The code I’m still ashamed of, by Bill Sourour.

Compromising a Linux desktop using… 6502 processor opcodes on the NES?!, by Chris Evans. WJW.

Blacknurse is a low bandwidth ICMP attack that is capable of doing denial of service to well known firewalls.

PoisonTap, or why you shouldn’t ask for DHCP on every device.

Category Theory in Context, a new book by Emily Riehl. PDF available, too.

Meet the Robinson, a bit on the theorem prover EQP and the Robinson conjecture.

Woher haben Sie meinen Namen?

constexpr-8cc is a compile-time C compiler implemented as C++14 constant expressions. WJW.

The word dord is a notable error in lexicography.

Leonard Cohen Dead at 82, RIP. Also read this article from 2012.

The Next Linux Superpower: An eBPF Primer, slides by Sasha Goldshtein from a talk at Velocity Amsterdam 2016.

Formal description of [Linux] system call interface, a worthwhile idea.

Rust RFC 0243: Trait-based exception handling, “Add syntactic sugar for working with the Result type which models common exception handling constructs.”

Average Time to Check If an Array Is Sorted

Unsplash provides high-resolution public domain photographies.

UK24727, a shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the United Kingdom. “The optimal tour has length 45,495,239 meters.”

Mir fällt zu Trump nichts ein.

BearSSL is an implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol (RFC 5246) written in C. Very interesting design.

I don’t like computers, says Adam Williamson. I can relate.

Polymorphism, subtyping and type inference in MLsub (PDF), by Stephen Dolan and Alan Mycroft.

A brief history of select(2), by majek.

A Tour (de Force) of APL in 16 Expressions, talk by Roger Hui at Functional Conf 2016. Inspiring.

rev.ng is a suite of tools for binary analysis based on QEMU and LLVM, aiming at accuracy and portability of the analyses across a wide range of architectures.

The First Nations of Catan: Practices in Critical Modification of the Settlers of Catan.

Regex that only matches itself, WJW.