WireGuard Merged Into OpenBSD

Announcing Perl 7

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation, by David C. Brock.

CoDi: Commutative Diagrams for TeX, a new TikZ library for commutative diagrams with a convenient and succint syntax.

A look at the die of the 8086 processor, by Ken Shirriff.

History of UNIX Manpages

The Glass House (1949), by Philip Johnson. (Also.)

Geeking out over arbitrary boundaries, “the largest city in each 10-by-10 degree area of latitude-longitude in the world”.

Rainbow, an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor.

SAT solver on top of regex matcher, with backreferences.

awk-jvm, a toy JVM in AWK.

HOPL 4 papers, all open access. 1480 pages of programming language history!

SGAxe, “We then proceed to show an extraction of SGX private attestation keys from within SGX’s quoting enclave, as compiled and signed by Intel.”

CrossTalk, “[W]e present a new transient execution vulnerability, which Intel refers to as “Special Register Buffer Data Sampling” or SRBDS (CVE-2020-0543), enabling attacker-controlled code executing on one CPU core to leak sensitive data from victim software executing on a different core.”

The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk, by Allen Wirfs-Brock.

KataGo is one of the strongest open source Go bots available online, and on most common hardware should be moderately stronger than Leela Zero in most positions if tuned for performance.

Project:M36 implements a relational algebra engine as inspired by the writings of Chris Date.

Building a DNS server in Rust, by Emil Hernvall.

Featherweight Go, by Robert Griesemer, Raymond Hu, Wen Kokke, Julien Lange, Ian Lance Taylor, Bernardo Toninho, Philip Wadler, and Nobuko Yoshida. “We describe a design for generics in Go inspired by previous work on Featherweight Java by Igarashi, Pierce, and Wadler.”

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor’s fast bit shifter, by Ken Shirriff.

Survey of Paint-by-Number Puzzle Solvers, by Jan Wolter.

Archimedes’ Cattle Problem

Git for Plan 9: git/fs

UTF-5, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646, oh no.

printf-tac-toe, tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf.

The Symbolic Links Virtual Machine, WJW.