The O1 Labs Bug Bounty Program enlists the help of the hacker community at HackerOne to make O1 Labs more secure. HackerOne is the #1 hacker-powered security platform, helping organizations find and fix critical vulnerabilities before they can be criminally ex…
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C library for handling the Discord API. Contribute to Cogmasters/concord development by creating an account on GitHub.
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0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, March 5th 2022 and I can’t help myself, so here’s an edited and revised version of an imaginary conversation I had earlier...
Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.
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Background We are working on a new standalone single-file-header library implementation of an ASTC decompressor. The goals for this are: Provide a fast fallback on platforms without ASTC available...
We are going to a few different ways to convert a byte array to a file efficiently by using some in-built .NET functionalities.
Find your habitable zone
I recently received a tantalizing email from a reader I’ve never met: Sam Henri-Gold.
Buying an electric vehicle is a lot like buying a subscription to a car. Almost no one can work on them except the manufacturer, features get locked behind in-app purchases or software updates, and those features can get disabled at the flip of a switch. If ca…
I drafted this article for Ballotpedia.org, where it first appeared December 2015. I since published a slightly updated version (not the one below) in Essays on Free Knowledge.As a teena
I’m going to tell you a bit about two startups and I’d like you to guess the name of each company. Both of these businesses are publicly traded. Both startups provide database software to developers to build applications. Both have grown very fast. In fact, th…
The websites at the top of Google are not the highest quality websites, but the ones that put the most effort into SEO. We need a ranking algorithm that cannot be easily gamed. This paper describes MarketRank, a ranking algorithm that is immune to SEO and simp…
This week I wanted to expand on something I touched on only briefly in our ‘explainer’ on Putin’s War in Ukraine: the “delicate balance of terror” of nuclear deterrenc…
Substack has launched a reader app for iOS, turning itself from a newsletter company into a platform one. Publishers — beware.
A step-by-step coding essay
Prometheus AlertingPrometheus is among the most popular tools for server monitoring. It aggregates metrics from potentially countless different sources (provided through so called exporters), stores
MY HISTORY I have worked for the Department of Defense (DoD) since 1992. The first eight years I was serving in the US Navy as a Cryptographic Technician (Communications). I was responsible for dis…
Ethereum is a better publishing platform than any of its web2 counterparts. Like Facebook or Twitter. It's globally distributed, has no geographical headquarters, and has nobody in charge. Ethere
Have you ever been met with an emotional reaction when you asked a logical question? This happens all the time in code reviews. They easily get personal, even when it’s about the code. As a reviewer, it’s hard to see the history of constraints and tradeoffs …
I love FFmpeg. https://ffmpeg.org/ I think it's one of the wonders of the world. A feat in engineering that has had so many people working on it, too powerful for one person to know every nook and cranny. It's gargantuan and incredibly complex. It al...
Am very passionate about women, leadership with impact, and tech. And that’s how I was involved in She Code Africa-a non-profit organization focused on celebrating and empowering young girls and women in tech across Africa. The organization presented...
No meal is complete without salt AND pepper. No password hashing scheme is truly secure without both, either!
You probably need to do fewer things right now. Prioritization, the other definition There’s two loose definitions of prioritization. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d like…
Week 1 of my job search is coming to a close. Here’s an update on what I’ve been up to and where I’m at. See my first job search post for a TLDR of what I’m looking for. Please let me know if you have an opportunity that fits! First off, I’d like to thank …
Your password is probably easily hacked in seconds by an experienced hacker, here's why, and what you can do to avoid it.
One valuable lesson from cybersecurity