020‑02‑02: Too much locality... for stores to forward.
2020‑02‑02: Old CSS, new CSS.
2020‑02‑02: Typesense: an open source, typo tolerant search engine.
2020‑02‑02: PostgresqlCO.NF: a PostgreSQL configuration guide.
2020‑02‑01: 8 tips for better negotiation.
2020‑02‑01: TypeScript's quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex.
2020‑02‑01: Writing runbook documentation when you're an SRE.
2020‑02‑01: MIDI 2.0 could profoundly change the way music sounds.
2020‑02‑01: Lessons learnt updating a Rust library to std::future.
2020‑02‑01: Returning trait objects in Rust.
2020‑02‑01: Packaging a Rust project for Debian.
2020‑02‑01: Build your own block_on() in async Rust.
2020‑02‑01: A stack-less Rust coroutine library under 100 LoC.
2020‑01‑31: MIR: a lightweight JIT compiler project.
2020‑01‑30: Some useful probability facts for systems programming.
2020‑01‑29: Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL: tips and tricks.
2020‑01‑29: pgagroal: a high-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL.
2020‑01‑28: Hacking on clang is surprisingly easy.
2020‑01‑28: 128 bits of security vs 128 bits of security: know the difference.
2020‑01‑28: git bundle: the right way to email a git repository.
2020‑01‑28: How we've made the web use dirty energy.
2020‑01‑27: Developing in production.
2020‑01‑27: Building containers without Docker.
2020‑01‑27: What we still haven't learned from Gamergate.
2020‑01‑27: A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
2020‑01‑26: GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
2020‑01‑26: A Unix quiz (with answers!)
2020‑01‑26: Dhall for Kubernetes.
2020‑01‑26: Dimensional analysis in programming languages.
2020‑01‑26: The text editors wiki.
2020‑01‑25: Why the Sorbet typechecker for Ruby is fast.
2020‑01‑25: Getting everything wrong without doing anything right! (YouTube)
2020‑01‑25: What to know about GPS receiver elevation.
2020‑01‑25: Measuring altitude using precision frequency transfer between optical atomic clocks.
2020‑01‑25: New Zealand geodetic datum deformation model.
2020‑01‑25: What happens to maps when tectonic plates move?
2020‑01‑25: CASPaxos: linearizable databases without logs.
2020‑01‑25: Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control.
2020‑01‑24: Resource scarcity in public clouds.
2020‑01‑23: New browser on the block: Flow, from Ekioh in Cambridge.
2020‑01‑23: The difficulties of retiring Internet Explorer.
2020‑01‑23: A floating point bit twiddling toy.
2020‑01‑22: The history of HAProxy.
2020‑01‑21: A Unix quiz.
2020‑01‑21: axel: lightweight CLI download accelerator.
2020‑01‑21: The hunt for the fastest zero: when does C++ use memset?
2020‑01‑20: 'Remarkable' computational complexity proof that MIP* = RE.
2020‑01‑19: IEEE 802.3cg 10Mb/s single-pair Ethernet: a guide.
2020‑01‑19: 10Mbit/s single-pair Ethernet enables connected intelligence in 2020.
2020‑01‑19: The soundness pledge in Rust.
2020‑01‑19: Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: a Redditor's colossal feat of worldbuilding.
2020‑01‑19: C++ coroutines gcc initial implementation pushed to master.
2020‑01‑19: No, dynamic type systems are not inherently more open.
2020‑01‑19: The Cryptopals cryptography challenges.
2020‑01‑18: About face (recognition).
2020‑01‑18: fast_template: really easy blogging with GitHub Pages.
2020‑01‑17: eSQLate: Build minimum viable admin panels quickly.
2020‑01‑16: What is the random oracle model and why is it collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions?
2020‑01‑16: Autocomplete as an interface.
2020‑01‑16: Two edge cases in PostgreSQL full-text search.
2020‑01‑16: EASYCHAIR: CIA covert listening devices.
2020‑01‑16: Mistakes were made: huge ERP screwups.
2020‑01‑16: Making the LinkedIn A/B testing engine 20x faster.
2020‑01‑15: Is TypeScript worth it?
2020‑01‑15: How to identify an "immoral maze".
2020‑01‑15: Some advantages of the Caddy http server.
2020‑01‑14: The split personalities of "brutalist" web development.
2020‑01‑14: CSVlint: A ruby gem to validate CSV files and check their syntax and contents.
2020‑01‑14: CleverCSV: a Python package for handling messy CSV files.
2020‑01‑14: The few remaining uses of the name "Macintosh".
2020‑01‑13: 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers.
2020‑01‑13: Reflections on Mercurial's journey to Python 3.
2020‑01‑13: wasm3: The fastest WebAssembly interpreter.
2020‑01‑13: The Niland geyser: a moving mudpot.
2020‑01‑12: The deep sea.
2020‑01‑12: Visual subnet calculator.
2020‑01‑12: HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience.
2020‑01‑11: Scheme: R7RS versus R6RS.
2020‑01‑11: T1: a programming language for constrained environments, derived from BearSSL.
2020‑01‑11: A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now.
2020‑01‑10: Ironies of automation.
2020‑01‑10: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?
2020‑01‑10: kudeki-chain: git commits with increasing numbers of leading zeroes.
2020‑01‑09: The birth of the Internet in the UK. (YouTube)
2020‑01‑09: Web front-end performance checklist 2020.
2020‑01‑09: Fast IPv4 to hostname lookups: PostgreSQL vs ClickHouse.
2020‑01‑09: A brief history of badge ribbons at sf conventions.
2020‑01‑08: The many places you can set PostgreSQL configuration parameters.
2020‑01‑08: How to effectively dump PostgreSQL databases.
2020‑01‑08: Neater async failure handling in Typescript.
2020‑01‑08: Prometheus for beginners.
2020‑01‑07: How to start a blog using Hugo.
2020‑01‑07: EMI spikes from gas lift chairs can cause display interference.
2020‑01‑07: SHA-1 is a shambles. (less technical overview)
2020‑01‑07: SHA-1 is a shambles: first chosen-prefix collision on SHA-1 and application to the PGP web of trust.
2020‑01‑07: Pegasus Mail, 30 years on.
2020‑01‑07: Execute-only pages vs PAN (privileged access never) on arm64.
2020‑01‑07: Debian Buster sysvinit notes.
2020‑01‑07: Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool.
2020‑01‑07: Ethernet power line adapter radio noise interference.
2020‑01‑06: ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500 billion rows on an Intel NUC.
2020‑01‑06: Files are fraught with peril.
2020‑01‑05: Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice.
2020‑01‑05: Linus on spinlocks and schedulers.
2020‑01‑04: Notes on technical writing.
2020‑01‑04: Mutexes are faster than spinlocks.
2020‑01‑04: What's what in the world of TeX.
2020‑01‑04: Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same.
2020‑01‑03: An entomologist rates emoji ants.
2020‑01‑03: Which emoji scissors can cut?
2020‑01‑03: Interior mutability patterns in Rust.
2020‑01‑03: Spinlocks considered harmful in Rust.
2020‑01‑02: Serving dynamic vector tiles from PostGIS.
2020‑01‑02: Why MemSQL uses skiplist indexes.
2020‑01‑02: A brief history of liquid computers.
2020‑01‑02: I'm not feeling the async backpressure.
2020‑01‑02: Polio eradication program faces hard choices as endgame strategy falters.
2020‑01‑01: Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
2020‑01‑01: Semigroup resonance FizzBuzz.
2020‑01‑01: Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust.
2020‑01‑01: Measuring mutexes, spinlocks, and how bad the Linux scheduler really is.
2020‑01‑01: Right-to-left styling: a guide on how to style for RTL in CSS.
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: Refactoring with defunctionalization: everybody does it, nobody talks about it.
2019‑12‑31: Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs.
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: 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: Async exceptions in Haskell, and Rust.
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: SOICbite: a program/debug connector for an SOIC test clip.
2019‑12‑24: The shitty add-on standard v1.69bis for electronic con badges.
2019‑12‑24: A business card that runs Linux.
2019‑12‑24: Flattening quadratic Béziers.
2019‑12‑24: In praise of property-based testing.
2019‑12‑24: Implementing WebGPU in Gecko.
2019‑12‑24: Now you see it, now you don't: a large-scale analysis of early domain deletions.
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: Superdeterminism: The path we didn't take.
2019‑12‑17: Hacking GitHub with Unicode's dotless 'i'.
2019‑12‑17: The architecture of a large-scale web search engine, circa 2019.
2019‑12‑17: Building a search engine from scratch.
2019‑12‑16: A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator.
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: Modern garbage collection: Shenandoah and ZGC.
2019‑12‑14: How to enable IPv6 in Docker.
2019‑12‑14: Wine support for win32 on 64-bit-only macOS Catalina.
2019‑12‑14: How we increased our Node.js parallelism by 30x.
2019‑12‑14: Reimagining the PhD.
2019‑12‑14: DepHell: project management for Python.
2019‑12‑14: Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore.
2019‑12‑14: Three ways to reduce the bandwidth costs of your HTTPS API on AWS.
2019‑12‑14: The Amazon AWS premium.
2019‑12‑14: Soundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
2019‑12‑13: hyper v0.13: an async HTTP library for Rust.
2019‑12‑13: pg_query: parse PostgreSQL queries in Ruby.
2019‑12‑13: Introducing sqlc: compile SQL queries to type-safe Golang.
2019‑12‑13: Blocking inside async code in Rust.
2019‑12‑13: The seductive diversion of 'solving' bias in artificial intelligence.
2019‑12‑13: The surprising breadth of harbingers of failure: customers who buy products that fail.
2019‑12‑13: A better Internet is waiting for us.
2019‑12‑13: Conway's law: How do committees invent?
2019‑12‑13: Experiments in constraint-based graphic design.
2019‑12‑13: Solving the mystery of HRT shortages in the UK.
2019‑12‑13: Threads can infect each other with their low priority.
2019‑12‑13: PostgreSQL 12 EXPLAIN SETTINGS.
2019‑12‑13: Dynamically scoped variables in Golang.
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: The Nintendo Switch switch.
2019‑12‑11: OpenLayers: easy dynamic maps on web pages.
2019‑12‑11: ZMOB: a multiprocessor computer with 256 Z80 CPUs. (1981)
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: How I defeated the Tolkien estate.
2019‑12‑05: Challenge: find Twitter memes with suffix arrays.
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: Symptoms of groupthink.
2019‑12‑03: An interactive model-based calculator of cycling power vs. speed.
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: niche-museums.com, powered by Datasette.
2019‑12‑03: datasette-atom: define an atom feed using a custom SQL query.
2019‑12‑03: I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo, and you should too.
2019‑12‑03: Did ISOC leave $1 billion on the table?
2019‑12‑03: The .org fire sale: how it sold for less than half its valuation.
2019‑12‑03: How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too).
2019‑12‑03: Notes on adding IEC power symbols to Unicode.
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: Automated front-end testing is not working.
2019‑11‑28: Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests.
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: Bits on the wire.
2019‑11‑22: Multi-value all the wasm with Rust!
2019‑11‑22: Thoughts on error handling in 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: The Firefox UI is now built with Web Components.
2019‑11‑21: An interview about PostgreSQL extensions.
2019‑11‑21: Myths programmers believe about CPU caches.
2019‑11‑20: Debian init systems: what, another GR?
2019‑11‑20: A memoir of working on "black" secret space programs.
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: Understanding Rust Serde.
2019‑11‑18: Brand hijacking and Amazon's China strategy.
2019‑11‑18: Welcome to China. You probably can't buy anything, though.
2019‑11‑18: What makes a good runbook?
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: The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford.
2019‑11‑16: drgn: scriptable debugger library.
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: Private equity company acquires .org registry.
2019‑11‑15: The early history of Usenet, part 1: the technological setting.
2019‑11‑15: Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4.
2019‑11‑14: Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
2019‑11‑14: Explaining 4K 60Hz video through USB-C hubs.
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: Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends.
2019‑11‑09: PostgreSQL is a great pubsub and job server.
2019‑11‑09: Everyone working in DevOps should read The Toyota Way.
2019‑11‑09: Nesting limits in JSON parsers.
2019‑11‑09: Kubernetes made my latency 10x higher.
2019‑11‑09: How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't.
2019‑11‑08: Type-driven design: parse, don't validate.
2019‑11‑08: Type-level programming in Rust for safer hardware abstractions.
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: The lost ⋮ key of QWERTY
2019‑11‑05: Systemd timer units hide errors in journald, unlike cron.
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: 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.
2019‑11‑04: View MySQL / MariaDB query progress with `pmonitor`.
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: 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: Fine tuning full text search with PostgreSQL 12.
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: International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
2019‑10‑21: 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 the X11 ICCCM selection system, and you should too.
2019‑10‑16: I hate Xlib and so should you.
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 surprising limitations of C++ ranges beyond trivial cases.
2019‑10‑12: The most important software design guideline. (YouTube)
2019‑10‑12: Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
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: You cannot cURL under pressure.
2019‑10‑12: Fibers under the magnifying glass.
2019‑10‑12: How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2019.
2019‑10‑12: The new function prototype for objc_msgSend.
2019‑10‑11: How Monzo's security team handles secrets.
2019‑10‑11: BPF at Facebook (and beyond).
2019‑10‑11: A party parrot meme mystery has been solved.
2019‑10‑11: Video footage of the PDP-7 on which Unix started.
2019‑10‑11: 8 papers that were rejected before winning a Nobel prize.
2019‑10‑10: Build systems à la carte.
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: Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability.
2019‑10‑09: jtc: JSON manipulation and transformation tool.
2019‑10‑09: Defining types in the Shen programming language.
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!
2019‑10‑01: The failed political promise of Silicon Valley.
2019‑09‑30: The asymmetry of Internet identity.
2019‑09‑30: Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup.
2019‑09‑30: A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer.
2019‑09‑30: Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the npm ecosystem.
2019‑09‑30: Before the East India Company.
2019‑09‑30: Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix using a MIP solver.
2019‑09‑30: MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
2019‑09‑30: SCIP solver for mixed integer programming (MIP) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP).
2019‑09‑30: MIP formulations and linearizations quick reference.
2019‑09‑30: Cbc: open-source mixed integer linear programming solver.
2019‑09‑29: JSON for modern C++.
2019‑09‑29: Text rendering hates you.
2019‑09‑29: Representing and editing JSON with Google Sheets.
2019‑09‑29: Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
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: Advanced SQL: window frames.
2019‑09‑26: Using PostgreSQL row level security to make large companies more secure.
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: Parallel GCC research project.
2019‑09‑14: Save thousands of dollars by packing Kubernetes pods efficiently.
2019‑09‑14: $1,000,000 worth of invalid EV certificates revoked.
2019‑09‑13: "DevOps didn't exist when I started as a developer."
2019‑09‑13: BLUF: make your writing more powerful with the bottom line up front.
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: bic: a C interpreter and API explorer.
2019‑09‑12: Efficient string copying and concatenation in C with memccpy().
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: Why Ada is the language you want to be programming your systems with.
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: Quantum INTERCAL.
2019‑09‑11: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding.
2019‑09‑11: Why Teslas aren't the future.
2019‑09‑11: Face recognition, bad people, and bad data.
2019‑09‑11: A famous argument against free will has been debunked.
2019‑09‑10: Uber's path of destruction.
2019‑09‑10: What does "it's a good start" really mean?
2019‑09‑10: A guide to Aussie slang.
2019‑09‑10: American phrase book.
2019‑09‑10: The tale of the missing semaphore.
2019‑09‑10: How to chair an academic committee.
2019‑09‑10: Strategies for fast lexical analysis.
2019‑09‑10: Myths about USB-C.
2019‑09‑10: A checklist for empirical evaluation, against replication difficulties in computer science.
2019‑09‑10: Put down that banana, beekeeper.
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: DNS-over-HTTPS privacy and security concerns.
2019‑09‑07: Thoughts on presenting a talk.
2019‑09‑07: Does Sean Bean really die more than other actors?
2019‑09‑07: From mind control to murder: a deadly fall revealed the CIA's MK-Ultra secrets.
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: 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: An introduction to D3.js.
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: Active learning is more effective, but students don't think so.
2019‑09‑05: Universal adversarial triggers for attacking and analyzing NLP.
2019‑09‑05: Why you need plpgsql_check if you write stored procedures for PostgreSQL.
2019‑09‑05: Thunderbolt 3 cables longer than 0.5m generally don't support USB 3.1 speeds.
2019‑09‑05: The most gender-switched names in the US.
2019‑09‑04: Why does CD digital audio have a 44.1 kHz sample rate?
2019‑09‑04: pspg: table-aware pager for PostgreSQL.
2019‑09‑04: What happened to Hadoop?
2019‑09‑04: Semantic validation in Rust.
2019‑09‑04: Teardown of a failed Linux LTS Spectre fix.
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: AssemblyScript: a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler.
2019‑09‑04: A static compiler for the TypeScript programming language to Thumb machine code.
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: Tired of Stack Overflow.
2019‑09‑02: Linkers: a 20 part series.
2019‑09‑02: Beginner's guide to linkers.
2019‑09‑02: The GNU configure and build system.
2019‑09‑02: An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++.
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: What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
2019‑08‑31: Linux pressure stall information (PSI): better load averages.
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: Report on December's CenturyLink network outage.
2019‑08‑26: Complicated and complex systems in safety management.
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: What the Code of Hammurabi can teach us about software liability.
2019‑08‑25: Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture.
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: About GNU readline.
2019‑08‑23: Why does developing on Kubernetes suck?
2019‑08‑23: The crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics.
2019‑08‑23: The origins of JavaScript sandbox realms.
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: The web browser monopoly.
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: A look at HS2's huge Old Oak Common station.
2019‑08‑21: Calculus is deeply irrational.
2019‑08‑21: Kaspersky in the middle: what could possibly go wrong?
2019‑08‑21: The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is "No."
2019‑08‑21: Where do interrupts happen?
2019‑08‑21: The financialization of the American elite.
2019‑08‑21: How Rust optimizes async/await.
2019‑08‑21: Ten simple rules for responsible referencing.
2019‑08‑21: "Patent troll" is opinion, not defamation.
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: Runtime configuration reloading in Rust.
2019‑08‑15: Parsing Rust strings into slices.
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: 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: Best practices for code review.
2019‑08‑13: Paged Out! a new experimental free magazine about programming.
2019‑08‑13: The rule of 140.
2019‑08‑13: Top seven myths of robust systems.
2019‑08‑13: R13Y: are NixOS builds reproducible?
2019‑08‑13: Banana-killing Panama disease TR4 has arrived in Latin America.
2019‑08‑13: IndieWeb link sharing.
2019‑08‑13: Await in Rust.
2019‑08‑13: The horror of Microsoft Teams.
2019‑08‑12: Extended Validation TLS certificates are really really dead.
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: H3+: the molecules that made the universe.
2019‑08‑10: H2 in space explains dark matter and redshift.
2019‑08‑10: Kepler's forgotten ideas about symmetry help explain spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter.
2019‑08‑10: Porting Unix to the IBM Series-1 minicomputer.
2019‑08‑10: Game of Trees: an implementation of git for OpenBSD.
2019‑08‑10: Swift ExpressibleBy protocols: What they are and how they work.
2019‑08‑10: Parallelism in PostgreSQL.
2019‑08‑10: Measuring DNS qname minimization.
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: Understanding Rust through AVL trees.
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: A formal investigation of diff3.
2019‑08‑07: Recording 660fps video on a $6 Raspberry Pi camera.
2019‑08‑07: 10 years of seL4: still the best, still getting better.
2019‑08‑07: Arend: a theorem prover based on Homotopy Type Theory.
2019‑08‑07: C-mera: Lisp macros for metaprogramming C-like languages.
2019‑08‑07: The last working Olivetti mainframe sits in a Tuscan high school.
2019‑08‑07: Fact check: What you may have heard from Elsevier about the dispute with UC.
2019‑08‑07: Don't underestimate grep based code security scanning.
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: Vectorized emulation: hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second.
2019‑08‑06: Pwnie award nominations.
2019‑08‑05: Switching from Common Lisp to Julia.
2019‑08‑05: All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people.
2019‑08‑05: Rust language cheat sheet.
2019‑08‑04: Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself.
2019‑08‑04: Dissecting a dweet: Lorenz attractor.
2019‑08‑04: Securely issuing HTTP requests from the cloud.
2019‑08‑04: A technical analysis of the Capital One AWS S3 hack.
2019‑08‑04: Using PostgreSQL full text search with Golang.
2019‑08‑04: What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search.
2019‑08‑04: Mastering PostgreSQL full-text search and phrase 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 discussion of the origins of UNIX filesystem permissions.
2019‑08‑01: Inquiry into the implications for the UK of the proposal to end seasonal clock changes in the EU.
2019‑08‑01: A brief guide to a few algebraic structures.
2019‑08‑01: In Australia, one cat seems to have destroyed an entire bird sanctuary.
2019‑08‑01: Rome's border walls were the beginning of its end.
2019‑07‑31: Golang experience report: generics in Kubernetes.
2019‑07‑31: Thoughts on package dependencies and scaling trust.
2019‑07‑31: After the warming. [1989] (YouTube)
2019‑07‑31: LoRaWAN distance world record: 766km at 25mW.
2019‑07‑31: Container security: a developer guide.
2019‑07‑31: ANTLR: an informal introduction.
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: Use plaintext email.
2019‑07‑24: How (not) to sign a JSON object.
2019‑07‑24: Notes on a smaller Rust.
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: 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: Standby in production: scaling PostgreSQL for a large classified ads site.
2019‑07‑24: Unblocking second-generation smart meters.
2019‑07‑24: Python anti-patterns.
2019‑07‑24: How the retweet ruined the Internet.
2019‑07‑24: Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".
2019‑07‑24: Norvig and Pitman tutorial on good Lisp programming style.
2019‑07‑24: Pascal Costanza's highly opinionated guide to Lisp.
2019‑07‑24: A Common Lisp style guide.
2019‑07‑24: Algebraic effects for the rest of us.
2019‑07‑24: Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's Ponzi scheme.
2019‑07‑24: Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944-2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382...
2019‑07‑24: Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia.
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: Satellite images show vast swaths of the arctic on fire.
2019‑07‑21: The little-known Soviet mission to rescue the dead space station Salyut 7.
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: A plan to mine the world's research papers.
2019‑07‑19: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off.
2019‑07‑19: DataSpill: browser extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users.
2019‑07‑19: The challenges of single toggle buttons.
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.
2019‑07‑18: Analysis of the Galileo satellite navigation outage.
2019‑07‑17: QuickJS: Fabrice Bellard's JavaScript engine.
2019‑07‑17: Indexing documents for full text search in PostgreSQL.
2019‑07‑17: Not so fast: the performance of WebAssembly vs. native code.
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: Certificate flooding, SKS and GnuPG issues, and the Sequoia pgp-in-Rust project.
2019‑07‑17: What is unsafe Rust?
2019‑07‑17: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019.
2019‑07‑17: Stream combinators implemented using for await syntax in 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: Minisign, based on libsodium, compatible with OpenBSD signify.
2019‑07‑17: The PGP problem.
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: Ownership and borrowing in the D programming language.
2019‑07‑16: Cookies: what does 'good' look like to the UK ICO?
2019‑07‑16: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
2019‑07‑16: A summary of USB-C cable features.
2019‑07‑15: There are 6 kinds of USB-C cables.
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.
2019‑07‑12: International typography on the Web: language support matrix.
2019‑07‑12: ARPANET: the subnet IMPs.
2019‑07‑12: Fuzzing DNS zone parsers.
2019‑07‑11: Lexical differential highlighting.
2019‑07‑11: How to read the international phonetic alphabet.
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: Python consumes a lot of memory; how to reduce the size of objects?
2019‑07‑10: Impact of A1 and A2 microSD card application performance class.
2019‑07‑10: Raspberry Pi 4 microSD card performance comparisons.
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.
2019‑07‑09: The Riemann Hypothesis says 5040 is the last.
2019‑07‑09: Some Dockerfile best practices.
2019‑07‑08: Tips for reviewing code you don't like.
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: Why the Raspberry Pi 4 is incompatible with some USB-C chargers.
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: How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow.
2019‑07‑05: The good voting systems agreement.
2019‑07‑05: What is the female stress response and why is it interesting?
2019‑07‑05: Why not to use two axes on a chart, and what to use instead.
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 -70°C.
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: Strongly TypeScript Vue.
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: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof).
2019‑06‑30: jass: share secrets using SSH keys.
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: The spycraft revolution.
2019‑06‑24: Raspberry Pi 4.
2019‑06‑24: Before you use a password manager.
2019‑06‑24: How to avoid dangerous counterfeits on Amazon.
2019‑06‑24: What happens after Amazon's domination Is complete? Its bookstore offers clues.
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: C, Fortran, and single-character strings.
2019‑06‑22: A liquid helix model helps explain the dribbly teapot effect.
2019‑06‑22: The typestate pattern in Rust.
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: Teaching a cheap Dell ethernet switch new tricks.
2019‑06‑13: How to design for the web in 2019.
2019‑06‑13: Adding static type checking to Julia in 100 lines of code.
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: A compilation of Kubernetes failure/horror stories.
2019‑06‑12: RAMbleed: reading bits in memory without accessing them.
2019‑06‑12: Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org foundation.
2019‑06‑12: Missions to Mars during the 2020 minimum energy launch window.
2019‑06‑12: "1984" at seventy: why we still read Orwell's book.
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: 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: Brython: Python 3 in the browser.
2019‑06‑03: Uh-oh .io: Question mark over trendy TLD as UN condemns British treatment of Chagos.
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: Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry.
2019‑06‑02: A DIY microhydro plant.
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: Why Intel Ice Lake AVX512 is important: a bit-basher's perspective.
2019‑05‑30: Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web.
2019‑05‑30: runtypes: runtime validation for static types in TypeScript.
2019‑05‑30: io-ts: runtime types for IO decoding/encoding in TypeScript.
2019‑05‑30: Announcing TypeScript 3.5.
2019‑05‑30: WhatDoTheyKnow Pro helps TBIJ get the whole picture on council land sell-off.
2019‑05‑30: The author of uBlock on Google Chrome's proposal to cripple ad blockers.
2019‑05‑30: Google's IPv6 traffic stats: will 28% deployment really be the limit?
2019‑05‑30: Google goes ahead with ad-blocker crackdown, except for paid-up enterprise Chrome users.
2019‑05‑30: Goroutine local storage.
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: Thinking with Types: type-level programming in Haskell.
2019‑05‑26: Higher-order type-level programming in Haskell.
2019‑05‑26: Self-distancing: what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions.
2019‑05‑26: Is SpaceX's Raptor the king of rocket engines?
2019‑05‑25: CSS rules that will make your life easier.
2019‑05‑25: The lingua franca of LaTeX.
2019‑05‑25: MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, profiles, and property exchange.
2019‑05‑24: Extending the slit-scan video special effect technique.
2019‑05‑24: How to ruin a perfectly good container.
2019‑05‑24: Creating C/C++ APIs in Rust.
2019‑05‑24: The definitive guide to running EC2 spot instances as Kubernetes worker nodes.
2019‑05‑24: A Kubernetes any% speedrun.
2019‑05‑24: Website popularity rankings: an extensive analysis.
2019‑05‑24: Hobbling Huawei: the 5G risks of China's tech giant.
2019‑05‑24: LEGO Braille bricks.
2019‑05‑23: Animagraffs: animated infographics about everything.
2019‑05‑23: 507 mechanical movements.
2019‑05‑23: When the AWS DNS resolver drops packets because you hit the query quota.
2019‑05‑23: Visualizing PostgreSQL vacuum progress.
2019‑05‑23: Analysis of various tricky Rust code.
2019‑05‑23: Efficiently searching in-memory sorted arrays: revenge of the interpolation search?
2019‑05‑23: Exploring new frontiers for Git push performance.
2019‑05‑23: Stupid git tricks: Combining two files into one while preserving line history.
2019‑05‑22: The physical kilogram is officially dead.
2019‑05‑22: It's a trap-ezoid: CSS Shapes aren't what you'd expect.
2019‑05‑22: ads.txt specification for authorized ad resellers.
2019‑05‑21: Heroines of chaos: Ellen Fetter and Margaret Hamilton.
2019‑05‑21: Make Linux fast again: when you don't need sidechannel vulnerability protection.
2019‑05‑20: Star Wars Vader vs Kenobi, reimagined.
2019‑05‑20: A tale of query optimization in PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑20: Fixing an XSS vulnerability in the Haskell search engine Hoogle.
2019‑05‑20: IBM 360 Model 20 rescue and restoration.
2019‑05‑19: When male runners lose to women.
2019‑05‑19: Virtual DOM is pure overhead.
2019‑05‑19: Using Ed25519 signing keys for encryption.
2019‑05‑18: Abusing SECURITY DEFINER functions in PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑18: Black, hot superionic ice may be nature's most common form of water.
2019‑05‑17: The 2019 Linux storage, filesystem, and memory-management summit.
2019‑05‑17: WireGuard on OpenBSD.
2019‑05‑17: The story male editors kept killing.
2019‑05‑17: Pointedly confusing: a longstanding sizeof() bug in Microsoft C.
2019‑05‑17: dnsfire: a proof-of-concept DNS-driven firewall enforcer.
2019‑05‑17: Writing a procedural puzzle generator.
2019‑05‑17: Fundamental design principles for non-designers.
2019‑05‑16: The 3.5% rule: a threshold of success for non-violent protest.
2019‑05‑16: A report from Google's AMP advisory committee meeting.
2019‑05‑15: Things you might not be using in Python 3, but should.
2019‑05‑15: Going Critical: diffusion models, disease, and knowledge.
2019‑05‑13: A horrifying globalThis polyfill in universal JavaScript.
2019‑05‑12: Linux iptables processing flowchart.
2019‑05‑12: The fully general system for learning to do hard things.
2019‑05‑12: Trial of overhead electric lines for HGVs in Germany.
2019‑05‑12: The peculiar blindness of experts.
2019‑05‑11: OCaml has some shiny new monadic and applicative syntax.
2019‑05‑11: Shenandoah GC in production: an experience report.
2019‑05‑11: Announcing GraalVM 19.
2019‑05‑11: 2D graphics on modern GPU.
2019‑05‑11: From collisions to chosen-prefix collisions, applied to full SHA-1.
2019‑05‑10: Agnotology and epistemological fragmentation.
2019‑05‑10: Compile-time coprocessor codegen with Rust macros.
2019‑05‑10: It's time to break up Facebook.
2019‑05‑10: Fourier synthesis vector CRT character generator.
2019‑05‑10: PostScript and Interpress: a comparison. (1985)
2019‑05‑10: Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
2019‑05‑09: Inside the recovery from the Firefox add-on certificate expiry failure.
2019‑05‑09: For better computing, liberate CPUs with a garbage collection coprocessor.
2019‑05‑09: Post-mortem and remediations for matrix.org's April security incident.
2019‑05‑09: When dates became regular and universal, it changed history.
2019‑05‑08: JSMpeg: an MPEG1 decoder in JavaScript for low-latency streaming.
2019‑05‑08: How C array sizes become part of a library's ABI.
2019‑05‑08: Google Ads malware seen in the wild.
2019‑05‑08: Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson. (YouTube)
2019‑05‑08: Ted Chiang returns with an awe-inducing collection "Exhalation".
2019‑05‑08: pg_auto_failover: Open source extension for high availability of PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑08: Dealing with software collapse / rot.
2019‑05‑08: Securing network time.
2019‑05‑08: Surprisingly Turing-Complete.
2019‑05‑08: Securing cookies with cookie prefixes.
2019‑05‑08: Building a URL shortener with only AWS Lambda.
2019‑05‑08: css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend.
2019‑05‑07: How Cloudflare serves up hate online.
2019‑05‑07: Halving metrics ingestion latency by (briefly) forking the Golang compiler.
2019‑05‑07: How Rust solves dependency hell.
2019‑05‑07: ups: an X11 debugger for C.
2019‑05‑06: May 1968: a chronology of events in France and internationally.
2019‑05‑06: Low-latency typing with pleasure.
2019‑05‑06: Rust await syntax considerations.
2019‑05‑06: A final proposal for await syntax in Rust.
2019‑05‑06: The existential crisis plaguing online extremism researchers.
2019‑05‑06: Lithium-ion batteries from Amazon are exploding.
2019‑05‑05: How twisted graphene became the big thing in physics.
2019‑05‑04: Unraveling the JPEG.
2019‑05‑04: Legit: an esoteric programming language encoded in a git commit graph.
2019‑05‑04: Don't do this with PostgreSQL.
2019‑05‑03: Enforcing compile-time permission checking with TypeScript brands.
2019‑05‑03: Generic returns in Rust.
2019‑05‑03: Mathematical jargon failures.
2019‑05‑02: The myth of the impartial machine.
2019‑05‑01: The search for McLaren's extra pedal.
2019‑05‑01: YouTube's conspiracy to kill IE6.
2019‑05‑01: What we're learning about how the sector understands "digital".
2019‑05‑01: GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
2019‑04‑29: The weirdest JavaScript syntax.
2019‑04‑29: Too simple to be simple.
2019‑04‑29: Why isn't 1 a prime number?
2019‑04‑29: The saddest thing about the integers: you can't tune a piano.
2019‑04‑28: The structure of a programming language revolution.
2019‑04‑28: Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway.
2019‑04‑28: Psychology of human misjudgment.
2019‑04‑27: Stop memset()ing structures.
2019‑04‑27: A woman's work: the inside story.
2019‑04‑27: Turing completeness, weird machines, and muddled terminology.
2019‑04‑27: Open-sourcing F14: Facebook's memory-efficient hash tables.
2019‑04‑26: Ireland blocks the world on data privacy.
2019‑04‑26: Making the DNS more private with QNAME minimisation.
2019‑04‑25: Extensibility, XML Vocabularies, and XML Schema.
2019‑04‑24: Getting started with qemu.
2019‑04‑24: First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued.
2019‑04‑24: A 'blockchain bandit' is guessing private keys and scoring millions.
2019‑04‑24: Past the tipping point: the persistence of firefighting in product development.
2019‑04‑23: Consoles of IBM System/360 mainframes.
2019‑04‑23: When workers control the code.
2019‑04‑23: (Right to Left (The Mirror World
2019‑04‑23: TLS guidelines from NCSC-NL.
2019‑04‑23: Egg Clock, with photochromic paint and a laser. (YouTube)
2019‑04‑23: An overview of the C++ lifetime safety proposal.
2019‑04‑23: Lifetime safety: preventing common dangling pointer errors in C++.
2019‑04‑23: Modern C++ won't save us.
2019‑04‑22: Windows CreateProcess() is accidentally quadratic.
2019‑04‑22: Generating fractals with Postgres.
2019‑04‑22: Is everything an MLM?
2019‑04‑22: Some internet outages predicted soon as BGP '768k Day' approaches.
2019‑04‑22: Hardening SSH with 2FA.
2019‑04‑22: Facial recognition is the plutonium of AI.
2019‑04‑22: Optimize What? Silicon Valley is full of the stupidest geniuses you'll ever meet.
2019‑04‑21: The antique toaster that's better than yours. (YouTube)
2019‑04‑21: Computus, antisemitism, and the early christian debate over easter.
2019‑04‑21: Defeating Racket's separate compilation guarantee.
2019‑04‑20: Fairylog: a Racket DSL for generating Verilog.
2019‑04‑20: BYD, the world's biggest electric car maker.
2019‑04‑20: New features in Fortran 2018.
2019‑04‑20: What is Infocom ZIL anyway?
2019‑04‑19: 12 nice Rust libraries you should try.
2019‑04‑19: Custom allocators in C++.
2019‑04‑18: Neopentylglycol: a competitive solid refrigerant.
2019‑04‑18: Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware.
2019‑04‑18: Thundering herds and cached promises.
2019‑04‑18: Microsoft Windows Tiles vulnerable to a subdomain takeover attack.
2019‑04‑17: Let's Encrypt will transition to their own root CA in July.
2019‑04‑17: Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, with the help of a checklist.
2019‑04‑17: From the MCU to Star Wars: in praise of poorly built worlds.
2019‑04‑17: RFC 8546: the wire image of a network protocol.
2019‑04‑17: Nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.
2019‑04‑16: A look at IBM/360 core memory.
2019‑04‑16: More DoH.
2019‑04‑15: Convenient and idiomatic conversions in Rust.
2019‑04‑14: A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation.
2019‑04‑14: Moving to a provenance-aware memory object model for C: a proposal for C2x.
2019‑04‑14: Autonomous precision landing of space rockets.
2019‑04‑13: Languages I want to write.
2019‑04‑13: Automated testing of Rust examples in README files.
2019‑04‑13: Value categories and references to them in C++.
2019‑04‑13: Stable half-pixel filtering for video codecs.
2019‑04‑12: A novel compact VLF antenna for communicating where other radios fail.
2019‑04‑11: Using 6 page and 2 page documents to make organizational decisions.
2019‑04‑11: Visibility of IPv4 and IPv6 prefix lengths.
2019‑04‑11: EU agencies falsely report more than 550 archive.org URLs as terrorist content.
2019‑04‑10: Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second critical infrastructure site.
2019‑04‑10: Network boot to the rescue, with UEFI and IPv6.
2019‑04‑10: Building the System/360 mainframe nearly destroyed IBM.
2019‑04‑10: NVMM: NetBSD virtual machine manager.
2019‑04‑10: A fork() in the road.
2019‑04‑09: Amazon shoppers misled by 'bundled' star-ratings and reviews.
2019‑04‑09: Facebook's ad targeting algorithm is inherently biased.
2019‑04‑08: Most people do not expect Google to track their activities so pervasively.
2019‑04‑08: Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro.
2019‑04‑08: Angst about DNS privacy and DoH / DoC.
2019‑04‑08: Types for programming and reasoning.
2019‑04‑08: Compiling C to WebAssembly using clang/LLVM and WASI.
2019‑04‑07: How poor public transport explains the UK's productivity puzzle.
2019‑04‑07: Most browsers do not let you turn off hyperlink auditing third-party click tracking.
2019‑04‑07: Fast directory listing on Linux.
2019‑04‑05: Writing six-pagers at Amazon.
2019‑04‑05: "Problems" with git format-patch and Gmail.
2019‑04‑05: Using grub to patch the bios so Windows will boot with 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn't support it.
2019‑04‑04: Idiomatic monads in Rust.
2019‑04‑02: From gnuplot to Matplotlib and Pandas.
2019‑04‑01: Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
2019‑04‑01: Learning from The Economist's errors in data visualisation.
2019‑04‑01: A parser for the TLS data description language used in the IETF RFCs.
2019‑03‑31: Why are economists giving Piketty the cold shoulder?
2019‑03‑31: Transparent huge pages: measuring the performance impact on a large JVM application.
2019‑03‑31: Making chip packaging simpler.
2019‑03‑31: RaptorQ (RFC6330) performance optimization in Rust.
2019‑03‑30: The day the dinosaurs died.
2019‑03‑30: Common statistical tests are linear models, or, how to teach stats.
2019‑03‑30: DEC VT100 raster CRT typography.
2019‑03‑29: Five super helpful Rust things that you might not have been told about.
2019‑03‑29: mal: make a lisp.
2019‑03‑29: The filter bubble is actually a decision bubble.
2019‑03‑28: Lucet: Fastly's native WebAssembly compiler and runtime.
2019‑03‑28: Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful.
2019‑03‑28: The phantom builder in Rust.
2019‑03‑27: Appl still hasn't fixd its MacBook kyboad poblm.
2019‑03‑27: Some reasons why ASN.1 BER/CER/DER and other TLV encodings are bad.
2019‑03‑27: From L3 to seL4: what have we learnt in 20 years of L4 microkernels?
2019‑03‑27: An Intel programmer's impressions of ARM SIMD programming.
2019‑03‑27: Sum-of-three-cubes problem solved for stubborn number 33.
2019‑03‑27: A commentary on Arthur Whitney's b compiler.
2019‑03‑27: Unexpected DNSKEY query growth around the 2018 root zone KSK rollover.
2019‑03‑26: European parliament votes to delegate summer time rules to member states.
2019‑03‑26: An experimental DNS-over-QUIC to UDP proxy.
2019‑03‑26: Moral crumple zones: The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers.
2019‑03‑26: Moral crumple zones: cautionary tales in human-robot interaction.
2019‑03‑25: Gravitational lensing: a new Einstein cross is discovered.
2019‑03‑25: In defense of YAML.
2019‑03‑25: Hexagonal cross stitch.
2019‑03‑24: What has your microcode done for you lately?
2019‑03‑24: On the S-Box of GOST Streebog and Kuznyechik.
2019‑03‑24: Pyre: Facebook's static type checker for Python.
2019‑03‑24: PyType: Google's static type analyzer for Python.
2019‑03‑24: KaTeX: the fastest math typesetting library for the web.
2019‑03‑24: Symbols and functions available and not available in KaTeX.
2019‑03‑24: PyRight: a static type checker for Python written by Microsoft in TypeScript.
2019‑03‑23: Maybe you want Nomad rather than Kubernetes.
2019‑03‑23: A Julia interpreter and debugger.
2019‑03‑23: SRE case study: http load balancer confusion caused by broken back end web server.
2019‑03‑22: Under the hood of the new ARIN web site.
2019‑03‑22: So you want your app/website to work in China...
2019‑03‑21: Computer latency at human scale.
2019‑03‑20: Hacking JSON Web Tokens.
2019‑03‑20: The pneumatic clock network in Paris, 1880-1927.
2019‑03‑20: International space station docking standard.
2019‑03‑20: How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux.
2019‑03‑20: CVE-2019-6454: systemd (PID1) crash with specially crafted unprivileged D-Bus message.
2019‑03‑20: When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters.
2019‑03‑20: Optimizing a 350 line pathtracer in Rust From 48s to 5s.
2019‑03‑20: Hardware debugging with JTAG on a Raspberry Pi.
2019‑03‑20: Neo-Nazis bet big on Bitcoin (and lost).
2019‑03‑18: IPv6 address unmasking via UPnP.
2019‑03‑18: Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you.
2019‑03‑17: Questions on the future of Open Source.
2019‑03‑17: The 15 most famous transcendental numbers.
2019‑03‑17: Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right, after 2,469 years.
2019‑03‑17: On the hunt for Japan's elaborate, colorful utility access covers.
2019‑03‑17: What is Amazon?
2019‑03‑17: Unicode TOFU: detect changes to strings over time that might be spoofing.
2019‑03‑17: Association of cognitive function with carbon dioxide exposure in office workers.
2019‑03‑17: A gallery of early computers, 1940s - 1960s.
2019‑03‑16: DNS timeline.
2019‑03‑16: Analytical methods for mapping a circular disc to a square.
2019‑03‑16: Repairing brass instruments with magnets.
2019‑03‑16: William Jones: the man who invented π.
2019‑03‑15: XXH3: a new speed-optimized hash algorithm.
2019‑03‑15: What causes Ruby memory bloat?
2019‑03‑15: Gwern's law: ads cost you 10% of your traffic.
2019‑03‑14: Porting PuTTY to Windows on Arm.
2019‑03‑14: A curious case of intermittent test failures due to slow SSD TRIM.
2019‑03‑14: On the past, present, and future of COBOL.
2019‑03‑13: Alice 4: a tablet dedicated to old SGI demos.
2019‑03‑13: Fast / accurate floating point division with known divisor.
2019‑03‑13: Generating bit combinations with Gosper's hack.
2019‑03‑13: RFC 8555 ACME: universal encryption through automation.
2019‑03‑13: GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue >1 million certificates with short serial numbers.
2019‑03‑13: 'The Left Hand of Darkness' at fifty.
2019‑03‑13: Bugs and fixes for boot delays due to lack of random entropy on Linux.
2019‑03‑12: Tips for a JavaScript-free web frontend.
2019‑03‑12: Researchers find critical backdoor in Swiss online voting system.
2019‑03‑12: Font shaping is Turing complete.
2019‑03‑10: Usability improvements in GCC 9.
2019‑03‑10: Lvalue min and max in C++.
2019‑03‑08: Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception.
2019‑03‑07: A Golang malformed HTTP POST mystery.
2019‑03‑07: Why do remote meetings suck so much?
2019‑03‑07: Orchestrating false beliefs about gender discrimination.
2019‑03‑07: Gender imbalances in the world's leading orchestras.
2019‑03‑07: The precarious effort to continue traditional soy sauce production in Japan.
2019‑03‑06: Automated tools discriminate against Black American language.
2019‑03‑06: Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy.
2019‑03‑06: Why American rail construction costs are so high.
2019‑03‑06: Mathgen: Randomly generated mathematics research papers.
2019‑03‑04: Remote code execution and Domain Admin privileges due to a typo in PHP.
2019‑03‑04: A quick look at QUIC.
2019‑03‑04: What part of "No!" doesn't the DNS understand?
2019‑03‑04: TLS in F*: Generating C code that people actually want to use.
2019‑03‑04: Near misses, and how to avoid catastrophe.
2019‑03‑04: The birthday paradox: on Jupiter, and beyond!
2019‑03‑04: The MBA myth and the CEO cult.
2019‑03‑04: Discrete robot motion planning in a continuous domain.
2019‑03‑03: Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Golang.
2019‑03‑03: Debugging the Postgres query planner.
2019‑03‑03: Memory Models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware.
2019‑03‑03: Not quite so broken TLS.
2019‑03‑03: Lower bounds for the cost of multiplication via network coding.
2019‑03‑02: Your database migrations are bad and you should feel bad.
2019‑03‑02: Millions of binaries later: a look into Linux hardening in the wild.
2019‑03‑02: OpenSSL future architecture plans.
2019‑03‑01: DigiCert in-addr.arpa X.509 certificate mis-issuance.
2019‑03‑01: Casper's clever little nightlight.
2019‑03‑01: NASA is planning a space station in a weird lunar orbit.
2019‑03‑01: Transparent logs for skeptical clients.
2019‑03‑01: Formally specifying user interfaces.
2019‑03‑01: Twitter (un)official API keys.
2019‑03‑01: Reconstructing Twitter's firehose.
2019‑03‑01: re2c: a free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++.
2019‑03‑01: Hyperscan: a fast multi-pattern regex matcher for modern CPUs.
2019‑03‑01: University of California terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in support of open access.
2019‑03‑01: The other wrapping-the-Earth problem.
2019‑03‑01: Git over FTP.
2019‑02‑28: A deep dive on the recent widespread DNS hijacking attacks.
2019‑02‑28: The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register.
2019‑02‑28: We need Chrome no more.
2019‑02‑28: PostgreSQL BRIN indexes: performance for big data with minimal storage.
2019‑02‑28: The current state of open source backup management for PostgreSQL.
2019‑02‑28: ExSpectre: hiding malware in speculative execution.
2019‑02‑27: The soothing promise of our own artisanal Internet.
2019‑02‑27: Content moderation has no easy answers.
2019‑02‑27: Why women are underrepresented in clinical trials.
2019‑02‑27: The 1979 Delft cycle plan.
2019‑02‑27: Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL.
2019‑02‑26: Thunderclap: vulnerabilities in IOMMU protection against untrustworthy peripherals.
2019‑02‑26: The unscalable deadlock-prone thread pool.
2019‑02‑26: Normalization of deviance.
2019‑02‑26: Sisterhood of Cycling: the radical roots of the bicycle.
2019‑02‑26: Type systems and logic.
2019‑02‑25: Vim anti-patterns.
2019‑02‑25: Stabilizer: statistically sound performance evaluation.
2019‑02‑24: A meta approach to implementing programming languages.
2019‑02‑24: How does the measles vaccine protect against other infectious diseases?
2019‑02‑24: Stressing the elements: "illegal" Lego builds.
2019‑02‑24: Enquire: discover C limits.h and float.h machine and compiler properties.
2019‑02‑24: The cost of abstraction.
2019‑02‑24: PostgreSQL on Linux fsync failure fixed.
2019‑02‑24: The magical thinking of guys who love logic.
2019‑02‑23: Varieties of polymorphism in Haskell.
2019‑02‑23: Why does Julia work so well?
2019‑02‑23: How not to measure computer system performance.
2019‑02‑22: Gordon Ramsay's approach to food helped my family of autistic eaters.
2019‑02‑22: Password managers: under the hood of secrets management.
2019‑02‑22: Finally tagless, partially evaluated.
2019‑02‑21: TSMC's photoresist contamination incident: $550 million in lost revenue.
2019‑02‑21: COI: chat-over-IMAP.
2019‑02‑21: Delta Chat: chat-over-email.
2019‑02‑21: Patent exhaustion and open source.
2019‑02‑21: Exploitation from malicious PCI Express peripherals.
2019‑02‑21: simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second.
2019‑02‑21: How to get rid of sponsored Facebook posts.
2019‑02‑20: Lessons from six software rewrite stories.
2019‑02‑20: Mathematics, morally.
2019‑02‑20: Vector instructions are better then SIMD instructions.
2019‑02‑20: Maybe 'Oumuamua is an interstellar snowflake.
2019‑02‑19: AWS Nitro system.
2019‑02‑19: 3264 conics tangent to five conics.
2019‑02‑19: Linux kernel DNS resolver module.
2019‑02‑19: Why a grape turns into a fireball in a microwave.
2019‑02‑18: ASCII art in comments in code.
2019‑02‑18: Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution.
2019‑02‑18: Machine-learning in science is producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong.
2019‑02‑18: Differential privacy: an easy case.
2019‑02‑18: Dropgangs: darknet markets using systems of dead drops.
2019‑02‑18: Encrypted databases, searchable encryption, and the ever-expanding leakage function.
2019‑02‑18: Operable software: on simplicity, complexity, and observability.
2019‑02‑18: How GitLab used delayed replication for disaster recovery with PostgreSQL.
2019‑02‑18: Towards an understanding of technical debt.
2019‑02‑18: The log/event processing pipeline you can't have.
2019‑02‑18: LD_PRELOAD: the hero we need and deserve.
2019‑02‑17: The joy of standards.
2019‑02‑17: You probably don't need a single-page application.
2019‑02‑17: Mesh: compacting memory management for C/C++ applications.
2019‑02‑17: The rest of the world always knew Churchill was a villain.
2019‑02‑16: Information related to #dns on freenode.
2019‑02‑16: The Single Rotation rule: a remarkably simple and rich reversible cellular automaton.
2019‑02‑15: The complicated economy of Open Source software.
2019‑02‑15: Don't get clever with login forms.
2019‑02‑15: Dudle: online event coordination and survey application. (A Free alternative to Doodle.)
2019‑02‑15: Computing extremely accurate quantiles using t-digests.
2019‑02‑15: Tubes vs. transistors: a comparative study.
2019‑02‑15: Lessons from Google's geographical GDPR goof.
2019‑02‑15: Logical difficulties in modern mathematics.
2019‑02‑15: Why do the Northern and Southern Lights differ?
2019‑02‑15: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass.
2019‑02‑14: How white space killed an enterprise app, and why data density matters.
2019‑02‑13: A history of the Network Information Center.
2019‑02‑13: Is email making professors stupid?
2019‑02‑12: The curious case of disappearing buses.
2019‑02‑12: Kubernetes ndots 5 and long DNS search path.
2019‑02‑11: None of my web projects want to be single page applications.
2019‑02‑11: 1839 woven portrait of Jacquard: an important image from the early history of computing.
2019‑02‑11: CVE-2019-5736: Linux container breakout.
2019‑02‑11: A century of Noether's theorem.
2019‑02‑11: Chronos: a secure selection and filtering mechanism for NTP.
2019‑02‑11: Laziness does not exist, but unseen barriers do.
2019‑02‑11: The New Systems Engineer.
2019‑02‑11: Fact-checking Facebook was like playing a doomed game of Whack-A-Mole.
2019‑02‑11: Questions for a new technology.
2019‑02‑11: Make the web boring.
2019‑02‑11: The future of public access to Castle Mound.
2019‑02‑11: How do we know the history of extreme poverty?
2019‑02‑10: Five things that scare me about AI.
2019‑02‑10: DasKeyboard lights show blood sugar changes using my body's REST API.
2019‑02‑10: What PostgreSQL developers know about fsync() errors.
2019‑02‑10: Oh god, it's raining newsletters.
2019‑02‑10: Checking firewall equivalence with Z3.
2019‑02‑09: Building a RISC-V PC.
2019‑02‑09: A new Python kernel for Jupyter.
2019‑02‑08: Reflecting on a failure to build a billion-dollar company.
2019‑02‑08: Move fast and migrate things: how Benchling automated migrations in Postgres.
2019‑02‑08: Downgrade attack on TLS 1.3 and vulnerabilities in major TLS libraries.
2019‑02‑08: Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide.
2019‑02‑08: HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
2019‑02‑07: The big DNS privacy debate at FOSDEM.
2019‑02‑07: FOSDEM 2019: a new view from the NOC.
2019‑02‑07: What happened to the 100,000-hour LED bulbs?
2019‑02‑06: The Earth and the far side of the moon photographed by radio amateurs.
2019‑02‑06: A simple explanation for the existence of adversarial examples with small Hamming distance.
2019‑02‑06: Previous: a NeXT emulator.
2019‑02‑06: Vulnerability postmortem: A curious case of convexity confusion in Skia.
2019‑02‑05: There and Snack Again: How to eat everything in the Lord of the Rings.
2019‑02‑05: Analysis: Why the UK's CO2 emissions have fallen 38% since 1990.
2019‑02‑04: A 6502 assembly language monad in Haskell.
2019‑02‑04: Ten rules for a better conference name badge.
2019‑02‑04: Debugging Emacs or: how I learned to stop worrying and love DTrace.
2019‑02‑04: Asterius: A Haskell to WebAssembly compiler.
2019‑02‑03: A brief history of the UUID.
2019‑02‑03: Using BGP to calculate fastest paths around the London Underground.
2019‑02‑03: All late projects are the same.
2019‑02‑03: The death of transit and the future Internet.
2019‑02‑03: RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust.
2019‑02‑03: Machine learning leads mathematicians to undecidable problem.
2019‑02‑03: The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity.
2019‑02‑02: Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way.
2019‑02‑02: The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified.
2019‑02‑01: How many .com domain names are unused?
2019‑01‑30: The day I fell in love with fuzzing.
2019‑01‑30: Lock-free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019.
2019‑01‑30: The 26,000-year astronomical monument at the Hoover dam.
2019‑01‑30: Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/ month.
2019‑01‑29: How a teenage 'Fortnite' player found Apple's FaceTime bug. It was so hard to report!
2019‑01‑28: JVM issue: concurrency is affected by changing the system time!
2019‑01‑28: The story of Squeak/Pharo, a practical Smalltalk written in itself.
2019‑01‑28: Abusing 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change.
2019‑01‑28: World's oldest periodic table chart found in St Andrews.
2019‑01‑28: Smoothsort demystified.
2019‑01‑28: A SQL to C compiler in 500 lines of code.
2019‑01‑28: Outperforming LAPACK with Python and LLVM.
2019‑01‑27: tinykaboom: how to ray-trace an explosion.
2019‑01‑27: The legacy of Firefox OS.
2019‑01‑27: PostgreSQL backend flowchart.
2019‑01‑27: Why is it so hard to detect a key up event on Linux?
2019‑01‑26: MDT9100 Motorola mobile data terminal.
2019‑01‑26: Special cases are a code smell.
2019‑01‑26: JMAP: it's like IMAP but not really.
2019‑01‑26: Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are?
2019‑01‑26: It's time to move on from two phase commit.
2019‑01‑26: websocketd: WebSockets the Unix way.
2019‑01‑26: websocat: a command-line client for WebSockets.
2019‑01‑25: Women on the pill don't need a period.
2019‑01‑25: Oxford scientists successfully recreated a famous rogue wave in the lab.
2019‑01‑25: How much maintenance_work_mem does PostgreSQL need?
2019‑01‑24: How to make the Chord DHT correct.
2019‑01‑24: Why don't people use formal methods?
2019‑01‑24: 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism.
2019‑01‑24: How LiveJournal pioneered then lost blogging.
2019‑01‑23: pg_permission: Inspecting your PostgreSQL access controls.
2019‑01‑23: Ghostscript vulnerability: subroutines within pseudo-operators must themselves be pseudo-operators.
2019‑01‑23: proc-macro-rules: macro-rules pattern matching inside Rust procedural macros.
2019‑01‑23: A lifetime of systems thinking.
2019‑01‑22: Remote code execution vulnerability in Debian `apt`.
2019‑01‑22: Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns.
2019‑01‑22: HTML5 input types: where are they now?
2019‑01‑22: Build better forms by not taking away affordances.
2019‑01‑22: UTC time scales and leap second support in the Koka programming language.
2019‑01‑21: Advanced Mac Substitute: a 68k Mac emulator.
2019‑01‑20: Kubernetes failure stories.
2019‑01‑20: An obituary of Karen Sparck Jones, who pioneered natural language processing.
2019‑01‑20: The archetype of the haunted house: Winchester Mystery House.
2019‑01‑20: A history of Algol 68-R.
2019‑01‑20: MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file.
2019‑01‑19: AWS EC2 instance price guide.
2019‑01‑18: Introduction to TLA+ model checking on the command line.
2019‑01‑18: Is C++ fast?
2019‑01‑18: History of IEEE P1003.1 POSIX time.
2019‑01‑18: The malign incompetence of the British ruling class.
2019‑01‑18: How SMS set back the mobile internet by ten years.
2019‑01‑18: Why is storage on Kubernetes so hard?
2019‑01‑18: The route of a text message.
2019‑01‑17: CSRG Archive, now on DVD with extra non-BSD software.
2019‑01‑17: The heterosexual tragedy of Top Gun.
2019‑01‑17: The need for sustainable open source projects, like FRR.
2019‑01‑17: Isle Of Man is the first place in the British Isles to decriminalise abortion.
2019‑01‑17: Amazon Aurora: avoiding distributed consensus for IO, commits, and membership changes.
2019‑01‑17: More than you really wanted to know about patch.
2019‑01‑17: Crisis on the High Plains: the loss of America's largest aquifer, the Ogallala.
2019‑01‑17: A Pratt parser in TypeScript.
2019‑01‑17: A cascading failure of distributed systems in a large Kubernetes cluster.
2019‑01‑16: Battle of the axe men: who really built the first electric rock 'n' roll guitar?
2019‑01‑16: Field notes from an American in London.
2019‑01‑16: Gettier cases: the relevance to programming of a three-page paper that shook philosophy.
2019‑01‑15: A workflow for maintaining feature branches and submitting patches to PostgreSQL.
2019‑01‑15: Stepping away from Sass.
2019‑01‑14: The mysterious, stubborn appeal of mass-produced fried chicken.
2019‑01‑14: Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript.
2019‑01‑14: The rise and demise of RSS.
2019‑01‑14: Getting an IBM AS/400 midrange computer on the Internet.
2019‑01‑14: Designing resilient systems with retries.
2019‑01‑14: Courier and Dropbox's migration to gRPC.
2019‑01‑13: Sail ISA model of ARM-v8.5-a can boot Linux.
2019‑01‑12: The second GPS week number rollover is coming in April.
2019‑01‑12: Crochet relays.
2019‑01‑12: The Embroidered Computer.
2019‑01‑12: Spurious correlations.
2019‑01‑12: The holes in the map: England's unregistered land.
2019‑01‑11: The early history of F#.
2019‑01‑11: Factoring polynomials is not a shortcut to breaking RSA.
2019‑01‑11: Earth's magnetic field is acting up and geologists don't know why.
2019‑01‑11: How you can organize your GitHub repositories.
2019‑01‑11: Tony Hoare's proposal for record handling in ALGOL. (1965)
2019‑01‑11: Deriving traits in Rust with procedural macros.
2019‑01‑11: Find the hard work you are willing to do.
2019‑01‑10: The painful price of becoming Jackie Chan.
2019‑01‑10: AWS gives open source the middle finger.
2019‑01‑10: Why people in cities walk fast.
2019‑01‑10: The disappearing Windows DNS debug log.
2019‑01‑09: Looking back at the Berkeley Postgres project.
2019‑01‑09: An analysis of lapis lazuli in medieval dental plaque illuminates the forgotten history of female scribes.
2019‑01‑09: How cartographers for the U.S. military inadvertently screwed up international geoIP locations.
2019‑01‑09: Using TypeScript transforms to enrich runtime code.
2019‑01‑09: Think Sci-Hub is just downloading PDFs? Think again.
2019‑01‑09: Notes on test-case reduction.
2019‑01‑08: DHCP is hard: a story in five bugs.
2019‑01‑08: The FRRouting protocol suite: a descendent of Zebra and Quagga.
2019‑01‑08: The dangers of PostgreSQL streaming across versions of glibc with different collation orders.
2019‑01‑08: OneDev: git hosting and code review in Java.
2019‑01‑08: Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit in StarCraft: Remastered.
2019‑01‑07: How to make sure your talk doesn't suck.
2019‑01‑07: libeatmydata: disable fsync and speed up your tests!
2019‑01‑07: SQL is no excuse to avoid DevOps.
2019‑01‑07: Huawei unveils the highest-performance ARM-based CPU.
2019‑01‑07: Why SRE documents matter.
2019‑01‑07: Atomic clocks: it is important that they keep good time. (part 2)
2019‑01‑07: Atomic clocks: it is important that they keep good time. (part 1)
2019‑01‑07: Why isn't bamboo wood more popular?
2019‑01‑07: The state of software security in 2019
2019‑01‑07: A history of soap.
2019‑01‑07: ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety.
2019‑01‑06: Hints and principles for computer system design.
2019‑01‑06: Hints for computer system design.
2019‑01‑06: The verified CakeML compiler backend.
2019‑01‑06: The evolutionary mystery of left-handedness.
2019‑01‑06: Mapping and visualization by Scott Reinhard.
2019‑01‑05: Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?
2019‑01‑05: Towards a better Pythagorean cup.
2019‑01‑05: LEGO Porsche crashing in slow motion at 1000 fps . (YouTube)
2019‑01‑04: We'll never know whether monorepos are better.
2019‑01‑03: Some common CSS problems.
2019‑01‑03: Monorepos: Please don't!
2019‑01‑03: How 'magic angle' graphene is stirring up physics.
2019‑01‑03: Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer.
2019‑01‑03: Chip design at Apple in the 1980s.
2019‑01‑03: Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8.
2019‑01‑03: caro: if jq and xargs had a baby.
2019‑01‑02: POLA would have prevented the npm event-stream incident.
2019‑01‑02: STAMPing on the npm event-stream compromise.
2019‑01‑02: How 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' was animated.
2019‑01‑02: Fixing the nargs() subroutine on a PDP-11 with split I/D address space.
2019‑01‑02: Be Moore Like Chuck.
2019‑01‑01: Travels with Smalltalk.
2019‑01‑01: The 4th annual Tucker awards for excellence in swearing.
2019‑01‑01: Let's Encrypt looking forward to 2019.
2019‑01‑01: The Vimes boots theory: further reflections.
2018‑12‑31: Fuzzing like it's 1989.
2018‑12‑31: The elements of UI engineering.
2018‑12‑31: For 30 years I've been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer.
2018‑12‑31: How not to canonicalize IPv6 addresses.
2018‑12‑31: μKanren: a minimal functional core for relational / logic programming.
2018‑12‑31: Adaptation decay has sucked the meaning out of "A Christmas Carol".
2018‑12‑30: Umlauts of Berlin, part 3: Ö.
2018‑12‑30: Little's Law: for estimation only.
2018‑12‑30: Why Microsoft Windows network performance is bad during media playback.
2018‑12‑30: Why Microsoft Windows filesystem access is much slower than Unix.
2018‑12‑29: Why are printed circuit boards usually green?
2018‑12‑29: A nice, little known C feature: static array sizes in parameter declarations.
2018‑12‑29: The story of the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound.
2018‑12‑29: In January, the EU starts running bug bounties on free and open source software.
2018‑12‑29: How Facebook keeps messenger from crashing on New Year's eve.
2018‑12‑28: A history of flavoring food with beaver butt juice.
2018‑12‑28: 22 ssh examples, practical tips, and tunnels.
2018‑12‑28: "Modern" C++ lamentations.
2018‑12‑28: Easy Postgres extensions in Rust with pg-extend-rs.
2018‑12‑28: Circular dependencies for provisioning systems.
2018‑12‑28: Securing the hardware supply chain.
2018‑12‑27: Patterns for Array initialization in Rust.
2018‑12‑27: A demo of Rust async io: from mio to stackless coroutines.
2018‑12‑27: Using C libraries in Rust: how to make a sys crate.
2018‑12‑27: Rust Tokio end of year recap.
2018‑12‑27: Procedural macros in Rust 2018.
2018‑12‑27: Post-mortem of the Word for Windows 1.0 project.
2018‑12‑27: Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E-Ink.
2018‑12‑27: JMAP is on the home straight.
2018‑12‑27: The wavefunction collapse algorithm explained very clearly.
2018‑12‑27: Much more than you wanted to know about melatonin.
2018‑12‑27: Understanding throttling and debouncing.
2018‑12‑27: Ranges, code quality, coroutines, and the future of C++.
2018‑12‑26: Unicode CLDR LDML date/time format patterns.
2018‑12‑26: Experience deploying IETF QUIC at Facebook.
2018‑12‑26: Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to (some) growth.
2018‑12‑26: The language of Brussels, translated.
2018‑12‑26: History of the Marshfield Mummers play.
2018‑12‑26: The many ways to launch FreeBSD in AWS EC2.
2018‑12‑26: White Hart Lane's movable football pitch in three pieces.
2018‑12‑26: Twitter's upcoming changes to PNG image support.
2018‑12‑26: 2018 Matrix year in review.
2018‑12‑26: ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan.
2018‑12‑26: A one-line Linux Dropbox client.
2018‑12‑25: Designing web page layouts for screen readers.
2018‑12‑25: Sloc Cloc and Code revisited: optimizing an already fast Golang program.
2018‑12‑25: Exclave: hardware testing in mass production, made easier.
2018‑12‑25: DOOMBA
2018‑12‑25: Wiv.js: a library for a more wiggly div.
2018‑12‑24: IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses.
2018‑12‑24: Theft of NTP service for the Internet of Unprofitable Things.
2018‑12‑24: Lexically scopes type variables.
2018‑12‑24: Partitioned consensus and its impact on Google Spanner's latency.
2018‑12‑24: HyperLogLog in Facebook Presto: faster cardinality estimation.
2018‑12‑24: Solving a murder with Prolog.
2018‑12‑24: Site reliability engineering is operations.
2018‑12‑24: Designing resilient systems with circuit breakers.
2018‑12‑24: Dropbox Cape service mesh technical deep dive.
2018‑12‑24: World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin.
2018‑12‑23: Ten simple rules for documenting scientific software.
2018‑12‑23: Standard ranges for C++.
2018‑12‑23: The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild.
2018‑12‑23: Finding a sparse file bug in GNU tar.
2018‑12‑23: The cyclical theory of Open Source, and new anti-cloud hybrid commercial licenses.
2018‑12‑22: The MGR window system.
2018‑12‑22: Offshore wind: bigger is better.
2018‑12‑22: gQUIC crypto and simple state machines.
2018‑12‑22: A new spline.
2018‑12‑21: DNS over TLS from Cloudflare's recursive servers to Facebook's authoritative servers.
2018‑12‑21: Dear developer, the Web isn't about you.
2018‑12‑21: When anti-virus software causes 15 minute GC pauses and crashes in a .NET Windows service.
2018‑12‑21: MySQL: do not pass this way again.
2018‑12‑21: Max Planck Society discontinues agreement with Elsevier; stands firm with Projekt DEAL negotiations.
2018‑12‑21: Five facts about smell.
2018‑12‑21: Manage virtual machines with virt-manager.
2018‑12‑21: WireGuard setup guide for iOS.
2018‑12‑21: WireGuard for iOS, now in the App Store.
2018‑12‑20: sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha.
2018‑12‑20: The state we're in: visualizing the health of an organization's IT estate.
2018‑12‑20: Why "just Google it" is now a synonym for "indoctrinate someone".
2018‑12‑20: The Guardian says, bye bye Mongo, Hello PostgreSQL.
2018‑12‑19: Did Google cripple Microsoft Edge's YouTube performance?
2018‑12‑19: GPS week rollover in 2019: what you need to know.
2018‑12‑19: Status of async in Rust at the end of 2018.
2018‑12‑19: Storing unboxed trait objects in Rust.
2018‑12‑19: Making Rust float parsing fast and correct.
2018‑12‑19: Evaluating high availability solutions for TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL.
2018‑12‑19: Hello, JIT World: the joy of simple JITs with dynasm.
2018‑12‑19: Stop trying to be so DRY, instead Write Everything Twice (WET).
2018‑12‑18: WaveFunctionCollapse: bitmap generation from one example using ideas from quantum mechanics.
2018‑12‑18: How to build a real-time app with GraphQL subscriptions on PostgreSQL.
2018‑12‑17: Future fossils of the 21st Century.
2018‑12‑17: Support Driven Engineering (SDE).
2018‑12‑17: The best programming advice I ever got.
2018‑12‑17: 5 German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany.
2018‑12‑17: Can repelling magnets replace the spring in a pogo stick?
2018‑12‑16: On rewriting code: No haunted forests.
2018‑12‑16: A collection of Pratt parsing articles.
2018‑12‑16: A brief history of just-in-time compilation.
2018‑12‑16: Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang.
2018‑12‑16: Algol 68: a retrospective.
2018‑12‑15: Does Scrabble need to be fixed? An experiment in controlling how much of the game is luck.
2018‑12‑15: Defense against dark arts: safely allowing full SQL access to untrusted users with SQLite.
2018‑12‑15: A remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite.
2018‑12‑15: Paxos made live: an engineering perspective from Google Chubby.
2018‑12‑15: Exploiting font parsing in LaTeX with CVE-2018-17407.
2018‑12‑15: Bootstrapping Rust.
2018‑12‑15: Modelling the true cost of software rewrites.
2018‑12‑14: An investigation of misunderstanding code patterns in C open-source software projects.
2018‑12‑14: Soup-salad-sandwich space.
2018‑12‑13: A history of the waterfall methodology.
2018‑12‑13: 50 CVEs in 50 days fuzzing Adobe Reader.
2018‑12‑13: The Titanic was on fire for days before the iceberg hit.
2018‑12‑13: Git your SQL together with a query library.
2018‑12‑13: Obituary of Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first true word processor.
2018‑12‑13: Securing your web site like it's 1999.
2018‑12‑13: AFLSmart: smart greybox fuzzing.
2018‑12‑13: Guaranteed copy elision in C++17 does not elide copies.
2018‑12‑12: Clusters of re-used keys.
2018‑12‑12: Routing security roadmap.
2018‑12‑12: Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve.
2018‑12‑12: Existential types in Rust.
2018‑12‑12: Hashbrown: Rust's Swiss army knife of hash tables.
2018‑12‑12: Patterns of refactoring C to Rust: the case of librsvg.
2018‑12‑12: GHC: from bug to merge.
2018‑12‑12: A guide to modern router architecture for network protocol designers.
2018‑12‑12: Inside Rust's async transform.
2018‑12‑12: Beware Java Attach API.
2018‑12‑12: ATDT relief.
2018‑12‑12: GraphIt: A high-performance graph DSL.
2018‑12‑12: How PowerDNS deals with security vulnerabilities.
2018‑12‑11: The cube rule of food.
2018‑12‑11: A tale of 132 e's on GitHub.
2018‑12‑11: A Unicode BMP codepoint chart.
2018‑12‑11: 20 years of open source Erlang.
2018‑12‑11: Troubleshooting obscure OpenSSH failures due to a broken firewall.
2018‑12‑11: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
2018‑12‑11: Human terrain: visualizing the world's population in 3D.
2018‑12‑11: Bezier moi, Julia.
2018‑12‑11: Seemingly impossible Swift programs.
2018‑12‑11: The Empress of Facebook: a befuddling dinner With Sheryl Sandberg.
2018‑12‑11: The seductive diversion of 'solving' bias in artificial intelligence.
2018‑12‑10: Who ever said no two snowflakes are alike?
2018‑12‑10: jl: turn structured JSON logs into human-readable lines.
2018‑12‑10: Graphing the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words.
2018‑12‑10: Rolling out EC2 Nitro instance types revealed AWS's 1024qps DNS query rate limit.
2018‑12‑10: Atomic clocks on a pair of eccentric Galileo satellites provided the first refinement of gravitational redshift since 1976.
2018‑12‑10: Pave the cowpaths.
2018‑12‑10: Spooky tales of testing in production.
2018‑12‑10: Billionaires are the leading cause of climate change.
2018‑12‑10: Autism from the inside is not the neurotypical cliché.
2018‑12‑09: The computer technology that changed air travel.
2018‑12‑09: Replacing the user story with the job story.
2018‑12‑09: JIRA is an antipattern.
2018‑12‑09: When the allocator works against you: memory fragmentation in Python on glibc.
2018‑12‑09: Fixing a tough memory leak involving C extensions in Python.
2018‑12‑09: The Programming Languages Zoo: miniature languages demonstrating concepts and techniques in design and implementation.
2018‑12‑09: Little languages for elucidating programming language design.
2018‑12‑09: Secrets of smooth Béziers and Euler spirals revealed.
2018‑12‑09: No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology.
2018‑12‑09: The curious tale of ICANN, Verisign, claims of subterfuge, and the $135m .web TLD.
2018‑12‑09: The CRISPR baby scandal gets worse by the day.
2018‑12‑09: Deep-comparing two 5GB JSON files 3x faster with jq.
2018‑12‑09: MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers.
2018‑12‑09: AMD EPYC 7371 aggressive pricing.
2018‑12‑09: Four days trapped at sea with crypto's nouveau riche.
2018‑12‑08: Troubleshooting a connection timeout issue due to tcp_tw_recycle (which should not be used).
2018‑12‑08: Uncomfortable privacy research.
2018‑12‑08: How to recognize fake AI-generated images.
2018‑12‑08: Eels stuck in Hawaiian monk seals' noses baffle scientists.
2018‑12‑08: Early mammals were thought to be small and unseen in the age of dinosaurs. An elephant-sized fossil complicates that story.
2018‑12‑08: Why ratings and feedback forms don't work.
2018‑12‑07: You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast.
2018‑12‑07: Understanding the type of call/cc.
2018‑12‑07: IPv6 in the UK 6 years after World IPv6 day.
2018‑12‑07: How to game Apple's iOS App Store.
2018‑12‑07: HTTPS in the real world.
2018‑12‑07: WALL᛫E | Typeset In The Future
2018‑12‑07: Reverse engineering the ARM1 processor's microinstructions.
2018‑12‑07: Tesla's giant battery saved $40 million during its first year, and cost $66 million to install.
2018‑12‑07: Rust 2018 is here... but what is it?
2018‑12‑07: Killing Microsoft Edge: Making the web worse through capitulation to Google.
2018‑12‑07: Goodbye, EdgeHTML.
2018‑12‑06: The rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
2018‑12‑06: Managing high availability in PostgreSQL with Pacemaker + Corosync + PAF.
2018‑12‑06: GNU Mes 0.17: towards bootstrappable builds for GuixSD.
2018‑12‑06: Bootstrappable builds.
2018‑12‑06: Postgres 12 highlight: DOS prevention.
2018‑12‑06: It's DNS Jim, but not as we know it!
2018‑12‑06: A well-known URL for changing passwords.
2018‑12‑06: A standard web site password change API.
2018‑12‑06: Eight #aabill predictions: consequences of Australia's new spying law.
2018‑12‑06: Anatomy of an AI system.
2018‑12‑06: QUIC and HTTP/3 : Too big to fail?!
2018‑12‑06: Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe.
2018‑12‑06: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Kubernetes apiserver.
2018‑12‑05: Why parking minimums almost destroyed my hometown and how we repealed them.
2018‑12‑05: Unprivileged users with UID > INT_MAX can successfully execute any systemctl command.
2018‑12‑05: How to write a modern C++ library in Rust.
2018‑12‑05: Learning how AI makes decisions.
2018‑12‑05: Our bipolar free-speech disorder and how to fix it.
2018‑12‑05: BT to remove Huawei from 4G infrastructure over security concerns.
2018‑12‑05: Constructive softwre engineering?
2018‑12‑05: The friendship that made Google huge.
2018‑12‑05: What is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS killer.
2018‑12‑05: Samsung used a DSLR photo to fake their phone's "portrait mode".
2018‑12‑05: The modality of mortality in domain names: an in-depth study of domain lifetimes.
2018‑12‑05: DOHA and ZIPPO make forty five dead gTLDs.
2018‑12‑05: ICANN registry agreement termination information page: graveyard of new gTLDs.
2018‑12‑04: A look at CSS resets in 2018.
2018‑12‑04: Single-direction margin declarations in CSS.
2018‑12‑04: PayPal, Square, and big banking's war on the sex industry.
2018‑12‑04: The case for reopening Edinburgh's lost circle line to passengers.
2018‑12‑04: Microsoft is replacing Edge in Windows 10 with a browser based on Google Chromium.
2018‑12‑04: A not-called function can cause a 5x slowdown.
2018‑12‑04: Yak shaving and fixing.
2018‑12‑04: How Facebook is fueling French populist rage.
2018‑12‑04: EverSet ES100 dev kit for receiving WWVB 60kHz new BPSK modulation.
2018‑12‑04: RSS to ActivityPub converter.
2018‑12‑03: Specter: Clojure's missing piece.
2018‑12‑03: Tadashi Tokieda collects maths and physics surprises.
2018‑12‑03: Tumblr will ban all adult content starting December 17th.
2018‑12‑03: Developers on call.
2018‑12‑03: Software sprawl, the golden path, and scaling teams with agency.
2018‑12‑03: Truths programmers should know about character case.
2018‑12‑03: Wiki Creole 1.0 lightweight markup language.
2018‑12‑02: AWS is competing with its customers.
2018‑12‑02: Making the best of MacBook Air touchpad on Ubuntu.
2018‑12‑02: Describe Chinese characters with the Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL).
2018‑12‑02: Portal for the Commodore 64.
2018‑12‑02: Linux Bcachefs status update.
2018‑12‑01: Bed a champion! A training course on urban design.
2018‑12‑01: Decentralizing social interactions with ActivityPub.
2018‑12‑01: Psychology's replication crisis is real, says the Many Labs 2 project.
2018‑12‑01: The world's most efficient languages.
2018‑12‑01: SSH performance.
2018‑12‑01: Falsehoods programmers believe about names, with examples.
2018‑12‑01: The 9 lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: new Cache ATtacks on TLS implementations.
2018‑11‑30: Google tried to patent someone else's work after a job interview.
2018‑11‑30: A crowdfunding customer patented the project they backed.
2018‑11‑30: UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8.
2018‑11‑30: Dynamic configuration at Twitter.
2018‑11‑30: Golang 2, here we come!
2018‑11‑29: Competition is dying, and taking capitalism with it.
2018‑11‑29: Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth, and nobody knows why.
2018‑11‑29: Multi-level MDA-Lite Paris Traceroute.
2018‑11‑29: The baseline costs of JavaScript frameworks.
2018‑11‑29: Amazon's homegrown Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU.
2018‑11‑29: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch: OpenSSL version numbering and licence change.
2018‑11‑29: Secrets of the magus: a profile of Ricky Jay. (1993)
2018‑11‑28: How GitLab spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel.
2018‑11‑28: What's in a Docker image? How to find out.
2018‑11‑28: A perfect storm that brought down LinkedIn.com.
2018‑11‑28: The datacenter as a computer: how Google designs warehouse-scale machines.
2018‑11‑28: A history of Unix man pages.
2018‑11‑28: Why do computers use so much energy?
2018‑11‑28: OpenBGPD: adding diversity to the route server landscape.
2018‑11‑27: What's the time? Measuring computer clocks on the Internet.
2018‑11‑27: How programmable calculators and an sf story brought Soviet teens into the digital age.
2018‑11‑27: Cryptocurrency collapse.
2018‑11‑27: Why women in psychology can't program.
2018‑11‑27: Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie.
2018‑11‑27: Preventing SQL injection with PostgreSQL and Python.
2018‑11‑27: The state of WiFi vs mobile network experience.
2018‑11‑27: Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (a British view).
2018‑11‑27: Is Copenhagen a city of cyclists? (A Dutch view.)
2018‑11‑27: AWS designed ARM processor: Graviton.
2018‑11‑27: Designing headers for HTTP compression (HPACK and QPACK).
2018‑11‑26: Today's JavaScript trash fire and pile on: the flatmap-stream compromise.
2018‑11‑26: The "feel-good" horror of late-stage capitalism.
2018‑11‑26: The power of Web Components.
2018‑11‑26: No cutting corners cutting corners.
2018‑11‑26: Integer overflow and SMT-solvers.
2018‑11‑26: Cuckoo breeding ground: a better cuckoo hash table.
2018‑11‑25: How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request.
2018‑11‑25: Motorists punish helmet-wearing cyclists with close passes, confirms data recrunch.
2018‑11‑25: WebAssembly doesn't make unsafe languages safe (yet).
2018‑11‑25: 5919 default passwords from Open Sez Me!
2018‑11‑25: Why most of America is terrible at making biscuits.
2018‑11‑25: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook.
2018‑11‑25: The Lisp Machines Inc. K-Machine.
2018‑11‑24: Type-safe builders in Kotlin.
2018‑11‑24: NovaSolix hopes to make a 90% efficient solar cell using carbon nanotubes.
2018‑11‑24: Model View Controller isn't.
2018‑11‑24: Tworoutines in Python: easy mixing of synchronous and asynchronous code.
2018‑11‑24: U.S. finally legalizes modern, European-style train cars.
2018‑11‑24: The code hiding on these Madrid security bollards.
2018‑11‑24: How a mysterious tech billionaire created two fortunes and a global software sweatshop.
2018‑11‑24: Enumerating the rationals (without duplication).
2018‑11‑24: Riding the Space Shuttle's solid rocket booster.
2018‑11‑24: Amazing time-lapse video of a rocket launch... seen from space!
2018‑11‑24: '12 Monkeys': why Terry Gilliam's movie is so relevant today.
2018‑11‑24: JavaScript modules.
2018‑11‑23: 6 strange facts about the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua.
2018‑11‑23: Nuisance calls: new UK law provides for company director liability.
2018‑11‑23: Are pop lyrics getting more repetitive?
2018‑11‑23: Twelve steps to enable IPv6 in government and enterprise networks.
2018‑11‑23: Killed by Google: the Google graveyard.
2018‑11‑22: Working on the engines while the plane is flying: eBay's router replacement project.
2018‑11‑21: dav1d AV1 decoder: performance and completion of the first release.
2018‑11‑21: Django core no more.
2018‑11‑21: Undumping TeX.
2018‑11‑21: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler.
2018‑11‑21: Falcon Heavy 1/48 scale model, flight 1. (YouTube)
2018‑11‑21: IBM's future system of the past.
2018‑11‑21: Herding the DNS camel.
2018‑11‑21: PhotoFunia Retro Wave neon 1980s image macro generator.
2018‑11‑21: Compile-time feature flags in Rust.
2018‑11‑21: The brown one, the honey eater, the shaggy coat, the destroyer: names for bears.
2018‑11‑21: Why we should let the Pantheon crack.
2018‑11‑21: Do you even bake, bro? How the Silicon Valley set fell in love with sourdough.
2018‑11‑21: IBM's 1970s future system (FS) project.
2018‑11‑21: A 3270 font in a modern format.
2018‑11‑21: The IBM z14 microprocessor and system control design.
2018‑11‑21: How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good.
2018‑11‑20: 4-year-old fixes a documentation bug in Linux.
2018‑11‑20: Techno-Sublime: a review of Benoit Mandelbrot's autobiography.
2018‑11‑20: Taking out the garbage: GC for GJS, the Gnome Shell SpiderMonkey JavaScript hooks.
2018‑11‑20: Surveillance marketing: Too much personalization can hurt your brand.
2018‑11‑20: Drop-down usability: when you should (and shouldn't) use them.
2018‑11‑19: Italy's olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads.
2018‑11‑19: Post-REST.
2018‑11‑19: Time is Partial: why do distributed consistency models and weak memory models look so similar?
2018‑11‑19: The case against quantum computing.
2018‑11‑19: Facebook, Google, Amazon, railroads, and the collapse of the tech mythology.
2018‑11‑19: The secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces.
2018‑11‑19: Analyzing the GitHub outage.
2018‑11‑19: That time a provider screwed CircleCI: remembering a security breach five years ago.
2018‑11‑18: Windows 10 vs. Linux performance on AMD Threadripper 2990WX.
2018‑11‑18: typed-html: Type checked JSX for Rust.
2018‑11‑18: The invention of the AeroPress.
2018‑11‑18: Unscii: a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics.
2018‑11‑17: Hurts so good: spicy foods and the compelling chemistry of chemesthesis.
2018‑11‑17: Resinferatoxin is so spicy hot it destroys nerve endings - in a good way.
2018‑11‑17: File mtime comparison considered harmful.
2018‑11‑17: As the toffs began to retreat: the decline and fall of Great Britain.
2018‑11‑17: Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life.
2018‑11‑17: Why sleep apnea patients rely on a CPAP machine hacker.
2018‑11‑16: International System of Units overhauled in historic vote at CGPM.
2018‑11‑16: He found the best burger place in America. And then he killed it.
2018‑11‑16: Tips on migrating SQL from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
2018‑11‑16: Bit fields in the Zig programming language.
2018‑11‑16: Fast line-following robots.
2018‑11‑15: Statistical rule of three: how to estimate the chances of something that hasn't happened yet.
2018‑11‑15: The "C" in CSS: a tutorial about the cascade.
2018‑11‑15: How Operation Libero tackled toxic right-wing politics in Switzerland.
2018‑11‑15: The Asus Eee: how close did we come to a Linux desktop?
2018‑11‑15: Period-tracking apps are not for women.
2018‑11‑14: Scaling millions of connections with zero-propagation dynamic DNS.
2018‑11‑14: Zero-cost abstractions in Julia: indexing vectors by name with LabelledArrays.
2018‑11‑14: Experiences with Unix on the Cray X/MP.
2018‑11‑13: Medium is a poor choice for blogging.
2018‑11‑12: The automation charade.
2018‑11‑12: Hello, and welcome to libh2o.
2018‑11‑12: C2x standard revision now in progress.
2018‑11‑12: Distributed consistency at scale: Spanner vs. Calvin.
2018‑11‑12: Hob3l: 100x faster slicing of SCAD files for 3D printing.
2018‑11‑12: Refactoring towards language with Objective C.
2018‑11‑12: The easiest way to debug node.js is with VSCode.
2018‑11‑12: 25th anniversary of NCSA Mosaic 1.0.
2018‑11‑11: TLS: what can go wrong?
2018‑11‑11: HTTP-over-QUIC will be HTTP/3.
2018‑11‑11: Why Intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained.
2018‑11‑11: Some notes on running new software in production.
2018‑11‑11: How bicycles have changed in the last 25 years.
2018‑11‑11: Cross shard transactions at 10 million requests per second.
2018‑11‑11: RocketLab's successful launch in New Zealand brings quick, cheap space access.
2018‑11‑11: iSH: Linux emulator for iOS.
2018‑11‑11: Should you use www or not in your web site host name?
2018‑11‑11: Exploiting coroutines to reduce cache miss latency "killer nanoseconds".
2018‑11‑10: The semiconductor industry and economic growth theory.
2018‑11‑10: Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking.
2018‑11‑09: Against software development.
2018‑11‑09: Deliveroo's data shows cyclists are faster in cities than cars and motorbikes.
2018‑11‑09: Introducing Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang.
2018‑11‑09: A history of the sentence "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
2018‑11‑09: Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest.
2018‑11‑09: GitHub reaches 100 million repositories.
2018‑11‑09: Haskell type checker complaint 184 of 698.
2018‑11‑07: Profiling: the case of the missing milliseconds.
2018‑11‑07: Donut math: how donut.c works.
2018‑11‑07: Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by 99%.
2018‑11‑07: On dealing with owning and borrowing in public interfaces in Rust.
2018‑11‑07: Interprocedural borrow conflicts in Rust.
2018‑11‑07: .brand TLD observatory.
2018‑11‑06: SideTrail: verifying time-balancing countermeasures against side-channel attacks against cryptosystems.
2018‑11‑06: AMD announces 64-core 7nm Rome CPUs, 7nm MI60 GPUs, and Zen 4.
2018‑11‑06: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition.
2018‑11‑06: The copyleft bust up.
2018‑11‑06: British underground utility colour codes explained.
2018‑11‑06: Colorful language: decoding utility markings spray-painted on city streets.
2018‑11‑06: SF writer Greg Egan and anonymous 4chan poster advance permutation problem.
2018‑11‑06: Performance of SMT solving on an iPhone.
2018‑11‑05: Julia: dynamism and performance reconciled by design.
2018‑11‑05: Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs).
2018‑11‑05: Who called 1688 a "Glorious Revolution"?
2018‑11‑05: Envoy proxy and gRPC-web: a fresh new alternative to REST.
2018‑11‑05: Deadlines, lies and videotape: The tale of a gRPC bug.
2018‑11‑05: Impact of daylight saving time on the clinical laboratory.
2018‑11‑05: Epic fail: daylight saving time stumps hospital record keeping.
2018‑11‑05: When Unix time was measured in 1/60 second ticks.
2018‑11‑05: The origin of C's cast operator.
2018‑11‑05: 6502 programming language Implementation survey.
2018‑11‑05: A Google Books OCR cliche: into his/her anus.
2018‑11‑04: AI ethics, impossibility theorems, and tradeoffs.
2018‑11‑04: How managers can decide which data science projects to pursue.
2018‑11‑04: How to manage connections efficiently in Postgres.
2018‑11‑02: ExploderBot: a slow-drip DDoS attack system.
2018‑11‑01: Why pencils are yellow.
2018‑11‑01: sdns: Golang recursive DNS server with DNSSEC support.
2018‑10‑31: Apple XNU kernel RCE vulnerability due to buffer overflow in ICMP packet handling. (CVE-2018-4407)
2018‑10‑31: The evolution of character codes, 1874-1968.
2018‑10‑31: Analyzing the root DNSSEC key rollover.
2018‑10‑31: The recent root DNSSEC key rollover: summary and next steps.
2018‑10‑31: Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking.
2018‑10‑30: GitHub October 21 post-incident analysis.
2018‑10‑30: Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia.
2018‑10‑30: Post-mortem: helium leak from MRI disables every iOS device in facility.
2018‑10‑30: Ira Magaziner's view of ICANN's creation.
2018‑10‑29: Chocolate has a origin 1500 years earlier than we thought.
2018‑10‑29: Honeycomb.io postmortem: RDS clogs and cache-refresh crash loops.
2018‑10‑29: Atlassian incident management handbook.
2018‑10‑29: To err is human: mistakes and slips in skydiving and other disciplines.
2018‑10‑29: The core practical problems with HiDPI on Linux.
2018‑10‑29: HiDPI on dual 4K monitors with Linux.
2018‑10‑29: Exploring C semantics and pointer provenance.
2018‑10‑29: Ten platform commandments.
2018‑10‑29: Status page updates: It's all about timing.
2018‑10‑28: IBM nears deal to acquire Red Hat.
2018‑10‑28: One Windows kernel.
2018‑10‑28: Why logical clocks are easy.
2018‑10‑27: Windows Defender Antivirus can now run in a sandbox.
2018‑10‑27: Legal curiosities: fact or fable?
2018‑10‑27: Systemd is bad parsing DHCPv6 packets and its programmers should feel bad.
2018‑10‑26: Proposal: Golang 2 transition.
2018‑10‑26: Detecting Agile BS.
2018‑10‑26: A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V.
2018‑10‑26: RobinHood tail latency aware caching: dynamic reallocation from cache-rich to cache-poor.
2018‑10‑26: The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous.
2018‑10‑26: From the endpoint to the cloud: Joanna Rutkowska says goodbye to Qubes OS.
2018‑10‑25: MongoDB's Server Side Public License is likely unenforceable.
2018‑10‑25: US copyright office ruling imposes sweeping right-to-repair reforms.
2018‑10‑25: What application developers should know about leap seconds on Windows 10.
2018‑10‑25: A mini biography of Sidney Darlington.
2018‑10‑25: Stardate 5928.5. USS Enterprise monthly catchup meeting with DS9.
2018‑10‑25: Investigating the implausible Bloomberg Supermicro stories.
2018‑10‑25: Bitcoin must die.
2018‑10‑24: Yelp production engineering documentation style guide.
2018‑10‑24: Rust has higher kinded types already, but only sinners can use them.
2018‑10‑24: Towards fearless SIMD.
2018‑10‑24: .br DNSSEC algorithm rollover report.
2018‑10‑24: Drivers wildly overestimate what "semiautonomous" cars can do.
2018‑10‑24: The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture.
2018‑10‑24: Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion-dollar ad fraud scheme.
2018‑10‑24: Consolidation, centralisation, and the Internet architecture.
2018‑10‑24: Why did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
2018‑10‑24: A fast, reliable cuckoo hash table for Node.js.
2018‑10‑23: An alternative history of Silicon Valley disruption.
2018‑10‑23: LLVM on SVN to GitHub migration.
2018‑10‑23: Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?
2018‑10‑23: Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin.
2018‑10‑23: Hexagonal Architecture: three principles and an implementation example.
2018‑10‑23: Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables.
2018‑10‑23: Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 October 2018 Update implement leap seconds in a UTC-compliant manner.
2018‑10‑23: Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time.
2018‑10‑23: PrEP is stopping HIV in Sydney, a world-first study shows.
2018‑10‑22: WebAssembly's post-MVP future.
2018‑10‑22: Superpermutations.
2018‑10‑22: First-class automatic differentiation in Swift: a manifesto.
2018‑10‑22: Intel kills off its 10nm process.
2018‑10‑22: Facebook is now adding "fbclid" surveillance parameters to outbound links.
2018‑10‑22: RISC OS relicensed under Apache 2.0.
2018‑10‑22: Pronouncing SQL: "S-Q-L" or "sequel"?
2018‑10‑22: Uptime Institute standards for data centre design.
2018‑10‑22: LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation.
2018‑10‑22: Parsing Timeline version 3.1.
2018‑10‑22: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others. You'll never guess what happens next.
2018‑10‑21: The indefatigable efforts of J. M. Keynes.
2018‑10‑21: Oral tradition: the oldest true stories in the world.
2018‑10‑21: Basic features that will hopefully return to the MacBook Pro.
2018‑10‑21: Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge.
2018‑10‑21: Massachusetts gas explosions: Another technological tragedy.
2018‑10‑21: Alzheimer's disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause.
2018‑10‑21: Pando, the most massive organism on Earth, Is shrinking.
2018‑10‑21: Inside the poisonous British fight over transgender acceptance.
2018‑10‑21: So you want to open a small press bookstore / artist-run space?
2018‑10‑20: Did Uber steal Google's intellectual property?
2018‑10‑20: The elegance of deflate (zlib).
2018‑10‑20: It's not a bug, it's a feature.
2018‑10‑20: The future's so bright, I gotta wear blinders.
2018‑10‑20: Notes on type layouts and ABIs in Rust.
2018‑10‑20: JavaScript fat arrow functions: how, why, when, and when not to use them.
2018‑10‑20: The illustrated TLS connection: every byte explained.
2018‑10‑20: Encrypted SNI comes to Firefox Nightly.
2018‑10‑19: Let's talk about PAKE: password authenticated key exchange.
2018‑10‑19: (Semi-)plausible strategies for moving a whole damn planet.
2018‑10‑19: Flight rules for git.
2018‑10‑19: Exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars is unlike what we see in our own system.
2018‑10‑19: Fold N Fly paper aeroplane designs.
2018‑10‑19: Orca: differential bug localization in large-scale services.
2018‑10‑19: Looking back at 20 years of ICANN.
2018‑10‑18: Ada Lovelace day: important type theory researchers to follow.
2018‑10‑18: Did Facebook's faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
2018‑10‑17: REPT: reverse debugging of failures in deployed software on Windows.
2018‑10‑17: Bankruptcy and destitution is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously.
2018‑10‑17: Accessibility Cheatsheet: practical approaches to universal design.
2018‑10‑17: MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ: design patterns for avoiding modal popups.
2018‑10‑15: GitLab.com stability and performance after migration from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud.
2018‑10‑15: A batpoo-eating pitcher plant.
2018‑10‑14: The reason we have not detected dark matter.
2018‑10‑13: DOH! An overview of DNS-over-HTTPS.
2018‑10‑12: Vector space model: the most influential paper Gerard Salton never wrote.
2018‑10‑12: Oil droplets guided by "pilot waves" have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment.
2018‑10‑12: Asterisks in Python: what they are and how to use them.
2018‑10‑12: Deduplicating files in Public Git Archive.
2018‑10‑11: Uncoiling the spiral: Maths, hallucinations, and patterns in fur.
2018‑10‑11: Fastly Debug connection diagnostics.
2018‑10‑11: Dropbox Debug connection diagnostics.
2018‑10‑11: GitHub Debug connection diagnostics.
2018‑10‑11: Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network.
2018‑10‑10: How a fraudster got $12 million out of a Canadian university: spear phishing.
2018‑10‑10: sql-indent.el: Syntax based indentation for SQL in GNU Emacs.
2018‑10‑10: Protobuffers are wrong.
2018‑10‑10: Helium leak from MRI disabled all Apple devices in the facility.
2018‑10‑10: Rust has a static garbage collector.
2018‑10‑10: Secrets in serverless functions.
2018‑10‑10: Who is stealing my power? An ad network case study.
2018‑10‑10: pgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier.
2018‑10‑10: A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety.
2018‑10‑10: Web advertising, where your data is traded in the time it takes to click.
2018‑10‑10: Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust.
2018‑10‑10: Despite proposed solutions, DNS security issues remain.
2018‑10‑10: 12 factor CLI apps.
2018‑10‑09: Rust RAII is better than Haskell's bracket pattern.
2018‑10‑09: Reified generics: the search for a cure.
2018‑10‑09: Biscuit: a research OS written in Golang.
2018‑10‑09: The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in Golang.
2018‑10‑08: The truth about traditional JavaScript benchmarks.
2018‑10‑08: bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux: source code now available.
2018‑10‑08: Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast.
2018‑10‑08: How newline characters affect Linux kernel performance.
2018‑10‑08: Google+ to shut down after coverup of data-exposing bug.
2018‑10‑08: The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn online payments startup.
2018‑10‑08: SRE: the biggest lie since Kanban?
2018‑10‑08: detect-secrets: prevent new secrets from being committed, and gradually eliminate old ones.
2018‑10‑08: Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 update after reports of documents being deleted.
2018‑10‑08: Perl 5 static analysis: how to hide errors in macros.
2018‑10‑07: A classification of comments in code.
2018‑10‑06: The Python Unicode mess.
2018‑10‑06: How blind players succeed at sports video games they've never seen.
2018‑10‑06: The $250 biohack that's revolutionizing life with diabetes.
2018‑10‑06: A journey into the heart of bragging: 17 modes of showing off.
2018‑10‑05: How Etsy localizes addresses.
2018‑10‑05: Making sense of the Supermicro motherboard attack.
2018‑10‑05: Peeking behind the curtains of serverless platforms.
2018‑10‑05: Do you really know CORS?
2018‑10‑05: Ubuntu Linux performance over the past six years on an Intel Xeon server.
2018‑10‑04: Sans Forgetica: a font designed to help you remember your study notes.
2018‑10‑04: Bloomberg's 'The Big Hack'.
2018‑10‑04: The Big Hack: how China used a tiny chip to infiltrate American companies.
2018‑10‑04: TLS token-binding standard gains a foothold on the Web.
2018‑10‑04: Bagpiper: decentralized secret management at Airbnb.
2018‑10‑04: How Dropbox rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever.
2018‑10‑03: The mystery of the continuously functioning battery from 1840.
2018‑10‑03: Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work? (YouTube)
2018‑10‑03: The rise of Netflix competitors pushed consumers back toward piracy.
2018‑10‑03: Intel ME Manufacturing Mode and Apple MacBook vulnerability CVE-2018-4251.
2018‑10‑03: A history of .NET runtimes.
2018‑10‑03: Arm offers free-as-in-beer Cortex IP for Xilinx FPGAs.
2018‑10‑03: The remarkable persistence of 24x36mm.
2018‑10‑03: Why are enterprises so slow?
2018‑10‑03: Kubernetes: a surprisingly affordable platform for personal projects.
2018‑10‑03: When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?
2018‑10‑03: How cyber attackers stole £2.26m from Tesco Bank customers.
2018‑10‑02: The art of DNS subdomain enumeration.
2018‑10‑02: What the heck is going on with measures of programming language popularity?
2018‑10‑02: Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology.
2018‑10‑02: Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoder.
2018‑10‑01: Think globally, act local-ly: restoring environment variables for a subprocess in Perl.
2018‑10‑01: Rethinking Netflix's edge load balancing.
2018‑10‑01: Reimagining of Schrödinger's cat breaks quantum mechanics, and stumps physicists.
2018‑10‑01: UK telecomms access hatch covers.
2018‑10‑01: What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?
2018‑09‑30: NanoLog: high performance nanosecond scale logging system for C++ with a printf-like API.
2018‑09‑30: Peter Flynn set up the first web server in Ireland, and caused the first broken link 404 error.
2018‑09‑30: Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws.
2018‑09‑29: Tesla big battery defies skeptics, sends industry bananas over performance.
2018‑09‑29: State of memory safety in Linux.
2018‑09‑29: How 50 million Facebook accounts were hacked.
2018‑09‑29: Innocent until proven guilty / believe the plaintiff.
2018‑09‑29: Rust collections case study: BTreeMap.
2018‑09‑29: The relative performance of C and Rust: AVL tree vs B-tree.
2018‑09‑28: Building Raspberry Pi systems with Yocto.
2018‑09‑28: How to visualize decision trees.
2018‑09‑27: Bizarre particles keep flying up out of Antarctica's ice, and they don't fit the Standard Model.
2018‑09‑26: Why scatter plots suggest causality, and how diamond plots can compensate.
2018‑09‑26: How to build a LOW←TECH solar-powered web site.
2018‑09‑26: Deploying anycast DNS using OpenBSD and BGP.
2018‑09‑26: ARIN routing security deployment stymied by legal restrictions on trust anchor distribution.
2018‑09‑26: What I learned about trash collection from a Taipei alley.
2018‑09‑25: The sorry state of TLS security in enterprise interception appliances.
2018‑09‑25: Although many thought Koko the ape used sign language, science tells us that probably wasn't really true.
2018‑09‑25: Which countries are most resilient to a tier 1 Internet provider failure?
2018‑09‑25: Build systems à la carte.
2018‑09‑25: Taking algorithms to court: current strategies for litigating government use of algorithmic decision-making (in the USA).
2018‑09‑25: Review of the system failure that led to the 2018 tax day IRS outage.
2018‑09‑25: Am I logged in or not? GDPR and the Google Chrome browser sync change.
2018‑09‑24: Computer scientists close in on a proof of the Unique Games conjecture.
2018‑09‑24: Inside a demo of NSO Group's powerful iPhone malware.
2018‑09‑23: Instagram is the unlikely savior of concrete Brutalist architecture.
2018‑09‑23: PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone.
2018‑09‑23: Qualcomm's bid to chase Intel in servers fell victim to Broadcom.
2018‑09‑23: Common cyborg.
2018‑09‑22: A mathematical pattern that fails after about 10^43 examples.
2018‑09‑22: How the GNU coreutils are tested.
2018‑09‑21: NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and Google Spanner is to blame.
2018‑09‑21: Writing documentation when you aren't a technical writer.
2018‑09‑21: Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua.
2018‑09‑21: Core Coroutines: making C++ coroutines simpler, faster, and more general.
2018‑09‑21: Whatever happened to the semantic web?
2018‑09‑21: The Open Graph protocol: web page metadata for Facebook.
2018‑09‑21: How to create a Twitter card.
2018‑09‑21: Titans of mathematics clash over epic "proof" of the ABC conjecture.
2018‑09‑20: Why aren't users more happy with programming language JIT VMs?
2018‑09‑20: Persistent DNS connections for reliability and performance.
2018‑09‑19: Javascript: call functions without using parentheses, Lua style.
2018‑09‑19: Scaling AFL to a 256 thread machine.
2018‑09‑19: ICANN board approval of the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2018‑09‑18: Why mathematicians can't find the hay in a haystack.
2018‑09‑18: How to kill your tech industry: British computing after the war.
2018‑09‑18: Ruby's Hashes and Perl's Autovivification, in JavaScript.
2018‑09‑18: DDoS attacks on colleges and universities: who, when and why?
2018‑09‑18: Apple and Firefox aim to thwart Facebook and Google tracking.
2018‑09‑18: What really happened to Apple's AirPower.
2018‑09‑18: RIPE's DNSSEC signer migration.
2018‑09‑17: Writers' HQ privacy policy.
2018‑09‑17: Good and Mad: American women are furious; politics and culture will never be the same.
2018‑09‑17: Tim Hayward's grilled cheese sandwich.
2018‑09‑17: Bitslicing: an introduction.
2018‑09‑17: Bring back the shadows: the case against HDR.
2018‑09‑17: A summary of the draft EU directive that might abolish DST next year.
2018‑09‑16: GT Zirkon: a sans-serif font with an animated website.
2018‑09‑16: The next ten billion years.
2018‑09‑16: The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world.
2018‑09‑15: The strange history of Myers-Briggs personality tests.
2018‑09‑15: Most of the Daily Mail's 'commentors' don't even exist.
2018‑09‑15: What most remote work companies don't tell you about remote work.
2018‑09‑15: The five levels of logging.
2018‑09‑15: XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress.
2018‑09‑15: The widely divergent life expectancy in every county in the USA.
2018‑09‑15: We're measuring the economy all wrong.
2018‑09‑15: Handling the iPhone notch in CSS.
2018‑09‑15: Making a hash of things: changing the comment character in git commit messages.
2018‑09‑14: Golang and algebraic data types.
2018‑09‑14: How the Weather Channel made that awesome Hurricane Florence storm surge animation.
2018‑09‑14: If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double check the time.
2018‑09‑14: A discussion of local time in Ethiopia, where 12:00 is dawn.
2018‑09‑13: On recipes as software, and empathy for the user.
2018‑09‑13: The factorization of RSA230.
2018‑09‑13: A cartogram of world population in 2018.
2018‑09‑13: YANG alarms.
2018‑09‑13: UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark ECHR judgment.
2018‑09‑13: European Commission proposes ending DST in March 2019.
2018‑09‑13: How we found a missing Scala class.
2018‑09‑13: HHVM ends PHP support; Facebook's Hack language will rapidly break compatibility.
2018‑09‑13: What the GlobalFoundries retreat really means.
2018‑09‑12: Adventures in Rust: DNS lookups with futures and Tokio.
2018‑09‑12: Parallelizing PNG: choosing Rust for `mtpng`.
2018‑09‑12: Let's Encrypt at scale, for 3000+ web sites at AutoTrader.
2018‑09‑12: How to generate SSL certificates for custom domains using Let's Encrypt, OpenResty, nginx, and Lua.
2018‑09‑12: Writing a simple SQL interpreter in Julia.
2018‑09‑12: Brendan Eich's Brave browser files GDPR complaint against Google's adtech.
2018‑09‑12: Hashicorp Vault: why we need dynamic secrets.
2018‑09‑12: A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners.
2018‑09‑12: The British Airways breach: how Magecart claimed 380,000 victims.
2018‑09‑12: Pigeon Maps: ReactJS maps without external dependencies.
2018‑09‑11: The effectiveness of publicly shaming bad security (after private reports fall on deaf ears).
2018‑09‑11: The "developer experience" bait-and-switch: JavaScript is the web's greenhouse gas.
2018‑09‑11: PostgreSQL 11 JIT compilation of queries.
2018‑09‑11: An IPv6 update: how APNIC measures the Internet.
2018‑09‑11: Measuring information in millibytes
2018‑09‑11: Elegy for Larrabee: autovectorization is not a programming model.
2018‑09‑11: OpenSSL-1.1.1 released.
2018‑09‑11: DoT and DoH: it's DNS, Jim, but not as we know it!
2018‑09‑10: Why big companies squander good ideas.
2018‑09‑10: Fast, furious, and insecure: hacking passive keyless entry and start in the Tesla model S.
2018‑09‑10: Spoofing DNS with IP fragments.
2018‑09‑10: A23D: a 3D-printed letterpress font.
2018‑09‑10: Highlights from Git 2.19.
2018‑09‑10: `git log --follow` over-enthusiastically tracks empty files.
2018‑09‑10: The first 15 years of PyPy: a personal retrospective.
2018‑09‑10: Starting an Internet service provider, part 2: deploying fiber.
2018‑09‑10: libcurl gets a URL parser API.
2018‑09‑10: Why Rust closures are (somewhat) hard.
2018‑09‑10: An introduction to inline classes in Kotlin.
2018‑09‑10: Why can't apes talk? Considering primate speech.
2018‑09‑10: UK's worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440.
2018‑09‑10: Future directions for optimizing compilers.
2018‑09‑10: Things you probably don't want on your [airline] website's payment pages.
2018‑09‑09: On compositionality.
2018‑09‑09: The two dualities of computation: negative and fractional algebraic data types.
2018‑09‑09: The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types.
2018‑09‑09: xsv: a CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
2018‑09‑09: Java 11: Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK.
2018‑09‑09: 5 mistakes C/C++ devs make writing Golang.
2018‑09‑09: 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn't.
2018‑09‑09: DNS-over-TLS: thoughts and implementation.
2018‑09‑09: First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
2018‑09‑08: Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials.
2018‑09‑08: Quarternions: the strange numbers that birthed modern algebra.
2018‑09‑08: ripgrep 0.10.0 with pcre support.
2018‑09‑08: Zero overhead deterministic failure: a proposed mechanism for C and C++.
2018‑09‑07: SQL style guide.
2018‑09‑07: TLS session resumption allows Google and Facebook to track you without cookies.
2018‑09‑07: Keybase's browser extension exposes decrypted messages to third party web sites.
2018‑09‑07: Golang says WAT?
2018‑09‑07: The mysterious case of Chrome's hidden URLs and Google's AMP.
2018‑09‑07: The new science of seeing around corners.
2018‑09‑07: The monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook.
2018‑09‑07: How gRPC uses HTTP/2.
2018‑09‑07: How the Golang runtime implements maps efficiently (without generics).
2018‑09‑07: Google AMP can go to hell.
2018‑09‑07: Google wants to kill the URL.
2018‑09‑07: Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate.
2018‑09‑07: How we massively reduced our AWS Lambda bill with Golang.
2018‑09‑07: Best practices for mobile form design.
2018‑09‑07: Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a Python multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks.
2018‑09‑07: cOAlition S: a European initiative for full and immediate Open Access to research publications.
2018‑09‑07: Radical open-access plan could spell end to academic journal subscriptions.
2018‑09‑07: Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code.
2018‑09‑06: Upgrading PostgreSQL 10 to 11 using logical replication.
2018‑09‑06: Tealemetry: an IoT tea coaster and thermometer.
2018‑09‑06: What drives IPv6 deployment?
2018‑09‑06: Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses.
2018‑09‑05: Political sextant.
2018‑09‑05: Electromagnetic Field hacker camp featured open source phones as badges and DIY IMSI catchers.
2018‑09‑05: A Rust pattern: iterating over an Rc<Vec<T>>.
2018‑09‑05: The history of a security hole in OpenBSD on i386.
2018‑09‑05: Function poisoning in C++ with gcc.
2018‑09‑05: On Firefox moving DNS to a third party.
2018‑09‑05: Diffy: a server comparison engine for digital forensics in the cloud.
2018‑09‑05: A tour of the Golang memory allocator and garbage collector.
2018‑09‑05: Convergence of AIX and 4.3BSD.
2018‑09‑05: uvm: a BSD virtual memory system.
2018‑09‑05: Java's new Z Garbage Collector (ZGC).
2018‑09‑05: Burroughs B5500 emulator.
2018‑09‑04: Notes on Ousterhout's "Philosophy of Software Design".
2018‑09‑04: A bug story: data alignment in C on x86.
2018‑09‑04: On-site group chat alternatives to HipChat or Slack.
2018‑09‑04: Hysteria was not treated with vibrators.
2018‑09‑03: A critique of resizable distributed hash tables: Riak Core vs random slicing.
2018‑09‑03: Doom II's final secret has been found, after 24 years.
2018‑09‑03: zombodb: allow Postgres to use Elasticsearch as an index provider.
2018‑09‑03: I don't want to learn your garbage query language.
2018‑09‑03: BBC Horizon documentary: a week without lying, the honesty experiment.
2018‑09‑03: SonarSnoop: active acoustic side-channel attacks against smartphone unlock codes.
2018‑09‑03: Optical TEMPEST: progress since 2002.
2018‑09‑03: Tips for making video walls using Matrox C-series graphics cards.
2018‑09‑03: ParseDMARC: open source DMARC report analyzer and visualizer.
2018‑09‑03: ICANN's guide on what to expect during the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2018‑09‑03: Relativistic quantum chemistry: why gold is yellow and mercury is liquid.
2018‑09‑02: Anycast TCP.
2018‑09‑02: A story about tracking down TCP RSTs.
2018‑09‑02: Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system.
2018‑09‑01: Zero-copy deserialization in Julia.
2018‑08‑31: Can Beethoven send copyright takedown requests?
2018‑08‑31: Shifting solid bulk cargoes: an explanation of the process and dangers.
2018‑08‑31: The abelian sandpile model.
2018‑08‑31: The ships that sink due to solid bulk cargo liquefaction.
2018‑08‑31: LeBron James's tattoos at issue in a copyright lawsuit.
2018‑08‑31: On the worst-case complexity of TimSort.
2018‑08‑31: C considered dangerous: mitigations in the Linux kernel.
2018‑08‑31: The performance cost of Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow mitigations on Linux 4.19.
2018‑08‑30: Life-size drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron.
2018‑08‑30: Firefox in-page pop-up reporter.
2018‑08‑30: Linux kernel developer criticizes Intel's Meltdown bug secrecy.
2018‑08‑30: Firefox Nightly DNS-over-HTTPS experimental results.
2018‑08‑30: In the near future, Firefox will - by default - protect users by blocking tracking.
2018‑08‑29: This Tudor London map overlay is marvelous.
2018‑08‑29: Miami's other water problems.
2018‑08‑29: Lazy sequences in Swift and how they work.
2018‑08‑29: Awesome and crazy Kotlin examples.
2018‑08‑29: Surety, the world's oldest blockchain, has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995.
2018‑08‑29: DarkRISCV: opensouce RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night!
2018‑08‑29: Postgres 11 has fast column creation with defaults.
2018‑08‑29: hardened_malloc: an experimental hardened allocator in a very early stage of development.
2018‑08‑28: Tide: TypeScript interactive development environment for Emacs.
2018‑08‑28: RedHat and SUSE withdraw support for OpenLDAP.
2018‑08‑28: Goodbye VSCode, hello Emacs (again).
2018‑08‑28: A new Linux kernel AIO polling interface.
2018‑08‑28: Why U.S. corporate boards don't include workers.
2018‑08‑28: GlobalFoundries stops all 7nm development, instead focuses on specialized processes.
2018‑08‑28: wideNES: peeking past the edge of NES games.
2018‑08‑28: The rise of dismal sf: to understand our economic system, we need speculative stories.
2018‑08‑28: Spectrum of possibilities: a GUI color guide.
2018‑08‑28: How Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and others are contributing to OpenStreetMap.
2018‑08‑28: Fixing slow MacBook WiFi reconnect after sleep.
2018‑08‑28: From PFI to privatisation, our national accounting rules encourage daft decisions. It's time to change them.
2018‑08‑27: Stop telling women how they should talk.
2018‑08‑27: Why did Prolog lose steam?
2018‑08‑27: Real world write loads and SSD wearout.
2018‑08‑27: VSCodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing.
2018‑08‑26: Women's pockets are inferior.
2018‑08‑26: Emoji: in the beginning.
2018‑08‑26: A satellite engineer explains the challenges of space electronics.
2018‑08‑26: The how and why of the design of the Lucida fonts.
2018‑08‑26: The paradox of Karl Popper.
2018‑08‑26: The Great Barrier Reef is headed for 'massive death'.
2018‑08‑26: The illegal ramen vendors of postwar Tokyo.
2018‑08‑26: Swan sanctuary says bread is good for wildfowl.
2018‑08‑26: How the Netherlands feeds the world.
2018‑08‑26: There's no room in the Room of My Own.
2018‑08‑26: The origins of opera and the future of programming.
2018‑08‑26: The worst stories from a decade-plus of Ask A Manager.
2018‑08‑26: Patterns for authentication in the CDN.
2018‑08‑25: The sugar conspiracy.
2018‑08‑25: quicktype: generate types and converters from JSON, Schema, and GraphQL.
2018‑08‑25: Lessons from JupyterCon.
2018‑08‑25: Four ways that Internet ex-idealists explain where it all went wrong.
2018‑08‑25: AT commands: attacking Android phones using modem control sequences over USB.
2018‑08‑25: Zork: how to fit a large program in a small machine.
2018‑08‑24: Firefox's :screenshot command.
2018‑08‑24: The rise and rise of JSON.
2018‑08‑24: Eerie skyglow called 'Steve' isn't an aurora, Is 'completely unknown' to science.
2018‑08‑23: The war over supercooled water: a seven year scientific dispute caused by a coding error.
2018‑08‑22: Home Assistant: open source home automation with Python.
2018‑08‑22: Kubernetes anti-patterns: let's do GitOps, not CIOps!
2018‑08‑22: GitOps: a path to more self-service IT.
2018‑08‑22: Automatic code formatting for partially-staged files in git.
2018‑08‑22: Sex, religion, and a towering treatise on anatomy.
2018‑08‑22: Orkney tidal turbine generating 'phenomenal result'.
2018‑08‑22: New attack recovers RSA encryption keys from EM waves within seconds.
2018‑08‑22: Why are record companies dumping their Spotify stock?
2018‑08‑22: The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business.
2018‑08‑22: Picycle: donate your unused Raspberry Pi for scientific research.
2018‑08‑22: Many more Ghostscript security vulnerabilities.
2018‑08‑22: The first million integers, represented as binary vectors of prime factors, laid out using the UMAP dimensionality reduction algorithm.
2018‑08‑22: Google's voracious data collection.
2018‑08‑22: The Packard Merlin: how Detroit mass-produced Britain's hand-built powerhouse.
2018‑08‑21: A galactic visualization of the prime factors of the first million numbers.
2018‑08‑21: On the iron law of megaprojects, the break-fix model of management, survival of the unfittest, and more.
2018‑08‑21: Fast multiplication with slow additions.
2018‑08‑21: Live map of London Underground trains.
2018‑08‑20: Catching integer overflows in C.
2018‑08‑20: High school students learning programming do better with block-based languages.
2018‑08‑20: DNSSEC and DNS over TLS.
2018‑08‑20: Performance of ranged accesses into arrays: modulo, multiply-shift, and masks.
2018‑08‑20: Hacking a brand new Mac remotely, right out of the box, using the device enrolment program.
2018‑08‑20: A visual guide to git.
2018‑08‑20: Singularity of Origin: a tool to perform DNS rebinding attacks.
2018‑08‑20: Propagation of error: approving citations of retracted papers.
2018‑08‑19: MATLAB is a terrible programming language.
2018‑08‑19: An introduction to Golang modules.
2018‑08‑19: One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel.
2018‑08‑19: Pseudo constant time implementations ofTLS are only pseudo secure.
2018‑08‑19: Directional freezing: a method for making clear ice.
2018‑08‑19: Tobacco cocktails are a terrible idea.
2018‑08‑18: Advice for data organization in spreadsheets.
2018‑08‑18: John Conway's method for walking up stairs.
2018‑08‑18: The T programming language: an early dialect of Scheme.
2018‑08‑18: The Ramsey sweep: mark/sweep garbage collection in time proportional to the live data, not heap size.
2018‑08‑18: Samba DNS problems with DNAME records and large replies.
2018‑08‑18: Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust.
2018‑08‑17: Battery breakthrough: Doubling performance with lithium metal that doesn't catch fire.
2018‑08‑17: Caveat troglodytarum: how to deal with patent trolls.
2018‑08‑17: Working at Superior Software in Leeds in the 1980s.
2018‑08‑17: A sound card before its time.
2018‑08‑17: 24-core CPU and I can't type an email: Google Chrome performance debugging.
2018‑08‑17: Secure Socket API: an easy-to-use TLS extension to BSD sockets.
2018‑08‑17: Introducing the Windows pseudo console (ConPTY).
2018‑08‑17: Who left open the cookie jar?
2018‑08‑17: Who is answering my queries? Understanding and characterizing interception of the DNS resolution path.
2018‑08‑17: How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times.
2018‑08‑16: BARR-C:2018 embedded C coding standard, harmonized with MISRA C 2012.
2018‑08‑16: Are patent claims coming for your WS2812 Neopixels?
2018‑08‑16: FastLED: an animation library for Arduino.
2018‑08‑16: Pixelblaze V2: an advanced LED pattern development engine and controller.
2018‑08‑15: Sequences, sequences, and sequences: Fred Sanger's academic autobiography.
2018‑08‑15: Scientists discover how to make schwartzite (negatively curved carbon sheets) after decades of searching.
2018‑08‑15: The "server-process-edition" branch of SQLite.
2018‑08‑15: Strongly universal string hashing is fast.
2018‑08‑15: Not on your life: six means of sf transportation I would not use.
2018‑08‑15: Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior.
2018‑08‑15: Meltdown strikes back: the Intel L1 terminal fault (L1TF / Foreshadow) vulnerability.
2018‑08‑15: Diagnosing a weak memory ordering bug.
2018‑08‑15: Passive observations of a large DNS service.
2018‑08‑15: Open Journal Systems: open-source academic journal publishing software.
2018‑08‑15: Fastly's response to the SegmentSmack vulnerability.
2018‑08‑14: If quantum computers are not possible, why are classical computers possible?
2018‑08‑14: Can you break a stick of spaghetti into just two pieces? Yes! (With a twist.)
2018‑08‑14: Protecting against the new "L1TF" speculative vulnerabilities.
2018‑08‑14: Foreshadow: breaking Intel's virtual memory abstraction with transient out-of-order execution.
2018‑08‑14: Dijkstra's in disguise.
2018‑08‑14: The 10:1 rule of work:output in writing and programming.
2018‑08‑14: Faxploit: compromising a network via an all-in-one printer's POTS fax line.
2018‑08‑13: The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users.
2018‑08‑13: Celebrating 10 years of BGP routing insecurity.
2018‑08‑13: An overview of the BBC's work on TV over IP with optional multicast.
2018‑08‑13: What do I need to know about the "SegmentSmack" TCP reassembly DoS attack?
2018‑08‑12: The evolution of LED backlights for LCDs.
2018‑08‑12: USA temperature charts: can I sucker you?
2018‑08‑12: Dismantling the USS Enterprise: The US Navy has never disposed of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier before.
2018‑08‑12: What the fuck is the "edge"?
2018‑08‑10: DNS: A look back at a look back from 1988.
2018‑08‑10: Which cryptographic attack deserves to win the 2018 Pwnie?
2018‑08‑10: µUBSan: a clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime.
2018‑08‑10: Smoking around the world.
2018‑08‑10: Rosenbridge: a hardware backdoor in VIA C3 x86 processors.
2018‑08‑09: Julia 1.0
2018‑08‑09: Airtime for Hitler on BBC.
2018‑08‑09: An ingenious but failed BMW theft attempt.
2018‑08‑09: "What have we done?" Silicon Valley engineers fear the gig economy they have created is a monster.
2018‑08‑09: Dark energy may be incompatible with string theory.
2018‑08‑09: How to crash a node.js email server with a single message.
2018‑08‑09: In search of a bigger boom: multi-stage thermonuclear hydrogen bombs.
2018‑08‑09: On Beavers, nature's perfect analogy for Silicon Valley tech.
2018‑08‑09: Systemd's DynamicUser feature is dangerous.
2018‑08‑09: Bloaty McBloatface 1.0: a size profiler for binaries.
2018‑08‑09: Scalable media delivery on the Web with HTTP server push and multicast QUIC to the browser.
2018‑08‑09: BBC R&D scalable Internet broadcasting using multicast QUIC.
2018‑08‑09: GLB: GitHub's open source layer 4 load balancer.
2018‑08‑08: A collection of dataviz caveats.
2018‑08‑08: Stacked Borrows: an aliasing model for Rust.
2018‑08‑08: High uptime headaches due to floating point high resolution timers.
2018‑08‑08: A timesyncd total failure and systemd's complete lack of debugability.
2018‑08‑08: V8 JavaScript engine release v6.9
2018‑08‑08: New York's Vision Zero success provides a road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths.
2018‑08‑07: Hacking commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes.
2018‑08‑07: Meet the street artist transforming London's railway bridges into works of art.
2018‑08‑07: Rust and the case of the redundant comparison.
2018‑08‑06: How fast is a PS/2 keyboard?
2018‑08‑06: Let's Encrypt is now directly trusted by all major X.509 root CA programs.
2018‑08‑06: Facebook deploys TLS 1.3 with Fizz, a new high-performance open source TLS library.
2018‑08‑06: The mythical Brown Windsor Soup.
2018‑08‑06: Pollen calendar.
2018‑08‑06: Polyhedra Viewer: visualize the relationships between the convex, regular-faced polyhedra.
2018‑08‑06: What's going on in the Rosetta timelapse video from the surface of a comet.
2018‑08‑05: Mozilla's new DNS-over-HTTPS resolution is dangerous.
2018‑08‑04: On system rollback and totalised fields: An algebraic approach to system change.
2018‑08‑04: What is philosophy of science, and should scientists care?
2018‑08‑04: Transparency logs via append-only authenticated dictionaries.
2018‑08‑04: Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines: the difficult sources of old pigments.
2018‑08‑04: Arxiv Vanity: read academic papers from Arxiv as web pages.
2018‑08‑03: In pursuit of production minimalism at Heroku.
2018‑08‑03: The oldest building in every state of the USA.
2018‑08‑03: Our logo looks like underpants: a case study in internationalization.
2018‑08‑03: DOCSIS time protocol: PTP over cable for 5G microcells.
2018‑08‑03: History of the BASIC Engine.
2018‑08‑03: A ray-tracing pioneer explains how he stumbled into global illumination.
2018‑08‑02: Australian Computer Museum Society's historical collection is due to be bulldozed next week.
2018‑08‑02: saltpack: a modern crypto messaging format, a NaCL-based replacement for PGP.
2018‑08‑02: Why a typical home solar setup does not work without mains power, and what you can do about it.
2018‑08‑01: One line of Javascript made FT.com 10 times slower.
2018‑08‑01: Introduction to compute shaders.
2018‑08‑01: A new HTTP security header: Feature-Policy.
2018‑08‑01: Swift's "Never" type.
2018‑08‑01: Cherry MX history: a German company with American roots.
2018‑07‑31: A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation.
2018‑07‑31: The science behind non-Newtonian noodles.
2018‑07‑31: Bootable CD with retro game in a tweet.
2018‑07‑31: The IPv4 address space transfer market: 2018 mid-year report.
2018‑07‑31: An Empire of Stars: How Britain beat the odds to independently achieve space flight, and then abandoned it on the very same day.
2018‑07‑31: 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved there is no quantum computing speedup for the “recommendation problem”.
2018‑07‑31: First successful test of Einstein's general relativity near a supermassive black hole.
2018‑07‑31: Highlights from IETF 102.
2018‑07‑31: Why the new V8 JavaScript engine is so damn fast.
2018‑07‑31: How to read an RFC.
2018‑07‑31: Elsevier's demands are unacceptable for the German academic community.
2018‑07‑31: When you need to rip the same CD 300 times.
2018‑07‑31: A collection of quotes on interesting notations as tools of thought.
2018‑07‑31: Porting Coreboot to the 51NB X210.
2018‑07‑30: Haskell: If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
2018‑07‑30: Announcing TypeScript 3.0.
2018‑07‑30: What economists still don't get about the 2008 financial crisis.
2018‑07‑30: How to read a legal opinion.
2018‑07‑30: When Bussard ramjets ruled sf.
2018‑07‑30: Why salt was so important throughout history.
2018‑07‑30: Doug McIlroy's C++ regular expression matching library.
2018‑07‑30: Routinator 3000: RPKI relying party software in Rust.
2018‑07‑30: Pure CSS logical styling based on the number of elements.
2018‑07‑30: The evolution of writing.
2018‑07‑30: Iran's Gorgan Wall, second-longest in the world, is still shrouded in mystery.
2018‑07‑29: The rejected transistor at the heart of the iconic Roland TR-808.
2018‑07‑29: Secure boot on Apple Mac T2 computers.
2018‑07‑29: When does white space matter in HTML?
2018‑07‑29: Measuring the brightest iPhone ever: iPhone X.
2018‑07‑29: The 'scutoid' is geometry's newest shape, and it could be all over your body.
2018‑07‑29: Ghost characters: a spectre is haunting Unicode.
2018‑07‑29: Cheap FPGA development boards.
2018‑07‑29: Microfilm lasts half a millennium.
2018‑07‑29: Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they marry?
2018‑07‑29: The troubled quest for the superconducting wind turbine.
2018‑07‑29: Color or fruit? On the unlikely etymology of "orange".
2018‑07‑28: Ryu: convert floating point numbers to decimal strings.
2018‑07‑28: A map showing the steepness of streets.
2018‑07‑28: Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion.
2018‑07‑28: #ifdef considered harmful: portability experience with C News.
2018‑07‑28: uBlock has been taken over by AdBlock.
2018‑07‑28: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet.
2018‑07‑28: Why restaurants became so loud, and what you can do about it.
2018‑07‑28: The death of a TLD.
2018‑07‑28: Keep a Changelog.
2018‑07‑27: RSSAC023: a history of the DNS root nameserver system.
2018‑07‑27: Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are not reducing traffic in American cities.
2018‑07‑26: NetSpectre: read arbitrary memory over the network.
2018‑07‑26: Prefix sums and their applications.
2018‑07‑26: 15 years of SparkFun.
2018‑07‑26: WebAssembly security model.
2018‑07‑26: The Shipping Forecast.
2018‑07‑26: The Finkbeiner Test: a tool for writing about women in their professions.
2018‑07‑26: Testing for divisibility by 7.
2018‑07‑26: Is WebAssembly the return of Java applets and Flash?
2018‑07‑26: Notes on secure BGP from IETF 102.
2018‑07‑26: Breaking Bluetooth pairing with an ECC fixed coordinate invalid curve attack.
2018‑07‑26: Compile-time function evaluation and Rust's type system.
2018‑07‑26: What's with sf's fixation on single-gendered planets?
2018‑07‑26: Is it possible to make floating point calculations completely deterministic?
2018‑07‑26: On impl blocks, injection and surjection in Rust.
2018‑07‑25: Big tech warns of Japanese millennium bug ahead of Akihito's abdication. (Also affects Unicode!)
2018‑07‑24: Getting to know Graal, the new Java JIT compiler.
2018‑07‑24: In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics.
2018‑07‑24: How Rust #[test] function attributes work.
2018‑07‑23: Minimal DMARC.
2018‑07‑21: Why mobile phones are safe.
2018‑07‑21: psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO. (Linux WIP)
2018‑07‑21: Frank's compulsive guide to international postal addresses.
2018‑07‑21: Inside the Windows Console.
2018‑07‑21: The wrong abstraction.
2018‑07‑21: Into the Borg: an SSRF vulnerability inside Google's production network.
2018‑07‑21: Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique.
2018‑07‑21: Doing Windows, part 5: version 2 and Excel.
2018‑07‑21: Regex character ranges and locales: a long sad story.
2018‑07‑21: The octonion math that could underpin physics.
2018‑07‑20: Microsoft Windows Server 2019 will include support for leap seconds.
2018‑07‑20: The uncertainty of measuring the DNS.
2018‑07‑20: British broadband speed map.
2018‑07‑19: The Java type system is unsound.
2018‑07‑18: A primer on synchronization and data races, and a bug in Rust Arc atomic reference counts.
2018‑07‑18: Auditing popular Rust crates: how one line of unsafe code nearly ruined everything.
2018‑07‑18: JSON isn't a good configuration language.
2018‑07‑18: Looking at TDD: an academic survey.
2018‑07‑18: Writing asynchronous code for Android using coroutines in Kotlin.
2018‑07‑18: Don't feed the trolls, and other hideous lies.
2018‑07‑18: Getting Disney's Moana island scene to render well with pbrt.
2018‑07‑17: Britain's busses are in crisis, and no-one seems to care.
2018‑07‑17: H2O: an optimized http/2 web server.
2018‑07‑17: Lwan: a lightweight web server scriptable with Lua.
2018‑07‑17: The story of Golang's garbage collector.
2018‑07‑17: Alan Bagley's long and satisfying career in time, frequency, and atomic clocks at Hewlett-Packard.
2018‑07‑17: Formal reasoning about the security of AWS.
2018‑07‑17: The two-time pad: midwife of information theory?
2018‑07‑17: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
2018‑07‑16: LIDL cancels SAP project after spending €500M.
2018‑07‑16: Google Cloud Platform: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
2018‑07‑16: Lean testing: why integration tests are better than unit tests.
2018‑07‑15: How the BBC lost the plot on Brexit.
2018‑07‑15: The new henge of Newgrange: a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
2018‑07‑15: The hotel bathroom puzzle.
2018‑07‑14: Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator.
2018‑07‑14: A history of the inverse-T arrow key layout.
2018‑07‑14: How to port your OS to Amazon EC2.
2018‑07‑13: The Spiral Language: an ML family functional language with intensional polymorphism and first-class staging.
2018‑07‑13: The battle of the schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS.
2018‑07‑13: Crayon the grids: maps of street layouts colored by orientation.
2018‑07‑13: Street orientation of Dutch cities.
2018‑07‑13: Dhall: a programmable configuration language that is not Turing-complete.
2018‑07‑13: How to write a good software design doc.
2018‑07‑13: City street orientations around the world.
2018‑07‑12: British Rail corporate identity 1965-1994.
2018‑07‑12: HeyPhone: open hardware cave rescue communication system, used in the Thai cave rescue.
2018‑07‑11: Cambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propaganda.
2018‑07‑11: Why is there an inc bp in function prologues on 16-bit Windows? Pointer tagging!
2018‑07‑10: The role of personality, authoritarianism, and cognition in Brexit.
2018‑07‑10: Shutting down Bitcanal, a BGP hijack factory.
2018‑07‑10: Speculative buffer overflows: attacks and defenses. (Spectre BCBS)
2018‑07‑10: The CSS paint API.
2018‑07‑10: Cropmarks reveal ancient sites during the drought in Wales.
2018‑07‑09: Inside the paper: Build Systems a la Carte.
2018‑07‑09: Worse is worse.
2018‑07‑09: Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong.
2018‑07‑09: Saving a non-profit six figures a year using Squarespace, Airtable and Glitch.com.
2018‑07‑08: A resource list for domestic abuse victims targeted using Internet of Things devices.
2018‑07‑08: Social and cultural aspects of drinking: drunkenness is learned behaviour.
2018‑07‑08: Against academic meritocracy.
2018‑07‑08: OAuth 2 simplified.
2018‑07‑08: Why Mastercard doesn't use OAuth 2.0.
2018‑07‑08: OAuth for the Open Web.
2018‑07‑08: The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work.
2018‑07‑08: PuzzleScript: an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.
2018‑07‑08: Version control before Git with CVS.
2018‑07‑08: Dark Side of the Mac: APIs for appearance, background materials, and foreground vibrancy.
2018‑07‑08: Why revolutionaries love spicy food: a history of the chilli pepper.
2018‑07‑07: Why and how Java developers break APIs.
2018‑07‑05: In 2018, Tumblr is a joyless black hole.
2018‑07‑05: A review of Gödel, Escher, Bach.
2018‑07‑05: How to design frictionless APIs.
2018‑07‑05: Nginx tuning tips for TLS and https.
2018‑07‑05: Testing memory allocators: ptmalloc2 vs tcmalloc vs hoard vs jemalloc.
2018‑07‑05: Measurements of the impact of open offices on collaboration.
2018‑07‑04: Speaking in code: how to program by voice.
2018‑07‑04: Evaluating the evaluation: a benchmarking checklist.
2018‑07‑04: How we solved GitLab's CHANGELOG conflict crisis.
2018‑07‑04: A proposal for UUID version 6, that naturally sorts in time order.
2018‑07‑04: The git commit-graph file format and other optimizations.
2018‑07‑03: Fake "radical feminist" group is actually a paid political front for anti-LGBT religious right organization.
2018‑07‑03: Article 13 of the EU copyright directove considered harmful.
2018‑07‑02: Amber Case: the argument against blue.
2018‑07‑02: Fictitious route names from a neural network trained on UK Climbing logbooks.
2018‑07‑02: California passes its own GDPR to stymie a data protection ballot initiative.
2018‑07‑02: Sereal: Fast, compact, schema-less, binary serialization and deserialization for Perl and other dynamic languages.
2018‑07‑02: Reclaiming RSS.
2018‑07‑02: Extractive contributors: How open is too open?
2018‑07‑02: Computational Necromancy: MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM on the TI Explorer.
2018‑07‑02: The independent researcher.
2018‑07‑02: A survey of programming language package systems.
2018‑07‑01: Design case history: the Commodore 64.
2018‑07‑01: On C++ random number generator quality.
2018‑07‑01: Bringup is hard: some hints and tips on porting NetBSD to a new hardware platform.
2018‑07‑01: Developers. Our last, best hope for ethics?
2018‑07‑01: How we discovered three poisonous books in our university library.
2018‑07‑01: No, you don't need ML/AI. You need SQL.
2018‑07‑01: TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation: a war story.
2018‑07‑01: aLTEr: breaking LTE on layer two.
2018‑07‑01: Debugging with C-Reduce.
2018‑07‑01: Rust pointers for C programmers.
2018‑07‑01: Why you should not use Google Cloud.
2018‑07‑01: A sea change coming for water cooling in datacenters.
2018‑06‑30: Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe.
2018‑06‑30: American collapse is extraordinary: why it's melting down faster than anyone believed.
2018‑06‑29: Sphericons.
2018‑06‑28: Python 3 at Facebook.
2018‑06‑28: New GPU-accelerated supercomputers change the balance of power on the TOP500.
2018‑06‑28: Turbine-powered optical isolator: a spinning glass ball that rejects light from one direction.
2018‑06‑28: Hannah Gadsby's 'Nanette' is a radical, transformative work of comedy.
2018‑06‑28: How BuzzFeed migrated from a Perl monolith to Golang and Python microservices.
2018‑06‑28: How to get away with financial fraud.
2018‑06‑28: Apple engineers its own downfall with the Macbook Pro keyboard.
2018‑06‑28: Supercharging the Git commit graph.
2018‑06‑27: Algebraic blindness: Boolean blindness for modern type systems.
2018‑06‑27: Safe API design with the ghosts of departed proofs.
2018‑06‑27: Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool.
2018‑06‑27: Making Rust Arc more atomic.
2018‑06‑27: Massacring C Pointers: the worst C programming textbook ever written.
2018‑06‑26: Anti-if: the missing patterns.
2018‑06‑26: Another 10 years of Internet evolution.
2018‑06‑26: Issues and requirements for SNI encryption in TLS.
2018‑06‑26: Oh, what a fragile web we weave: third-party dependencies in modern web services, and their implications.
2018‑06‑26: A prescient warning to Boeing on its 787 trouble.
2018‑06‑26: Out-sourced profits: the cornerstone of successful subcontracting. (Hart-Smith / Boeing)
2018‑06‑26: Java tricks with 'var' and anonymous classes (that you should never use at work).
2018‑06‑26: CheckTLS secure email.
2018‑06‑26: STARTTLS everywhere: how well does your mail server support TLS?
2018‑06‑26: Letting neural networks be weird: The Visual Chatbot.
2018‑06‑25: .gov.?? 2LDs in various European countries.
2018‑06‑25: Parsing with derivatives. (Paper)
2018‑06‑25: Parsing with derivatives. (Slides)
2018‑06‑25: A history of CPAN.
2018‑06‑25: Attacking IoT devices from the Internet with DNS rebinding.
2018‑06‑24: Isaac Asimov asks, "how do people get new ideas?"
2018‑06‑24: Compiler fuzzing with AFL.
2018‑06‑24: Design patterns as higher order datatype-generic programs.
2018‑06‑24: Rebel girls and children's books: well-behaved women make history too.
2018‑06‑23: TWISTED BRAIN: This demo will twist the 6845 CRTC video chip in your BBC Master computer in new and previously untested ways.
2018‑06‑23: Some of my favourite lost buildings of Cambridge.
2018‑06‑23: Hasbro says it owns the Scrabble dictionary. Players beg to differ.
2018‑06‑23: All the perfect pangrams in English.
2018‑06‑23: Break down of a C64 demo effect.
2018‑06‑22: BOLT optimizes placement of instructions in memory to reduce CPU execution time by 2 percent to 15 percent.
2018‑06‑22: The ARM scalable vector extension.
2018‑06‑22: Disambiguating the first computer.
2018‑06‑22: Wavethrough: a web browser security bug.
2018‑06‑21: Zen magnets: 6 years of litigation ends In victory.
2018‑06‑21: edn: extensible data notation, a subset of Clojure.
2018‑06‑21: SDLang: a simple declarative language with an XML-like structure.
2018‑06‑21: Jsonnet: a data templating language.
2018‑06‑21: HOCON: human-optimized config object notation.
2018‑06‑21: JSON5: JSON for humans.
2018‑06‑21: Hjson: a user interface for JSON.
2018‑06‑21: zish: A data serialization format.
2018‑06‑21: YAML: probably not so great after all.
2018‑06‑21: TLS certificates for localhost.
2018‑06‑20: barrier: Open-source KVM software (a fork of Synergy).
2018‑06‑20: PostgreSQL features you may not have tried but should.
2018‑06‑20: A broad overview of how modern Linux systems boot.
2018‑06‑20: From Ruby + ActiveRecord to Rust + Diesel.
2018‑06‑20: The man who saw the dangers of Cambridge Analytica years ago.
2018‑06‑20: Rust MIR-based borrow check (non-lexical lifetimes) status update.
2018‑06‑20: The four most expensive words in the English language: cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network.
2018‑06‑20: Holy Grails and Thameslink Fails: the timetable that went wrong.
2018‑06‑19: Microsoft has ported Windows, Linux, and LLVM to E2, its homegrown processor architecture.
2018‑06‑18: How long would you have before you ran into trouble if you were given a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour?
2018‑06‑18: A performance cheat sheet for PostgreSQL
2018‑06‑18: Patterson's cipher for Jefferson: ahallenge solved after 200 years.
2018‑06‑18: Why Skylake CPUs are sometimes 50% slower at highly threaded code: higher PAUSE latency.
2018‑06‑18: 'Like' is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovative.
2018‑06‑18: A brief history of the Erlang BEAM compiler.
2018‑06‑18: Web Prolog: Erlang-style distributed concurrency in SWI-Prolog.
2018‑06‑18: Fo: an experimental language that adds generics to Golang.
2018‑06‑17: zapcc: a fork of clang that caches C++ template instantiations.
2018‑06‑16: Functional baby talk: analysis of code fragments from novice Haskell programmers.
2018‑06‑16: A new form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table.
2018‑06‑15: Visual methods of comparison, compared.
2018‑06‑15: Unlocking intersection types with `var` in Java 10.
2018‑06‑15: How ScyllaDB uses control theory to keep table compaction under control.
2018‑06‑15: SigSpoof: Spoofing signatures in GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg.
2018‑06‑15: LiteBSD: 4.4BSD for microcontrollers.
2018‑06‑15: RetroBSD: Unix for microcontrollers.
2018‑06‑15: Where do Rust threads come from?
2018‑06‑14: Making key parts of the Ordnance Survey (OS) MasterMap freely available.
2018‑06‑14: A convenient excuse: tech's discrimination problem.
2018‑06‑13: Let's Encrypt adds random entries to the ACME directory to avoid protocol ossification.
2018‑06‑13: The land before binary.
2018‑06‑13: Automatic type coercions with procedural macros in Rust.
2018‑06‑12: Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks.
2018‑06‑12: I fear Google's control of the web.
2018‑06‑12: Between the coats: a sensitivity read changed my life.
2018‑06‑12: DasBetterC: converting make.c to D.
2018‑06‑12: The legend of Old Man Henderson.
2018‑06‑11: Golang refactoring : a 23x performance hunt.
2018‑06‑11: Anders Hejlsberg on modern compiler construction. (YouTube)
2018‑06‑10: slaacd: userland IPv6 interface autoconfiguration in OpenBSD.
2018‑06‑10: Forget reusability, aim for perfection: New lessons from mandoc in OpenBSD.
2018‑06‑10: xoshiro/xoroshiro random number generators and the PRNG shootout.
2018‑06‑10: PCG: a family of better random number generators.
2018‑06‑10: Minimalist C libraries.
2018‑06‑10: pledge() and unveil() in OpenBSD.
2018‑06‑09: San Francisco's project to build an open source paper-ballot voting system.
2018‑06‑09: The power of pi: design patterns for dependently-types programming.
2018‑06‑08: Living APIs, and the case for GraphQL.
2018‑06‑08: A complete history of the Millennium Falcon.
2018‑06‑07: New payments architecture: the next big innovation in UK banking.
2018‑06‑06: Juno solves the 39-year-old mystery of Jupiter's lightning.
2018‑06‑06: 10 things Ryan Dahl regrets about node.js.
2018‑06‑06: Some notes on high speed networking on PCs.
2018‑06‑05: Attacks against machine learning: an overview.
2018‑06‑05: "I'll take real toilet paper over standards any day, because at least that way I won't have splinters and ink up my arse." (Linus on C99 union type punning)
2018‑06‑05: Nightmare.js: A high-level browser automation library based on Electron.
2018‑06‑05: Observations from running 2 million headless browser sessions.
2018‑06‑05: Zip slip: widespread directory traversal vulnerabilities in archive decompressers.
2018‑06‑05: How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018.
2018‑06‑05: The anatomy of change: what we've learned from our gender bias workshop.
2018‑06‑04: Sloc, cloc, and code: what happened on the way to the faster cloc.
2018‑06‑04: What will the post-journal scientific publishing world look like?
2018‑06‑04: Part spider, part scorpion creature found fossilized in amber.
2018‑06‑04: BitHubLab: search three open source hosting platforms simultaneously.
2018‑06‑04: A scope safe universe of syntaxes with binding, their semantics and proofs.
2018‑06‑03: The human scalability of DevOps.
2018‑06‑03: Women used to wear huge pockets like these under their petticoats.
2018‑06‑03: Inside Firefox's DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) engine.
2018‑06‑03: CVE-2018-11235 git RCE write-up.
2018‑06‑03: Quick and dirty PoC for git CVE-2018-11235.
2018‑06‑03: String trepanation.
2018‑06‑03: One year of C.
2018‑06‑03: Cuntroversy: on reclaiming the C-word.
2018‑06‑03: AI4Animation: quadruped animation in Unity3D using biologically-inspired deep learning.
2018‑06‑03: The secrets of a diary written under the floorboards of a French château.
2018‑06‑03: How Ireland beat dark ads in their abortion referendum.
2018‑06‑03: China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other.
2018‑06‑03: Catching up with sf writers at Nebula Con.
2018‑06‑02: A 280-character active transport manifesto, unpacked.
2018‑06‑02: It's 2018, and that means it's DMCA exemptions time again! EFF presents John Scalzi's story in support of the right to repair.
2018‑06‑02: It's 2018, and that means it's DMCA exemptions time again! EFF presents Mur Lafferty's story in support of fair use of video.
2018‑06‑02: It's 2018, and that means it's DMCA exemptions time again! EFF presents Cory Doctorow's story in support of jailbreaking.
2018‑06‑02: Deep learning: a critical appraisal.
2018‑06‑02: The academic / ISO view of the NSA Simon/Speck encryption algorithms.
2018‑06‑01: Avoid under-prepared meetings.
2018‑06‑01: Improving DNS privacy in Firefox with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).
2018‑06‑01: IETF PRECIS and i18n. (successor to stringprep)
2018‑05‑31: C standard undefined behaviour vs Wittgenstein.
2018‑05‑31: When the dike breaks: dissecting DNS defenses during DDoS attacks.
2018‑05‑31: Signed Integers are Two's Complement.
2018‑05‑31: European Data Protection Board backs ban on 'cookie walls'.
2018‑05‑31: Random Slicing: efficient and scalable data placement for large-scale storage systems.
2018‑05‑31: I am a computer: gorgeous gifs of marvellous micros.
2018‑05‑31: Golang gotcha: when nil != nil.
2018‑05‑31: Ireland shows us how to run a referendum.
2018‑05‑30: The diameter of the Rubik's Cube group is 20.
2018‑05‑30: Hashlife: an algorithm for compressing space and time.
2018‑05‑30: GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google.
2018‑05‑30: Typed key pattern: using PhantomData to tie a string key to the type of its associated value.
2018‑05‑30: Brian Eno on genius and "scenius".
2018‑05‑30: The law of "fuck yes!" or "no".
2018‑05‑30: Affine subscripts: strength reduction for array indexing in early Fortran.
2018‑05‑30: A large collection of links on capability theory.
2018‑05‑30: Introduction to the gfortran array descriptor / dope vector.
2018‑05‑30: Why picture frames tilt forward.
2018‑05‑30: Post-Spectre threat model re-think for Google Chrome.
2018‑05‑30: Cautioning health-care professionals: bereaved persons are misguided through the "stages" of grief.
2018‑05‑29: We will never find extraterrestrial life, because we will wipe it all out in a manner that is unintentional, yet horribly unavoidable.
2018‑05‑29: A map of dogs of the world and their countries of origin.
2018‑05‑29: The deceptively complex world of calendar events and RRULEs.
2018‑05‑29: UTC is enough for everyone, right?
2018‑05‑29: From npm to yarn and back again.
2018‑05‑29: Remote code execution vulnerability in git (CVE 2018-11234 and CVE 2018-11235).
2018‑05‑29: A comparison of adaptive radix trees and hash tables.
2018‑05‑29: Revealing Internet latency clusters in Africa.
2018‑05‑29: A new fast hash table.
2018‑05‑29: So your startup received a nightmare GDPR letter...
2018‑05‑29: Effectiveness of anonymization in double-blind peer review.
2018‑05‑29: DNS flag day: stop working around broken EDNS servers after 2019-02-01.
2018‑05‑29: When FFI function calls beat native C.
2018‑05‑28: Cloud computing sticker shock is now a monthly occurrence at many companies.
2018‑05‑28: The birth of a new American aristocracy.
2018‑05‑28: Remember the Vasa! Endangering the future of C++?
2018‑05‑28: Elon Musk is a modern Henry Ford. That's bad.
2018‑05‑28: A map of station pubs.
2018‑05‑28: NetBSD network stack security audit.
2018‑05‑28: Evaluating the cost of atomic operations on modern CPU architectures.
2018‑05‑28: Infographic: operation costs in CPU clock cycles.
2018‑05‑28: What the world's fascination with nüshu, a female-only Chinese script, says about cultural appropriation.
2018‑05‑28: Ditch your scumbag friend: a life hack for men who want to be feminists.
2018‑05‑28: Invisible asymptotes, and strategic planning at Amazon.
2018‑05‑28: Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization, a "horrible mistake" from 1997.
2018‑05‑27: Iterators vs. cursors: a case study in objects vs. values in Java.
2018‑05‑27: Comparing the c ffi overhead on various programming languages.
2018‑05‑27: Zero-overhead tree processing with the visitor pattern.
2018‑05‑26: Versions of Han Solo's blaster already exist, and they're way more powerful than lightsabers would be.
2018‑05‑26: The making of TANK. (YouTube)
2018‑05‑26: TANK, by Stu Maschwitz. (YouTube)
2018‑05‑26: Tube heartbeat.
2018‑05‑26: The DisplayPort pin 20 problem.
2018‑05‑26: Scientists are more efficient at producing high-quality research when they have more academic freedom.
2018‑05‑26: Why media companies fear, and photographers love, this voracious copyright lawyer.
2018‑05‑26: SmoothLife: Game of Life on a continuous domain in Python with Numpy.
2018‑05‑25: Can we please talk about privacy, not GDPR, now?
2018‑05‑25: prettier-emacs: Minor mode to format JS code when you save.
2018‑05‑25: Prettier: an opinionated code formatter for JavaScript etc.
2018‑05‑25: Black: an uncompromising Python code formatter.
2018‑05‑25: Chasing missing SIGINT signals down the SSH rabbit hole.
2018‑05‑24: A simple mental health pain scale.
2018‑05‑23: Bill Gates: A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it.
2018‑05‑23: Don't use Hadoop: your data isn't that big.
2018‑05‑23: Today Mac OS X is as old as Classic Mac OS was.
2018‑05‑23: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org, to be replaced by metacpan.org.
2018‑05‑23: Deconstructing Kitty.
2018‑05‑22: The EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster.
2018‑05‑22: Hidden sheep in the original Macintosh bitmap fonts.
2018‑05‑22: snpm: a proof of concept to ensure consistency between NPM packages and their source code.
2018‑05‑22: Simple compile-time prevention of SQL injection in Rust.
2018‑05‑22: Finding a Google App Engine RCE bug.
2018‑05‑22: Playing battleships over BGP.
2018‑05‑22: Various ways to disable stdio buffering from the command line.
2018‑05‑22: Happy 21st Century!
2018‑05‑20: Lafable: large agile framework appropriate for big lumbering enterprises.
2018‑05‑20: Twitter for Academics 101.
2018‑05‑20: What do we mean when we say "show the thing"?
2018‑05‑20: A guide to agile communication.
2018‑05‑20: Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip: digital logic implemented with I2L.
2018‑05‑20: Datalog and emerging applications: a tutorial.
2018‑05‑20: Datafrog: a relatively simple Datalog engine used for Rust's borrow checker.
2018‑05‑19: Hippos crap so much that sometimes all the fish die.
2018‑05‑19: Five whys and the cult of the root cause.
2018‑05‑19: Was early modern writing paper expensive?
2018‑05‑19: OPAQUE: an asymmetric PAKE protocol secure against pre-computation attacks.
2018‑05‑19: GDPR hysteria: don't panic.
2018‑05‑19: Seven steps to solve any dynamic programming interview problem.
2018‑05‑19: NumWorks open hardware calculator teaches us about quality documentation.
2018‑05‑19: Sweden cancels Elsevier contract as open-access dispute spreads.
2018‑05‑19: Performance impact of removing Ruby out-of-band garbage collection at GitHub.
2018‑05‑19: Introducing Git protocol version 2.
2018‑05‑18: Towards built-in sharding for PostgreSQL.
2018‑05‑17: Was the Efail disclosure horribly screwed up?
2018‑05‑17: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of our devices by 68GW per month.
2018‑05‑17: Painting by numbers: visualizing IP addressing plans.
2018‑05‑17: Unique IPv6 prefix per host.
2018‑05‑17: "We don't need IPv6".
2018‑05‑17: IPv6 excuse bingo.
2018‑05‑16: isomorphic-git: a JavaScript implementation of git for node.js and web browsers.
2018‑05‑16: The spectacular power of Big Lens.
2018‑05‑16: Lightweight CML-style concurrency in Lua for Snabb.
2018‑05‑16: Fragmented IPv6 router advertisement handling on different operating systems.
2018‑05‑16: Towards IPv6 only: A large scale RFC 7596 lw4o6 deployment for broadband users.
2018‑05‑16: Lightweight 4over6: one step further for dual-stack lite networks.
2018‑05‑16: Is large-scale DNS over TCP practical?
2018‑05‑16: nom 4.0: faster, safer, simpler parsers in Rust.
2018‑05‑16: Has wine gone bad?
2018‑05‑15: Filling in PDF forms from the Linux command line.
2018‑05‑15: John Regehr's software engineering course.
2018‑05‑15: A job building software to kill people, but don't get distracted by that.
2018‑05‑15: The collateral damage of Internet censorship by DNS injection.
2018‑05‑15: Humans killed off the megafauna.
2018‑05‑15: How copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston's new book from the public.
2018‑05‑15: apgdiff: another PostgreSQL diff tool.
2018‑05‑15: pgquarrel: compare PostgreSQL database schemas, and emit SQL DDL representing the diff.
2018‑05‑15: EveryRFC: an RFC search engine.
2018‑05‑15: Drawables, reparenting, compositing, etc. in X11.
2018‑05‑14: Joan Taylor's tilings.
2018‑05‑14: The Taylor-Socolar aperiodic tile.
2018‑05‑14: Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?
2018‑05‑14: Why "Agile" and especially Scrum are terrible.
2018‑05‑14: How a Rust upgrade more than tripled the speed of some multiprecision arithmetic.
2018‑05‑14: Measuring DNS ATR, additional truncated responses.
2018‑05‑14: Who invented the computer? The debate from the viewpoint of computer architecture.
2018‑05‑13: Performance experiments with matrix multiplication in Rust.
2018‑05‑13: GDPR will pop the adtech bubble.
2018‑05‑13: Visualizing Thameslink-related changes to rail services.
2018‑05‑13: The libtom projects: cryptography and multiprecision arithmetic.
2018‑05‑12: Microsoft Windows command line reference manual.
2018‑05‑12: Git submodules revisited.
2018‑05‑12: Clang++ `[[trivial_abi]]` 101.
2018‑05‑12: The PostgreSQL "shared_buffers smile" performance trough.
2018‑05‑12: Tesla's giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%.
2018‑05‑11: Pyre: fast static type checking for Python.
2018‑05‑11: First, let's fire all the managers.
2018‑05‑11: Tech's two philosophies.
2018‑05‑11: Mermaid: a Markdown-like language for generating charts from text with Javascript.
2018‑05‑11: Generating SQL syntax railroad diagrams using Tcl/Tk.
2018‑05‑10: Working LEGO pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks features Benny in all his Classic Space glory.
2018‑05‑10: The importance of time synchronization in the FOAM proof-of-location protocol.
2018‑05‑10: Scientists stuffed a crocodile Into an MRI machine to see if it likes Bach.
2018‑05‑09: Modern garbage collection vs golang's GC strategy.
2018‑05‑08: The Honeyman idiom: `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn`.
2018‑05‑08: Choosing fonts for complex data.
2018‑05‑08: As easy as 1,2,3: how the Indian decimal place system came to Europe.
2018‑05‑07: Concorde 'B'.
2018‑05‑07: Are you in a bullshit job? In academia, you're hardly alone.
2018‑05‑07: American energy use, in one diagram.
2018‑05‑07: Thermal paper Polaroid camera.
2018‑05‑07: Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex.
2018‑05‑06: SUE the T. Rex is a nonbinary icon.
2018‑05‑06: Lessons learned from the .SE DNSSEC algorithm rollover.
2018‑05‑06: The quadratic equation and low-precision arithmetic.
2018‑05‑06: Grass: an esoteric programming language based on A-normalized, lambda lifted, De Bruijn indexed, untyped lambda calculus.
2018‑05‑06: Denotational design: API refinement by following a denotation.
2018‑05‑06: Oracle Access Manager's identity crisis. (Padding oracle attack!)
2018‑05‑05: Troubled times for alternatives to Einstein's theory of gravity.
2018‑05‑05: The epic mistake about manufacturing that's cost Americans millions of jobs.
2018‑05‑05: Establishing identity without certification authorities. (1996)
2018‑05‑05: How to be a systems thinker.
2018‑05‑05: Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
2018‑05‑05: 6 things I've learned in my first 6 months using serverless.
2018‑05‑04: Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes.
2018‑05‑04: Open sourcing BBC R&D's Mellanox kernel bypass work.
2018‑05‑03: Yubikey/Smartcard backed TLS servers.
2018‑05‑03: 7-Zip: from uninitialized memory to remote code execution.
2018‑05‑03: Where does the money go when you buy a domain name?
2018‑05‑03: Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 709,000 years ago?
2018‑05‑02: PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise.
2018‑05‑02: Rust in production.
2018‑05‑02: Surveying the new optical form factors for 400 gigabit Ethernet.
2018‑05‑02: Python startup is too slow.
2018‑05‑02: WS-* web services standards overview.
2018‑05‑02: Morse code in the music.
2018‑05‑02: Efficient float32 arithmetic in JavaScript on Firefox.
2018‑05‑02: When the C compiler bites.
2018‑05‑02: Into the depths of C: elaborating the de facto standards.
2018‑05‑02: A Bayesian statistical solution to discrepancies in the Hubble constant.
2018‑05‑02: Linux /dev/random flaws.
2018‑05‑02: 7 inexcusable yet common UX gaffes that make you look like a total amateur.
2018‑05‑01: C is not a low-level language.
2018‑05‑01: KRust: a formal executable semantics of Rust.
2018‑04‑30: A history of what we do in the dark.
2018‑04‑30: The Scylla DB I/O scheduler: better latencies under any circumstance.
2018‑04‑30: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018.
2018‑04‑28: How to refactor a monolithic codebase.
2018‑04‑28: Scaling a high-traffic rate limiting service with Redis Cluster.
2018‑04‑26: Titus: the Netflix container management platform.
2018‑04‑26: On incomplete HTTP reads and the requests library in Python.
2018‑04‑25: Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful.
2018‑04‑25: One giant leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 released.
2018‑04‑25: Magna charta universitatum: the Bologna declaration.
2018‑04‑25: GLib/GIO async operations and Rust futures + async/await.
2018‑04‑24: Delta pointers: buffer overflow checks without the checks.
2018‑04‑24: What you get is what you C: Controlling side effects in mainstream C compilers.
2018‑04‑24: Statically typed PostgreSQL queries and TypeScript schemats.
2018‑04‑24: Web security for single page applications: great impact with little effort.
2018‑04‑23: Union types in Facebook's Flow and Reason programming languages.
2018‑04‑23: Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it.
2018‑04‑23: On user interface development: appending to the event log. (React/Redux)
2018‑04‑23: Ask me first: What self-assessments can tell us about autism.
2018‑04‑23: A look at JWT vulnerabilities and mitigations.
2018‑04‑22: Why is the Linux kernel replacing iptables with BPF?
2018‑04‑22: Error handling advice for node.js programmers.
2018‑04‑21: Untangling Khan Academy's Python code.
2018‑04‑20: Statically typed data validation with JSON Schema and TypeScript.
2018‑04‑19: io-ts: both static and dynamic type checking for JSON API data in TypeScript.
2018‑04‑19: The quest for the next billion-dollar colour.
2018‑04‑19: A lesson in wifi antenna engineering from the Raspberry Pi.
2018‑04‑19: Important flatland research: day and night on the Dymaxion map.
2018‑04‑19: What's the length of shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet?
2018‑04‑18: San Francisco's big seismic gamble.
2018‑04‑18: Mitigating data movement bottlenecks by processing in memory, for a 50% performance boost.
2018‑04‑17: The C++ committee has taken off its backwards-compatibility ball and chain.
2018‑04‑17: For mathematicians, = does not mean equality.
2018‑04‑17: Parsing: a timeline.
2018‑04‑17: Roman numerals: A familiar set with an unexpected order type.
2018‑04‑17: D3.js in depth.
2018‑04‑16: The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font.
2018‑04‑16: DNS timeline.
2018‑04‑16: Zuckerberg can't blame Cambridge University for Facebook's privacy violations.
2018‑04‑16: Jupyter, Mathematica, and the future of the research paper.
2018‑04‑16: Programming languages and empiricism.
2018‑04‑16: How could we tell if there was a civilization on Earth before Humans?
2018‑04‑13: tdns: a teaching authoritative DNS server, written from scratch in 1100 lines of code.
2018‑04‑13: An introduction to PostgreSQL materialized views.
2018‑04‑13: Post-quantum confidentiality for TLS.
2018‑04‑13: A taxonomy of technical debt.
2018‑04‑12: lua-protobuf: Lua support for Google's protocol buffers.
2018‑04‑12: protobuf-lua: Lua protobuf library and proton output plugin.
2018‑04‑12: lua-protobuf: A Lua module to work with Google protobuf.
2018‑04‑11: protozero: minimalist protobuf decoder and encoder in C++.
2018‑04‑11: prototool: a Swiss army knife for protobufs.
2018‑04‑11: Do you have too many microservices? Five design attributes that can help.
2018‑04‑10: Sequoia: OpenPGP implemented in Rust.
2018‑04‑10: Construction begins on new "lowboom" quiet supersonic NASA X-Plane.
2018‑04‑09: fadvise(DONTNEED): another reason why your Docker containers may be slow
2018‑04‑09: Next generation video codec: introducing AV1.
2018‑04‑09: Consistent hashing: algorithmic tradeoffs:
2018‑04‑09: Preliminary analysis of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) survey.
2018‑04‑08: Hash-based signatures: an illustrated primer.
2018‑04‑08: TDOP / Pratt parser in pictures.
2018‑04‑08: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware.
2018‑04‑08: A list of command line tools for manipulating structured text: json, xml, yaml, ini, etc.
2018‑04‑07: Looking back at ten years of availability zone compartmentalization at AWS.
2018‑04‑07: AlterEgo: a personalized wearable silent speech interface.
2018‑04‑07: The role of cellular networks in the Internet.
2018‑04‑06: PubGrub: a version solving algorithm for Dart's package manager.
2018‑04‑06: How did we end up with containers?
2018‑04‑06: The secret life of NaN: an intro to a boxed value hack for dynamic languages.
2018‑04‑06: The scientific paper is obsolete. Jupyter is what's next.
2018‑04‑06: Several cool features in git 2.17.
2018‑04‑04: Fifty or sixty years of processor development and the end of performance scaling.
2018‑04‑04: DNSSD roadmap: an overview of DNS-based service discovery.
2018‑04‑04: Intersecting polygons: A geometric Rust adventure.
2018‑04‑03: Reliable setproctitle() for Linux containers.
2018‑04‑03: "I'm a female chef. Here's how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers."
2018‑04‑03: "If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man." Here's how the paper is trying to change that.
2018‑04‑03: The end-to-end back-pressure mechanism inside Wallaroo and Ponylang.
2018‑04‑03: A Linux kernel memory model!
2018‑04‑03: Swedes turn against cashlessness: a fully digital system is vulnerable to fraud and attack.
2018‑04‑03: It is weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg's trash.
2018‑04‑03: MesaLink: a memory-safe and OpenSSL-compatible TLS library.
2018‑04‑03: On the hunt for the lost wonders of medieval Britain.
2018‑04‑03: How 'Oumuamua got shredded.
2018‑04‑02: Techniques of Twitter trolls that support the Kremlin: "dismiss, distort, distract, dismay."
2018‑04‑01: tinydoh: minimal Golang DNS-over-HTTPS server.
2018‑04‑01: You can't Rust that.
2018‑04‑01: The joy of max(): Linux C macro hackery.
2018‑03‑31: Seventy maxims of maximally effective mercenaries.
2018‑03‑31: Antisemitism matters: Jews are the canary in the coalmine.
2018‑03‑31: A walk round the Festival of Britain.
2018‑03‑31: DNS RFC dependency graph.
2018‑03‑30: De-Google-ify the Internet.
2018‑03‑30: How not to make claims about genetic differences between races.
2018‑03‑30: Amethyst: a tiling window manager for Mac OS X.
2018‑03‑30: IETF 101 highlights.
2018‑03‑30: Ferrofluid 'font' produces trippy, one-of-a-kind art.
2018‑03‑30: The evolution of 15,596 documented unix facilities.
2018‑03‑30: Cassina: the forgotten drink that caffeinated North America for centuries.
2018‑03‑29: CHIVES: an old DNS server.
2018‑03‑29: Jeeves: the first DNS server.
2018‑03‑29: Golang proposal: non-cooperative goroutine preemption.
2018‑03‑29: Hello, and welcome to DNS!
2018‑03‑29: Junk traffic to 1.0.0.0/8.
2018‑03‑29: Dragonfly: an optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lenses.
2018‑03‑29: Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter.
2018‑03‑29: Detecting integer constant expressions in C macros.
2018‑03‑29: Securing the Kubernetes dashboard.
2018‑03‑29: How I erased 5000+ Facebook comments and likes.
2018‑03‑28: Total Meltdown? Windows "fix" opens read/write access to all memory.
2018‑03‑28: Crowdfunding the Mitogen Ansible accelerator: day 23.
2018‑03‑28: Making IXFR small again.
2018‑03‑28: Finding alternative music scales.
2018‑03‑28: Just one QUIC bit.
2018‑03‑27: Security keys, web authentication, U2F, and CTAP.
2018‑03‑27: "It all made sense when we found out we were autistic".
2018‑03‑27: Ditching a bunch of stuff and moving to Emacs and org-mode.
2018‑03‑27: How to disable all of Windows 10's built-in advertising.
2018‑03‑26: Job's BGP camel RFC metrics viewer.
2018‑03‑26: The Isle of Wight's railway is having trouble replacing its ex-tube rolling stock.
2018‑03‑26: Mapping OpenSSL cipher suite names to RFC names.
2018‑03‑26: Tracing stolen bitcoin, using a precedent from 1816.
2018‑03‑26: We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack.
2018‑03‑26: Privacy International's history with web site security and what they do now.
2018‑03‑26: Numbers and strings in JSON and Perl.
2018‑03‑25: What men need to know (and women need to tell them) about working together.
2018‑03‑25: Queen Mary's dollhouse and the lost Vita Sackville-West children's story that may have inspired Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando'.
2018‑03‑25: The rebel bank, printing its own notes and buying back people's debts.
2018‑03‑25: You could have invented monads! (And maybe you already have.)
2018‑03‑25: Fredkin's Paradox.
2018‑03‑25: Non-Google searchable Usenet archives.
2018‑03‑25: A quick guide to federated social networks.
2018‑03‑24: Bert's DNS camel RFC metrics viewer.
2018‑03‑24: Recounting the rationals: twice!
2018‑03‑24: Managing db schema changes without downtime in Rails.
2018‑03‑24: New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children.
2018‑03‑24: Latrines: how Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea.
2018‑03‑24: Chernoff faces: how do we kill bad ideas in visualization?
2018‑03‑24: Facebook's surveillance machine.
2018‑03‑24: How genetics is changing our understanding of race.
2018‑03‑24: How the chili spread from its South American home and spiced up world cuisine.
2018‑03‑24: A cheap, brief "growth mindset" intervention shifted struggling students onto a more successful trajectory.
2018‑03‑24: The myth of the male bumbler.
2018‑03‑24: Lara Croft lives dangerously in this amazing animated Tomb Raider LEGO diorama! (video)
2018‑03‑24: How to find things to work on? Look for the duct tape.
2018‑03‑23: Shkreli vs. Holmes: two frauds, two divergent outcomes. Were they fair?
2018‑03‑23: What roots do DNS resolvers use? // Top NXDOMAINs to the IANA root.
2018‑03‑23: A wild IPv6 attack appears! Open DNS resolvers on IPv6.
2018‑03‑23: Recommendations for engineering authoritative DNS servers.
2018‑03‑23: Whither deprecating TCP-MD5?
2018‑03‑23: Developing DNS-over-HTTPS clients and servers at the IETF101 hackathon.
2018‑03‑23: A "tamper-proof" cryptocurrency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old.
2018‑03‑23: AssembleAR: a mock-up Ikea manual of the future looks amazing.
2018‑03‑23: The machine learning reproducibility crisis.
2018‑03‑22: The DNS camel: the relentless rise in protocol complexity.
2018‑03‑22: How to write seemingly unhygienic and referentially opaque Scheme macros with syntax-rules.
2018‑03‑22: Arbitrarily reorderable items in PostgreSQL.
2018‑03‑22: Fractions in The Farey Sequences and the Stern-Brocot Tree.
2018‑03‑22: Peer review: the end of an error?
2018‑03‑22: How hard is it to get a cartoon Into the New Yorker?
2018‑03‑22: How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze.
2018‑03‑21: Project Nimble: faster AWS region evacuation.
2018‑03‑21: Ten reasons why not to like Golang.
2018‑03‑21: Network Architecture Tester: a gift for outgoing IAB members based on a Raspberry Pi running open source software.
2018‑03‑21: ISC Kea and NETCONF in 2018: towards automated configurability.
2018‑03‑21: A guide to writing a DNS server from scratch in Rust (complete with classic name decompression DOS vulnerability).
2018‑03‑21: Type-directed metaprogramming in Rust.
2018‑03‑21: Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain.
2018‑03‑21: Pre-publication peer review subtracts value.
2018‑03‑20: Mediaeval helpdesk.
2018‑03‑20: Breaking a wine glass in Python by detecting the resonant frequency.
2018‑03‑20: Exercises in Programming Style.
2018‑03‑20: ABA: always be automating, because manual work is a bug.
2018‑03‑19: Real world DNSSEC+DANE for secure inter-domain mail transport.
2018‑03‑19: Level 3 technician's misstep causes largest telephone outage ever reported.
2018‑03‑18: The Northern Lights as seen from a U-2 at 70,000 feet.
2018‑03‑18: Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia.
2018‑03‑18: Why inheritance never made any sense.
2018‑03‑16: WebKit's protection against HSTS supercookie abuse.
2018‑03‑16: I watched all 629 episodes of The Simpsons in a month. Here's what I learned.
2018‑03‑16: Usability improvements in GCC 8.
2018‑03‑16: How PostgreSQL just might replace your Oracle database.
2018‑03‑15: The surprising creativity of digital evolution: anecdotes from evolutionary computation and artificial life research.
2018‑03‑15: Kickstarting free software: getting financial support for the Mitogen Ansible accelerator.
2018‑03‑15: Ephemeris time vs universal time: two kinds of time, two kinds of time scale. (1954)
2018‑03‑15: Physicists still don't know what puts the curl in curling.
2018‑03‑15: Intel's Spectre and Meltdown mitigation plans.
2018‑03‑15: Evaluation and consideration of multiple answers in one DNS response.
2018‑03‑15: The German Society of Auto-Correction.
2018‑03‑15: All tease, no tale: Hollywood's misplaced lady lands.
2018‑03‑15: A look at a comic that touched on everything that makes Batman great.
2018‑03‑15: Poetic License: 3-clause BSD in rhyme.
2018‑03‑15: Why is OOF an OOF and not an OOO?
2018‑03‑15: Decoding the Signals in the Prime Minister's speech on the Russian poisoning of Sergei Skripal.
2018‑03‑15: Canopy: Facebook's end-to-end performance tracing and analysis system.
2018‑03‑14: All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years.
2018‑03‑14: What PostgreSQL full-text search has to do with VACUUM.
2018‑03‑14: Why the UCU strike matters.
2018‑03‑14: The 'Badass Army' is training revenge porn victims to fight back.
2018‑03‑14: The chemicals used to make bacon do cause cancer. So how did the meat industry convince us it was safe?
2018‑03‑13: Scaling up with Google Kubernetes Engine: a review after 6 months in production.
2018‑03‑13: Building Windows: 4 million commits, 10 million work items.
2018‑03‑13: What's left to do after your open source project is done.
2018‑03‑13: Siccar Point: the cliff that changed our understanding of time.
2018‑03‑13: A recreation of late 13th - 14th c. unhopped English ales.
2018‑03‑13: Attacking Merkle trees with a second preimage attack.
2018‑03‑13: How we built our PostgreSQL cluster in a box using Patroni.
2018‑03‑12: How a book warehouse is changing Columbia's library system.
2018‑03‑12: Migrating from MariaDB Galera to PostgreSQL and Patroni.
2018‑03‑12: The magic (and maths) of skating on thin ice without falling in.
2018‑03‑12: API versioning and evolution with proxies.
2018‑03‑12: OMG-WTF-8: optimized matching generalized wobbly transformation format (8-bit).
2018‑03‑12: Why museum professionals need to talk about Black Panther.
2018‑03‑12: Transgender men see sexism from both sides.
2018‑03‑12: Virtual private networks with WireGuard.
2018‑03‑12: Enduring file references in macOS.
2018‑03‑12: The KK Computer: a radical 6502 extension.
2018‑03‑12: Slack's bait-and-switch.
2018‑03‑12: Rogue GPL enforcement: Linux beats legal threat from one of its own developers.
2018‑03‑12: Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition.
2018‑03‑11: Secure access to 100 AWS accounts.
2018‑03‑11: Avoid nonreferential this.
2018‑03‑11: Rainbow deploys with Kubernetes.
2018‑03‑11: How to change the course of human history (at least, the part that's already happened).
2018‑03‑11: Secret management design decisions: theory plus an AWS example.
2018‑03‑11: A huge WhatsApp leak reveals the full fury of the Tories' Brexit split.
2018‑03‑11: The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease.
2018‑03‑11: Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
2018‑03‑11: The three mistakes of centrism.
2018‑03‑11: How Wikipedia chose the image for the 'Human' entry.
2018‑03‑11: Literate DevOps with Emacs org-mode.
2018‑03‑11: Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird uses a very weak KDF.
2018‑03‑11: Will the quantum nature of gravity finally be measured?
2018‑03‑10: This CPU instruction set architecture tastes like microarchitecture.
2018‑03‑10: Analyzing and mitigating privacy with the DNS root service.
2018‑03‑10: How well does DNS ATR (additional truncated responses) work around dropped UDP fragments?
2018‑03‑10: Is vitamin D really a cure-all? And how should we get our fix?
2018‑03‑10: Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression.
2018‑03‑10: Tell me everything about that guy who died on your show.
2018‑03‑10: Britain's Serious Fraud Office is getting too good at its job.
2018‑03‑09: The quantum thermodynamics revolution.
2018‑03‑09: Are the IETF unreasonable cryptography zealots?
2018‑03‑09: UK faces €2 billion EU tab for China customs fraud.
2018‑03‑09: Tex-Mex is the most important, least understood regional cuisine in America.
2018‑03‑09: Year-round daylight saving time? Florida says yes, but It's not so simple.
2018‑03‑08: The curious case of the crippling DS record.
2018‑03‑08: Measuring efficiency of DNSSEC negative answer synthesis (RFC 8198).
2018‑03‑08: DNSSEC for a large enterprise.
2018‑03‑08: Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB.
2018‑03‑08: The Rubik's contraption solves a cube in 0.38 seconds.
2018‑03‑08: Elementary knightship found in Conway's Life: a travelling pattern with a new slope.
2018‑03‑08: The uniquely versatile stinkbug is decimating crops and infiltrating houses all across the USA.
2018‑03‑08: 3D lightning calculated from two simultaneous photographs.
2018‑03‑08: Accidentally two photographs of the same scene taken at the same millisecond.
2018‑03‑08: The left hand of equals: object oriented equality in the Grace programming language.
2018‑03‑07: Let's Encrypt: securing the automation of ACME DNS challenge validation.
2018‑03‑07: Much ado about latency: Mitogen and the BFG9000 of import hooks.
2018‑03‑07: Quadrupling Ansible performance with Mitogen.
2018‑03‑07: Why Rust has macros.
2018‑03‑07: Supermassive black holes or their galaxies: which came first?
2018‑03‑07: Prototype to production: Building your first PCB prototype.
2018‑03‑07: bsdnt: a BSD licensed bignum library.
2018‑03‑07: BFG repo-cleaner: a faster `git filter-branch`, written in Scala.
2018‑03‑07: The male glance: how we approach male vs. female work is ruining our ability to see good art.
2018‑03‑07: How self-aware are people, really, according to science?
2018‑03‑07: Dayton Miller's experiment to "prove" the theory of relativity incorrect.
2018‑03‑07: Tiangong-1 reentry updates / latest predictions.
2018‑03‑07: Tiangong-1 destructive re-entry frequently asked questions.
2018‑03‑07: A malicious vehicle can block "smart" intersections in the USA.
2018‑03‑07: Ten zombie statistics.
2018‑03‑07: I'm a Sinn Féin MP. This is why I won't go to Westminster, even over Brexit.
2018‑03‑07: Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity.
2018‑03‑07: Exploiting Exim CVE-2018-6789: one byte buffer overflow leads to remote code execution.
2018‑03‑07: Exploiting hash collisions, by Ange Albertini.
2018‑03‑06: libbf: Fabrice Bellard's big float library.
2018‑03‑06: The default TV settings aren't necessarily the best.
2018‑03‑06: The evolution of distributed systems management.
2018‑03‑06: How generics were added to .NET and C#.
2018‑03‑06: The mystery of the slow downloads.
2018‑03‑06: Why the investor class hates pensions.
2018‑03‑06: ebtree: elastic binary trees. (Like embedded crit-bit trees.)
2018‑03‑06: Progressive locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks.
2018‑03‑06: The great lightbulb conspiracy.
2018‑03‑06: World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster for very low orbit satellites.
2018‑03‑06: zheap: a new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat.
2018‑03‑06: git-sizer: is your Git repository bursting at the seams?
2018‑03‑05: A RocksDB backend for Apache Cassandra, with a 10x reduction in tail latency.
2018‑03‑05: Rendering in camera space(ish), to avoid floating point precision problems.
2018‑03‑05: The result of placing a camera lens 300 feet from a rocket launch.
2018‑03‑05: Understanding and overcoming coder's block.
2018‑03‑05: Practical tips for cheating at design: improving your designs with tactics instead of talent.
2018‑03‑05: Representing impractical and impossible types with Java 10 "var".
2018‑03‑05: Spooky action at a distance: how an AWS outage broke a service that's not hosted in AWS.
2018‑03‑04: How will "Enterprise Blockchain" change the way future enterprise applications are architected?
2018‑03‑04: Italy's present is the future of politics.
2018‑03‑04: Constructing human-grade parsers.
2018‑03‑04: March is endometriosis awareness month.
2018‑03‑04: Exploring the Chomsky hierarchy, the linguistics behind regular expressions.
2018‑03‑04: Updated PostgreSQL Meltdown benchmarks.
2018‑03‑04: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot: how to clean up a skeleton.
2018‑03‑04: Scotland's floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be.
2018‑03‑04: How not to be a crank: ten rules for not being a science-dick.
2018‑03‑04: SlimerJS: a replacement for PhantomJS using recent Firefox.
2018‑03‑04: The world of Linux handhelds in 2018.
2018‑03‑03: The first unified calendar and the invention of world history.
2018‑03‑03: GDPR: a practical guide for developers.
2018‑03‑03: Postmortem: performance issues and failures in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services.
2018‑03‑03: Experience designing and building gRPC services.
2018‑03‑03: 50 shades of Go: traps, gotchas, and common mistakes for new Golang devs.
2018‑03‑03: Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative.
2018‑03‑03: Sortix: a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation.
2018‑03‑03: Joy veh! What makes Jewish comedy Jewish?
2018‑03‑03: khwasan: kernel hardware assisted address sanitizer for arm64.
2018‑03‑03: 10 years ago, the Internet gave us "mansplain". A woman explains why it still matters.
2018‑03‑02: Firefox configuration guide for privacy freaks and performance buffs.
2018‑03‑02: Mac OS versus FreeBSD: a comparative evaluation.
2018‑03‑02: Billions of birds migrate. Where do they go?
2018‑03‑02: What happens to us does not happen to most of you.
2018‑03‑02: What to expect when you decide to migrate from Javascript to Typescript.
2018‑03‑01: Nominet's proposed GDPR whois policy.
2018‑03‑01: Clay codes: moulding MDS codes to yield an MSR code; optimal erasure coding for Ceph.
2018‑03‑01: Review: Coding Freedom by E. Gabriella Coleman.
2018‑03‑01: gitleaks: search full repo history for secrets and keys.
2018‑02‑28: Peace for Triple Piano.
2018‑02‑28: SIDN says DNSSEC validation errors can be eliminated.
2018‑02‑28: Do TLS X.509 certificate warranties protect you? As much as rocks keep tigers away...
2018‑02‑28: Rust status on Debian on various CPU architectures.
2018‑02‑28: Typestates in Rust.
2018‑02‑28: Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here's what our telescopes actually capture.
2018‑02‑28: On the nature of wine.
2018‑02‑27: SAML vulnerabilities affecting multiple implementations, due to inconsistent XML canonicalization.
2018‑02‑27: Beautiful folds in Haskell.
2018‑02‑27: Carte complète du SNCF réseau ferré français en 2017.
2018‑02‑27: Typescript : class vs interface.
2018‑02‑27: Why enterprise agile teams fail.
2018‑02‑27: The unavailable Linux server: when TLS certificate validation fails.
2018‑02‑27: O API: an alternative to REST.
2018‑02‑27: Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet.
2018‑02‑27: PostgreSQL internals: avoid error context stack corruption.
2018‑02‑27: Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple.
2018‑02‑27: The lost art of bending over: how other cultures spare their spines.
2018‑02‑27: The struggles of women who mask their autism.
2018‑02‑27: Peak DNSSEC?
2018‑02‑26: Life as a woman with colour blindness, and Enchroma glasses.
2018‑02‑26: Golang laws of reflection.
2018‑02‑26: Golang 2017 survey results.
2018‑02‑26: Safely load untrusted YAML in Perl.
2018‑02‑26: New features for sequences in PostgreSQL 10.
2018‑02‑26: The Hypothesis continuous release process.
2018‑02‑26: Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows kernel bug.
2018‑02‑26: Scientists aim to pull peer review out of the 17th century.
2018‑02‑25: CTTK: constant-time toolkit.
2018‑02‑25: How Black Panther asks us to examine who we are to one another.
2018‑02‑25: 'Black Panther': choose your weapons.
2018‑02‑25: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know.
2018‑02‑25: A long two months working on Spectre/Meltdown mitigations in Illumos.
2018‑02‑25: Google AMP's speed comes from preloading, and other controversies.
2018‑02‑24: Backlogs! Backlogs everywhere: how Wikipedia deals with spam and bad actors.
2018‑02‑23: The US experience with the phasedown of lead in gasoline.
2018‑02‑23: 10,000 year Clock of the Long Now gets lowered into Texas mountain.
2018‑02‑23: Words for "yes" in Romance languages.
2018‑02‑23: Pwned Passwords V2: half a billion passwords for download, and a k-anonymity query service.
2018‑02‑23: Mysterious origin of domesticated horses 'turned upside down' by DNA analysis.
2018‑02‑23: A python development environment for 2018.
2018‑02‑23: The quest for the missing DNSSEC keytags.
2018‑02‑23: Escaping hell with monads.
2018‑02‑21: When whisper networks let us down: how communities struggle — and sometimes fail — to stop sexual assault.
2018‑02‑21: fugit: *really* lightweight git access control.
2018‑02‑21: Three ways to open up closed code.
2018‑02‑21: Black Panther: the tale of two different viewing experiences.
2018‑02‑21: Prestigious science journals struggle to reach even average reliability.
2018‑02‑21: vgo: golang += package versioning.
2018‑02‑21: Package management for Golang: thoughts on vgo and dep.
2018‑02‑21: Ruby's new JIT.
2018‑02‑21: Adventures with memory barriers and Seastar on Linux.
2018‑02‑20: Two x86 instruction sequences usually resynchronize after a few instructions because of the Kruskal Count.
2018‑02‑20: Kruskal Count and Kangaroo Method.
2018‑02‑20: Superset disassembly: statically rewriting x86 binaries without heuristics.
2018‑02‑20: The dark money driving the Scottish Tory surge.
2018‑02‑20: Lärmkarte Berlin: so laut ist es vor Ihrer Haustür.
2018‑02‑20: The wall is the wall: why fortresses fail.
2018‑02‑20: Python async simplified.
2018‑02‑19: Risks of TLS/1.3 0RTT data.
2018‑02‑19: Fabric linear motor.
2018‑02‑19: Existential crisis: heterogeneous collections in Haskell.
2018‑02‑19: ZGC: a low-latency garbage collector for Java / HotSpot / Linux / amd64.
2018‑02‑19: Norris numbers: walls programmers hit as programs scale up.
2018‑02‑19: DeepState augments C/C++ test-driven development with symbolic execution.
2018‑02‑18: IPv4 route lookup on Linux: level compressed trie.
2018‑02‑18: What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications, language-specific tooling.
2018‑02‑18: How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave.
2018‑02‑18: Container patterns.
2018‑02‑18: Someone is sending sex toys to strangers. Amazon has no idea how to stop it.
2018‑02‑18: The cabinet files: second-hand filing cabinets turned out to be full of classified Australian documents.
2018‑02‑18: Ghost in the DCL shell: OpenVMS, touted as ultra reliable, had a local root hole for 30 years.
2018‑02‑18: 'Black Panther' is not the movie we deserve.
2018‑02‑17: Google AMP is an anticompetitive attempt to fork the web.
2018‑02‑17: Guy spends almost a year gluing 42,000 matches to make a giant sphere, then sets it on fire.
2018‑02‑16: Choosing a perl templating system.
2018‑02‑16: Travis encrypted variables and external contributions.
2018‑02‑16: Replacing jQuery with Vue.js: no build step necessary.
2018‑02‑16: The Kautz graph.
2018‑02‑16: Making propellor safer with GADTs and type families.
2018‑02‑16: Indic scripts and Unicode: picking apart the crashing iOS string.
2018‑02‑16: Hed, dek, lede, graf, tk: live with it.
2018‑02‑16: (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)
2018‑02‑16: 'Lede' vs. 'Lead'.
2018‑02‑16: Jim Roskind's C/C++ grammar.
2018‑02‑16: The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble.
2018‑02‑16: The Bishop Fox cybersecurity style guide.
2018‑02‑15: DMCA lawsuit between Cox and BMG: redirecting abuse@ to /dev/null can be expensive.
2018‑02‑15: Evolution of CSS layout: 1990s to the future.
2018‑02‑14: Dtrace for Linux: Oracle does the right thing.
2018‑02‑14: IRS clutches its modernization holy grail: converting their 50yo assembler codebase to Java.
2018‑02‑14: CSS grid for UI layouts.
2018‑02‑14: The SCRAM SASL authentication mechanism.
2018‑02‑14: LLVM's garbage collection facilities and SBCL's generational GC.
2018‑02‑14: PDP-7 Unix: building a development environment from scratch.
2018‑02‑14: Picture of a single strontium atom in an ion trap wins science photo contest.
2018‑02‑14: A detailed timeline of the IMAGE satellite recovery.
2018‑02‑13: Drawing better-looking Bézier curves.
2018‑02‑13: Developers on call.
2018‑02‑13: The Big Switch: a view of the advent of cloud computing, ten years on.
2018‑02‑13: Lessons from optics, the other deep learning.
2018‑02‑13: Metacrap: putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia.
2018‑02‑13: What's wrong with Metcalfe's Law?
2018‑02‑13: QQ Browser's textbook RSA fails to protect the privacy of hundreds of millions of users.
2018‑02‑13: DNS RFC dependency graph.
2018‑02‑12: Moomin noir.
2018‑02‑12: SafeYAML
2018‑02‑12: Let's talk about usernames.
2018‑02‑12: The songs that bind: musical tastes are formed at puberty.
2018‑02‑11: A sampled virtual music box.
2018‑02‑10: GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction.
2018‑02‑10: The incomplete vision of John Perry Barlow.
2018‑02‑10: An opinionated guide to Haskell in 2018.
2018‑02‑10: The configuration complexity clock.
2018‑02‑10: Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown.
2018‑02‑09: KPTI/Meltdown initial performance regressions.
2018‑02‑09: FreeBSD Broadcom WiFi improvements.
2018‑02‑09: When will the world reach 'peak child'?
2018‑02‑09: PostgreSQL on a VAX.
2018‑02‑09: The special data device SpaceX's Falcon Heavy sent to orbit.
2018‑02‑09: People notice there's something wrong with The Rock's new movie poster, and things escalate quickly.
2018‑02‑09: Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible.
2018‑02‑09: Computer manpower: is there a crisis? (1982)
2018‑02‑09: A history of capacity challenges in computer science education.
2018‑02‑08: Paris flooding harks back to one of the great breakthroughs in hydrology.
2018‑02‑08: The many faces of the Petersen graph.
2018‑02‑08: How many Amazon Mechanical Turk workers are there?
2018‑02‑07: Design notes on inline caches in Guile.
2018‑02‑07: The EM2S 60kHz radio receiver module and the MSF time signal.
2018‑02‑07: Googlebot's Javascript random() function is deterministic.
2018‑02‑07: Why paper jams persist.
2018‑02‑07: In Rust, ordinary vectors are values.
2018‑02‑07: From telegram to tweet: a history of laws against malicious communications.
2018‑02‑07: PostgreSQL and compressed documents.
2018‑02‑07: Keyboard dissolves in acetone. (YouTube)
2018‑02‑07: Data retention, national security, and the ECJ: the continuing saga.
2018‑02‑06: Two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in a science writer's stories.
2018‑02‑06: Why the tz database should not record sub-second offsets.
2018‑02‑06: Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite.
2018‑02‑06: A tale of two moons: Peter Lik's photographs called out by science.
2018‑02‑06: SRFI 110: sweet-expressions, an indentation-based syntax for Scheme.
2018‑02‑06: The marbled crayfish clones itself, and it's taking over Europe.
2018‑02‑06: Confessions of a typewriter addict.
2018‑02‑06: MITRE CVE numbering authorities.
2018‑02‑06: DWF CNA registry: distributed weakness filing CVE numbering authorities.
2018‑02‑05: Ignoring the domain when authenticating your Dovecot users.
2018‑02‑05: Modern CSS explained for dinosaurs.
2018‑02‑05: Almost-classics: sf concepts and settings that deserve better execution.
2018‑02‑05: Wales is leading the way on democratic reform.
2018‑02‑05: Using Git for Debian packaging.
2018‑02‑05: DragonFFI: foreign function interface and JIT for calling C using Clang/LLVM.
2018‑02‑05: How and why to write a Rude Q&A.
2018‑02‑05: How the Super Bowl halftime show gets set up in just six minutes.
2018‑02‑04: Make your own make, with Cargo and Rust.
2018‑02‑04: Why dolphins are deep thinkers.
2018‑02‑04: Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors.
2018‑02‑04: JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM.
2018‑02‑03: Amazon Aurora Postgres: first thoughts.
2018‑02‑03: Combine pgreplay with pgBadger.
2018‑02‑03: ECMAScript 2018: the final feature set.
2018‑02‑03: How Google Chrome's new ad blocker works.
2018‑02‑03: Faux Shu follies: cheating at magic squares.
2018‑02‑03: Why would I care about Mikhail Bongard's problems?
2018‑02‑03: What is going to happen with WHOIS and GDPR?
2018‑02‑03: git .mailmap: fix up deadnames in old commits.
2018‑02‑02: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes.
2018‑02‑02: Measuring QUIC vs TCP on desktop and mobile.
2018‑02‑02: NIS Directive: EU directive on security of network and information systems.
2018‑02‑02: How Christine Peterson coined the term 'open source'.
2018‑02‑01: Monitoring with Prometheus 2.0.
2018‑02‑01: OpenPnP: open source SMT pick and place.
2018‑02‑01: Unboxing a cheap desktop pick and place machine.
2018‑02‑01: Postgres hidden gems.
2018‑02‑01: Spying on a Ruby process's memory allocations with eBPF.
2018‑01‑31: Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment.
2018‑01‑31: GRV: a terminal/curses interface for viewing git repositories.
2018‑01‑31: The cult of Mary Beard.
2018‑01‑31: The peculiar case of NSEC processing using expanded wildcard records.
2018‑01‑31: The Jaffer-Humphreys test: A Bechdel test for museums.
2018‑01‑30: DO or UNDO, there is no VACUUM: what if PostgreSQL didn't need VACUUM at all?
2018‑01‑30: Ten days in Shenzhen.
2018‑01‑30: A techie's rough guide to GDPR.
2018‑01‑30: GDPR and Google Analytics.
2018‑01‑30: The view from the TOP500.
2018‑01‑30: MPEG: a crisis, the causes, and a solution.
2018‑01‑29: Git signed commits are a bad idea.
2018‑01‑29: Table partitioning for storing logs in PostgreSQL.
2018‑01‑29: Debug tools for generating crafted DNS responses.
2018‑01‑29: When Perl isn't fast enough.
2018‑01‑29: An overview of the Perl 5 engine.
2018‑01‑29: Gray failure: the Achilles' heel of cloud-scale systems.
2018‑01‑28: Your instant Kubernetes cluster.
2018‑01‑28: Taking a pubsub message broker approach to logging.
2018‑01‑28: The setenv fiasco.
2018‑01‑28: Do compilers take inline as a hint?
2018‑01‑28: How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras.
2018‑01‑27: Moving 1Password from CloudFormation to Terraform.
2018‑01‑27: My Delorean runs Perl.
2018‑01‑26: How to prepare a talk.
2018‑01‑26: Some obscure C features you might not know about.
2018‑01‑26: Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck.
2018‑01‑26: NASA's long dead 'IMAGE' satellite is alive!
2018‑01‑26: A practitioner's guide to reading programming languages papers.
2018‑01‑25: Why apt should use https.
2018‑01‑25: Bike-share schemes improve safety; helmet laws do not.
2018‑01‑25: STGi: spineless tagless G-machine interpreter.
2018‑01‑25: dns2doh: test DNS over HTTP.
2018‑01‑25: Sweden's gender-balanced snow-clearing as a template for adjusting Canadian budgets.
2018‑01‑25: Typed capability-based APIs in Rust.
2018‑01‑25: Bringing DNS security and privacy to the end user.
2018‑01‑25: Railway station traffic statistics visualized.
2018‑01‑25: Ref patterns, destructuring, and invisible borrows in Rust.
2018‑01‑24: The new anti-Spectre microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features.
2018‑01‑24: How to chroot to a Raspberry Pi SD card on an Ubuntu box.
2018‑01‑24: How to emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OSX (El Capitan).
2018‑01‑24: Abolished in Scotland, it's time the feudal leftover of leasehold ownership expired in the rest of Britain.
2018‑01‑24: Think your country is crowded? These maps reveal the truth about population density across Europe.
2018‑01‑23: How a fix in Golang 1.9 sped up GitLab's Gitaly service by 30x.
2018‑01‑23: An introduction to algebraic data types and structural pattern matching in TypeScript.
2018‑01‑23: Why is Jepsen-style random testing effective for partition tolerance bugs?
2018‑01‑22: The good operation: an induction tool and reference guide for policy professionals within MOD.
2018‑01‑22: In search of 0xffffffffff600400: troubleshooting containers, system calls, and performance.
2018‑01‑22: The policy hack.
2018‑01‑22: Nighttime long exposures of rotating helicopter blades.
2018‑01‑22: In defence of swap: common misconceptions.
2018‑01‑22: The limitations of chaos engineering.
2018‑01‑21: Network latencies and speed of light.
2018‑01‑21: Code alignment and microbenchmark performance.
2018‑01‑21: A brief YAML reference.
2018‑01‑21: How to talk to angry people: the CLARA method of de-escalation.
2018‑01‑21: The difference between liberalism and centrism.
2018‑01‑21: What is XML good at?
2018‑01‑21: Brave new I/O for embedded Rust.
2018‑01‑21: Why is only half of Mars magnetized?
2018‑01‑21: The London Time Machine.
2018‑01‑20: The Carillion whitewash: insolvent, not illiquid.
2018‑01‑20: Testing microservices, the sane way.
2018‑01‑20: JavaScript things I never knew existed.
2018‑01‑20: Fuzzing TCP servers.
2018‑01‑19: A brief overview of the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi's Queen Liliʻuokalani.
2018‑01‑19: Who the hell uses onion juice?
2018‑01‑19: Cornell barbecue chicken sauce.
2018‑01‑19: Nominet abandons its charitable trust.
2018‑01‑19: Ridiculously fast base64 encoding and decoding.
2018‑01‑19: Oxidizing JavaScript source maps with Rust and WebAssembly.
2018‑01‑19: Rust and Qt/QML: a timely example
2018‑01‑18: Trackball history: Canada's earliest gift to computing.
2018‑01‑18: How to measure the working set size on Linux.
2018‑01‑18: The 1969 Easter Mass incident.
2018‑01‑17: Followup attacks based on Spectre and Meltdown to look forward to.
2018‑01‑16: Finding a CPU design bug in the Xbox 360.
2018‑01‑15: Antineutrino Global Map 2015 chatacterizes Earth's radioactivity.
2018‑01‑15: Firefox will require TLS for all new web features.
2018‑01‑15: Amdahl's law, the universal scalability law, and coherence penalty.
2018‑01‑15: The death of microservice madness.
2018‑01‑15: The secret history of the Russian consulate in San Francisco.
2018‑01‑15: stm-containers: concurrent HAMT for Haskell.
2018‑01‑15: Cherry's new low-profile switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops.
2018‑01‑14: Benchmarking crimes: an emerging threat in systems security.
2018‑01‑13: Firefox bullshit removal via about:config.
2018‑01‑13: Cuckoo hashing can outperform learned indexes.
2018‑01‑13: Mechanical computing systems using only links and rotary joints.
2018‑01‑13: Isn't it obvious? Avoiding just-so stories about visualizations.
2018‑01‑13: The Bestiary: scaly-foot gastropod / iron snail.
2018‑01‑13: fluxcapacitor: how to sleep a million years.
2018‑01‑12: What it's like being a creative professional and a mother.
2018‑01‑12: Let's Encrypt update regarding ACME TLS-SNI and shared hosting infrastructure.
2018‑01‑12: The "Clarke Gap" of a technology is the degree to which it is distinguishable from magic.
2018‑01‑12: Down the "shithole": why lexicographers need your profanity.
2018‑01‑12: Fast strong hash functions: SipHash and HighwayHash.
2018‑01‑11: Fundamental physics is frustrating physicists.
2018‑01‑11: IPv6 flow label: misuse in hashing.
2018‑01‑11: Report on the npm operations incident of 6th Jan.
2018‑01‑11: Detecting Spectre and Meltdown using hardware performance counters.
2018‑01‑11: Making the pizza cinnamon rolls from Mario Batali's sexual misconduct apology letter.
2018‑01‑10: PiTubeDirect: a Raspberry Pi as a BBC Micro second processor.
2018‑01‑10: The fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs Is nearly won.
2018‑01‑10: Let's Encrypt issue with TLS-SNI-01 and shared hosting infrastructure.
2018‑01‑09: Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a gateway with a BeagleBone.
2018‑01‑09: What Spectre and Meltdown mean for WebKit.
2018‑01‑09: Legends of the ancient web.
2018‑01‑09: Control-C handling in Python and Trio.
2018‑01‑09: Birth order effects exist and are very strong.
2018‑01‑09: Pepper: the spice of life.
2018‑01‑09: A vast 430-year-old world map, full of places and creatures, real and imagined.
2018‑01‑08: Meltdown and Spectre information update for DragonflyBSD.
2018‑01‑08: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep.
2018‑01‑08: Golang's hidden #pragmas.
2018‑01‑08: Why Brigade doesn't do YAML: scripting for Kubernetes clusters.
2018‑01‑08: NSEC3 hash performance in NSD and Unbound.
2018‑01‑08: The bad neighbor: out-of-order execution and its applications.
2018‑01‑08: The Python decorators they won't tell you about
2018‑01‑08: Four groups of researchers independently found Meltdown and Spectre within mere months of each other.
2018‑01‑08: PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86.
2018‑01‑07: Ancient browser wars history: MD5-hashed posts declassified.
2018‑01‑07: From 200K lines of CoffeeScript to zero: making decaffeinate super-stable.
2018‑01‑07: Full-text search in Django with PostgreSQL.
2018‑01‑07: An 8-tube module from a 1954 IBM 705 mainframe: it's a key debouncer.
2018‑01‑06: I'm harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here's how.
2018‑01‑06: Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status.
2018‑01‑06: Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments.
2018‑01‑06: A type system for the Nix purely functional package manager.
2018‑01‑06: Racket-on-Chez status, January 2018.
2018‑01‑05: Spectre/Meltdown security holes will devastate Intel's marketshare.
2018‑01‑05: Intel analysis of speculative execution side channels.
2018‑01‑05: Random with care.
2018‑01‑05: The fresh prints of 'bell-end'.
2018‑01‑05: Apple's notice aboit speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs.
2018‑01‑05: Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge.
2018‑01‑05: Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ.
2018‑01‑05: How Wendy Carlos changed music forever.
2018‑01‑04: The "retpoline" x86 mitigation technique for the Spectre branch target injection attack.
2018‑01‑04: Notes from the Intelpocalypse.
2018‑01‑04: What I learned in 2017 writing Golang.
2018‑01‑04: Decrypting PgBouncer's diagnostic information.
2018‑01‑03: Google Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel. (Meltdown/Spectre)
2018‑01‑03: Life as a New York Times reporter on the national security beat.
2018‑01‑03: What does it mean for code to be "explicit"?
2018‑01‑03: Making TRust-DNS faster than BIND9.
2018‑01‑03: Initial benchmarks of the performance impact of page table isolation.
2018‑01‑03: How the Å came to be.
2018‑01‑03: Genetic study supports carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.
2018‑01‑03: We saw some really bad Intel CPU bugs in 2015, and we should expect to see more in the future.
2018‑01‑03: PostgreSQL benchmarks showing performance regressions due to page table isolation.
2018‑01‑03: The Golang type system for newcomers.
2018‑01‑02: 'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux and Windows redesign.
2018‑01‑02: NeoPG: a cleaned-up fork of GnuPG 2.
2018‑01‑02: Star Wars: Regency.
2018‑01‑02: SQL keys in depth.
2018‑01‑02: Negative result: reading kernel memory from user mode via speculative execution.
2018‑01‑02: Water's odd behavior stems from its ability to exist in two liquid states.
2018‑01‑02: Oumuamua pursued: the path of an interstellar asteroid.
2018‑01‑02: The fat in a perfect croissant.
2018‑01‑02: The death and life of the 13-month calendar.
2018‑01‑02: Warnsdorff's rule for finding knight's tours.
2018‑01‑01: Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors.
2018‑01‑01: Esperanto exits stealth mode, aiming at AI with a 4,096-core 7nm RISC-V monster.
2018‑01‑01: How Hotmail changed Microsoft (and email) forever.
2018‑01‑01: The story of the Gömböc.
2018‑01‑01: The mysterious case of the Linux page table isolation patches.
2018‑01‑01: In-place editing gets safer in perl 5.28.
2017‑12‑31: Tracking down the roots of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
2017‑12‑31: Alan Kay on how to fund research.
2017‑12‑31: The orgin and constraints of "shitgibbon" compounds.
2017‑12‑30: The 2017 Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing.
2017‑12‑30: Dead store elimination (still) considered harmful.
2017‑12‑30: A history of S_IFMT file types in Unix.
2017‑12‑30: What were the worst Nobel Prize snubs is science history?
2017‑12‑30: Programming in the Wild West.
2017‑12‑29: ECSV: a format for astronomical tables (in CSV) with metadata (in YAML).
2017‑12‑29: Vim on a mechanical typewriter.
2017‑12‑29: New Zealand study provides more support for the lead-crime hypothesis.
2017‑12‑29: Re-examining the scrypt() parameter values.
2017‑12‑29: PostgreSQL + ZFS best practices.
2017‑12‑29: The sorry state of OpenSSL usability.
2017‑12‑29: Legal cannabis isn't the boon small businesses thought it would be.
2017‑12‑29: Willrow Hood's ice cream machine in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
2017‑12‑29: SSL Labs grading overhaul preview.
2017‑12‑28: The day zero was banned from British roulette.
2017‑12‑28: FaCT aka ConstanC: a constant-time programming language.
2017‑12‑28: FaCT: A flexible and constant-time programming language.
2017‑12‑28: pg_squeeze: A PostgreSQL extension for automatic bloat cleanup.
2017‑12‑27: BT InLink in London: building a privatised "smart city" by stealth.
2017‑12‑27: How to hack a turned-off computer, or, running unsigned code in Intel ME.
2017‑12‑27: Macaroons: cookies with contextual caveats for decentralized authorization in the cloud.
2017‑12‑26: Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet.
2017‑12‑26: Scientists have found a drug that can repair cavities and regrow teeth.
2017‑12‑26: Tom Weller's "Science Made Stupid" and "Cvltvre Made Stvpid".
2017‑12‑26: Evil coding incantations.
2017‑12‑26: The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis.
2017‑12‑26: Untangling Jenkins (with Summon and Conjur).
2017‑12‑26: Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter.
2017‑12‑25: Undefined vs unsafe in Rust.
2017‑12‑25: Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply.
2017‑12‑25: An algorithmic approach to dealing with insomnia.
2017‑12‑25: Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability.
2017‑12‑25: The current state of kernel page-table isolation.
2017‑12‑24: Formal verification: the gap between perfect code and reality.
2017‑12‑24: "A simple makefile" is a unicorn.
2017‑12‑24: A list of software that turns your database into a REST or GraphQL API.
2017‑12‑24: NRT:IT refurbished Dell.
2017‑12‑24: Eleven Linux syscalls that suck.
2017‑12‑23: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, reviewed by Adam Roberts.
2017‑12‑23: Vulnerabilities and exploits: What happened when the infosec community outed its own sexual predators.
2017‑12‑23: Division by invariant integers using multiplication.
2017‑12‑23: Why nothing matters: the impact of zero initialization on programming language performance.
2017‑12‑23: JSON in MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL: few more stories about performance.
2017‑12‑23: AVX-512: what's useful for us.
2017‑12‑23: Dropbox releases PyAnnotate: auto-generate type annotations for mypy.
2017‑12‑23: Let your Python code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyType.
2017‑12‑23: Why IBM DB2 is four different DBMS code bases.
2017‑12‑22: Ten lessons a mathematician wished he had been taught.
2017‑12‑22: Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection for forking processes.
2017‑12‑21: Start your open-source career.
2017‑12‑21: Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably.
2017‑12‑21: Implementing malloc(): an exercise to teach students systems programming.
2017‑12‑21: systemd-resolved is broken.
2017‑12‑20: Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's asynchronous I/O framework from the bottom up.
2017‑12‑20: Salesforce's problems on the way to a near perfect log pipeline.
2017‑12‑19: Tune ssh settings to speed up Ansible.
2017‑12‑18: Let it go: the Arctic will never be frozen again.
2017‑12‑18: Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear: unchecked capitalism vs superintelligent AI.
2017‑12‑18: Update on the DNSSEC root KSK rollover project for December 2017.
2017‑12‑18: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL.
2017‑12‑18: Overture JS: FastMail's web app library.
2017‑12‑18: A modulino is a file that is both script and module in Perl.
2017‑12‑18: The first Unix port, to the Interdata 7/32.
2017‑12‑17: A cheat-sheet for mathematical notation with translations to JavaScript.
2017‑12‑17: Butch, femme, and the history of lesbian identity.
2017‑12‑17: Silicon Valley techies still think they're the good guys. They're not.
2017‑12‑17: Modes, medians, means: a unifying perspective.
2017‑12‑17: Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?
2017‑12‑17: A thorough introduction to Apache Kafka.
2017‑12‑17: Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture, from an infrastructure tooling team at the FT.
2017‑12‑17: Dance Dance Convolution: automatically generating steps for a rhythm-based video game.
2017‑12‑16: Dive into BPF: a list of reading material.
2017‑12‑16: 白左 (baizuo): The curious rise of the 'white left' as a Chinese internet insult.
2017‑12‑16: The Emacs calculator: a computer algebra system in your editor.
2017‑12‑16: RFC 8259: the last JSON spec.
2017‑12‑16: Introducing the GoodWatch: A neighborly watch for radio engineers.
2017‑12‑16: REST is the new SOAP.
2017‑12‑16: Introducing stapbpf: SystemTap's new BPF backend.
2017‑12‑15: Lessons learned from a DNS registrar account compromise and man-in-the-middle attack.
2017‑12‑14: Why is giving birth so hard? Revisiting the 'obstetrical dilemma'.
2017‑12‑14: A Volvo factory in China is car production heaven.
2017‑12‑14: W3C vs WHATWG. Which gives the most authoritative HTML spec?
2017‑12‑14: What is the relationship between the W3C and the WHATWG?
2017‑12‑14: Results of New Zealand FOI query about academic journal subscription costs.
2017‑12‑14: BGP security in partial deployment: is the juice worth the squeeze? (2013)
2017‑12‑13: XSS vulnerabilities in web sites that display x.509 TLS certificate details.
2017‑12‑13: London Underground map translated into German / Londoner U-Bahn-Plan ins Deutsche übersetzt.
2017‑12‑13: TP-Link repeater firmware squanders 715 MB/month of DNS and NTP traffic.
2017‑12‑13: Monitoring PostgreSQL replication lag.
2017‑12‑12: Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again.
2017‑12‑12: Software compatibility and lld's autoconf "User-Agent" problem.
2017‑12‑12: The ROBOT attack on RSA in TLS: return of Bleichenbacher's oracle threat.
2017‑12‑12: Internet protocols are changing: HTTP/2, TLS/1.3, QUIC, DoH.
2017‑12‑12: Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together in 1800s America.
2017‑12‑12: 100baseT Ethernet: so good, it works over barbed wire.
2017‑12‑12: It's official: ADSL works over wet string.
2017‑12‑12: AMD is at last releasing its open source Vulkan driver.
2017‑12‑12: High-level problems with Git and how to fix them.
2017‑12‑12: Why do asteroids explode high in the atmosphere?
2017‑12‑12: The GoodWatch: a Casio calculator watch containing hex editor, disassembler, and ham radio.
2017‑12‑11: On the value of EV x.509 TLS certificates.
2017‑12‑11: An intellectual property rights (IPR) policy and governance structure for the WHATWG.
2017‑12‑11: The numbers of women in tech rise and fall, but sexual harassment is ever present.
2017‑12‑11: The case for machine learning index structures instead of B-trees or hash tables.
2017‑12‑11: Half of Kenya's electricity comes from geothermal energy.
2017‑12‑11: NASA to test prototype Kilopower nuclear reactor intended for missions to Mars.
2017‑12‑11: When did Italian become the language of Italy?
2017‑12‑11: Thinking about hardware support for virtualization.
2017‑12‑11: How to make an atomic clock from N@C60, a nitrogen atom in a carbon fullerene cage.
2017‑12‑11: Design Principles.
2017‑12‑11: A collection of magic "nothing up my sleeve" numbers in cryptographic algorithms.
2017‑12‑10: Alaskan North Slope climate change just outran one of our tools to measure it.
2017‑12‑10: Golang tooling essentials: useful flags and options.
2017‑12‑10: How a CogSci undergrad invented PageRank three years before Google.
2017‑12‑10: AWS DNS services break qname minimization.
2017‑12‑10: About 34% of legitimate E-Passports have flaws preventing verification.
2017‑12‑10: Falsehoods programmers believe about programming.
2017‑12‑10: Measuring asymmetric DOCSIS latency via NTP.
2017‑12‑10: Global powers lobby to stop special Brexit deal for UK.
2017‑12‑10: Line Rider in the Hall of the Mountain King. (YouTube)
2017‑12‑10: The Freiburg cup: a solution to single-use coffee cups.
2017‑12‑10: iPhone slow? Try replacing your battery!
2017‑12‑10: Notes on postmodern programming.
2017‑12‑10: Kerberos: why the world moved on.
2017‑12‑09: 1.4 billion clear text credentials discovered in a single database.
2017‑12‑09: The remarkable "curvature blindness" illusion.
2017‑12‑09: An interview with Xavier Leroy.
2017‑12‑09: This is just to say we have explained the plum jokes in your Twitter feed.
2017‑12‑08: Make it Simple: a tale about Robert Dewar, Ada, and gnat.
2017‑12‑08: Rust-inspired safe pointers in SPARK Ada 2014.
2017‑12‑08: Sending infrared commands from a Raspberry Pi without LIRC.
2017‑12‑08: Decoding an air conditioner remote control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis.
2017‑12‑08: What have we learned from the PDP-11?
2017‑12‑08: Google is likely to have its LIDAR patents invalidated, hindering its lawsuit against Uber.
2017‑12‑08: A PostgreSQL / Pacemaker outage report.
2017‑12‑07: 3D printed objects that can connect to WiFi without electronics.
2017‑12‑07: Portugal's radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn't the world copied it?
2017‑12‑07: Neurotypical peers are less willing to interact with those with Autism based on thin slice judgments.
2017‑12‑07: Rust code organization: modules, crates, etc.
2017‑12‑07: Google's AlphaZero beats Stockfish in 100-game match after spending 4 hours teaching itself chess.
2017‑12‑06: The story of the crookneck / handled ancient American watermelon.
2017‑12‑06: Denial by DNS: Uber learns painfully and laboriously how not to write an asynchronous resolver.
2017‑12‑06: Introducing "British Economic Time" aka "Sunrise Time", the ultimate astronomy geek timezone.
2017‑12‑06: Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite.
2017‑12‑06: AlphaZero achieves in 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess, shogi, and Go.
2017‑12‑06: How Diesel autogenerates a Rust API from a database schema.
2017‑12‑06: Are X.509 EV certificates worth the paper they're written on?
2017‑12‑06: Electronic Arts is addicted to Wilson loot boxes.
2017‑12‑05: Announcing cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s: IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes networking in AWS.
2017‑12‑05: The mystery of the blend: the blender file format explained.
2017‑12‑05: AWS EC2 virtualization 2017: introducing Nitro.
2017‑12‑04: Connected toys: France serves formal notice to cease serious breach of privacy because of a lack of security.
2017‑12‑04: Debugging an evil Golang runtime bug.
2017‑12‑04: Hands-on with the PocketBeagle: a $25 Linux computer with lots of I/O pins.
2017‑12‑04: How to use Git hooks to version control your Excel VBA code.
2017‑12‑04: Planning to rewrite parts of Mercurial in Rust.
2017‑12‑04: How Google manages 250,000 desktop/laptop computers securely and efficiently.
2017‑12‑04: The Stretcher Railing Society: preserving WWII artifacts hidden in plain sight around London.
2017‑12‑04: Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, and turn a conversation around.
2017‑12‑04: End of privacy rights in the UK public sector?
2017‑12‑04: DNS resolver latency (cache hit rate) vs query rate.
2017‑12‑04: "Metalenses" created with photolithography could change the nature of imaging and optical processing.
2017‑12‑04: ffwd: delegation to another thread instead of locking is (much) faster than you think.
2017‑12‑04: Metro map colour-coding: effect on usability in route tracing.
2017‑12‑04: Psychological safety in operations teams.
2017‑12‑03: Dice become ordered when stirred, not shaken.
2017‑12‑03: How I convinced my 1987 Canon Cat to talk to my 2017 MacBook Pro.
2017‑12‑03: Fool Britannia: the future of the UK has never looked so grim.
2017‑12‑03: Criterion: statistics-driven micro-benchmarking for Rust.
2017‑12‑03: DNS for Tor exit nodes.
2017‑12‑02: Homeowners trapped by 'fleecehold', the new cash cow for property developers.
2017‑12‑02: Blockchain graveyard.
2017‑12‑02: Not your parent's analog computer.
2017‑12‑02: Sex isn't chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X and Y.
2017‑12‑02: A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates.
2017‑12‑02: Hisako Koyama: an amateur astronomer who was one of the greatest solar observers.
2017‑12‑02: The Icelandic translation of Dracula is actually a different book.
2017‑12‑02: Python library API checklist.
2017‑12‑02: Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly.
2017‑12‑02: A clever line of JavaScript.
2017‑12‑01: How Etsy caches: consistent hashing, Ketama, and cache smearing.
2017‑12‑01: DNS TTL violations in the wild, measured with RIPE Atlas.
2017‑12‑01: The LEGO storage guide.
2017‑12‑01: Write your next Ethereum contract in Pyramid Scheme.
2017‑12‑01: Git PSA: git-rev-parse.
2017‑11‑30: Twenty Toes: juggling with hands and feet. (Vimeo)
2017‑11‑30: Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058.
2017‑11‑29: Drawing fractal Droste images: spirals inside Mandelbrots!
2017‑11‑29: Object models in Python 3, Lua, JavaScript, and Perl 5.
2017‑11‑29: Why an empty password gets you root on macOS High Sierra.
2017‑11‑29: ISPS: hardware decription languages before VHDL.
2017‑11‑29: Exploring the BBC micro:bit software stack.
2017‑11‑29: The numbers that show SNCF, France's proud rail service is struggling.
2017‑11‑29: The Irish and Belgian approaches to Brexit.
2017‑11‑28: DNS-over-TLS at SURFnet.
2017‑11‑28: tenta-dns: Recursive and authoritative DNS server in golang, with DNSSEC, DNS-over-TLS, and BGP anycast.
2017‑11‑28: PostgreSQL auto_explain: analyzing the performance of millions of unique SQL queries.
2017‑11‑28: pgDoctor: PostgreSQL healthchecks for load balancers.
2017‑11‑28: Bitcoin and that 1929 vibe.
2017‑11‑28: A sense of units and scale for electrical energy production and consumption.
2017‑11‑28: Format oracle attacks against OpenPGP and GnuPG.
2017‑11‑28: Photovoltaic growth: reality versus projections of the International Energy Agency.
2017‑11‑28: ... Then you win.
2017‑11‑27: Drawing from noise with Processing, and making animated loopy GIFs.
2017‑11‑27: Horwood's plan of London, 1792 - 1799.
2017‑11‑27: SPIFFE: standards for securely identifying software systems in dynamic and heterogeneous production environments .
2017‑11‑27: VPN DNS leak test.
2017‑11‑27: What Bikini Atoll looks like today.
2017‑11‑27: Inside Docker's "FROM scratch" empty container.
2017‑11‑27: A minimalist guide to tmux.
2017‑11‑26: Why Amazon DynamoDB isn't for everyone.
2017‑11‑26: Unit testing doesn't affect codebases the way you might expect.
2017‑11‑26: Legatum: who are the Brexiteers' favourite think tank and who is behind them?
2017‑11‑26: A review of some Amazon HQ2 bids shows that democracy itself is a bargaining chip.
2017‑11‑26: LIL: the little implementation language (and other mid-level languages).
2017‑11‑26: Lively Linear Lisp: 'Look Ma, no garbage!'
2017‑11‑26: Carp: a Lisp with Rust-like memory management.
2017‑11‑25: Asbestos and the great Aussie DIY obsession: the impending killer 'third wave'.
2017‑11‑25: Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming.
2017‑11‑25: No end in sight to the Brexit madness.
2017‑11‑25: Using a logbook to improve your programming.
2017‑11‑25: Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles.
2017‑11‑25: In search of the perfect writing font.
2017‑11‑25: SOLID principles made easy.
2017‑11‑25: Incremental data capture for Oracle databases at LinkedIn.
2017‑11‑25: Hexagonal Architecture: a mobile app case study.
2017‑11‑25: VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code.
2017‑11‑24: Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game.
2017‑11‑24: No boundaries: key logging and exfiltration of personal data by web site session-replay scripts.
2017‑11‑24: How the sandwich consumed Britain.
2017‑11‑24: Our computer systems are not good enough. (YouTube)
2017‑11‑24: MySQL performance tuning and Linux context switches.
2017‑11‑24: In the Jungle: inside the long hidden genealogy of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.
2017‑11‑24: Observations of an ex pat: the Middle East explained.
2017‑11‑24: Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at last.
2017‑11‑24: Make: shows how to apologise properly.
2017‑11‑24: The financial realities of going viral.
2017‑11‑24: Ada: There's a mini-RTOS in my language.
2017‑11‑24: Why the world has so many Guineas.
2017‑11‑23: Common issues with PostgreSQL planner statistics.
2017‑11‑23: Draft revision of ISO 8601-201x with EDTF extended date/time formats.
2017‑11‑23: PostgreSQL configuration tuning for humans.
2017‑11‑23: How tuning PostgreSQL for SSDs can improve slow query performance by 50x.
2017‑11‑23: Road design: sustainable safety vs shared space.
2017‑11‑23: WIPEONFORK in Linux 4.14.
2017‑11‑23: Better random number generation for OpenSSL, glibc, and Linux.
2017‑11‑22: Why git is worse than Fossil.
2017‑11‑22: breezy: a fork of bzr for Python 3 support.
2017‑11‑22: Thoughts on Fossil-NG.
2017‑11‑22: Beauty shots of (moderately) retro computers.
2017‑11‑22: Do no harm: Linus on the tension between kernel security and system reliability.
2017‑11‑22: I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f'd up is that?
2017‑11‑22: Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Golang.
2017‑11‑22: Milksnake: ship Python wheels written in Rust without linking to libpython.
2017‑11‑22: Announcing failure: error handling for Rust.
2017‑11‑22: True Kilts: debunking myths about highlanders and clan tartans.
2017‑11‑22: What happens when a woman translates Homer's Odyssey.
2017‑11‑21: ESO observations show first known interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before.
2017‑11‑21: Development progress of Language Server Protocol compatible editors and language servers.
2017‑11‑21: How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
2017‑11‑21: When a Phillips is not a Phillips! A zoo of screwdrivers.
2017‑11‑21: Has web advertising jumped the shark?
2017‑11‑21: EU Horizon Prize: seamless IoT/cloud authentication for all.
2017‑11‑21: OpenSSI: single system image distributed clusters for Linux.
2017‑11‑21: cquery: a highly-scalable, low-latency VS Code language server for C/C++.
2017‑11‑21: Shaping the World. (PyCon UK keynote)
2017‑11‑21: Understanding `git filter-branch` and the git storage model.
2017‑11‑20: Leapseconds and earthquakes: 2018 predicted to be a year of big quakes as Earth rotation slows.
2017‑11‑20: Why clocks run clockwise, and some watches and clocks that don't.
2017‑11‑19: Typesetting the 1973 4th edition Unix programmer's manual.
2017‑11‑19: From War to Worboys: the redesign of British road signs in the early 1960s.
2017‑11‑19: Dark matter does not form a disk.
2017‑11‑19: Span types for raw memory slices in C#.
2017‑11‑19: Some birds use discarded cigarettes to fumigate their nests.
2017‑11‑19: Orcas vs great white sharks: in a battle of the apex predators who wins?
2017‑11‑19: Security things in Linux v4.14.
2017‑11‑18: Everything you need to know about Lexit in five minutes.
2017‑11‑18: 20 feet vs 178000 miles: a stupidly long network route.
2017‑11‑18: The mystery of the phantom scientific journal reference.
2017‑11‑18: The rise and fall of the complex sentence.
2017‑11‑18: Bufferbloat on the Internet backbone.
2017‑11‑17: Formula 1 race car aerofoils keep cold air inside supermarket chillers.
2017‑11‑17: Graphing the Analytics Package at Amazon: Remove the legend to become one.
2017‑11‑17: FreeBSD/EC2 on AWS C5 instances.
2017‑11‑17: Christopher Tolkien has resigned as director of the Tolkien estate.
2017‑11‑16: KAISER: hiding the Linux kernel from user space.
2017‑11‑16: Experience with viruses on UNIX systems. (1989)
2017‑11‑16: Plan 28 Autumn 2017 report on progress analysing Babbage's analytical engine manuscripts.
2017‑11‑16: Puffs: a domain-specific language and library for parsing untrusted file formats safely.
2017‑11‑15: Keeping a lab notebook: basic principles and best practices.
2017‑11‑15: Oberon: the overlooked jewel.
2017‑11‑15: Fairchild F9445 MicroFlame: a clone of the Data General Nova.
2017‑11‑15: All of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux.
2017‑11‑15: NumPy's plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by 2020.
2017‑11‑15: Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases.
2017‑11‑15: What did 17th century food taste like?
2017‑11‑14: Report from the SNAFUcatchers workshop on coping with complexity.
2017‑11‑14: Finding the right color palettes for data visualizations.
2017‑11‑13: The post-Weinstein reckoning.
2017‑11‑13: uPyPhone: a GSM phone using MicroPython, PyBoard, and SIM800L.
2017‑11‑13: Against brilliant jerks.
2017‑11‑13: Verfploeter: broad and load-aware anycast mapping.
2017‑11‑13: Physics has demoted mass.
2017‑11‑13: Long-term coffee consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease.
2017‑11‑13: Vitamin D and cancer prevention.
2017‑11‑13: Time zones, daylight saving, and cancer risk.
2017‑11‑13: Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ.
2017‑11‑13: Trip report: Fall 2017 ISO C++ standards meeting (Albuquerque).
2017‑11‑13: RISC-V processor research at IIT-Madras.
2017‑11‑13: target="_blank": an underestimated vulnerability.
2017‑11‑12: Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant: a GSM device hidden in a USB cable.
2017‑11‑12: Google's approach to observability across microservices.
2017‑11‑12: Medieval price list.
2017‑11‑12: Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757.
2017‑11‑12: Shadow Brokers security breaches and spilled secrets have shaken the NSA to its core.
2017‑11‑12: Gallery of missing data visualisations.
2017‑11‑11: Take it from the Swiss: the Brexit referendum wasn't legitimate.
2017‑11‑11: Fire and ice: Mapping the magma flow to Antarctica's most active volcano.
2017‑11‑11: A computer scientist who prefers voting on paper.
2017‑11‑11: Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies.
2017‑11‑11: Real-time GPU texture-mapped vector glyphs.
2017‑11‑11: The shape of Rome.
2017‑11‑11: Explanation of the OVH Strasbourg outage.
2017‑11‑11: Burn the programmer!
2017‑11‑11: How can liberalism be to blame for everything when we can't even agree what it is?
2017‑11‑10: Cursive handwriting and other education myths.
2017‑11‑10: All you need to know about whiteboard markers.
2017‑11‑10: CEOs don't steer.
2017‑11‑10: An evening with Berferd, in which a cracker is lured, endured, and studied.
2017‑11‑10: The fungus that turns ants into zombies is more diabolical than we realized.
2017‑11‑09: FastNetMon DDoS detection tool.
2017‑11‑09: America's "retail apocalypse" is really just beginning.
2017‑11‑09: .NET/C# generics history: some photos from Feb 1999.
2017‑11‑09: Exponential generic type expansion in the C# compiler.
2017‑11‑09: Curiouser and curiouser: recursive generic types in C#.
2017‑11‑09: Scientists on new supernova: WTF have we been looking at?
2017‑11‑08: This fungus has over 20,000 sexes.
2017‑11‑08: ARM takes wing: benchmarking Qualcomm vs. Intel CPUs.
2017‑11‑08: Perfect locality for listening sockets, and three epic SystemTap scripts.
2017‑11‑08: Andrew S Tanenbaum on the use of Minix in the Intel ME.
2017‑11‑08: The 10 top recommendations for the AI/ML field in 2017.
2017‑11‑08: CSS Flexbox and Grids, your layout's best friends.
2017‑11‑08: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
2017‑11‑08: Some problems of URLs.
2017‑11‑08: HotPlug: remove a running computer without shutting it down.
2017‑11‑08: Get up to speed with JANET's faster DDoS protection services.
2017‑11‑07: Update on the DNSSEC root KSK rollover project.
2017‑11‑07: Against ORMs.
2017‑11‑06: subjack: hostile subdomain takeover vulnerability scanning tool written in Golang.
2017‑11‑06: Beyond Horizons: 443km world record of distant landscape photography.
2017‑11‑06: Configure / metaconfig at the 2017 Perl 5 core hackathon.
2017‑11‑05: Visiting Lord's Bridge: the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory near Cambridge.
2017‑11‑05: Contributor Covenant: a code of conduct for open source projects.
2017‑11‑05: Reconstructing ROCA.
2017‑11‑04: Collapsing towers of interpreters.
2017‑11‑04: Logstalgia: replay or stream website access logs as a retro arcade game.
2017‑11‑04: Playing with Wolfram playing cards.
2017‑11‑04: "The warhead is no longer on top of the missile." A nuclear accident in 1964.
2017‑11‑04: CT Advisor: Certificate Transparency monitoring and alerts.
2017‑11‑04: CERTSTREAM: see certificate transparency list updates as X.509 certs are issued in real time.
2017‑11‑04: Identifying the "Early IBM Computer" in a Twitter photo: a 405 Accounting Machine.
2017‑11‑03: DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram.
2017‑11‑03: FOSSology: open source license compliance toolkit.
2017‑11‑03: Software matters in the world: work on fixing the big bugs.
2017‑11‑03: Strava's global heatmap, now 6x hotter.
2017‑11‑02: The return of Coppersmith's attack: practical factorization of widely used RSA moduli.
2017‑11‑02: Data classes for Java.
2017‑11‑02: What's new in HAProxy 1.8.
2017‑11‑02: How the Guardian found 800,000 paying readers.
2017‑11‑02: A minimalist guide to SQLite.
2017‑11‑02: The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules.
2017‑11‑02: Linux containers in 500 lines of code.
2017‑11‑02: m.css math: a Pelican plugin to render TeX to SVG on the server.
2017‑11‑02: 95 theses about technology.
2017‑11‑01: Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?
2017‑11‑01: Git delta amplification.
2017‑11‑01: My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container.
2017‑10‑31: Sequent calculus and linear logic: The Blind Spot and the cut rule.
2017‑10‑31: The habitat of hardware bugs.
2017‑10‑31: Perl is the most disliked programming language.
2017‑10‑31: State of the OpenVMS port to x86-64.
2017‑10‑31: fixie tries: a popcount trie implemented in Rust.
2017‑10‑31: Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930): A lady logician.
2017‑10‑31: Debug information is huge and what to do about it.
2017‑10‑31: Why are so many new and expectant mothers dying in the US?
2017‑10‑31: How the monstrous Weierstrass function paved the way for modern math.
2017‑10‑31: Cray: how to program a supercomputer.
2017‑10‑31: Dataviz project: a collection of data visualizations to get inspired and find the right type.
2017‑10‑31: Most websites don't need to vibrate: a cost-benefit approach to improving browser security.
2017‑10‑31: Same stats, different graphs: manipulating datasets through simulated annealing.
2017‑10‑31: Approximate frequency counts over data streams.
2017‑10‑30: Near future of programming languages.
2017‑10‑30: Scaling the GitLab PostgreSQL database.
2017‑10‑30: Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs.
2017‑10‑30: Colliding neutron stars are "standard sirens" that tell us how fast the universe is expanding.
2017‑10‑30: Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS.
2017‑10‑29: The meaning of Google AMP.
2017‑10‑29: The Internet Worm of 1988.
2017‑10‑29: Stealing Amazon EC2 keys via an XSS vulnerability.
2017‑10‑29: Some of the world's biggest energy storage schemes.
2017‑10‑29: The cubehelix colour scheme.
2017‑10‑29: Better than rainbows: matplotlib alternative colourblind-aware colourmaps.
2017‑10‑29: How to monkey-patch the Linux kernel with systemtap.
2017‑10‑29: Replace your exploit-ridden Intel x86 firmware with a Linux kernel
2017‑10‑29: Antarctica's illicit Ingress scene
2017‑10‑28: Slack SAML authentication bypass vulnerability.
2017‑10‑28: I watched all of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 videos so you don't have to.
2017‑10‑27: It's getting clearer: the diet-cancer connection points to sugar and carbs.
2017‑10‑27: Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in PostgreSQL.
2017‑10‑27: TLS-N: non-repudiation of data served over TLS.
2017‑10‑27: Disk|Crypt|Net: rethinking the stack for high-performance video streaming.
2017‑10‑27: Titan: the poor man's Atlas?
2017‑10‑27: Automatically submitting your Internet-Draft from GitHub.
2017‑10‑27: Who guards the guards? Formal validation of the ARM v8-M architecture specification.
2017‑10‑26: High-performance GPU computing in the Julia programming language.
2017‑10‑25: ZFSin: OpenZFS ported to Windows.
2017‑10‑25: Don't use a pencil: a key to Brexit's Russian bots.
2017‑10‑25: Testing DNSSEC public keys for the ROCA vulnerability.
2017‑10‑25: Barbarian: a sword font.
2017‑10‑25: One-level storage system: virtual memory on the Manchester Ferranti Atlas.
2017‑10‑25: Papers on virtual memory and working sets.
2017‑10‑25: Why do so few black students go to Oxbridge?
2017‑10‑25: More taste, less greed? or, sending UNIX to the fat farm.
2017‑10‑25: All you ever wanted to know about dynamic taint analysis and forward symbolic execution (but might have been afraid to ask).
2017‑10‑25: IP addresses considered harmful.
2017‑10‑25: A software-based approach to identify heavy hitters in 10Gbit/s DNS traffic.
2017‑10‑25: One Debian developer's preferred packaging setup.
2017‑10‑25: I deb, you deb, everybody debs: Debian packaging for beginners and experts alike.
2017‑10‑25: TimescaleDB: PostgreSQL made scalable for time-series data.
2017‑10‑25: Amazon Aurora: design considerations for high throughput cloud-native relational databases.
2017‑10‑25: Short-lived certificates at Netflix.
2017‑10‑24: Executive function impairment in high-IQ adults with ADHD.
2017‑10‑24: Infineon ROCA: Welp, there go my Git signatures.
2017‑10‑24: First Timers Only: friendly open source projects reserve specific issues for new contributors.
2017‑10‑24: The mathematics of 2048: counting states with combinatorics.
2017‑10‑24: Buffer overflow in musl-libc DNS response parser.
2017‑10‑24: Surviving IPv6 fragmentation.
2017‑10‑24: On the passive measurability of RTT/loss of QUIC traffic.
2017‑10‑24: How to write a stunt server using raw sockets in IPv6.
2017‑10‑24: A history of the ampersand.
2017‑10‑24: How Merkle trees enable the decentralized web.
2017‑10‑24: What everybody gets wrong about Jekyll and Hyde.
2017‑10‑24: The future of DNSSEC at the RIPE NCC.
2017‑10‑24: Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?
2017‑10‑24: Introduction to the Zig programming language: "more pragmatic than C".
2017‑10‑24: Recent IETF BGP work addressing operational challenges.
2017‑10‑24: IPv6 prefix assignment for end-users: persistent vs non-persistent, and what size to choose.
2017‑10‑24: cronic: a cure for chronic cron spam.
2017‑10‑23: This is what the no-deal Brexit cliff edge looks like.
2017‑10‑23: The DUHK attack: don't use hard-coded keys for RNG seeds.
2017‑10‑23: .Amsterdam refuses to publish Whois records as ICANN whois GDPR row escalates.
2017‑10‑23: DéjàVu: a map of code duplication on GitHub.
2017‑10‑23: Manipulating Maintainers: how to persuade members of an open source community to help you.
2017‑10‑23: UCAS statistics: Is there bias in university admissions?
2017‑10‑23: Filesystem error handling / improving error checking in C / funding robustness research.
2017‑10‑23: The Atlas of the Underworld shows Earth's interior is teeming with dead plates.
2017‑10‑23: Best trackballs 2017.
2017‑10‑23: Danish numbers are obscurely 20-based.
2017‑10‑23: ChrysaLisp: TAOS-flavoured parallel OS, with GUI, terminal, OO assembler, class libraries, C-Script, and more...
2017‑10‑23: Genode: a capability-oriented microkernel OS.
2017‑10‑22: Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television.
2017‑10‑22: Android getting support for DNS over TLS.
2017‑10‑22: A README maturity model.
2017‑10‑22: How did Arron Banks afford to bankroll Brexit?
2017‑10‑22: MENACE: machine educable noughts and crosses engine, a matchboxes-and-beads computer.
2017‑10‑22: Reusable and type-safe functional options for Golang APIs.
2017‑10‑22: The self-referential functional option pattern in Golang.
2017‑10‑22: Successful hotfire test of Blue Origin BE-4 reusable high-thrust rocket engine.
2017‑10‑22: Sugar is a toxic agent that creates conditions for disease.
2017‑10‑22: zsync: download files over http using the rsync algorithm.
2017‑10‑21: The rise and fall of the Lyons' Cornerhouses and their Nippy waitresses.
2017‑10‑21: The largest left truncatable prime.
2017‑10‑21: Autodesk Recap360: turn photos into 3D models.
2017‑10‑21: Nationalisation of Carlisle pubs during the First World War.
2017‑10‑21: Some examples of historical music notation.
2017‑10‑21: Battle with a phantom PostgreSQL WAL segment.
2017‑10‑21: IPv6 Buddy: a keyboard for typing hex.
2017‑10‑21: co2: an object system for C.
2017‑10‑21: Object oriented programming in C.
2017‑10‑21: Object-oriented programming in ANSI C.
2017‑10‑21: Google's quantum computing plans upended by IBM's 56 qubit classical computing simulation.
2017‑10‑21: Vikings razed the forests. Can Iceland regrow them?
2017‑10‑21: Don't style your marketing emails.
2017‑10‑20: Female homicide rate dropped 17% after Craigslist launched its erotic services platform.
2017‑10‑20: How I socially engineer myself into high security facilities.
2017‑10‑20: Pointer free programming and the future of Nim.
2017‑10‑19: Over 30,000 published studies could be wrong due to contaminated cells.
2017‑10‑19: Objective-C and fork() in macOS 10.13.
2017‑10‑19: Why Ruby app servers break on macOS High Sierra: fork safety in Objective C frameworks.
2017‑10‑19: X.org server for Android.
2017‑10‑19: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app.
2017‑10‑19: Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
2017‑10‑19: Ad industry insiders profited from ad fraud scheme that stole $millions.
2017‑10‑19: Hey Siri: an on-device DNN-powered voice trigger for Apple's personal assistant.
2017‑10‑19: Browser security beyond sandboxing: Microsoft exploits Google Chrome.
2017‑10‑18: ML modules and Haskell type classes: a constructive comparison.
2017‑10‑18: AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch.
2017‑10‑18: mod_md: ACME support for the Apache httpd.
2017‑10‑18: The mathematical genius of Auto-Tunea.
2017‑10‑18: Exploring lock-free Rust: from locks, via atomics, to Crossbeam.
2017‑10‑17: Fact check markup: explain to Google what claims are true or false.
2017‑10‑17: End all immigration controls: they're a sign we value money more than people.
2017‑10‑17: ROCA: critical vulnerability in Infineon security chips.
2017‑10‑17: TAOS Operating System.
2017‑10‑15: How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece .
2017‑10‑15: Help test out ThinLTO! Another feature aiming to reduce Rust's compile times.
2017‑10‑15: Beyond XX and XY: the extraordinary complexity of sex determination.
2017‑10‑15: Switching from Common Lisp to Julia.
2017‑10‑15: The Journal of Open Source Software: a developer friendly journal for research software packages
2017‑10‑15: Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography.
2017‑10‑14: The impossible dream of USB-C.
2017‑10‑14: Interactive scientific computing, Goldilocks languages, and Julia.
2017‑10‑14: Some insights from a Julia developer.
2017‑10‑14: 5 things we learned from Google Waymo's self-driving car NTSB report.
2017‑10‑14: I'm an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here's why.
2017‑10‑14: Why the assholes are winning: money trumps all.
2017‑10‑14: Is the inflationary universe a scientific theory?
2017‑10‑14: By analysing hundreds of police interviews, two scientists have revolutionised interrogation.
2017‑10‑13: freno: mitigating MySQL replication lag and reducing read load at GitHub.
2017‑10‑13: Reverse proxy grapher.
2017‑10‑13: Exploding Git repository: a billion blobs.
2017‑10‑12: Notable features in C++17.
2017‑10‑11: ADHD: a lifelong struggle.
2017‑10‑11: Reasons Kubernetes is cool.
2017‑10‑11: Block comments considered harmful.
2017‑10‑11: A template for a run book / system operation manual.
2017‑10‑11: Disabling the Intel Management Engine.
2017‑10‑11: PACELC, Hazelcast, and the mythical PA/EC system.
2017‑10‑10: Fake crypto: Microsoft Outlook S/MIME cleartext disclosure.
2017‑10‑10: A bug has no name: multiple heap buffer overflows in the Windows DNS client.
2017‑10‑10: Coding style as a failure of language design.
2017‑10‑10: Macro-less code execution with DDE in Microsoft Word.
2017‑10‑10: The asynchronous computability theorem: applying topology to distributed systems.
2017‑10‑10: The absurdly underestimated dangers of spreadsheet compromise via CSV injection.
2017‑10‑10: A decade of Amazon Dynamo.
2017‑10‑09: Breaking Ed25519 in WolfSSL using differential power analysis.
2017‑10‑09: "Peer review" is younger than you might think. Does that mean it can go away?
2017‑10‑08: Thoughts on Microsoft's time-travel debugger.
2017‑10‑08: Fairchild Semiconductor: the 60th anniversary of a Silicon Valley legend.
2017‑10‑08: The story behind the photo of the Lightning crash at Hatfield in 1962.
2017‑10‑08: How to avoid unwanted wakeups when killing lots of processes.
2017‑10‑07: A branchless UTF-8 decoder.
2017‑10‑07: What even is compiler correctness?
2017‑10‑07: iOS 11's misleading "off-ish" setting for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is bad for security and battery life.
2017‑10‑06: Fast JVM startup with JDK 9.
2017‑10‑05: The magic phrase, "we don't do that here."
2017‑10‑05: HoTTSQL: proving query rewrites with univalent SQL semantics.
2017‑10‑04: The undercover story of the Chicago newspaper that bought a bar.
2017‑10‑04: The story behind ICANN's decision to delay the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2017‑10‑04: Brexit will hit Britain's overseas territories hard. Why is no one talking about it?
2017‑10‑04: Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra.
2017‑10‑04: Using an iPad Pro instead of a desktop computer.
2017‑10‑04: Sequent NUMA-Q: a new commercial parallel-processing architecture. (1999)
2017‑10‑04: 8th: a gentle introduction to a modern Forth.
2017‑10‑04: Cashing in on ATM malware: a comprehensive look at various attack types.
2017‑10‑04: Random cyclic curves in the complex plane.
2017‑10‑04: Times tables, Mandelbrot, and the heart of mathematics. (YouTube)
2017‑10‑04: Beauty in mathematics: modular multiplication tables.
2017‑10‑04: Common Lisp vs Racket vs Gerbil.
2017‑10‑04: Gerbil Scheme has a state of the art macro and module system on top of the Gambit runtime.
2017‑10‑04: Compiling switch/case: Are jump tables always fastest?
2017‑10‑03: In 1973, I invented a 'girly drink' called Baileys.
2017‑10‑03: What Tesla's big battery in South Australia is for.
2017‑10‑03: Not all disagreements are opportunities to change your own mind.
2017‑10‑02: Probot: GitHub apps to automate and improve your workflow.
2017‑10‑02: Mitogen: an infrastructure code baseline that sucks less, or, why Ansible is slow.
2017‑10‑02: Troubleshooting: a journey through Bird, HAProxy, cURL, and the Linux dentry cache.
2017‑10‑02: RELAY: past, present, and future. (1987)
2017‑10‑02: Toward a predictive-processing theory of depression.
2017‑10‑02: Advanced secondary DNS for the technically inclined.
2017‑10‑02: No brogrammers: Practical tips for writing inclusive job ads.
2017‑10‑02: What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science, and how to fix it.
2017‑10‑01: Haxl: a big hammer for concurrency. (YouTube)
2017‑10‑01: How deeply are STEM students learning? They often guess and merely manipulate symbols without insight.
2017‑10‑01: DNA from old skeleton suggests humanity's been here longer than we thought.
2017‑10‑01: How science saved me from pretending to love wine.
2017‑09‑30: What's In the Cache? DNS cache hit rates.
2017‑09‑30: Cache effect of shared DNS resolver.
2017‑09‑30: BotDigger: Detecting DGA bots in a single network using DNS traffic.
2017‑09‑30: Bad autoconf tests with nested functions are incompatible with clang.
2017‑09‑30: Why are Nazis so afraid of clowns?
2017‑09‑30: BIND 9.12 refactoring and performance improvements.
2017‑09‑30: A look at RFC 8145 DNSSEC trust anchor signalling.
2017‑09‑30: RFC 7706 vs RFC 8198 for root DNS zone performance and resilience.
2017‑09‑29: The pragmatic case for moving Britain's capital to Manchester.
2017‑09‑29: Serving 100 Gbps from a Netflix FreeBSD Open Connect Appliance.
2017‑09‑29: What happened to the folding UK plug?
2017‑09‑28: DNS for service discovery in HAProxy.
2017‑09‑28: Identifying satellite interference due to GSM rebroadcast.
2017‑09‑28: We need to talk about TLS session tickets.
2017‑09‑28: Background information on the DNSSEC root key rollover postponement.
2017‑09‑28: How Crossrail is using 3D-printing to build its stations.
2017‑09‑28: When filters fail: These cases show we can't trust algorithms to clean up the internet.
2017‑09‑28: DNSSEC KSK rollover postponed.
2017‑09‑28: Languages don't all have the same number of terms for colors. Here's a new theory why.
2017‑09‑28: detect.location: getting iOS location data via photo EXIF access.
2017‑09‑28: Software is a long con.
2017‑09‑28: HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing!
2017‑09‑28: ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit.
2017‑09‑27: Ed25519 for DNSSEC.
2017‑09‑27: git git git git git
2017‑09‑27: BOOMv2: an open-source out-of-order RISC V core.
2017‑09‑27: Feminism, equality, chattels, and judgement.
2017‑09‑27: Flags are not languages.
2017‑09‑27: The history of Sears predicts almost everything Amazon is doing.
2017‑09‑26: Comparing differential equation solvers in C, Fortran, Julia, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, and R.
2017‑09‑26: cloudflare/bn256 implements a particular bilinear group at the 128-bit security level, ~10x or ~20x faster.
2017‑09‑26: Cloudflare Geo Key Manager: identity-based encryption for private keys in a TLS CDN.
2017‑09‑25: Mathematics and the state of being stuck.
2017‑09‑25: Org-mode is one of the most reasonable lightweight markup languages.
2017‑09‑25: A quick introduction to Graphviz.
2017‑09‑25: Antifragility 101.
2017‑09‑24: The Canpaign for North Africa: a notorious board game that takes 1,500 hours to complete.
2017‑09‑24: Branded in memory: how well can people draw a logo from memory?
2017‑09‑23: APFS: a backup software developer's perspective.
2017‑09‑23: GPS without COCOM limits.
2017‑09‑23: Super-accurate GPS chips coming to smartphones in 2018.
2017‑09‑23: Franchise: an open source in-browser SQL notebook.
2017‑09‑23: lnav: a log file navigator.
2017‑09‑22: How Portugal is winning the War on Drugs that the USA is losing.
2017‑09‑22: Time to speak up for Article 15 of the E-commerce Directive.
2017‑09‑22: API Monitor: spy on Windows API calls and COM interfaces.
2017‑09‑22: Implementing Berkeley sockets in System V release 4.
2017‑09‑22: How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk.
2017‑09‑22: Seveneves and the Roche limit.
2017‑09‑22: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason": a simulation.
2017‑09‑22: Golang: Ten years and climbing.
2017‑09‑21: Weather forecasting is better than it's ever been.
2017‑09‑21: The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces, whose penises do not grow until puberty.
2017‑09‑21: Parents, children, CDS/CDNSKEY records, and dnssec-cds.
2017‑09‑21: Measuring the security of closed DNS resolvers by probing via SMTP.
2017‑09‑21: Locks, Little's Law, and the universal scalability law.
2017‑09‑21: Effects without monads: non-determinism.
2017‑09‑21: CLKSCREW: attacking ARM TrustZone using security-oblivious energy management.
2017‑09‑21: Booleans and enums.
2017‑09‑21: Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's control center doesn't actually turn them off.
2017‑09‑21: Inception drive: a compact, infinitely variable transmission for robotics.
2017‑09‑20: jwz: "HTML email, was that your fault?"
2017‑09‑20: Clocks and hardware design for software engineers.
2017‑09‑20: A rare peek inside a 400Gbit/s Cisco network processor.
2017‑09‑20: Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing?
2017‑09‑20: A longitudinal, end-to-end view of the DNSSEC ecosystem.
2017‑09‑20: Allocation efficiency in high-performance Golang services.
2017‑09‑20: Evolution of data structures in Yandex.Metrica.
2017‑09‑19: Why Keccak is not ARX.
2017‑09‑19: Fuzzing Tales 0x01: Yadifa DNS.
2017‑09‑19: Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing to India, China, and the Philippines.
2017‑09‑19: Undercover police operation to catch close-pass overtaking reduced cyclist casualties by 20%.
2017‑09‑19: An efficient academic journal.
2017‑09‑19: Simple Set game proof stuns mathematicians, leading to advances in combinatorics.
2017‑09‑19: To type or not to type: 15% of JavaScript bugs detectable by TypeScript or Flow.
2017‑09‑18: Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987)
2017‑09‑18: Optionsbleed: HTTP OPTIONS method can leak a misconfigured Apache server's memory.
2017‑09‑18: The future of HHVM, Facebook's fast PHPish runtime.
2017‑09‑17: Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system.
2017‑09‑17: ptexplore: Linux process page table explorer.
2017‑09‑17: Pirate black open access is trumping green and gold and we must change our approach to academic journals.
2017‑09‑17: Root causes of TLS certificate errors for Google Chrome users.
2017‑09‑16: Interview with Martha Wells about the second Murderbot book.
2017‑09‑16: The week my husband left and my house was burgled I secured a grant to begin the BRCA1 project.
2017‑09‑16: The Minskytron: early graphics demos on an in-browser PDP-1 emulator.
2017‑09‑16: The Minsky circle algorithm.
2017‑09‑16: proptest: Hypothesis-style property testing for Rust.
2017‑09‑16: ZARM: the Bremen microgravity drop tower.
2017‑09‑16: How not to land a SpaceX orbital rocket booster. (YouTube)
2017‑09‑16: A working game of Tetris implemented in Conway's Game of Life.
2017‑09‑16: LoRa backscatter: data transmission over >400m using <10μW.
2017‑09‑16: A translation of the Polari in "Putting on the Dish".
2017‑09‑16: A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men.
2017‑09‑16: e-dumper: the world's largest electric vehicle.
2017‑09‑15: Where are you on the IPv6 adoption curve?
2017‑09‑15: Rising CO2 and the great nutrient collapse.
2017‑09‑15: Rich's B compiler
2017‑09‑15: RFC 8187: the first RFC containing non-ASCII characters.
2017‑09‑15: Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload.
2017‑09‑15: Google's influence over its network of influencers.
2017‑09‑15: Meet the font detectives who ferret out fakery.
2017‑09‑14: migra: like diff for PostgreSQL schemas; migrations made almost painless.
2017‑09‑14: The origins of malloc().
2017‑09‑14: Compile-time Mandelbrot set in Rust.
2017‑09‑14: Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception.
2017‑09‑14: Proporti.onl: gender distribution of people you follow and your followers on Twitter.
2017‑09‑13: Formally verified cryptography for Firefox 57.
2017‑09‑13: Flying economy class is so cramped it could be a death trap.
2017‑09‑13: Here's what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers.
2017‑09‑13: Reconstruction of a train wreck: how priming research went off the rails. (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow)
2017‑09‑12: Announcing Topicbox: FastMail's new product for teams.
2017‑09‑11: Nearby houses with "twin" street addresses.
2017‑09‑11: White shark kayak: the origin of the fake picture of the shark in the flooded road.
2017‑09‑11: A copyright vote that could change the EU's Internet.
2017‑09‑11: The proposed European copyright directive's effects on open source software development.
2017‑09‑11: How to find out if/why a server is dropping packets.
2017‑09‑10: How f.root-servers.net has performed since Cloudflare joined its anycast cloud.
2017‑09‑10: How Brexit will affect your human rights.
2017‑09‑10: Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours, but at this point, he can't just let his art do the talking.
2017‑09‑10: The problem with calling women 'females'.
2017‑09‑10: Has the Voynich manuscript really been solved?
2017‑09‑10: The Network and Information Systems Directive's effect on Internet companies in the UK.
2017‑09‑10: Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
2017‑09‑10: .uk domain transfers are scary.
2017‑09‑09: The Corpus Christi prime.
2017‑09‑09: Identity fraud, credit reports, and you.
2017‑09‑09: Things found on GitHub: shell history.
2017‑09‑09: A guide to filtered permeability.
2017‑09‑09: On the discussion of security vulnerabilities. (1853)
2017‑09‑09: Download 67,000 historic maps from Stanford's David Rumsey map collection.
2017‑09‑09: The "premium mediocre" life of Maya Millennial.
2017‑09‑09: A first look at CoreDNS.
2017‑09‑07: The solution to the Voynich manuscript.
2017‑09‑07: The Uncomfortable: a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects.
2017‑09‑07: serve-stale in BIND: Akamai's contribution to DNS / Internet resiliency.
2017‑09‑07: Infosec incident response: protecting individual rights under the GDPR.
2017‑09‑07: In defence of NAT.
2017‑09‑07: Optimizing nginx on Linux for high throughput and low latency at Dropbox.
2017‑09‑07: Librsvg's build infrastructure: autotools and Rust.
2017‑09‑07: 5 tips for writing small CLI tools in Rust.
2017‑09‑07: Mison: a fast non-FSM-based JSON parser.
2017‑09‑07: Performance evaluation of elfmalloc, a general-purpose malloc() replacement written in Rust.
2017‑09‑06: Surfing uncertainty: the predictive processing model of human cognition.
2017‑09‑06: British antifa before and after World War II.
2017‑09‑06: Wind farms are not the bird slayers they're made out to be.
2017‑09‑06: How to recognize burnout before you're burned out.
2017‑09‑06: A serf on Google's farm.
2017‑09‑06: Google: time to return to not being evil.
2017‑09‑06: Wind is one of the cheapest sources of electricity, and it's getting cheaper.
2017‑09‑05: Some were meant for C: the endurance of an unmanageable language.
2017‑09‑05: Efficient air-conditioning beams heat into space.
2017‑09‑05: Solaris to Linux migration 2017.
2017‑09‑05: Is systemd's hand-rolled dbus-over-ssh tunnel a security worry?
2017‑09‑05: Game of registrars: an empirical analysis of post-expiration domain name takeovers.
2017‑09‑05: ansible-lint: Best practices checker for Ansible.
2017‑09‑05: Invisible Manipulation: 10 ways our data is being used against us.
2017‑09‑05: Zero-confirmation .uk domain hijacking with eNom.
2017‑09‑05: SharknAT&To: grievous vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems.
2017‑09‑04: Clear Containers and CRI-O: a VM per Kubernetes container, without Docker.
2017‑09‑04: Claude Shannon: mathematician, engineer, genius... and juggler?
2017‑09‑04: The vacuity of postmodernist methodology.
2017‑09‑04: Six year old PDF loop bug affects most major implementations.
2017‑09‑04: Quantum reconstruction: rewriting the axioms of quantum theory from scratch, to understand what it all means.
2017‑09‑04: Outlawing war? The Kellogg-Briand pact actually worked.
2017‑09‑04: Multiple perspectives on technical problems and solutions: architecture review at Etsy.
2017‑09‑04: Google cloud load balancer outage postmortem.
2017‑09‑04: The Netherlands: an agricultural giant showing what the future of farming could look like.
2017‑09‑03: Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? (For modern versions, yes.)
2017‑09‑03: Is there winning strategy in Tetris? (In general, no.)
2017‑09‑03: Perl as PID 1 under Docker.
2017‑09‑03: An introduction to managing secrets safely with version control systems.
2017‑09‑02: Brexit talks cannot succeed.
2017‑09‑02: LuaTeX comes of age.
2017‑09‑01: Barriers to equality in academia: women in computer science at MIT. (1983)
2017‑09‑01: F*: an ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification.
2017‑08‑31: Following Hurricane Katrina, an amazing decade of climate research.
2017‑08‑31: Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames?
2017‑08‑31: Reducing Python's startup time.
2017‑08‑31: Concurrent JavaScript: It can work!
2017‑08‑30: Gifpop: turn your GIFs into lenticular prints.
2017‑08‑30: A Polaroid-style Raspberry Pi camera that prints a GIF instantly.
2017‑08‑30: "Torrential": a cruelly ironic etymology.
2017‑08‑30: Relaxed-memory concurrency synchronization patterns.
2017‑08‑30: Fully automatic DNSSEC delegation updates at CZ.NIC with FRED and Knot.
2017‑08‑30: Urban maths: tipping point, or, what is the bias of perfect dice?
2017‑08‑30: Eyes change over time, thwarting iris scanners.
2017‑08‑30: How to use `dig` to find details of the Google Public DNS cluster you are using.
2017‑08‑30: Hurricane Harvey didn't come out of the blue. Now is the time to talk about climate change.
2017‑08‑30: Don't fall for Babylonian trigonometry hype.
2017‑08‑29: Fascinating experiments that show what happens when mercury and aluminium are combined. (video)
2017‑08‑29: Hurricane Harvey is what climate change looks like.
2017‑08‑29: How to make Python run as fast as Julia.
2017‑08‑28: What makes a good REPL?
2017‑08‑28: Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented US Government High Assurance Platform mode.
2017‑08‑28: AWS Parameter Store: the right way to manage secrets with AWS.
2017‑08‑28: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten.
2017‑08‑28: Akira Miyagawa live orchestral mashup: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 vs Mambo No. 5. (YouTube)
2017‑08‑28: On (respect for) children as autonomous human beings.
2017‑08‑28: Attack of the 50 foot blockchain! Bitcoin, Ethereum, and smart contracts.
2017‑08‑27: Where in Europe does an electric car reduce CO2 emissions?
2017‑08‑26: Two spirits, one heart, five genders: how Europeans tried to extinguish Native American views on gender.
2017‑08‑26: How the music of Rogue One links to A New Hope.
2017‑08‑25: Better letterer: comic lettering tips.
2017‑08‑25: How to piss off a failed super-soldier.
2017‑08‑25: Threading the celestial needle: catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 feet.
2017‑08‑25: VW's strike in Slovakia exposes a European divide.
2017‑08‑25: Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA.
2017‑08‑25: How American bank payments (ACH) work: A developer perspective.
2017‑08‑25: Rules for new FPGA designers.
2017‑08‑25: On crimes and punishments, torture and retribution, deterrence and Beccaria.
2017‑08‑25: Enlightenment technology; A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy.
2017‑08‑25: On progress and historical change.
2017‑08‑24: Here at the end of all things: on losing oneself in maps of fantasy worlds:
2017‑08‑24: Got Phish: how/where to report malicious web sites.
2017‑08‑24: What made the Moon? New ideas try to rescue a troubled theory.
2017‑08‑24: We're racing towards another private debt crisis, so why did no one see it coming?
2017‑08‑24: Rethinking the dbus message bus.
2017‑08‑24: D as a better C.
2017‑08‑23: The only 4 spaghetti recipes you'll ever need.
2017‑08‑23: The beauty of Bresenham's algorithm.
2017‑08‑23: Mathematicians tame rogue waves, illuminating future of LED lighting.
2017‑08‑22: Hackers are the real obstacle for self-driving vehicles.
2017‑08‑22: IPv6, large UDP packets, and the DNS.
2017‑08‑22: Reverse engineering a 1970s DTMF dialler chip.
2017‑08‑22: Typing with pleasure, and low latency.
2017‑08‑22: Four MLs (and a Python).
2017‑08‑21: Starting Star Wars: How George Lucas came to create a galaxy.
2017‑08‑21: Inequality in the USA: understanding the historic divergence between productivity and a typical worker's pay.
2017‑08‑20: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent ANS compression.
2017‑08‑20: How do I improve my storytelling?
2017‑08‑20: "I teach dirty tricks": the explosives expert who shows armies how to deal with terrorists.
2017‑08‑20: Everything you always wanted to know about optical fibre networking, but were afraid to ask.
2017‑08‑20: BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon: CIA SSH hacking tools.
2017‑08‑19: Why PS4 downloads are so slow.
2017‑08‑19: A crash course on ML modules.
2017‑08‑19: Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them.
2017‑08‑19: Towards a JavaScript binary AST.
2017‑08‑19: Vue.js vs React.
2017‑08‑19: What next in programming languages?
2017‑08‑19: What a border collie taught a linguist about language.
2017‑08‑18: NASA's sound suppression water system.
2017‑08‑18: How Postgres makes transactions atomic.
2017‑08‑17: Hands on with the SHACamp 2017 badge.
2017‑08‑17: At last, a big, successful trial of probiotics.
2017‑08‑17: Dilution of whisky and flavour: a molecular perspective.
2017‑08‑17: The origin of complex life on Earth just got a little less mysterious.
2017‑08‑17: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial.
2017‑08‑16: The dwarfs of our vocabulary: etymologies of small words.
2017‑08‑16: APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning.
2017‑08‑15: Iris: a scalable, accurate, and ethical method to measure global manipulation of DNS resolution.
2017‑08‑15: The Meson build system, used by GTK/Gnome.
2017‑08‑15: rustgo: calling Rust from Golang with near-zero overhead.
2017‑08‑14: German universities take on Elsevier.
2017‑08‑14: The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two islands.
2017‑08‑14: Consistent hashing with bounded loads.
2017‑08‑13: A theory of jerks: Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around?
2017‑08‑12: Hyperscan: a high-performance PCRE-compatible multiple regex matching library.
2017‑08‑11: OpenGeofiction: a map of an imaginary world, created by a community of worldbuilders.
2017‑08‑11: The end of Libor.
2017‑08‑11: British bank regulators are abandoning LIBOR, the benchmark for hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial transactions.
2017‑08‑11: UX brutalism.
2017‑08‑11: Small functions considered harmful.
2017‑08‑11: Compromise on checkout: vulnerabilities in gIt and other SCM tools.
2017‑08‑11: Crafting plausible fantasy maps.
2017‑08‑11: Font-size: an unexpectedly complex CSS property.
2017‑08‑11: Why Github can't host the Linux kernel.
2017‑08‑10: Scrapmetal: scrap your boilerplate in Rust.
2017‑08‑10: Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?
2017‑08‑10: For fans of the movie WARGAMES: a list of all the nuclear war scenarios stored in the W.O.P.R. computer.
2017‑08‑09: IETF 99 DNS activity.
2017‑08‑08: Approaching the physical limits of storage technology.
2017‑08‑08: Counting quotient filter: making every bit count. (Better than Bloom filters!)
2017‑08‑08: Localhost entries in DNS zones can lead to "same site" scripting web vulnerabilities.
2017‑08‑07: Tolkien's map and the messed-up mountains of Middle-Earth.
2017‑08‑07: "Not even wrong!" Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory?
2017‑08‑07: Why don't more quantum physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
2017‑08‑07: Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.
2017‑08‑07: A brief history of quantum alternatives.
2017‑08‑07: An 18th-century horse that Eclipsed all the others.
2017‑08‑07: How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?
2017‑08‑07: Why many smart contract use cases are simply impossible.
2017‑08‑07: Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island's experiment.
2017‑08‑07: Can a living creature be as big as a galaxy?
2017‑08‑05: Optimizing HAMT (hash array mapped tries) for fast and lean immutable JVM collections.
2017‑08‑05: What the ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence.
2017‑08‑05: Which DNS registries offer the best protection for domain owners?
2017‑08‑04: The slow currentTimeMillis().
2017‑08‑04: The languages which almost became CSS.
2017‑08‑04: The development of Chez Scheme.
2017‑08‑03: 306 million freely downloadable pwned passwords.
2017‑08‑03: Elsevier acquires bepress, increasing its hold on open access and institution repositories.
2017‑08‑03: Users, clients, and servers: the robustness principle and the web.
2017‑08‑02: TypeScript's type system is Turing complete.
2017‑08‑02: IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge.
2017‑08‑02: A practical guide to SQL transaction isolation levels.
2017‑08‑02: RTFM v2: real-time for the masses on a Cortex-M with Rust.
2017‑08‑02: Parsing NES ROM headers with nom and Rust.
2017‑08‑02: Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM.
2017‑08‑01: Brexiteers using Ireland.
2017‑08‑01: New evidence of British torture could overturn Northern Ireland ruling that became a blueprint for US torture.
2017‑08‑01: Review: Nabokov's favorite word is mauve: what the numbers reveal about [] writing.
2017‑08‑01: US DoD encyclopedia of ethical failure.
2017‑08‑01: see-phit: A C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing.
2017‑08‑01: Recursives in the wild: engineering authoritative DNS servers.
2017‑07‑31: Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fairness in WiFi.
2017‑07‑31: Dolphin Nintendo emulator ubershaders: a ridiculous solution to an impossible problem
2017‑07‑30: Medicine's women problem.
2017‑07‑30: A rant on usable security: run-time sandboxes from static analysis?
2017‑07‑29: No Dunkirk spirit can save Britain from Brexit defeat.
2017‑07‑29: An effective attack against the Argon2i hash function.
2017‑07‑29: The Evolution of Trust: a game to teach game theory.
2017‑07‑29: sandsifter: the x86 processor fuzzer.
2017‑07‑28: Confession of a C/C++ programmer.
2017‑07‑28: How to remove systemd from a Debian installation.
2017‑07‑28: Farewell to systemd.
2017‑07‑28: Sci-Hub's cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests.
2017‑07‑28: Project Snowflake: non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET.
2017‑07‑27: Bodging: making chair legs around High Wycombe.
2017‑07‑27: How to set up a cheap Chromebook for software development when travelling.
2017‑07‑26: Why Is the Internet Archive painstakingly preserving Ted Nelson's junk mail?
2017‑07‑26: Using BGP to acquire bogus TLS certificates.
2017‑07‑26: Defining the undefinedness of C.
2017‑07‑25: Why we rewrote Lua in JavaScript, to run in the browser.
2017‑07‑25: Karn: an admin-friendly tool for creating seccomp and apparmor profiles.
2017‑07‑25: A homemade robot that can crack a safe in 15 minutes. (video)
2017‑07‑25: Esperanto: european or asiatic language?
2017‑07‑25: gocmdpev: A command-line PostgreSQL query visualizer in Golang.
2017‑07‑25: Snopes faces an ugly legal battle.
2017‑07‑24: Fingerprint-based detection of DNS hijacks using RIPE Atlas.
2017‑07‑24: Burglary, robbery, kidnapping and a shoot-out over... a domain name?!
2017‑07‑24: Anthony Burgess' lost dictionary of slang.
2017‑07‑23: Fast-key-erasure random-number generators.
2017‑07‑23: How economists rode maths to become our era's astrologers.
2017‑07‑23: mod_md: built-in Let's Encrypt (ACME) support for Apache httpd.
2017‑07‑23: The future of education is plain text.
2017‑07‑22: The incredible shitness of Solidity, the Ethereum progamming language.
2017‑07‑22: SQLCipher: encrypted SQLite database store.
2017‑07‑22: Free-libre / open source software (FLOSS) is commercial software.
2017‑07‑22: colorForth replaces punctuation with colours.
2017‑07‑22: Monospaced programming fonts with ligatures.
2017‑07‑21: Long term data storage will be much less free than it used to be.
2017‑07‑21: Is "information is physical" contentful?
2017‑07‑21: Custom dynamically sized types are super annoying in Rust at the moment. (qp)
2017‑07‑21: How to trick Symantec to revoke a cert with a fake private key, and how to check keys properly.
2017‑07‑20: A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation in SpinalHDL.
2017‑07‑20: How devastating was the Black Death?
2017‑07‑20: How Checkers was solved.
2017‑07‑20: The hidden dungeons of the London Underground.
2017‑07‑20: The mystery of the hanging S3 downloads: a TCP debugging tale.
2017‑07‑20: Faces of open source software.
2017‑07‑20: LeoCAD: LEGO model designer.
2017‑07‑20: Undefined behavior and unsafe code guidelines for Rust.
2017‑07‑19: Certified malice: phishing sites and TLS certs.
2017‑07‑19: On the (perceived) value of EV TLS certs.
2017‑07‑19: Fast complex arithmetic is complicated in C and C++.
2017‑07‑19: Every place we used to think was a planet (until we knew better).
2017‑07‑19: Playing for third place: the media vs database marketing.
2017‑07‑19: Digital towbars for autonomous vehicles.
2017‑07‑18: Bugs Everywhere: a distributed bugtracker with which code and bugs are tracked together.
2017‑07‑18: A Mind at Play: how Claude Shannon invented the information age. (book review)
2017‑07‑17: Introducing Log::ger, a low-overhead Perl logging module.
2017‑07‑17: OVH 24h outage due to SAN failure following sudden power loss.
2017‑07‑17: A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector.
2017‑07‑17: Bangra: an LLVM-based programming infrastructure for high performance with multi-stage compilation at runtime.
2017‑07‑17: Koka: a functional programming language with effect inference.
2017‑07‑17: What are OCamlers' critiques of Haskell?
2017‑07‑17: What are Haskellers' critiques of F# and OCaml?
2017‑07‑17: Modular type classes.
2017‑07‑17: Modular implicits for O'Caml.
2017‑07‑17: Poly/ML: a multiprocessor implementation of Standard ML.
2017‑07‑17: owl: an OCaml numerical library.
2017‑07‑16: hobbes: Morgan Stanley's Haskell-like programming language.
2017‑07‑16: git-dit: a decentralized issue tracker for git.
2017‑07‑16: Do you know what a stinkpipe is?
2017‑07‑15: Beginner-friendly Vulkan graphics API tutorials.
2017‑07‑15: Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized.
2017‑07‑15: Password Store aka pass: the standard Unix password manager.
2017‑07‑15: rax: A radix tree implementation in ANSI C for Redis.
2017‑07‑15: Real system failures at NASA.
2017‑07‑14: Life in a universe with 2 time dimensions.
2017‑07‑14: Why 1Password is no longer recommended by security experts.
2017‑07‑13: Towards Golang 2.
2017‑07‑13: Understanding the .io TLD's DNS configuration vulnerability.
2017‑07‑13: binctr: getting towards real sandbox containers.
2017‑07‑13: Orpheus's Lyre puts Kerberos to sleep!
2017‑07‑13: The Facebook algorithm mom problem.
2017‑07‑13: Superconducting quantum levitation on a 3π Möbius strip. (YouTube)
2017‑07‑13: How Discord scaled Erlang/Elixir to 5,000,000 concurrent users.
2017‑07‑12: The cost of hard drives in recent years.
2017‑07‑12: A French mathematician has proved that we know all kinds of convex pentagons that tile the plane.
2017‑07‑12: Renaming of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2017‑07‑12: Life is about to get a whole lot harder for websites without HTTPS.
2017‑07‑12: Rewriting Zopfli from C to Rust.
2017‑07‑12: The semver trick: how to avoid complicated coordinated library API upgrades in Rust.
2017‑07‑12: Looking at DNS traces: What do we know about resolvers?
2017‑07‑12: Antarctic ice shelf Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg.
2017‑07‑12: ES6 In Depth: Symbols.
2017‑07‑12: Linux and GPL defense: "once the lawyers are involved, you have lost".
2017‑07‑12: Vector packet processing (VPP): one terabit software router.
2017‑07‑12: Is decentralized storage sustainable?
2017‑07‑12: Unjust, unreasonable, and unduly discriminatory: electric utility rates and the campaign against rooftop solar.
2017‑07‑11: Office and residential buildings use more energy per square metre of floor area the taller they are.
2017‑07‑11: Turning tweets into vector images.
2017‑07‑11: The .io error: a problem with bad optics, but little substance.
2017‑07‑11: Evolution of the LEGO logo.
2017‑07‑11: LLVM x86 backend can introduce branches that depend on uninitialized values, upsetting valgrind.
2017‑07‑11: How Rust is tested.
2017‑07‑11: A more detailed report of the Gandi domain hijacking incident.
2017‑07‑10: Smooth as butter: achieving 60 FPS animations with CSS3.
2017‑07‑10: The .io error: don't make your TLD name servers available for others to register.
2017‑07‑10: aRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R.
2017‑07‑10: Next-generation Subversion unveiled.
2017‑07‑10: Hello, United Kingdom, it's the United States of America here, and we need to talk.
2017‑07‑10: Security improvements in Linux v4.12.
2017‑07‑10: Dynamic tracing in Linux user and kernel space.
2017‑07‑10: Linux tracing systems and how they fit together.
2017‑07‑10: Windows 10 process exit performance regression: 24-core CPU and I can't move my mouse.
2017‑07‑10: "I no longer feel like I can trust `init` to do the sane thing." - Linus.
2017‑07‑09: Why people from Manchester are Mancunians, and other demonyms.
2017‑07‑09: Postgres job queues and failure by MVCC.
2017‑07‑09: The language server protocol (LSP/RLS) and IDEs.
2017‑07‑09: Minimal PDF.
2017‑07‑09: Stop using JWT for sessions.
2017‑07‑09: Benchmarking nftables vs iptables.
2017‑07‑09: Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility.
2017‑07‑08: PyData 101: everything you need to know to get started in data science in Python.
2017‑07‑08: Yours or mine? Making personal pronouns consistent in user interface design.
2017‑07‑08: DJI is locking down its drones against a growing army of DIY hackers.
2017‑07‑08: Zoomable map of greenbelt in England.
2017‑07‑07: 35 practical steps men can take to support feminism.
2017‑07‑07: Report on 7 July 2017 Gandi domain hijacking incident.
2017‑07‑07: Pragmatic Debian packaging.
2017‑07‑07: Right To Know: the long path to Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire.
2017‑07‑07: GitLab: 2/3 of the self-hosted git market, next-generation CI system, and Auto DevOps.
2017‑07‑07: TSIG authentication bypass through signature forgery in ISC BIND.
2017‑07‑07: TSIG authentication bypass for zone transfer operations in ISC BIND.
2017‑07‑07: TSIG authentication bypass through signature forgery in Knot DNS.
2017‑07‑06: An Internet Archive hidden service attacked over Tor.
2017‑07‑06: MySQL infrastructure testing automation at GitHub.
2017‑07‑06: Let's Encrypt will start issuing DNS-validated wildcard TLS certificates from January 2018.
2017‑07‑06: The new TRust-DNS resolver.
2017‑07‑06: Why undefined behavior for infinite loops?
2017‑07‑06: The third thumb.
2017‑07‑06: ARIA: markup for accessible rich internet applications.
2017‑07‑06: Web accessibility according to actual people with disabilities.
2017‑07‑06: Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in.
2017‑07‑06: Language server protocol (lsp), Rust RLS, and Emacs.
2017‑07‑05: Dart gets a type system.
2017‑07‑05: A brief history of the O'Reilly animals.
2017‑07‑05: Refining expression evaluation order for idiomatic C++.
2017‑07‑05: Undefined behavior in 2017.
2017‑07‑05: A bug story: undefined behaviour and pointer (mis)alignment on x86.
2017‑07‑04: WiFi232: an Internet Hayes modem for your retro computer.
2017‑07‑04: Sliding right into disaster: side-channel leak leads to complete break of RSA-1024 in libgcrypt.
2017‑07‑04: Let's Encrypt numbers to know.
2017‑07‑04: fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder written in Golang.
2017‑07‑03: Your revolution was dumb and it filled us with refugees: A Canadian take on the American Revolutionary War.
2017‑07‑03: The capital sharp S is now part of the official German orthography.
2017‑07‑03: Wibbly-wobbly magnetic fusion stuff: The return of the stellarator.
2017‑07‑03: That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox. (FAQ)
2017‑07‑03: Dissolving the Fermi paradox: the Drake equation as a probability density function.
2017‑07‑03: Galois theory for beginners, through the unsolvability of the quintic.
2017‑07‑03: Why is the quintic unsolvable?
2017‑07‑02: New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass.
2017‑07‑02: Memory use in CPython and MicroPython.
2017‑07‑02: Pony: deny capabilities for safe, fast actors.
2017‑07‑02: Beyond public key encryption.
2017‑07‑02: "I have no idea what I'm doing": on the difficulty of deploying HTTPS.
2017‑07‑02: Dexter: automatic indexer for PostgreSQL.
2017‑07‑02: Hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL.
2017‑07‑02: The 5 best punctuation marks in literature.
2017‑07‑02: Starfish Prime: a 1.4 megaton nuclear test in space.
2017‑07‑01: Skylake bug: a detective story.
2017‑07‑01: That terrifying photo from Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory took a hidden toll on America's arsenal.
2017‑07‑01: QuickselectAdaptive: fast deterministic selection.
2017‑07‑01: ska_sort: a fast radix sort.
2017‑07‑01: Fun with branch (mis-)prediction and imbalanced quicksort pivots.
2017‑07‑01: In-place merge sort.
2017‑07‑01: pdqsort: Pattern-defeating quicksort.
2017‑07‑01: Effectively using Matplotlib.
2017‑07‑01: SKIP LOCKED in PostgreSQL 9.5: Most work queue implementations in SQL are wrong.
2017‑07‑01: Rotate the Mercator projection.
2017‑06‑30: How do whales and dolphins sleep without drowning?
2017‑06‑30: This is how sperm whales sleep.
2017‑06‑30: 100 million certificates issued by Let's Encrypt.
2017‑06‑30: A new Concurrent ML for Guile Scheme.
2017‑06‑30: Morton order matrices deserve support from compilers.
2017‑06‑30: How do you cut a monolith in half? Not with a message broker.
2017‑06‑29: Why is NumPy only now getting funded?
2017‑06‑29: Frinkiac: Simpsons full text search.
2017‑06‑29: Simpsons full text search.
2017‑06‑28: Writing parsers like it's 2017, with Rust and nom.
2017‑06‑28: Designing Kerberos: a dialogue in four scenes.
2017‑06‑28: Never use DNS TTL of zero.
2017‑06‑28: About ELF auxiliary vectors.
2017‑06‑28: EBL: a block list of spam reply-to email addresses.
2017‑06‑28: A whirlwind tour of rustdoc.
2017‑06‑28: How `for` and `while` differ wrt the borrow checker in Rust.
2017‑06‑28: CAP: Don't settle for eventual consistency.
2017‑06‑28: Kill sticky web page headers.
2017‑06‑28: The three projections of Doctor Futamura.
2017‑06‑27: Why have all 95 of England's high-rise towers tested so far failed fire safety tests?
2017‑06‑27: Growing fibers from delimited continuations in Guile.
2017‑06‑27: How not to do things with words: The BBC sub-committee for the invention of new words (1935-1937).
2017‑06‑27: Microsoft explains how (not) to encrypt and decrypt a file with Visual C#.
2017‑06‑27: The average number of ops to quicksort n items is approximately 10 times the nth prime number.
2017‑06‑27: The sad story of the vCard format and its lack of interoperability.
2017‑06‑27: Robert Maxwell and the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing.
2017‑06‑26: Xandikos: a git-backed CalDAV/CardDAV server.
2017‑06‑26: Streaming combinators and extracting flat parallelism in the Futhark functional array programming language.
2017‑06‑26: Literate SQL using the WITH clause.
2017‑06‑26: 25 microchips that shook the world.
2017‑06‑25: Making the Internet Archive's full text search faster.
2017‑06‑25: What can developers learn from being on call?
2017‑06‑25: American national standard safety code and requirements for dry Martinis.
2017‑06‑25: The Bakerloo is the hottest London Underground line.
2017‑06‑25: Why your dockerized application isn't receiving signals.
2017‑06‑25: Stack Clash: an ancient kernel hole is (not) closed.
2017‑06‑25: The rise and fall of FireWire, IEEE 1394.
2017‑06‑25: uncertainties: a Python calculator with error propagation.
2017‑06‑25: Qalculate! the ultimate Linux desktop calculator.
2017‑06‑24: Insect: a high precision scientific calculator with support for units of measurement.
2017‑06‑24: Play Tetris over traceroute.
2017‑06‑23: BGP nyan cat.
2017‑06‑23: Why is the Internet so slow?!
2017‑06‑23: Website global latency testing tool.
2017‑06‑23: InspiroBot: an AI generating unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.
2017‑06‑23: Beyond memory safety with types in Rust.
2017‑06‑23: Philip Coppola spends nearly 40 years illustrating New York City's subway stations.
2017‑06‑22: Five things we have forgotten about Open Source.
2017‑06‑22: Stack Clash disclosure post-mortem.
2017‑06‑22: Severe weather Europe.
2017‑06‑22: European severe weather database.
2017‑06‑22: Dinosaurs vs flowers.
2017‑06‑21: liblb: an empirical study of load balancing algorithms.
2017‑06‑21: A critical problem: this plutonium photo should give you the creeps.
2017‑06‑21: The latitude observatory at Ukiah, California.
2017‑06‑21: DNSSEC validation algorithm support test.
2017‑06‑20: Truffle, Graal, and Futamura: practical partial evaluation for high-performance dynamic language runtimes.
2017‑06‑20: An ex-AAIB inspector discusses accident investigation and the Grenfell Tower fire.
2017‑06‑20: JSON in PostgreSQL: the present and future.
2017‑06‑20: Racking Mac Pros for web image optimization.
2017‑06‑20: Ted Nelson's junk mail archive.
2017‑06‑19: Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals.
2017‑06‑19: Render the Mandelbrot Set with jq.
2017‑06‑19: The stack clash: many local root vulnerabilities due to stack/heap confusion.
2017‑06‑19: One-hour Mandelbrot: Creating a fractal on the vintage Xerox Alto.
2017‑06‑19: How do you draw a circle? Clockwise, anticlockwise, handwriting and scripts.
2017‑06‑19: A historical review of US contributions to the atomic redefinition of the SI second in 1967.
2017‑06‑19: Improving DNS security: a measurement-based approach.
2017‑06‑19: A patch for Postel's robustness principle.
2017‑06‑19: sparsehash: C++ associative containers using popcount compressed arrays.
2017‑06‑19: Simplicity Debt: the difficulty of adding generics to Golang.
2017‑06‑19: Australian Tax Office SAN outage report.
2017‑06‑18: Unambiguous Webpack config with Typescript.
2017‑06‑18: Out for the Count: at the election counts in Edinburgh.
2017‑06‑18: The remote branch triangle and Git's missing terminology.
2017‑06‑17: "Because I moved 5 shirts"... portrait of an unexpected Twitter storm.
2017‑06‑17: fwupd: updating firmware in Linux.
2017‑06‑17: AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 SoC begins sampling: a step up in ARM's server ambitions.
2017‑06‑17: pASSWORD tYPOS and how to correct them securely.
2017‑06‑16: Will AMD's Ryzen finally bring SHA extensions to Intel's CPUs?
2017‑06‑16: Finding open DNS resolvers on IPv6.
2017‑06‑16: NANOG discusses templating/automating network configuration.
2017‑06‑16: Is SHA-3 slow?
2017‑06‑15: The secret origin story of the iPhone.
2017‑06‑15: If you write unsafe Rust, you should use compiletest.
2017‑06‑15: Bugs you'll probably only have in unsafe Rust.
2017‑06‑14: Strange Horizons - Utopia, LOL?
2017‑06‑14: What stops IPv6 traffic in a dual-stack ISP?
2017‑06‑14: Rust's MutexGuard was Sync when It should not have been: a data race bug found with formal methods.
2017‑06‑14: Ten things Idris improved over Haskell.
2017‑06‑14: hyper v0.11: Rust's HTTP server library is now based on Tokio async i/o.
2017‑06‑14: Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell.
2017‑06‑13: An introduction to Wayland.
2017‑06‑13: The design and use of QuickCheck.
2017‑06‑12: Initialization in C++ is bonkers.
2017‑06‑12: Digging the graveyard of oil's past: decommissioning North Sea oil rigs.
2017‑06‑12: #c0ffee is the colour: what real words are valid CSS hex RGB colours?
2017‑06‑12: Secrets and LIE-abilities: the state of modern secret management.
2017‑06‑12: PostgreSQL set_user extension: swap to/from a different role, with enhanced logging and control.
2017‑06‑12: Cooling the Tube: engineering heat out of the London Underground.
2017‑06‑11: How to write exciting conference talk proposals.
2017‑06‑11: VirtualBox: are you getting your money's worth?
2017‑06‑11: A PGP / GnuPG tutorial.
2017‑06‑11: An introduction to timekeeping in Linux VMs.
2017‑06‑11: Exploring /dev/input/.
2017‑06‑11: tini: a tiny `init` for Docker containers.
2017‑06‑11: Kubernetes patterns and anti-patterns.
2017‑06‑11: Comdb2: Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS.
2017‑06‑10: BitKeeper: the original distributed source management system, now open source (Apache 2.0).
2017‑06‑10: How Turla malware abused satellites to stay under the radar.
2017‑06‑10: Sushi = Beer ?! UTF8 bug fixes in MySQL 8.0.
2017‑06‑09: Sachal Studios Orchestra (Pakistan): Take Five.
2017‑06‑09: I/O efficient gzip compression with libpcap and funopen().
2017‑06‑09: BIND and ISC DHCP bug DB opening up for guest users.
2017‑06‑09: The L scripting language: C syntax, Perl features, Tcl implementation.
2017‑06‑09: x86 approaching 40 and still going strong.
2017‑06‑09: Intel fires warning shot at Qualcomm and Microsoft over Windows 10 ARM emulation in x86 birthday blog post.
2017‑06‑09: HomeOffice rules: the mindset of the Home Office and its officials.
2017‑06‑08: Christine de Pizan: a feminist writer in early 1400s France. (Radio 4)
2017‑06‑08: Compressing pcap files with gzip, xz, and zstd.
2017‑06‑08: Intelligent tracking prevention in WebKit.
2017‑06‑08: A mathematical chronology.
2017‑06‑08: How to understand the Wireless Diagnostics app on your Mac.
2017‑06‑08: How to think about HTTP status codes.
2017‑06‑08: Rust performance pitfalls.
2017‑06‑08: Creating a distributed data centre architecture using Kubernetes and containers.
2017‑06‑08: D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style.
2017‑06‑08: 3D virtual tour of the national museum of computing at Bletchley Park.
2017‑06‑08: State of the art in lightweight symmetric cryptography.
2017‑06‑08: A formal Linux kernel memory-ordering model.
2017‑06‑08: PEP 524: os.urandom() now blocks on Linux in Python 3.6.
2017‑06‑08: 3-year-olds consuming alternative milks are 1.5 cm shorter on average.
2017‑06‑08: SyncPerf: categorizing, detecting, and diagnosing synchronization performance bugs.
2017‑06‑07: Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
2017‑06‑07: A day without Javascript.
2017‑06‑07: You are not Google, or Amazon, or LinkedIn.
2017‑06‑07: Performance improvements in .NET Core 2.0.
2017‑06‑07: Network automation do's and don'ts.
2017‑06‑07: State of IPv6 deployment 2017.
2017‑06‑07: WebKit JavaScriptCore optimizations for ES6.
2017‑06‑06: The Boom hierarchy.
2017‑06‑06: Comprehending ringads.
2017‑06‑06: pgBadger: log analyzer for PostgreSQL.
2017‑06‑06: DocuColor printer tracking dot decoding guide.
2017‑06‑06: Printer dots: how The Intercept outed NSA leaker Reality Winner.
2017‑06‑06: A powerful study that bolsters the lead-crime hypothesis.
2017‑06‑05: IBM unveils world's first 5nm chip.
2017‑06‑05: A history of the birth of the IBM PC.
2017‑06‑05: An epoxy potted homebrew OCXO.
2017‑06‑05: A homebrew OCXO.
2017‑06‑05: Kubernetes: more like jazz improv than orchestration.
2017‑06‑04: Mup: music publication software.
2017‑06‑04: ARM pointer authentication on Linux.
2017‑06‑03: Tilting titling: direction of printing on spines of books.
2017‑06‑03: U.Texas information security office policy on food provisioning at meetings.
2017‑06‑03: 32-bit x86 position independent code is really bad.
2017‑06‑03: Multi-threaded setuid on Linux.
2017‑06‑03: Don't mix Linux namespace switching and goroutines.
2017‑06‑03: The evolution of code deploys at Reddit.
2017‑06‑03: JSON-LD is about linked data for better Web APIs, not the Semantic Web.
2017‑06‑03: Please, enough with the dead butterflies!
2017‑06‑03: What really happened with Vista.
2017‑06‑02: Cryptographic hash functions and indifferentiability.
2017‑06‑02: A real steam-powered simplified difference engine. (YouTube)
2017‑06‑02: U 2 can U2F.
2017‑06‑02: Little's Law and the universal scalability law.
2017‑06‑02: Progress with Python's GILectomy.
2017‑06‑02: Cambridge North station is covered in Rule 30!
2017‑06‑01: Pinboard acquires Del.icio.us.
2017‑06‑01: A guide to the many flavours of TeX.
2017‑05‑31: SHA-3 should probably not be used.
2017‑05‑31: Seville shows what makes a city great for cycling: the number of cycleways, or their connectivity?
2017‑05‑31: New DNS infrastructure at GitHub.
2017‑05‑31: Problems with OCSP stapling and Must-Staple and why certificate revocation is still broken.
2017‑05‑31: HTTP/2 push is tougher than you might expect.
2017‑05‑31: Federal Circuit loses again: US Supreme Court categorically rejects enforcement of post-sale patent restrictions.
2017‑05‑30: Venus has very few volcanoes. Weirdly, this might be why it's as hot as hell.
2017‑05‑30: Golden Carrots: Kenya's M-PESA, W3C's Web Payments, Australia's NPP.
2017‑05‑30: What went wrong in the British Airways data centre?
2017‑05‑30: DST causes an estimated 30 traffic accident deaths per year in the USA.
2017‑05‑30: CalVer: calendar-based version numbers.
2017‑05‑30: Conference speaking as a software vendor / talks as a product design tool.
2017‑05‑30: Scaling Amazon Aurora at ticketea: compensating for DNS propagation delay.
2017‑05‑30: Avert your eyes from the server "humping" trend in GPU compute chassis.
2017‑05‑29: The atomic bomb considered as a Hungarian high school science fair project.
2017‑05‑29: STEM: still no shortage of qualified people in the USA.
2017‑05‑29: Book Review: The Entrepreneurial State.
2017‑05‑29: The rise of the QR code and how it has forever changed China's social habits.
2017‑05‑29: LLVM's shifty semantics.
2017‑05‑29: The world Is running out of (the right kinds of) sand.
2017‑05‑29: Hacking Golang's type system.
2017‑05‑29: Jitterdämmerung
2017‑05‑29: Harnessing the energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater.
2017‑05‑29: View counting at Reddit, with Redis HyperLogLog, Kafka, and Cassandra.
2017‑05‑29: What's the difference between the COM and EXE extensions?
2017‑05‑29: Building the Lego Saturn V.
2017‑05‑29: RFC 3484 address sorting is a bug: DNS resolution in Golang and Cgo.
2017‑05‑29: Template for an outage post-mortem review document.
2017‑05‑28: Trump stole the Davies coat of arms from the former owners of Mar-a-Lago.
2017‑05‑28: SSD rowhammer: vulnerabilities in MLC NAND flash memory programming.
2017‑05‑28: How to use conscious purpose without wrecking everything.
2017‑05‑27: traintimes.org.uk performance notes.
2017‑05‑27: Don't go to the doctor: PREVENT's effects on British muslims.
2017‑05‑27: JOSE (Javascript Object Signing and Encryption) is a bad standard that everyone should avoid.
2017‑05‑26: Faster command line tools in D, with simple TSV as an example.
2017‑05‑26: Rocket Lab's Electron conducts inaugural flight from New Zealand.
2017‑05‑26: Rocket Lab's New Zealand space launch is first from a private site.
2017‑05‑26: uTT: lightweight and efficient MQTT broker. (WIP)
2017‑05‑26: MH17 and the utility of NOTAMs.
2017‑05‑26: Chrome won the browser war.
2017‑05‑26: Simple and Happy: is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
2017‑05‑25: Let's Encrypt OCSP and issuance outage postmortem.
2017‑05‑25: Why Flamingos are more stable on one leg than two.
2017‑05‑25: Rust's built-in traits: the when, how, and why.
2017‑05‑25: Saint Architeuthis is the patron saint of doomed sailors.
2017‑05‑25: Meld: a visual diff and merge tool for developers
2017‑05‑25: Linux kernel dentry cache growth causes performance problems.
2017‑05‑24: Using TLS1.3 with OpenSSL.
2017‑05‑24: Google buys a /12 IPv4 address block: further concentration of internet haves and have nots.
2017‑05‑24: System programming in Rust: beyond safety.
2017‑05‑24: Tutorial: CSV parsing with Rust.
2017‑05‑24: Rocket Lab's first Electron launcher "It's a Test" is set to lift off from New Zealand.
2017‑05‑24: Turning the database inside out with Apache Kafka and Samza.
2017‑05‑23: 1Password travel mode: protect your accounts when crossing borders.
2017‑05‑23: Who owns England? Land ownership map.
2017‑05‑23: Chaos Computer Club breaks iris recognition system of the Samsung Galaxy S8.
2017‑05‑23: After seven years, Microsoft is finally fixing the "J" email bug.
2017‑05‑22: HTTPS on Stack Overflow: the end of a long road.
2017‑05‑22: On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint. (YouTube)
2017‑05‑21: Improving qsort worst case behaviour on OpenBSD, plus multipivot quicksort.
2017‑05‑21: Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding.
2017‑05‑21: SILE: a typesetter written in Lua.
2017‑05‑21: CPU utilization is wrong.
2017‑05‑21: Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials.
2017‑05‑21: Pattern matching for Java.
2017‑05‑21: Google PhotoScan takes glare-free pictures of pictures with a smartphone.
2017‑05‑21: Prepack: partial evaluator for JavaScript.
2017‑05‑21: Generating fantasy maps.
2017‑05‑21: New in Debian Stretch: nftables.
2017‑05‑21: Programming as a way of thinking.
2017‑05‑21: Writing a new time series database for Prometheus.
2017‑05‑21: fireflowers: advocating Rust, in the words of its practitioners.
2017‑05‑21: How basic performance analysis saved us millions. (PostgreSQL, perf, flame graphs)
2017‑05‑20: Escaping hell with monads.
2017‑05‑20: ARM's ASL: architecture specification language.
2017‑05‑20: XML parsing accelerator with Intel SSE4.
2017‑05‑20: Generating datasets with varied appearance and identical statistics through simulated annealing.
2017‑05‑20: Myth: it's easier to multiply and divide with Hindu-Arabic numerals than with Roman ones?
2017‑05‑20: The politics of the NHS WannaCrypt ransomware outbreak.
2017‑05‑20: An introduction to monoids with FizzBuzz.
2017‑05‑20: Freshly Remember'd: Kirk drift.
2017‑05‑20: Slovak Radio building.
2017‑05‑20: Criticisms of RFC6979 deterministic ECDSA.
2017‑05‑20: Where have all the insects gone?
2017‑05‑20: Troublesome OCSP server outage handling in Apache.
2017‑05‑20: CRLite: a scalable system for pushing all TLS X.509 certificate revocations to all browsers.
2017‑05‑19: FizzBuzz in Haskell by embedding a domain-specific language.
2017‑05‑19: Disable the GNU libstdc++ memory allocator to avoid leaks.
2017‑05‑19: NVidia Tesla Volta data center GPU.
2017‑05‑19: Monitoring PostgreSQL streaming slave lag.
2017‑05‑19: Performance problems due to false dependency in Intel popcnt instruction.
2017‑05‑19: How to restart MySQL fast: the difference between knowledge and experience.
2017‑05‑19: pgsidekick: scheduler (pglater) and external tool invoker (pglisten) for PostgreSQL.
2017‑05‑19: North Sea Wind Power Hub: A giant wind farm to power all of north Europe.
2017‑05‑19: The replication crisis in psychology: Daryl Bem "proved" ESP is real, which means science is broken.
2017‑05‑19: Replacing Disqus with Github comments.
2017‑05‑19: Temporal tables PostgreSQL extension.
2017‑05‑19: How Trump could get fired.
2017‑05‑19: Swift is like Kotlin.
2017‑05‑19: P-hacking "Mindless Eating", or how to send an entire life of research into question.
2017‑05‑19: Let us paste passwords!
2017‑05‑19: secure-operator: a DNS server proxy to Google's DNS-over-HTTPS.
2017‑05‑19: Teller reveals his magical secrets.
2017‑05‑19: The fold-and-cut problem: make any shape by folding paper flat and making one cut?
2017‑05‑18: Cargo Rust crate registry format.
2017‑05‑18: The quantum thermodynamics revolution.
2017‑05‑18: Flang: a Fortran compiler based on the PGI front end and LLVM back end.
2017‑05‑18: How to accidentally stop a global cyber attack. (WannaCry)
2017‑05‑18: PlantNet: 'Shazam' for plants will identify French plants from a picture.
2017‑05‑18: Sensible new password guidelines from NIST.
2017‑05‑18: Cap'n Proto 0.6 Released: Two and a half years of improvements.
2017‑05‑18: Remotely exploitable Javascript type confusion bug in privileged Microsoft Security Essentials AV scanner.
2017‑05‑18: Rules for successful hotel Wi-Fi.
2017‑05‑18: Caddy 0.10 released. (Golang http server)
2017‑05‑18: go-audit: Slack's tool for syscall auditing at scale.
2017‑05‑18: A Rust optimization guide.
2017‑05‑17: Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers.
2017‑05‑17: Getting started with headless Google Chrome.
2017‑05‑17: How ssh got port 22.
2017‑05‑17: "Me and SVG" - Amelia Bellamy-Royds.
2017‑05‑17: Prolog under the hood: an honest look.
2017‑05‑17: Fusion reactors: Not what they're cracked up to be.
2017‑05‑17: VME broken on AMD Ryzen. (Affects 16bit virtual machines.)
2017‑05‑17: How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2,000,000 concurrent SSL connections.
2017‑05‑17: New LLVM JIT in Azul's Zing JVM.
2017‑05‑17: The SQL layer in CockroachDB.
2017‑05‑17: Kryptonite: an ssh agent on your phone with Touch ID authorization.
2017‑05‑17: Intent to remove support in Google Chrome for commonName matching in X.509 certificates.
2017‑05‑17: Aspirin and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918-1919: pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence.
2017‑05‑17: 4chan: the skeleton key to the rise of Trump.
2017‑05‑16: UPSERT race condition with MERGE on Microsoft SQL Server.
2017‑05‑16: Fewer mallocs in curl.
2017‑05‑16: Notation as a tool of thought. (Ken Iverson)
2017‑05‑16: Akumuli storage engine design.
2017‑05‑16: Is the preprocessor still needed in C++?
2017‑05‑16: Wax worm caterpillars can dissolve plastic shopping bags surprisingly fast.
2017‑05‑15: Check whether Intel AMT is enabled and provisioned under Linux.
2017‑05‑15: Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency.
2017‑05‑13: Physical separation of cyclists from traffic "crucial" to dropping injury rates, shows U.S. study.
2017‑05‑13: How to reduce Lua boilerplate with D.
2017‑05‑12: Optimal probabilistic cache stampede prevention.
2017‑05‑12: A public key that crashes ssh-keygen. (2015)
2017‑05‑10: Beware of the background colour of transparent pixels.
2017‑05‑10: Truly seamless reloads with HAProxy: no more hacks!
2017‑05‑10: A history of relay computers.
2017‑05‑09: Innovation is an overrated ideology, say historians of technology. Maintenance means more to most peoples' lives.
2017‑05‑09: Writing a fast hash table with a tiny memory footprint.
2017‑05‑08: Migrating from Heroku to AWS.
2017‑05‑08: Did Macron outsmart Russian hackers?
2017‑05‑07: A dog that rescues cats.
2017‑05‑05: Rediscovering the Intel AMT remote firmware authentication vulnerability.
2017‑05‑05: Background and introduction to BBR TCP.
2017‑05‑03: Programming as theory building. (Peter Naur)
2017‑05‑03: LEGO Ideas 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V.
2017‑05‑03: The sandwich alignment chart.
2017‑05‑01: Rust your ARM microcontroller!
2017‑05‑01: Laffer curve: Everything right-wingers get wrong about trickle-down economics.
2017‑04‑30: How Ireland achieved a crucial Brexit coup.
2017‑04‑29: Sorting 2 tonnes of Lego.
2017‑04‑29: luajit-bpf: Lua to eBPF compiler for easier in-kernel scripting.
2017‑04‑26: File processing in Clojure (and Java) can easily become CPU bound.
2017‑04‑26: Dynamic storage allocation: a survey and critical review. (1995)
2017‑04‑26: How many disks can you add to a (virtual) Linux machine?
2017‑04‑25: Capturing all the flags in BSidesSF CTF by pwning Kubernetes.
2017‑04‑25: LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how.
2017‑04‑25: Glob matching can be simple and fast (but often isn't).
2017‑04‑24: Protect your management interfaces.
2017‑04‑24: Tools as a catalyst for tech culture change.
2017‑04‑24: Unicode character inspector.
2017‑04‑23: Kava: A Java dialect with a uniform object model for lightweight classes.
2017‑04‑21: Post-quantum RSA.
2017‑04‑21: Design flaws in LastPass two factor authentication.
2017‑04‑21: ARM releases a machine readable architecture specification.
2017‑04‑20: Hellandizing: disciplined test point placement in server software.
2017‑04‑19: MIT deploying IPv6 and selling off half of 18.0.0.0/8.
2017‑04‑19: b.root-servers.net to begin anycast service and renumber.
2017‑04‑18: Compact PAT trees (PATRICIA suffix tries).
2017‑04‑18: Level-compressed tries: improved behaviour of tries by adaptive branching.
2017‑04‑18: SILT (small index, large table): a memory-efficient, high-performance key-value store.
2017‑04‑18: Theft and loss recovery for iOS users. (Passwords? Phone numbers? Credit cards?)
2017‑04‑18: Prioritizing economics over democracy is crippling the U.S. economy.
2017‑04‑18: "I thought I understood the American right. Trump proved me wrong."
2017‑04‑18: How to know if you've sent a horrible tweet.
2017‑04‑18: Angry Birds / Inglourious Basterds.
2017‑04‑17: CVE-2017-7892: arithmetic overflow undefined behaviour leads to security vulnerability in Cap'n Proto.
2017‑04‑17: Calling bullshit in the age of big data.
2017‑04‑17: The invisible parts of CSS.
2017‑04‑17: The origins of XXX as a FIXME comment marker.
2017‑04‑17: The Dzhanibekov effect aka the tennis racket theorem: when the axis of rotation flips.
2017‑04‑17: Inside the PHP 7 virtual machine.
2017‑04‑17: Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles.
2017‑04‑17: Cloning r/place in a weekend.
2017‑04‑17: Debugging compilers with optimization fuel (applied to ghc / Haskell).
2017‑04‑16: What is DevOps?
2017‑04‑16: Ten simple rules for making research software more robust.
2017‑04‑15: Optimizing struct size in Rust: a 6-month compiler development project.
2017‑04‑15: Critical deficiencies in Jigsaw / JSR-376 Java platform module system.
2017‑04‑15: Host key verification in golang SSH clients.
2017‑04‑15: Who would go Nazi? (1941)
2017‑04‑14: Leibniz, Bernoulli, and the logarithms of negative numbers.
2017‑04‑14: What happens when the pager goes off?
2017‑04‑14: The future of ad blocking.
2017‑04‑14: A retrospective on the tech behind the IMDB message boards.
2017‑04‑13: How Reddit built their epic r/Place 1st April stunt.
2017‑04‑13: Intel Haskell research compiler.
2017‑04‑13: Blender cheat sheet / quick reference poster.
2017‑04‑13: Blender for hackers: 3D modeling is just like using vim.
2017‑04‑13: Memory bandwidth per instruction.
2017‑04‑13: High-performance rate limiting with RocksDB.
2017‑04‑11: Linear lambda calculus and PTIME-completeness.
2017‑04‑11: Typing the technical interview: solving 8 queens in the Haskell type system.
2017‑04‑11: The Centennial Society's business reply pamphlet: how to break free from the junk mail industry.
2017‑04‑11: In pursuit of perfection : thermocompensated quartz watches and their movements.
2017‑04‑11: Banker Bob (still) can't get TLS right: a security analysis of TLS in leading UK banking apps.
2017‑04‑11: A field guide to the American sandwich.
2017‑04‑10: The BEAM Book: A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual machine BEAM.
2017‑04‑10: Setting up a failover Database for PostgreSQL.
2017‑04‑10: Spotify's love/hate relationship with DNS.
2017‑04‑10: Using the PostgreSQL TAP framework for testing extensions.
2017‑04‑10: New features coming in PostgreSQL 10.
2017‑04‑10: Brexit: economists will have the last word.
2017‑04‑06: The Portlandification of pot.
2017‑04‑06: How momentum speeds up gradient descent.
2017‑04‑06: Lessons learned managing site reliability for some of the world's busiest gambling sites.
2017‑04‑06: Exploiting Broadcom's Wi-Fi stack over the air.
2017‑04‑04: Paul Vixie on good/bad ideas and interoperable implementations.
2017‑04‑04: Education of a programmer.
2017‑04‑04: Eventually-fair locking in WebKit.
2017‑04‑03: The mess with internationalized domain names.
2017‑04‑03: EuroLLVM 2017 review.
2017‑04‑03: A retired German statistician proved the Gaussian correlation inequality, but the response was underwhelming.
2017‑04‑03: Understanding how an OS uses a modern NIC.
2017‑04‑03: Cloudflare now hosting f.root-servers.net
2017‑04‑03: More bent horizon pictures by Aydın Büyüktaş.
2017‑04‑03: Bent horizon projections of Manhattan.
2017‑04‑03: The American West looks like a space habitat in these bent-horizon photos.
2017‑04‑02: Pointing and calling in Japan's zero-accident total participation campaign.
2017‑04‑02: Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things.
2017‑04‑02: Microsoft is shutting down their open source hosting service CodePlex.
2017‑04‑02: Jacobsen v. Katzer upheld enforceability of copyright conditions in the Artistic License.
2017‑04‑02: Get lost in mega-tunnels dug by South American megafauna.
2017‑04‑01: cgo is not Golang.
2017‑04‑01: Filming mosquitoes reveals a completely new approach to flight.
2017‑04‑01: Fuzzing is magic, or how to find a panic in Rust's regex library.
2017‑04‑01: Capability-based computer systems.
2017‑04‑01: Rate limiting with Nginx.
2017‑04‑01: How to block rate-limited http traffic with Varnish.
2017‑04‑01: Scaling a web API with rate limiters.
2017‑04‑01: The exceptional beauty of Doom 3's source code.
2017‑04‑01: John Carmack on functional programming in C++.
2017‑04‑01: Trolls are winning the Internet. How do we defeat them?
2017‑04‑01: UW professor: The information war is real, and we're losing it.
2017‑03‑31: How not to cite academic software.
2017‑03‑31: Special tools covering advanced topics for the experienced system administrator.
2017‑03‑31: Learn redis the hard way (in production).
2017‑03‑30: Daffowocky: a poetic mash-up.
2017‑03‑30: Beej's Guide to Network Programming.
2017‑03‑30: sedlisp: a Lisp implementation in sed.
2017‑03‑29: Ravenserodd and other lost settlements of the East Yorkshire coast.
2017‑03‑28: rsync's 32KB buffer size makes it slower than cp.
2017‑03‑28: Use a 128KB buffer for efficient file copying on Linux.
2017‑03‑28: Research Unix 8th / 9th / 10th editions released for non-commercial use.
2017‑03‑28: Pi and the golden ratio, via Viète's formula.
2017‑03‑28: Self-hosted, server-side MathJax.
2017‑03‑28: KaTeX: Fast math typesetting for the web.
2017‑03‑27: Qattara depression: flood the Sahara with water from the Mediterranean for hydroelectric power?
2017‑03‑27: A historical survey of subroutine linkage and procedure call mechanisms.
2017‑03‑26: A constructive look at TempleOS.
2017‑03‑26: How Elsevier plans to sabotage Open Access.
2017‑03‑26: Chasing the first arcade easter egg.
2017‑03‑26: BEAMJIT: An LLVM based just-in-time compiler for Erlang.
2017‑03‑26: C++17 feature comparisons.
2017‑03‑26: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting: C++17 is complete.
2017‑03‑26: Apple's new APFS has Unix-style "bag of bytes" filenames.
2017‑03‑25: Hadoop has failed in a smoking heap of cost and complexity.
2017‑03‑25: Czar of Bad Systems, responsible for changing dumb company rules.
2017‑03‑25: Comprehensive and biaised comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
2017‑03‑25: An detailed, eye-opening roadmap for meeting the Paris climate goals.
2017‑03‑24: Research debt is the accumulation of missing interpretive labor.
2017‑03‑24: OpenSSL switching to Apache License.
2017‑03‑23: An empirical evaluation of in-memory multi-version concurrency control.
2017‑03‑23: Peloton: building a new database management system in academia.
2017‑03‑22: MyRocks: a RocksDB storage engine for MySQL.
2017‑03‑22: Iago attacks: syscall return values can induce arbitrary computation in userland processes.
2017‑03‑22: Hungarian secret agent reveals in detail how serious the Russian threat is.
2017‑03‑22: attrs: the one Python library everybody needs.
2017‑03‑21: Can ultraprecise time measurements warp space?
2017‑03‑21: Put your Raspberry Pi NTP server in a padded envelope to improve temperature and frequency stability.
2017‑03‑21: Git blame who?: stylistic authorship attribution of small, incomplete source code fragments.
2017‑03‑21: Uber is being sued for avoiding VAT in the UK.
2017‑03‑20: How not to do it: breaking up ammonium nitrate.
2017‑03‑20: We can teach women to code, but that just exposes a deeper problem.
2017‑03‑20: PostgreSQL 10 hash indexes are faster than Btree indexes?
2017‑03‑20: DeepMind in talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use by 10%.
2017‑03‑20: Performance results of the Oscilloquartz optically pumped cesium beam clock.
2017‑03‑20: Oscilloquartz high performance optically-pumped cesium beam clock.
2017‑03‑20: Building a Hackintosh Pro.
2017‑03‑19: Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it's so strange.
2017‑03‑19: Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse.
2017‑03‑18: badssl.com: a web site for testing clients against bad server SSL configs.
2017‑03‑18: The million dollar AWS cost reduction.
2017‑03‑18: Guetzli: a new open source JPEG encoder, produces smaller and better images, much slower.
2017‑03‑18: The road to a free Europe goes through Moscow.
2017‑03‑18: Information Wars: a window into the alternative media (Russian disinformation) ecosystem.
2017‑03‑18: The bootstrapping mindset: seeking higher-level abstractions for the web.
2017‑03‑18: Is your fancy