6 September 2020

20 links · Sunday

Rain Speedtest

If you’ve been following me over the last few months, you would most certainly know how many internet related issues I’ve been having since the start of 2020.

DEVintersection Virtual Workshop Event

DEVintersection workshops, taught by the experts you’ve known in our in-person events, are available to you virtually. Combined with the online lab experience we’ve set up for you, these two days represent an opportunity to strengthen your skills and help your…

Why you want to encrypt password hashes

Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned fame wrote that because encryption is reversible but hashing is not  passwords should be hashed, not encryp...

Athletic Anti-Nutrition: What a Vegan Diet Did to Carl Lewis

One of the most-cited vegan athlete success stories is of Carl Lewis, who credits his outstanding 1991 results in part to the vegan diet he adopted in 1990.(1) He says something that is often quoted in vegan propaganda, “My best year of track competition was t…

The most efficient way to solve problems: not having them

It’s Monday. The first of the seven alarms you’ve set on your phone soars louder than the Big Ben. It sends chills down your spine announcing the impending d...

What is the Value of Browser Diversity?

In May 2019 I attended a talk by Mike Taylor who works on webcompat at Mozilla. Mike told the sordid story of window.event, a non-standard IE invention that was replicated in Konqueror, which showed up in Webkit, which stuck around in Blink, and was now Mike’s…

10+ Sorts, Visualized - Disparity Cube (Radix, Gravity, Quicksort, ...)

Visualization of 12 different Sorting Algorithms as a Cube with sound. ✅ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/CompilerStuck?sub_confirmation=1 Each dot, representing a part of the Cube has its own color. If it is swapped with another dot, its size changes acc…

Predators and Prey - Numberphile

Thomas Crawford talks foxes and rabbits. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More of Tom on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/TomPlaylist Tom's website: https://tomrocksmaths.com Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institut…

Contra - Behind the Code

The code behind the Konami code and some ROM editing for Contra. NES Controller Electronics Video: https://youtu.be/dahbvSYV0KA If you would like to support this channel, here is a link to the Displaced Gamers Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/displaced…

Key exchange standards - Manning

From Real-World Cryptography by David Wong In this article, the author teaches readers about the Diffie-Hellman key exchange standard, which was the very first key exchange algorithm ever invented, and the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange standard, …

Massacring C Pointers

I'm taking a break from debugging books to talk about a calamitous shitshow of textbook writing: Mastering C Pointers: Tools for Programming Power, by Robert J. Traister.