poems and muses
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The Only Two Markup Languages
There are only two families of proper arbitrary markup languages: TeX and SGML I would normally link to official thing as reference but it's behind the "wonderful" ISO paywall: ISO 8879:1986.. By arbitrary, I mean the grammar specifically, and how it can …
via gingerBill - ArticlesJanuary 19, 2026Creepy Crawlers: Hunting Those Who Hunt For WordPress Plugins
We were engaging in some routine clustering on untagged or only-generically-tagged HTTP traffic when a fun pattern jumped out: thousands of requests hitting /wp-content/plugins/*/readme.txt. It doesn’t take a cybersecurity wonk to come to the conclusion th…
via GreyNoise LabsJanuary 19, 2026Pre-agent nostalgia
Everything seems to move fast these days and apparently nostalgia is no exception. I'm not an agentic coding evangelist but I'm also a realist—coding agents are really impressive and have changed the way most of us write software. Agents can help you plan,…
via pcloadletterJanuary 18, 2026Software Assurance & That Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
If I were to recommend you use a piece of cryptography-relevant software that I created, how would you actually know if it was any good? Trust is, first and foremost, a social problem. If I told you a furry designed a core piece of Internet infrastructure,…
via Dhole MomentsJanuary 15, 2026Redesigning my microkernel from the ground up
As you may recall, circa 2022-2023 I was working on a microkernel written in Hare named Helios. Helios was largely inspired by and modelled after the design of seL4 and was my first major foray into modern OS development that was serious enough to get to a…
via Drew DeVault's blogJanuary 12, 2026I transformed my LEGO Gameboy into a working Gameboy!
Since I saw the Lego Gameboy set, I wanted to make it functional since I have good knowledge of programming and little knowledge of electronics. Also I've been a big fan of Gameboys since I was a kid, so I thought it would be a fun project to combine my…
via Christian Visintin BlogJanuary 06, 2026Gbyte leaks gigabytes of data - #FuckStalkerware pt. 8
plus an MMO boosting service, fully remote Android spying and patented ToS violations
via maia blogJanuary 06, 2026Whiplash and the ideas of success
Some ideas about success and analysis of some of the concepts of the film Whiplash
via Ishan WritesJanuary 04, 2026reqwest v0.13 - rustls by default
To end out the year, here comes a new major release of reqwest, the opinionated higher-level HTTP client for Rust. We don’t really need major breaking versions to keep providing value. Improvements keep coming all the time. But we did need one to make one…
via seanmonstarDecember 30, 2025Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals (2025)
It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m going to try keep this one quick – it was knocked out over three hours, so I hope you can forgive me if it’s a bit clumsier than my usual writing. For some strange reason, one of the few clear memories I hav…
via LudicityDecember 27, 2025Are people migrating away from GitHub?
I noticed some people migrating away from GitHub recently. I was curious to understand the rationale. Is it a blip or is it a sign of prolonged exodus?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogDecember 22, 2025Status update, December 2025
Hi all! This month the new KMS plane color pipeline API has finally been merged! It took multiple years and continued work and review by engineers from multiple organizations, but at last we managed to push it over the finish line. This new API exposes to …
via emersionDecember 21, 2025Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
It's now late into 2025, and just over a year since I wrote my last post on Passkeys. The prevailing dialogue that I see from thought leaders is "addressing common misconceptions" around Passkeys, the implication being that "you just don't understand it co…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logDecember 17, 2025Testing multiple versions of Python in parallel
Daniel Roy Greenfeld wrote about how to test your code for multiple versions of Python using `uv`. I follow up with a small improvement to the Makefile.
via Technically PersonalJuly 21, 2025LLDB's TypeSystems Part 2: PDB
In my previous post, I described implementing PDB parsing as a can of worms. That might have been a bit of an understatement. PDB has been one "oh, it's gonna be twice as much work as I thought" after another. Implementing it has revealed many of the same …
via Cracking the ShellJuly 07, 2025#Rx Writing Challenge 2025
This is a short reflection on my experience of the recent writing challenge I took part in. Over the past two weeks, I have participated in the #RxWritingChallenge 1—a daily, 30-minute writing group starting at 9 AM every morning. Surrounded by fellow doct…
via Ul-lingaApril 05, 2025My coffee workflow
My coffee workflow by Clement Delafargue on April 1, 2025 Tagged as: coffee, espresso, flair58, v60. It is my first April cools’ and I guess I could start by talking about coffee. If you’ve seen me in person, it won’t be a surprise, I guess. This po…
via Clément Delafargue - RSS feedApril 01, 2025Physics Simulations in Bevy
Bevy is the most popular and powerful game engine in Rust. Because of its flexibility, it can be used not only for games but also for (scientific) physics simulations. In this blog post, I will share my experience using Bevy for physics simulations from sc…
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