The MIT License, Line by Line, by Kyle E. Mitchell. “171 words every programmer should understand”. Required reading.

Roughtime is a protocol that aims to achieve rough time synchronisation in a secure way that doesn’t depend on any particular time server, and in such a way that, if a time server does misbehave, clients end up with cryptographic proof of it.

BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT), a new TCP congestion control algorithm.

ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift}, and written in Rust.

An OS 9 odyssey: Why these Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software

Coming Out as Bi When You’re Muslim and Married, by Zahra Noorbakhsh.

North Korea .kp TLD Zone Data, featuring 4 unique IPs.

Burning Ship fractal, fancy.

Emacs 25.1 released, and there was much rejoicing. (And it runs on musl!)

What’s New in Emacs 25.1

Git Survey 2016, please participate.

A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching, nice analysis.

Hunting For Vulnerabilities in Signal

Shape Shift With Me: Out Now!, get the new Against Me! album. Recommended.

QuineDB is a quine that is also a key-value store. WJW.

i think i figured it out, she really did.

Anger release machine

Struggles with the Continuum, by John C. Baez. “Our assumption that spacetime is a continuum leads to many challenges in mathematical physics.”

DOOM (2016): Graphics Study

How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever, by Hayley Campbell.

Go Back With Backspace in Chromium 53+.

A Reading from the Book of Poultry

You Suck at Excel (YouTube) with Joel Spolsky. Recommended!

excel-messenger: A Terrible Experiment In VBA

OpenBSD imports LLVM, wheeeee.

Recommendations from #vim. Read this if you use Vim!

Bcachefs, a next generation copy on write filesystem for Linux. Very exciting.

BuckleScript is an optimizing compiler which compiles OCaml into JavaScript. The generated code is highly readable and super small. Impressive.

Getting Started with Z3: A Guide

One of the Most Important Crosswords in New York Times History, spoiler warning.

manygolf.club, a MMOGG.