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”.

a really interesting exploration of interpreter design, a lot of repls and thoughts on various coroutines

Latency, throughput and port usage of x86 instructions.

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

Uses ast-grep, so tree-sitter, not LSP, but still potentially useful.

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

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.

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).

The book, focusing on Homo sapiens, surveys the history of humankind, starting from the Stone Age and going up to the twenty-first century. The account is situated within a framework that intersects the natural sciences with the social sciences.

Faster and simpler git rebase.

A paper about message-passing memory allocator: could be useful for actor systems.

Niko’s post about using vectors (≈ arenas) instead of reference counters to model graphs. Explains how it relates to ownership and borrowing.

See also: Handles are the better pointers.

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.

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!

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