Direct Construction of Aperiodic Tilings with the Hat Monotile, by Ulrich Reitebuch.

libmceliece is a Classic McEliece microlibrary, by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tung Chou.

Rash is a shell language, library, and REPL for Racket.

Tech debt metaphor maximalism, by Avery Pennarun.

REFAL (Рефал) was created in Russia, then USSR, in the second half of the 1960s. It is a functional programming language in which computation is driven by pattern matching on textual and symbolic information. Manual. Refal Plus. Refal 5λ.

The Joy Of Duplexes, by Coda Hale. “In this post, we’ll talk about permutations, sponge functions, and duplexes–what they are, how they’re built, what makes them secure, and how they’re used.”

An archive of the GNU arch-verse, provided by Patrick Georgi in remembrance of Tom Lord.

I booted Linux 292,612 times and follow up, by Richard WM Jones.

Update: U+237C ⍼ ⍼, in search of the origins of a glyph.

A chiral aperiodic monotile, found by David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. A true einstein was found!

Curse of the CEMBI / Let Maintainers Be Maintainers, by Graydon Hoare. “A short note about corporate free / open source software (FOSS), and corporate-employed maintainers. Or specifically “corporate-employed maintainers .. with bad incentives”.”

When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs, George MacKerron debugs a WebSocket implementation.

Hacking my “smart” toothbrush, by Cyrill Künzi. Not a super interesting hack, but a good overview of the tools involved in NFC reverse engineering.

Emoji shellcoding in RISC-V (PDF), by Hadrien Barral, Georges-Axel Jaloyan, and David Naccache.

Urschrift des Grundgesetzes vom 8. Mai 1949.

Times New Bastard, eugh!