This POODLE Bites: Exploiting The SSL 3.0 Fallback (PDF), Security Advisory by Bodo Möller, Thai Duong, and Krzysztof Kotowicz. Adam Langley explains. More background.

avremu: An AVR Emulator written in pure LaTeX, WJW.

SSLsplit, transparent and scalable SSL/TLS interception. Very convenient.

QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser

Cryptic genetic variation in software: hunting a buffered 41 year old bug

George Forsythe’s last paper, by Richard P. Brent. Efficient algorithms for sampling from several families of probability distributions.

Building packages at scale, how Joyent runs pkgsrc bulk builds.

How unreliable is UDP?, interesting results.

Impending kOS, by Stephen Taylor. I hope there is a public release soon.

True Stuff: The Art of Letter Writing

Sincerity Machine: The Comic Sans typewriter

thatsnumber.wang

Shellshock, David A. Wheeler has the most comprehensive report.

SPHINCS-256 is a high-security post-quantum stateless hash-based signature scheme that signs hundreds of messages per second on a modern 4-core 3.5GHz Intel CPU. By Daniel J. Bernstein and his gang. Very interesting!

Modular, composable, typed optimizations in the tagless-final style, by Oleg Kiselyov.

µKanren: A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming (PDF), by Jason Hemann and Daniel P. Friedman. 39 LoC Scheme.

Early Digital Research CP/M Source Code, now available from Computer History Museum.

Down to the silicon: how the Z80’s registers are implemented

The mLite Language, a dynamically typed variant of ML. Quite nice and a good starting point for further experiments.

tilde.club background, this is how a social network should work. I wish I had an account.

My Philosophy on Alerting, based my observations while I was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. By Rob Ewaschuk.

Solving Nine Men’s Morris (PDF), by Ralph Gasser.

OpenBSD head.c, “Fix a 37 year old bug introduced by Bill Joy on August 24, 1977.”

IPFS is a distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.

TARTS, “Timing attack resistant type systems.”

Listen to the Butt Song from Hell written on a 500-year-old painting

Pteranodon Gets Ready for Halloween

Train Your Roommate