Articles
- the world Requiem for Strawberry 20211011
- computing A taxonomy of I/O architectures 20210313
- computing A brief introduction to SCSI 20200909
- fiction Kolmogorov's AI 20200306
- computing Total Advertising Denial 20191112
- computing XML is almost always misused 20191029
- computing Cloudflare considered harmful 20191023
- computing The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed 20190611
- computing Rethinking files 20190602
- computing Phone numbers must die 20170116
- computing Rackmount Improv HSM 20161125
- computing Why I don't like smartphones 20160213
- computing The Normativity Manifesto 20160210
- computing Zero-G Programming 20160207
- computing The Bourne Ambiguity 20160206
- computing Nexuses Redux: Nativity 20160206
- computing The Straight Line Principle 20151001
- computing On Nexuses 20150904
- computing Insyde BIOS Issues 20130614
- computing Coroutines in C 20130314
- computing A usable Linux desktop 20130227
- computing Notes on building lexers 20130227
Software
Programs
- acmetoolA client utility for retrieving certificates from ACME (Let's Encrypt) servers.
- ncdnsA Namecoin to DNS bridge supporting authoritative and authoritative suffix modes. Supports DNSSEC.
- memuARMv8-M CPU simulator written in C++17 and usable as a library.
- tftp2httpdDaemon to serve TFTP from HTTP. Useful for generating files on the fly to embedded devices.
- compexGCC/clang plugin for dumping C++ type information. Useful for reflection.
- namesyncA daemon for live replication of the Namecoin zone file into PostgreSQL so that it can be served via PowerDNS.
Go Libraries
- passlibModern password hashing library for Go.
- serviceEasily write daemonizable services in Go.
- configurableAn integration nexus for managing configuration in Go.
- easyconfigconfigurable-based configuration management utilities for Go.
- madnsDNS server library for Go supporting DNSSEC.
- portmapNAT port-mapping library for Go supporting UPnP and NAT-PMP.
- captchaA rather severe image-only CAPTCHA library for Go.
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This is an interesting writeup about webrings, a now forgotten phenomenon of the early web.
Current listening — while reading Dune. Massive index of ambient noise generators.
This is an interesting alternative compiler for producing Z-Machine images (.z5/.z8), taking inspiration from Prolog.
The author's website also appears an interesting homepage.
I have quite a bit of respect for the fact that this is a successful, real-world program developed using Literate Programming. It's a style of programming which has interested me before, but like many other people, I've found it hard to do in practice, and tools to be lacking.
As an aside, the interactive fiction community is from a technological perspective a fascinating microcosm, including from a CS perspective. You have not just one toolchain, but an entire ecosystem of competing virtual machine specifications (Z-Machine, Glulx, TADS, Hugo), compilers, and source languages, all intending to deliver architecture-independence and the ability to preserve IF for the ages, yet apart from all general-purpose technologies typically used for the task. (Read more...)