Backdooring your JavaScript using minifier bugs, fun stuff.
C Programming Substance Guidelines, I don’t agree with everything, but food for thought.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Fsync()
How and Why We Designed Lucida, by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow.
UW ttyp0, Monospaced Bitmap Fonts for X11 by Uwe Waldmann. Provides various sizes and character variants.
Iosevka is a monospace coding typeface inspired by Pragmata Pro, M+ and PF DIN Mono.
The Untold Story of ILM, a Titan That Forever Changed Film
Object Oriented Programming without Inheritance (YouTube), talk by Bjarne Stroustrup at ECOOP 2015. This concept stuff sounds very good.
The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
Pearls of Algebraic Effects and Handlers, “In this post, I will present a series of simple examples to illustrate the utility of algebraic effects and handlers in OCaml.”
How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately (PDF), by Guy L. Steele Jr. and Jon L White.
Writing reflective tactics in Coq.
WiTi Board, an Open & Extensible Router & NAS Platform. Quite unique feature set, I pre-ordered one.
Typeset.js, a typographic pre-processor for your HTML which uses zero client-side JavaScript.
HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables.
Everything I Learned About Dual-Stick Shooter Controls, by Mark Venturelli.
Microsoft Photos, from November 1979.
Lessig for President, A National Referendum For Equality as Citizens.
New pentagonal tiling discovered
Ceptre: A Language for Modeling Generative Interactive Systems (PDF), by Chris Martens. “Ceptre can be viewed as an explication of a new methodology for understanding games based on linear logic, a formal logic concerned with resource usage. We present a correspondence between gameplay and proof search in linear logic, building on prior work on generating narratives.”
How the ELF Ruined Christmas (PDF), by Alessandro Di Federico, Amat Cama, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna. “We identified several fundamental weak points in the design of ELF standard and dynamic loader implementations that can be exploited to resolve and execute arbitrary library functions.”
The Secret Structure of the S-Box of Streebog, Kuznechik and Stribob, by Alex Biryukov, Léo Perrin and Aleksei Udovenko. Very interesting, also the randomness analysis of the S-Box.
Tutte–Coxeter Graph, somehow I didn’t know John Baez blogged for AMS.
NaSC, “Do maths like a normal person.” A fancy Linux calculator.
pid.codes is a registry of USB PID codes for open source hardware projects.
Provably considered harmful, Andrej Bauer rants.
The Memory Sinkhole, a x86 design flaw allowing ring -2 privilege escalation. WJW.
The M/o/Vfuscator compiles C programs into “mov” instructions, and only “mov” instructions.
A message to the aliens (introduction), looking forward to this blog series of Mark J. Dominus.
choco, a BSD-licensed Java Library for Constraint Programming.
The Timepiece That Will Change Everything, $150 mechanical Swatch with only 51 parts.
The Last Days of Kathy Acker, by Jason McBride.
Herself.com, NSFW.
Autonomous Weapons: an Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers, “[T]he endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow.”
Nach Strafanzeige gegen netzpolitik.org: CCC lobt Preis für Verratsdatenspeicherung aus “Endlich haben wir herausgefunden, wie man Herrn Range aus seiner Lethargie reißt!”, freut sich Dirk Engling, Sprecher des CCC.
Dual EC: A Standardized Back Door, by Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, and Ruben Niederhagen.
Rowhammer.js, a Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaScript
grab-site is an easy preconfigured web crawler designed for backing up websites.
nq, a little queue tool I’ve been working on.
The Importance of the Oxford Comma, by Brian Bilston.
Too long? Read anyway. (2013)