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A long evening with iOS and macOS Sandbox

archive.org

Using a web archive link because the original blog’s stylesheet seems to recently have broken Comments

ios mac reversing security
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Context Switching and Performance: What Every Developer Should Know

codingconfessions.com

Context switching is known to be one of the most expensive operations performed by the operating...
Context switching is known to be one of the most expensive operations performed by the operating system kernel which can kill the performance of many systems. It is a necessary evil on a busy system to keep it responsive, and to allow all the processes to make progress. But what makes it so expensive? This article d...

linux
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Dynamically Scoped Functions as the Essence of AOP (2003)

psu.edu

lisp pdf plt
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Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface - Phoronix

phoronix.com

desktop linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews linux server benchmarks
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Attacker Copied GitHub Project, Added Fake Stars and Malicious Code

reddit.com

Linking to reddit feels strange (and I had to condense the title-summary), but the project documented...
Linking to reddit feels strange (and I had to condense the title-summary), but the project documented it in this post and I believe this is worthwhile to look at. The comments amass a lot of interesting stuff namely: similar attacks using this attack vector (partial pun, since it obfuscates with arrays!) Comments

go security
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Felix' Blog - A Review of Helix after 1.5 Years

felix-knorr.net

I've been using Helix for roughly 1.5 years now, and for the latest release (25.01) I...
I've been using Helix for roughly 1.5 years now, and for the latest release (25.01) I decided to summarized the thoughts I've been collecting until now. This article has first been released in the german IT-magazine Golem. Link to article (paywalled) Helix is a modal terminal editor, like Vim. That means you have mu...

editors programming python rust
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Adding an edit button to my static site on mobile | James' Coffee Blog

jamesg.blog

web
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The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time

thephd.dev
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More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)

oldvcr.blogspot.com

In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in...
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole monolith thing going for them too (minus murderous apes and sucking astronauts into hyperspace). Its fame is even more notable given that Digital Equipment Corporation was among ...

retrocomputing
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The Year of the Picotron Desktop

neocities.org

March 14, 2025 | Tags: personal picotron programming 1 year ago, on March 14, 2024, Picotron...
March 14, 2025 | Tags: personal picotron programming 1 year ago, on March 14, 2024, Picotron released! I had a lot of fun messing around with everything in the days after its release. On the 20th, I wrote up a blog post about some of the programs I made in it: a DVD screensaver, a bunch of cli utilities, a wordle cl...

lua
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Is Cap'n Proto Event Loop Friendly?

jonasgalvez.com.br

javascript nodejs
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My Favorite Firefox Extensions

alexn.org

In my previous post, I mentioned that I now use Firefox as my main browser and...
In my previous post, I mentioned that I now use Firefox as my main browser and you should too. Firefox’s strength is its extensions, with many available on Android devices as well. Here’s a list of my favorites. On both the desktop and in Firefox for Android 🤖: Dark Reader: an extension that modifies the styles of w...

browsers
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Speeding up C++ code with template lambdas – Daniel Lemire's blog

lemire.me

c++
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Comparing Video Encoders

giannirosato.com

Comparing video encoders isn't hard; in fact, it is usually quite easy. However, it is very...
Comparing video encoders isn't hard; in fact, it is usually quite easy. However, it is very often done incorrectly. That's a bit of an oversimplification. Comparing video encoders extremely well is rather difficult, and it is the focus of a lot of impactful research that aims to produce metrics that can properly ass...

av1 codec compression encoding programming
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Implicit Surfaces & Independent Research

youtube.com

graphics people & blogs programming video
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ArenaAllocator.free and Nested Arenas

openmymind.net

zig
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A Code Centric Journey Into the Gleam Language • Giacomo Cavalieri • YOW! 2024

youtu.be

gleam science & technology video
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The Worst Programming Language / brat · GitLab

gitlab.com

compilers ml show
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Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake?

herecomesthemoon.net

go
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WWW-Talk Apr-Jun 1993: NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released

webhistory.org

historical web
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Mapping the landscape of gen-AI product user experience

interconnected.org

I talk with a lot of clients and startups about their new generative AI-powered products. One...
I talk with a lot of clients and startups about their new generative AI-powered products. One question is always: how should users use this? Or rather, how could they use this, because the best design patterns haven’t been invented yet? And what we want to do is to look at prior art. We can’t look at existing users ...

ai
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Harden-Runner detection: tj-actions/changed-files action is compromised - StepSecurity

stepsecurity.io

security
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Why I Don't Like Hackathons

mirawelner.com

bioinformatics data science image processing machine learning mira welner
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Disclosing YouTube Creator Emails for a $20k Bounty

brutecat.com

< Back 2025-03-13 Some time back, while playing around with Google API requests, I found out...
< Back 2025-03-13 Some time back, while playing around with Google API requests, I found out it was possible to leak all request parameters in any Google API endpoint. This was possible because for whatever reason, sending a request with a wrong parameter type returned debug information about that parameter: ‎Reques...

security web
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