#lifestyle (2 posts)
Change of plans and priorities
Written on: 2023-09-26
Updated on: 2023-09-26T17:10:39Z
what it means for my future
First impressions on my first non-Google email provider
Written on: 2023-09-19
Updated on: 2023-09-20T21:28:31Z
my first step in de-Googling
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
How to make react-markdown work with Parcel?
Audience If you encounter an error like this while trying to render a markdown with react-markdown and you're using parcel Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'src') this article is…
via Christian Visintin BlogDecember 16, 2024Recently 2024
Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule! Running This was my biggest …
via macwright.comDecember 15, 2024Status update, December 2024
Hi! For once let’s open things up with the NPotM. I’ve started working on sajin, an Android app which synchronizes camera pictures in the background. I’ve grown tired of manually copying files around, and I don’t want to use proprietary services to backup …
via emersionDecember 14, 2024hyper Roadmap 2025
After a year since hyper 1.0, we’re updating the ROADMAP. hyper is an HTTP library written in Rust, used by many in production. The purpose of the ROADMAP is to highlight what is highest priority in order to continue orienting hyper towards its VISION. I…
via seanmonstarDecember 10, 2024Ideas and Execution
4 free ideas that Soatok doesn't have the time or energy to execute on.
via Dhole MomentsDecember 09, 2024Yer a Wizard! Tagging Hard-coded Credentials Can Lead to Finding Magic (Numbers)
As GreyNoise researcher, you always have things to write detection rules for. Some of them aren’t always exciting, but they become more interesting as you dive deeper. Let’s jump right in and take a look at CVE-2024-6633: The default credentials for the s…
via GreyNoise LabsDecember 03, 2024Swift observations from a reluctant Rustacean
Recently I've been thinking about Swift in terms of Rust, & have appreciated anew some of the choices made. In Rust. There's been a proliferation of X vs Y posts on the web, especially since the advent of LLM AI, so I try to resist the format. It's often e…
via Mike KreuzerNovember 16, 2024anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future
there is still time
via maia blogNovember 14, 2024Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering
Why do I bother getting angry about software? When I started writing, it came from a place of ennui — absolute despair at the amount of waste I was seeing in the technology sector since leaving university. I was paid spectacularly well, but nothing I produ…
via LudicityNovember 12, 2024OpenGL is not Right-Handed
The original Twitter thread: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1508833104567414785 I have a huge gripe when I read articles/tutorials on OpenGL: most people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to coordinate systems and matrices. Specifi…
via Articles on gingerBillNovember 10, 2024A glorious demo gallery
I added a demo gallery to my website. A place to showcase some of my frontend adventures. Coupled with a dedicated RSS feed if you want to follow along!
via Rob O'Leary | BlogOctober 16, 2024Neurodivergence and accountability in free software
In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a …
via Drew DeVault's blogSeptember 25, 2024Yubikey Key Vulnerability - How It Affects You
On the 3rd of September, Yubico announced YSA-2024-03, a vulnerability in the infineon cryptograhpic library which may allow private key extraction to be performed. As is tradition, arm chair experts and thought leaders everywhere rushed to have hot takes …
via Firstyear's blog-a-logSeptember 09, 2024Physics 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…
via mo8it.comJuly 19, 2024Defending myself against defensive writing
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites li…
via pcloadletterMay 27, 2024Regex engine internals as a library
Over the last several years, I’ve rewritten Rust’s regex crate to enable better internal composition, and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. In the course of this rewrite I created a new crate, regex-automata, which expos…
via Andrew Gallant's Blog on Andrew Gallant's BlogJuly 05, 2023Eradicating image authentication injection from the entire internet
Thinking back to old forum days I can specifically remember an event where attackers modified their avatars to be invalid pages that responded with "HTTP 401 Unauthorized". This didn't really seem like an issue because there was interaction required by the…
via Blog | Sam CurryMay 10, 2017H.264 is Magic
A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, codecs.
via Sid BalaNovember 02, 2016Generated by openring-rs