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Cracking the Adventure Time cipher
I recently read “Adventure Time: Volume 1”, a comic book based on the smart animated series of the same name. In the comic, I found some odd looking messages at the …
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Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP
QUIC replaces TCP with UDP for faster connections, eliminating head-of-line blocking and reducing latency. Learn how it works and why it matters.
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AI is always less impressive than is claimed
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Curl and http/2 on Mac
$ curl ‐‐http2 https://daniel.haxx.se/ curl: (1) Unsupported protocol curl on mac curl has been shipped by default on Mac OS X since many years - I actually couldn't even manage to figure out exactly how many. It is built and bundled with the operating system by Apple itself and on Apple's own terms and even ……
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Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 4: What's running on the system
This post describes our continuing efforts to restore a Xerox Alto. We checked that the low-level microcode tasks are running correctly a...
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The Golden Age of Open Protocols
Protocols are a geeky topic. It’s way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application. But not a lot of people get excited about SMTP and IMAP which are the underlying email protocols that allow the gmail application to talk to […]
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How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)
“There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that’s well-formed XML is an incompetent fool.——Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can’t or won’t implement these measures is, as noted above, a bozo.” – Tim Bray , co-editor of the XML 1.0…
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Lumen: Auto brightness based on screen contents
Lumen is a menu bar application for macOS that magically sets the screen brightness based on your screen contents.
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Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated
If you haven’t seen it, this is a very accurate and smart Downfall satire on Docker’s ecosystem, technology, and culture. It’s so good that I thought it would be instructive to an…
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Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors
Thoughts on software engineering and engineering management
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Debugging using system calls in Mac OS X
Today I want to talk about an issue I was having with UDP sockets in Go, and how I learned more about my program by making use of two tools that ship with Mac OS X called dtruss, and DTrace.
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Example-Driven Development
programming, language design, and human factors
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Obtaining Wildcard SSL Certificates from Comodo via Dangling Markup Injection
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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High frequency security bug hunting: 120 days, 120 bugs
1) Intro & Motivations At the start of of this year, I set myself a personal goal of finding 365 bugs in 365 days. This was entirely motivated by wanting to challenge myself to find more security issues as I felt I'd been slacking off. I thought back to things
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On Uber’s Choice of Databases
Uber provides bad advice about PostreSQL vs. MySQL
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Habits of highly mathematical people
The most common question students have about mathematics is “when will I ever use this?” Many math teachers would probably struggle to give…
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Building a software-defined radio from scratch
The FreeSRP is an affordable software-defined radio (SDR) I decided to design because there were no existing options that filled the gap between the $300 and relatively narrow bandwidth and low resolution HackRF and the better performing USRP s you can get for about $700. Of course it will be fully open source, but…
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What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
In the least surprising news of 2016, Yahoo is selling its core business to Verizon for a sad $5 billion. Everyone knew this was coming —…
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Unexecute
This here is the epitome of craziness. I could very well give up my search for more scary things in Emacs because I very much doubt I’ll find anything more fear-inducing, but first of all, let’s explain what’s wrong with it. Unlike my previous examples it’s not something I can show you by just pointing at code…
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The End of Gmane?
In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists thos…
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