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How I make a living working on SerenityOS
This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project.
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Taxonomy Is Hard
We all have data that we need to store, and then find. Regardless of type, data tends to build up. Eventually, we need some system for organizing it into sensible categories. It turns out, this problem is harder than it seems. In this article, I'm going to be talking
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Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed
Researchers at TNO have been the first to develop a method that will require 200 times less iridium for electrolysis.
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Mitmproxy 9: WireGuard Mode
We’re excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 9, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings support for raw UDP and DTLS, a new WireGuard proxy mode, and major usability improvements.
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The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory
Nowadays, there is increasing interest in adding tagged memory functionality to CPU architectures. Such architectures associate one or more tag bits with each quantum of a system's memory. There are many motivations for this ability to associate “metadata” with individual memory words, but one of the most clear is the…
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Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime
An idiomatic Protocol Buffers library for TypeScript and JavaScript is now available.
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Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability
The GlobalSign blog is the top resource to see what's trending in public key infrastructure (PKI), SSL/TSL, digital signing solutions, cybersecurity & more!
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The art of the desk setup (2021)
What are the principles underlying the ideal desk setup? How do we balance great design with modern technology? Let’s plunge into my desk setup and my philosophy behind it.
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Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
Making performant dynamic manual memory management in C feel almost like garbage collection.
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Reminiscing: The retreat to comforting work
In Work on what matters, I wrote about Hunter Walk’s idea of snacking: doing work that is easy to complete but low impact. The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it…
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SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS
WebAssembly , a.k.a. WASM, is a standard defining a low-level programming language suitable (A) as a target for cross-compilation from many other languages and (B) for running via a virtual machine in a browser. Designed with scriptability via JavaScript in mind, it provides a way to compile C code (among others) to…
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The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report
The Internet is easily censored. The neo-liberal's got their arses kicked. The big players like Google/Apple/AWS are partly to blame. China runs the GFI.
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Linux 6.1 on NanoPi R4S – On fixing SD-card support, Heisenbugs and Rabbit Holes
This little ARM64 single-board computer dragged me into the world of device trees, voltage regulators, and one of the worst Heisenbugs I encountered so far.
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Old tech is haunted
We're making scientists and ghost-hunters kiss
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How to communicate effectively as a developer
Some tactical and strategic tips for writing effectively as a software developer.
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Push-based outbox pattern with Postgres logical replication
There are only a few patterns that I’m comfortable saying: “You should use it always if you want to build mature system”. One of them is the Outbox Pattern. Why? Because…
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Victoria III – First Impressions
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This week’s post is coming to you all a bit early, as the folks at Paradox Interactive were kind enough to send me a review code for Victoria III – Paradox Interactive’s long awai…
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Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
As announced previously, Factorio is now available for Nintendo Switch. You can find it on the Nintendo eShop in your region. I hope you will enjoy it. Remember that if you are not sure, you can try the demo. I recommend playing through the tutorial campaign even if you are a veteran player, as it gradually teaches…
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I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
For over a year now, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 (with 8GB of RAM) as my daily desktop computer. I browse the internet, read and send e-mails, program software, edit photos, create images, watch Youtube videos and play games on it. Without any significant problems.
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Bringing a dynamic environment to C: My linker project
I'm writing a linker. It's an unusual linker. It's focus is not on producing executable files. Instead, its focus is to facilitate rapid iteration on a program without having to re-link or re-open it after making changes. It is hot-loading of code at an object-file granularity.
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2022.
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Apple security bounty upgraded
Apple’s Security Bounty program has paid nearly $20 million in rewards to security researchers in just two and a half years. Our new site makes it easier than ever for researchers to submit reports on the web, get real-time updates from Apple engineering, and earn recognition for helping to improve security for the…
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Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
Explore the diversity of wildlife across the planet. What are species threatened with? What can we do to prevent biodiversity loss?
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Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
In November of 2021, an anonymous source leaked 600 hours of police aerial surveillance footage to the non-profit transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets .
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Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
The blog post Streaming services lost the plot detailed how streaming services have become the thing they were made to destroy. Like cable networks and satellite companies before, they're raising rates (at a rate higher than inflation), stuffing their content libraries with filler that's not even worth the bandwidth…
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Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type
Improving software memory safety is a key security objective for engineering teams across the industry. Here we begin a journey into the XNU kernel at the core of iOS and explore the intricate work our engineering teams have done to harden the memory allocator and make our software much more difficult to exploit.