a bunch of domains owned by webshell authors expired, leaving backdoors in the webshells up for grabs

Lix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a team of open-source volunteers, and maintained by and for a passionate community of users.

I kind of assumed that Lix is a purely political fork, but they seem to write actual code, so that’s nice. Changelog promises faster evaluation, better errors and REPL improvements.

Could it be?.. A sensible looking Neovim colorscheme?..

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

How we built an anonymous Zig/C++ crash reporter that doesn't require debug symbols to be shipped with the application.

Pretty fun and showcases some Zig comtime stuff.

The Rust language has incrementally grown a set of patterns to support control-flow effects including error handling, iteration, and asynchronous I/O. In The registers of Rust, boats lays out four aspects of this pattern shared by Rust’s three effects. Today these effects are typically used in isolation, or at most combined in bespoke ways, but the Rust project has been working on ways to integrate them more deeply with each other, such as async gen blocks.

The theory of algebraic effects and handlers has explored this design space and offers answers to many of the questions that the Rust project has encountered during this work. This post will relate the patterns employed by Rust to the terminology and semantics of effects, to help build a shared vocabulary and understanding of the implications of combining multiple effects.

gstreamer-plugins-bad includes a NES 6502 emulator, which was vulnerable to RCE.

Comparison between different runtimes and with native code.

Looks really cool. I wonder what’s inside.

Variables are the trickiest part of lambda calculus. And naming is the trickiest part of variables: the most complex code in our lambda evaluator is the part that renames variables to perform capture-avoiding substitutions.
Names are artificial tedious tags whose sole purpose is to aid human comprehension. Can we get rid of them? There ought to be a way to study computation without naming names.

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).

Detailed explanation of futexes, including some possible pitfalls.

Ruby tutorial with very unusual and interesting writing style.

A first (as far as I know) description of ringbuffer based on two mmaps. I hope to make a better one sometime, but for now this’ll the best explanation I have.

Introspectable and extensible IDEs with logic programming

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

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.