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Just Write
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.
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Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?
Modern login systems require a second factor (2FA) to log in, in addition to the standard username and password combination. A Time-based one-time password (TOTP) as a 6-digit number is often used. Password managers like [1Password](https://1password.com/), [KeePass (or respective forks)](https://keepass.info/) and…
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Guided by the beauty of our test suite
Last summer, I published Raven , an independent implementation of the Uxn CPU and Varavara ordinator . In short, this is a fictional computer designed for cross-platform portability: programs targetting it can be run on any platform that implements the specification.
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De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes
I've been slowly removing Google apps from my life, and one of the last ones left is Authenticator. In this post I look at migrating codes out of Authenticator to a command-line OTP tool, and the steps involved.
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Yet Another Zip Trick
At hackArcana, we deliver professional educational content authored by world-class experts in programming, binary analysis, and cybersecurity.
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Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
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Your inbox is a bandit problem
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Hyper Typing
In this article, I talk about an inherent trade-off in TypeScript's type system: stricter types are safer, but often more complex. I describe a phenomenon I call "hyper-typing", where libraries - in pursuit of perfect type safety - end up with overly complex types that are hard-to-understand, produce cryptic errors…
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Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface
"I love C". "I enjoy writing in C". "I don't feel well when I have passed a day without coding a line of C". "My conversation with my wife simply doesn't flow without the C language". "I want to write everything in C, even the everyday scripting, but due to the steps required for writing make files and other things, I…
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Abstraction, not syntax
Alternative configuration formats solve superficial problems. Configuration languages solve the deeper problem: the need for abstraction.
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New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place
When dealing with disks and I/O things on Linux, you’d regularly run commands like lsblk, lsscsi, nvme list, etc. All of them tend to report a different set of information, so I ended up running multiple commands and correlating their output based on the device name or number. And then I had to run commands like…
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I Use Cline for AI Engineering
An assessment after evaluating the landscape
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Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs
From the creator of Ten Dollar Adventure, a blog about the experience of writing the book, being a parent, navigating the entrepreneurial high seas, and learning.