Password Hashing Competition winner and special recognitions announced, it’s Argon2 (which uses Blake2).

doas: dedicated openbsd application subexecutor, OpenBSD’s new alternative to sudo.

Hypernom, a virtual reality game. The cells of a regular 4D polytope are radially projected to , the sphere in 4D space, then stereographically projected to 3D space where they are viewed in the headset. Paper by Vi Hart, Andrea Hawksley, Henry Segerman, and Marc ten Bosch.

Natron is an open-source crossplatform nodal compositing software.

The CEK machine in Prolog

Bocker is Docker implemented in 100 lines of Bash.

GNU bash backend for Idris “Barely functional. Super slow.”

Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers

the art of monitoring

Google INTERCAL Style Guide

RC4 NOMORE, Numerous Occurrence MOnitoring & Recovery Exploit. By Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens. “This is the first time weaknesses in RC4, when used in TLS and HTTPS, are exploited against real devices.” … “Our attack against WPA-TKIP takes only an hour to execute, and allows an attacker to inject and decrypt arbitrary packets.”

IOCCC 2014 winners’ source code is released.

Introducing Incremental, a powerful OCaml library for building self-adjusting computations, i.e., computations that can be updated efficiently when their inputs change.

More ties than we thought, by Dan Hirsch, Ingemar Markström, Meredith L. Patterson, Anders Sandberg, and Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson. “We extend the existing enumeration of neck tie-knots to include tie-knots with a textured front, tied with the narrow end of a tie.”

Designing a Secret Handshake: Authenticated Key Exchange as a Capability System (PDF), by Dominic Tarr.

Free (as in GPL2) translation dictionaries for the Kindle

Why Won’t “Orange Is The New Black” Acknowledge That Bisexuals Exist?

New Image of Pluto: ‘Houston, We Have Geology’

Early days of Unix and design of sh (YouTube), talk by Stephen Bourne at BSDCan 2015. Recommended, and has nice anecdotes.

plex, a LALR(1) parser and DFA-based lexer generator for Rust.

CCN-lite is a lightweight and functionally interoperable implementation of the Content Centric Networking protocol CCNx of XEROX PARC. Core has less than 2.000 LoC, pure C, runs over UDP and raw Ethernet. Comes with the fully permissive ISC license.

Pinboard Turns Six, the best webservice ever which I mostly use from the commandline…

Vi Hart on The Setup.

A 1968 computer art contest

Stuff in Space

I was an Invisible Girlfriend for a month, by Kashmir Hill.

Several inches were cut from Jackson Pollock’s Mural

cncrt abstraction

DeepDream Porn, NSFW.

What is C in practice?, by Kayvan Memarian and Peter Sewell.

Js Coq, Coq running in the browser, thanks to js_of_ocaml.

s2n is a C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols that is designed to be simple, small, fast, and with security as a priority. It is released and licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.

Erlang master classes at the University of Kent. Presented by Joe Armstrong, Francesco Cesarini, and Simon Thompson.

Portable Utah Standard LISP, running on modern systems.

Elymas, a bootstrapped stack programming language.

Things Rust shipped without

narrowed-page-navigation-mode is an Emacs minor mode that provides keybindings for showing only one page at a time. This is intended to be useful primarily for presentations and live coding, where it might be convenient to avoid distractions for the audience.

pkfix can replace TeX’s bitmap fonts with outline fonts in .ps files. Wish I had known about this years ago…

The annoying boxes puzzle, Mark Dominus being annoying. ;)

Bubble Wrap is dead, long live Bubble Wrap

Fridgehenge