Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/773
HEX-BLOOM: An Alternative to the Merkle Tree
On Smartness
Underneath the label of being smart
Problems with decision making at W3C
This post is inspired by Open Decision-Making by John Ousterhout. Being actively involved in WebGPU design (mostly within W3C) for more than 4.5 years, I dev...
Prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing
The blog of DR Griffin.
Python behind the scenes #11: how the Python import system works
If you ask me to name the most misunderstood aspect of Python, I will answer without a second thought: the Python import system. Just remember how...
Solene'% : Why self hosting is important
Written by Solène, on 23 July 2021.Tags: #fediverse #selfhosting #chatons #life #internet
The Non-Engineer’s Ultimate Guide to Software Technology – Sanpram Transnational
Kitchen at Alinea, a 3 Michelin Star restaurant in Chicago, USA. I'm told they make decent food.
Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in cdnjs
Recently, a RCE vulnerability in the way cdnjs’ backend is automatically keeping web resources up to date has been disclosed. Read about how Cloudflare handled the security incident and what will prevent similar exploits in the future.
How I built a web development career w/o being fast or smart
I have a confession to make: I'm not a very good developer. Definitely not a 10x developer – more like a 0.8x. Here's how I make an awesome living despite that.
Integration Testing with xUnit
A few years back, I had given up on xUnit in favor of Fixie because of the flexibility that Fixie provides. The xUnit project is highly opinionated, and geared strictly towards unit tests. It's great for that. A broader testing strategy includes much more tha…
Fucktopus 2.0 by yippiehey
I loved the idea of the fucktopus and wanted to do a cuter version so I modeled it from scratch. I also found the idea of all 8 arms not giving a f*** quicke nice. So there we go.
Records Deep Dive: What, Why and How | NDC Melbourne 2021
Records were a new feature introduced in C# 9 that allow concise definition of immutable data classes that you may have already seen or even used. In order to support them there were also related new concepts introduced like "primary constructors", "init acces…
New PetitPotam attack allows take over of Windows domains
A new NTLM relay attack called PetitPotam has been discovered that allows threat actors to take over a domain controller, and thus an entire Windows domain.