FIFO queues are all you need for cache eviction, by Juncheng Yang. “In this blog, I will describe a Simple, Scalable eviction algorithm with three Static FIFO queues (S3-FIFO).”

Browsing the web with a WonderSwan in 2023, by asie. “Oh, it also came with a web browser supporting a subset of HTML 3.2, tables, GIF images, reading Japanese websites, a bookmark system, and cookies. On a handheld competing with the Game Boy Color.”

Bcrypt at 25: A Retrospective on Password Security, by Niels Provos. (Curiously, it’s still better than Argon2 for login-interactive usages!)

Mathematical table turning revisited, by Bill Baritompa, Rainer Löwen, Burkard Polster, and Marty Ross. “We investigate under which conditions a rectangular table can be placed with all four feet touching a continuous ground by turning it on the spot.”

Pirouette: Higher-Order Typed Functional Choreographies (PDF), by Andrew K. Hirsch and Deepak Garg at POPL 2022. “We present Pirouette, a language for typed higher-order functional choreographic programming. Pirouette offers programmers the ability to write a centralized functional program and compile it via endpoint projection into programs for each node in a distributed system.”

The Technical Development of Internet Email (PDF, 2008), by Craig Partridge. From 1971 to 1991.

Two types of work, by David R. MacIver.

Purity and Ford write a min filter in Singeli, by Marshall Lochbaum.

Topaz Double, a double-height recreation of Amiga’s iconic Topaz typeface.

Coffee offers performance boost for concrete, “the team developed a technique to make concrete 30% stronger by turning waste coffee grounds into biochar, using a low-energy process without oxygen at 350 degrees Celsius.”