TLDR: I think that the primary benefit of async/await is that it lets us concisely express complex concurrency; any (potential) performance improvements are just a second-order effect. We should thus judge async primarily based on how it simplifies our code, not how (or if) it makes the code faster.

an extremely based frontend manual from the GOV.UK

An IRL spatial computer making use of printed codes to do stuff.

Looks super cool, I’ll have to remember it when I next need to do network diagnostics.

Pen-and-paper secret sharing, looks fun. Don’t know how I would ever use this though.

Enables std debug assertions + presents an interface for building with a sanitizer.

With some partial evaluation and specialization hints, it is possible to get pretty decent speedups on interpreters by turning them into compilers.

A very nice paper about fuzzing Rust compiler by generating custom MIR. Found some bugs in both rustc and LLVM, but notably not in Cranelift.

How to spin before sleeping so that it actually helps and not harms?

This is the closing-file-handles-on-Windows post.

I'm titling this post Surprisingly Slow because the slowness was either surprising to me or the sub-optimal practices leading to slowness are prevalent enough that I think many programmers would be surprised by their existence.

Paper about how IT in healthcare in general and IT security in particular is done by people who don’t actually use it, listing different problems and workarounds that end up being used in the field.

Sacrificing convenience for security leads you to having neither security nor convenience.

In this blog post we explore how to write a type level contains operation for HList inspired type lists without running into overlapping trait implementations

Presented in an experimental mnemonic medium that makes it almost effortless to remember what you read

In August 2015 the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released a major policy statement on the need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This announcement will be a great stimulus to the development, standardization, and commercialization of new quantum-safe algorithms. However, certain peculiarities in the wording and timing of the statement have puzzled many people and given rise to much speculation concerning the NSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and quantum-safe cryptography. Our purpose is to attempt to evaluate some of the theories that have been proposed.

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.