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L-systems
Jordan Santell, focusing on open web engineering, immersive web, WebXR, WebGL, JavaScript, open source, open standards, and all things weird web.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,921 posts.
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ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years
World’s Largest Computing Society Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years Backfile
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Tony Hoare has died
Limousin, Saint-Yrieix-la-perche, Périgord, Université, société, Livres, citations, Nantes, Jumilhac
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Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64
Sorry for the clickbait title. I promise this post delivers: 44100 Hz stereo with near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the N64’s CPU time.
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Wiretapping Google smart speakers
I was recently rewarded a total of $107,500 by Google for responsibly disclosing security issues in the Google Home smart speaker that allowed an attacker within wireless proximity to install a "backdoor" account on the device, enabling them to send commands to it remotely over the Internet, access its microphone…
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Bpftrace for Linux 2018
bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018: the bpftrace front-end
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How LLVM Optimizes a Function
This is very nice summary of IR Passes. I found “InstCombine” pass to be easier to start with to understand the code flow in LLVM IR Pass. Maybe the beginners can start with that first.
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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. And, thanks to the fact that it's…
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I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value
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Apple is not defending browser engine choice
Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but to understand why, we need to understand how browsers are funded. With that understanding, we can see that not only…
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As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.
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ProPublica's tax story
What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?
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What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.
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Microservices are hard
Over the past years I attended hundreds of interviews. Many candidates proudly told tales on how they develop their projects with a microservice architecture. Often (I don’t want to say “always”, but from my memory I think it actually is “always”) it does not require many questions to see that they used a rocket…
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Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
It is with deep regret that we are announcing the cancellation of this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA.
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
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Why we picked AGPL
ParadeDB has been licensed under AGPL from day one. Here's our thought process and case study on why we picked AGPL.
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Ubuntu 21.10
14 October 2021: Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10 – the most productive environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices and cloud. “As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to…
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Kill sticky headers (2013)
There is currently a trend for using sticky headers on websites. There's even a sticky header web startup .
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Let employees sell their equity
Sometimes people choose to work for one company over another for reasons related to the work environment, for example what the company does, and whether the other employees create a place that's pleasant to work at. But a major factor is compensation. If Company A and Company B are largely comparable, but Company A…
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State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
Software Engineer
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Microsoft reorganizes
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Tesla Model S battery degradation data
Want to read about the acceleration we are seeing in our society in the area of mobility? Read our new book ‘Forward’. Updated June 9, 2020. Today, Tesla Motors published their 2019 Imp…
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How the new Threads app is made
Emerge Tools analysis of the Threads app