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2023-11-25

19.

Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs

jamie-wong.com/post/color

If you're curious about rainbows, colorimetry, gamma encoding, and experiments run in the late 1920s, then this is the post for you!

18.

Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos

marabos.nl/atomics

A free book about atomics and locks that also serves as a nice cheatsheet for x86_64, aarch64 and futexes.

17.

Book: Chasing the Scream

chasingthescream.com

What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family.

16.

What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust

blog.adamchalmers.com/making-a-dns-client

A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits

15.

SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)

simplex.chat

SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.

14.

Introducing Riptide: WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector

webkit.org/blog/7122/introducing-riptide-webkits-retreating-wavefront-concurrent-garbage-collector

The new Riptide garbage collector in WebKit leads to a five-fold improvement in latency in the JetStream/splay-latency test.

13.

Oh-Auth - Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts

salt.security/blog/oh-auth-abusing-oauth-to-take-over-millions-of-accounts

It’s extremely important to make sure your OAuth implementation is secure. The fix is just one line of code away. We sincerely hope the information shared in our blog post series will help prevent major online breaches and help web service owners better protect their customers and users.

12.

Search-based compiler code generation

jamey.thesharps.us/2017/06/19/search-based-compiler-code-generation
11.

Introducing the B3 JIT Compiler

webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler

WebKit's FTL JIT now uses a new backend on OS X — the Bare Bones Backend, or B3 for short, replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer.

10.

Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT

webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit

Designed to bring aggressive C-like optimizations to the largest variety of JavaScript programs.

9.

Game: TIS-100

store.steampowered.com/app/370360/TIS100

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

8.

Game: Deep Under the Sky

store.steampowered.com/app/315650/Deep_Under_the_Sky

Fling, jet, grapple and roll through a psychedelic world as you experience the bizarre mating rituals of alien jellyfish. You'll need careful timing and strategy to explore every cleft and cranny in this chill but challenging 1-button arcade game.

7.

OneDev: Self-hosted Git Server with CI/CD and Kanban

onedev.io

Supports a lot of fun stuff, maybe worth trying.

6.

Pernosco debugger

pernos.co/about/overview

A recording debugger promising to “reduce the debugging time dramatically”.

5.

A close encounter with false sharing

morestina.net/blog/1976/a-close-encounter-with-false-sharing

An example of false sharing in real-ish workload.

4.

C++ exception — zero-cost exception handling

blog.the-pans.com/cpp-exception-1

Series of posts about how make C++ exceptions fast.

3.

mess with dns

messwithdns.net

A website/game that allows you to create some DNS entries and see what happens.

2.

Building Segmented Logs in Rust: From Theory to Production!

arindas.github.io/blog/segmented-log-rust

Explore a Rust implementation of the persistence mechanism behind message-queues and write-ahead-logs in databases. Embark on a journey from the theoretical underpinnings to a production grade implementation of the segmented-log data structure.

1.

Trustfall

github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

Trustfall is a query engine for querying any kind of data source, from APIs and databases to any kind of files on disk.

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