Hugo Landau

“an online dustbin where you leave your collected written thoughts” — someone describing this website

Here lies:

Articles

Mis-fitted USB ports, an epidemic20200109

Total Advertising Denial20191112

XML is almost always misused20191029

The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML220191026

Cloudflare considered harmful20191023 They want your traffic. All of your traffic.

The PowerPC AS Tagged Memory Extensions20190831

On the opening of the Power ISA, and the chilling effects of proprietary ISAs20190828 The writing is on the wall.

The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed20190611

Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil20190602

Rethinking files20190602

Extended Validation certificates have always been useless20190523

Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware20190416

Running Baldur's Gate 2 in windowed mode at high resolutions20190416

Grow-up and grow-down technologies20181130

Why Intel will never let owners control the ME20180722

An Open Letter To Namecheap: Why I Am Leaving You20170821

Legal Analysis of the “Admiral” Anti-Adblocker DMCA Incident20170812

Phone numbers must die20170116

The Investigatory Powers Act: A Pre-Commencement Briefing20161201

Rackmount Improv HSM20161125

Let's Encrypt for IRC Networks: A Deployment Guide20160321

The Investigatory Powers Bill: Let's work together to spy on your customers20160311

The Cultural Defeat of Microsoft20160308

Microsoft has stopped making Windows20160305 On the phenomenon of market betrayal.

Why I will never use Windows 8 or Windows 1020160304 Restrictive code signing practices.

Psychological effects of coding style20160302 Proof that there is no limit to how banal my ramblings will become.

Death to the Win32 console subsystem20160219

Why I don't like smartphones20160213 Attributes.

The Normativity Manifesto20160210 Unidirectional flow from the origin.

Zero-G Programming20160207 There is no down.

The Bourne Ambiguity20160206 For want of a list...

Nexuses Redux: Nativity20160206 Languages can be plotted by the nexuses they most conveniently access.

Embedding of binary data into programs20160115

There are no secure smartphones.20160114

TLS and the Policy MitM Armageddon20151203 Issues with key pinning.

Why the AGPL is often unenforceable20151124

Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated20151124

The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill20151106 The UK government introduces a piece of surveillance legislation.

Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc.20151028 Why doesn't this smartcard exist?

The Straight Line Principle20151001 Programmers like linear syntax.

On Nexuses20150904 What your operating system and the reusability of code has in common.

On Normativity in Configuration Management20141009

Insyde BIOS Issues20130614

Coroutines in C20130314

A usable Linux desktop20130227

Notes on building lexers20130227

Code

captcha20160205 A rather severe image-only CAPTCHA library for Go.

portmap20160205 NAT port-mapping library for Go supporting UPnP and NAT-PMP.

eddsa20160205 Go API wrapper for Ed25519 providing a standard library-like interface.

easyconfig20160205 configurable-based configuration management utilities for Go.

configurable20160205 An integration nexus for managing configuration in Go.

acmetool20151126 A client utility for retrieving certificates from ACME (Let's Encrypt) servers.

passlib20150908 Modern password hashing library for Go.

service20150904 Easily write daemonizable services in Go.

compex20140524 GCC/clang plugin for dumping C++ type information. Useful for reflection.

tftp2httpd20140107 Daemon to serve TFTP from HTTP. Useful for generating files on the fly to embedded devices.

namesync20140106 A daemon for live replication of the Namecoin zone file into PostgreSQL so that it can be served via PowerDNS.

ncdns20140106 A Namecoin to DNS bridge supporting authoritative and authoritative suffix modes. Supports DNSSEC.