Place where goldstein dumps his links so she doesn’t have 500 tabs ever again.
Tags are structured like this:
is- tags are about medium. Books, papers, blog posts, interactive explanations etc.
about- tags are about about. What’s this post topic or what’s this project is/for.
to- tags are about reason. Why did I even save this?
for- tags are about connections. Where can I use it?
how user agents became a lying mess
Latency, throughput and port usage of x86 instructions.
In this blog, we go on an interactive journey to understand common queueing strategies for handling HTTP requests.
Uses ast-grep, so tree-sitter, not LSP, but still potentially useful.
Interesting for tree-sitter textobjects.
gstreamer-plugins-bad includes a NES 6502 emulator, which was vulnerable to RCE.
Looks really cool. I wonder what’s inside.
Microbenchmark for futexes + spinlocks and some useful links at the bottom.
The [board] game is about creating a small shellcode in memory by copying existing instructions and then exploiting a buffer overflow to jump into it, so that you can overwrite your opponent’s return address to force them to go to the game_over() function.There are other mechanics as well and more layers of strategy (like setting the exception handler or monkeypatching).
A paper about message-passing memory allocator: could be useful for actor systems.
A fresh take on typesetting
Analyze how a Git repo grows over time
See how I use it:
Explanation of provenance, uninitialized memory and stuff like that. Useful as an entry point into realization that we don’t live in PDP-11 world anymore.
Colmena is a simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool modeled after NixOps and morph, written in Rust. It's a thin wrapper over Nix commands like nix-instantiate and nix-copy-closure, and supports parallel deployment.
A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits
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!
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.