Oct 28, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ A New Look I’ve given this blog a new look by switching the theme from Noteworthy to Long Form, the latter a theme of my own design. Why the change? I adopted the Noteworthy theme at the onset of this blog an...
Oct 28, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ About The mapping of integers to integers is a fair summary of the work of programming. A blog about computer science, history of computing, engineering, game theory, and other things that attract my int...
Oct 27, 2024 from Julia Evans Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a...
Oct 24, 2024 from Adventures in Open Source Software 2024 dbt Labs Coalesce Conference I traveled for much of the last two months and during that time I went to four conferences. I usually like to write about them when they are happening but I wasn’t able to manage it, so I’m offerin...
Oct 23, 2024 from Michael Lynch Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part One) Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s a pain to set up. Read any fuzz testing tutorial, and the first task is an hour of building tools...
Oct 23, 2024 from Michael Lynch Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part Two) This is the second half of a post about using Nix to automate a fuzz testing workflow. At this point, I can run honggfuzz against pdftotext, but it takes a bit of manual effort to get things starte...
Oct 21, 2024 from Gonçalo Valério An experiment in fighting spam on public forms using “proof of work” Spam is everywhere. If you have an email account, a mailbox, a website with comments, a cellphone, a social media account, a public form, etc. We all know it, it is a plague. Over the years, there ...
Oct 19, 2024 from Thranpages Who Is Signal For? The impossibility of migrating its message history raises one question.
Oct 14, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ Exposure to Art: a MTA Case Study Many corporations and agencies allocate a certain amount of their budget towards the creation of public artwork. For instance, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has funded near...
Oct 13, 2024 from Thranpages The Worst Travelcard Of All Time I wanted foreign currency at a reasonable exchange rate. Such a simple request was beyond the abilities of the Post Office.
Oct 10, 2024 from cascading space Gender Journey In which a time of gender questioning is succinctly summarized.
Oct 07, 2024 from Julia Evans Some notes on upgrading Hugo Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are trying to upgrade Hugo from a very old version to a new version. But what are blogs for if not docu...
Oct 06, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home Chromium’s influence on Chromium alternatives I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features.Off the top of my h...
Oct 05, 2024 from R74n Newsletter 👻 Sandboxels v1.10.1 - Creepy Crawlies - OUT NOW 🕸️ The scariest Sandboxels update of all time is here, including Spiders, Webs, Souls, Candy Corn, and more! This is just one of the many Halloween events happening around R74n this month.
Oct 05, 2024 from [tekovic.com~]# Block abusive IPs based on 404 error rate using HAProxy I’ve been using HAProxy for a very long time. In most cases, I work on stuff where HAProxy configuration fits into the fire-and-forget category, with occasional tweaks to ACLs, redirections, and th...
Oct 01, 2024 from Darek Kay Prevent data loss on page refresh A technique to retain form data on page reload or navigation.
Oct 01, 2024 from Julia Evans Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so har...
Sep 30, 2024 from cascading space The Deal With WordPress The boat has been rocked. By someone firing a cannon. At its own fleet.
Sep 30, 2024 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog On being the cheapest cloud Recently, I heard a pitch from a public cloud company. Among other characteristics, a key aspect they stressed is that they are the cheapest cloud. This aspect struck me. Not because I believe it i...
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