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?
semi-interactively explains how TLS works, very cool
Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
a paper explaining some reasons not to trust Matrix. includes pearls like “a homeserver can silently add user to a E2EE group and decrypt all the following messages and that’s not considered a vulnerability”.
Report about software found on North Korean smartphones.
sadly, doesn’t provide links, but most is googlable
one of my favourite RFCs probably
Comparison between different runtimes and with native code.
a whirlwind tour through the guts of the system
Detailed explanation of futexes, including some possible pitfalls.
Category Theory Illustrated is a primer in category theory and other mathematical theories that is made to be really accessible to people with no prior exposure to the subject, without being dumbed down, by utilizing visual explanations.
The paper’s claim:
False.
Compilers do optimize atomics, memory accesses around atomics, and utilize architecture-specific knowledge. This paper illustrates a few such optimizations, and discusses their implications.
Interestingly, none of the optimizations proposed in the paper actually work on GCC or Clang.
Simple, fast, and green CI and caching for nix projects
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!