25 August 2023

24 links · Friday

Generate ASCII Art - A Simple How-To in C#

Have you ever wanted to change a picture into ASCII art? Now you can with your very own C# program that can generate ASCII art! Sample code included!

L2BEAT – The state of the layer two ecosystem

L2BEAT is an analytics and research website about Ethereum layer 2 scaling. Here you will find in depth comparison of major protocols live on Ethereum today.

Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency

Elixir is the thing I do most of my public writing and speaking about. It is my default programming language for the last 5-6 years. It suits my brain. Performs well for the kind of work I typically do. And using it I have experienced very few drawbacks. Rathe…

Weekly Update 362

Cloudflare Connect; Upcoming Travels; ICCIE Breach; Atmeltomo Breach; Duolingo Scrape (Breach?); SevenRooms Breach

How SNARKs fall short for FHE

This is part i of a two part series! In this article, we’ll be motivating the need for new ZK tools when working with fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). At Sunscreen, we’re working to bring FHE to the masses, starting with web3. As part of our mission, we’v…

Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age | Factorio

Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age. Mp4 playback not supported on your device. (Click here for static image version) What is Factorio: Space Age?kovarex Factorio: Spac…

Code Maze Weekly #182 - Code Maze

Issue #182 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Top Picks ASP.NET Core Logging using Serilog and Azure [damienbod.com] Clean and easy-to-implement guide to logging with Serilog using Azure as a hosting environ…

Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | Tor Project

Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.

FreeBSD on Firecracker

While a system without disks or network could be useful for some purposes, before we can do very much with FreeBSD, we’re going to want those devices. Firecracker supports Virtio block and network devices and exposes them to virtual machines as mmio (memory-ma…

Announcing TypeScript 5.2 - TypeScript

Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.2! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of JavaScript by making it possible to declare and describe types. Writing types in our code allows us to explain intent a…