RFC 7914: The scrypt Password-Based Key Derivation Function, by C. Percival and S. Josefsson.

OpenBSD (with encrypted softraid) on the Chromebook Pixel (2015), by Joshua Stein.

Haversine is a dialect of Logo based around spherical geometry.

ngn/apl, an APL compiler written in JavaScript. Very nice!

Hipku, encode any IP address as a haiku.

How to compute Σ1/n² by solving triangles (2007), by Mikael Passare.

The collected works of F. W. Lawvere on GitHub.

Division algorithms, overview at Wikipedia.

How To Retarget the GNU Toolchain in 21 Patches, quite interesting.

Obscure Ethernet for $200 please, Alex: The Ethernet PAUSE frame

bucklespring emulates the sound of a IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.

The Million-Key Question: Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys, by Petr Švenda, Matúš Nemec, Peter Sekan, Rudolf Kvašňovský, David Formánek, David Komárek, and Vashek Matyáš. “The bias introduced by different choices is sufficiently large to classify a probable library or smartcard with high accuracy based only on the values of public keys.” Ugh!

WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding the massive headache. Looks very promising!

Zero-cost futures in Rust, very interesting!

Andromeda is an implementation of dependent type theory with equality reflection. The type theory is very expressive, as it allows one to postulate new judgmental equalities.

gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want

lambda-lists, a TeX package for doing lists and lambda calculus via expandable macros. Amazing how straight-forward that is.

The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs

Surprises of the Faraday Cage, by Lloyd N. Trefethen. Surprising indeed!

Nonce-Disrespecting Adversaries: Practical Forgery Attacks on GCM in TLS, by Hanno Böck, Aaron Zauner, Sean Devlin, Juraj Somorovsky, and Philipp Jovanovic. Sheesh!

Decomposing a function into its even and odd parts, by Mark Dominus. “It was a brilliant exam, and I have never learned so much about a subject during the final exam.”

Software Library: Amiga at archive.org! With emulation, of course.

lips, the Lisp Iwesome Preprocessor System, and guile-lips

Mini-tutorial on explicit (and implicit) renaming macros in CHICKEN.

A Brief History of Email Apps

The Kearny fallout meter, or KFM, is an expedient radiation meter. It is designed such that someone with a normal mechanical ability would be able to construct it before or during a nuclear attack and from common household items.

Settlers of Catan, at Adventures in Diversity & Representation in Tabletop Gaming.

Arabic Reading Course, good quick intro.

In Memory: Seymour Papert (1928–2016)

James Noble: Notes on Post-Post-Modern-Modern Programming, video of the Curry On! talk. Recommended.

random: replace non-blocking pool with a Chacha20-based CRNG, to land in Linux 4.8.

INT02-C: Understand integer conversion rules in C. Tricky.

html2text is a Python script that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Originally by Aaron Swartz.

PythonTeX provides fast, user-friendly access to Python from within LaTeX. It allows Python code entered within a LaTeX document to be executed, and the results to be included within the original document. Also supports many other languages.

duo2c, a LLVM-based Oberon 2 compiler.

Brachylog is a declarative logic programming language much like Prolog. Brachylog is designed to be much terser than Prolog, while retaining some readability.

The Inner JSON Effect at thedailywtf.com. Made my day.