The description suggests that this is some kind of extended metaphor about work. It appears to be written in that _Choose Your Own Adventure_ style second-person voice, yet there are no choices to be found within. Against your better judgment, you follow the link.

hits surprisingly close to home — one might even say it hits in the stomach. cw: mental health stuff

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.

Latency, throughput and port usage of x86 instructions.

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

Some thoughts on custom allocator interfaces with nice examples.

Comparison between different runtimes and with native code.

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.