Software History

Late last year I released posuto, a package presenting Japanese postal code data in an easy-to-use format. It's based on data released by Japan Post, which is infamous for being widely used but hard to parse.

500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge by Marcus Hutter

(Photo Credit: baxiabhishek via flickflu.com) Is anyone else having a slow email problem? Seriously, Rodney? You’re kidding right? No. I sent Bill an email 45 minutes ago and it’s still not there. What’s the deal? Last week I talked about the Message Recall feature as the Ultimate Save Your Job Feature, And Why It Took […]

This crate fn noret() -> ! { loop { } } pub fn test_noret() -> () { noret() } when compiled without optimization (rustc --crate-type rlib --emit asm), produces _ZN4test5noret17hecd4eea31d87a4...

32b for MS-Dos, n/a at The Party 2001

This is the story of the hardest thing I've ever debugged, from Crash Bandicoot 1.

Five guys moving a server to a new datacenter without shutting it down. Without cutting it off from the internet. And as using a car would have been too eas...

The Witchcraft Compiler Collection. Contribute to endrazine/wcc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pre ANSI C was wild!8 and 9 were valid octal digits, they had the octal values 10 and 11 Found this in the C99 rationale: https://t.co/mSXb0FLNWqold C reference manual: https://t.co/QAoHBtK6auWish we had a live version to try#cprogramming #programming #PreANSICWasWild pic.twitter.com/9aq5Zr3NSH— @shafik@hachyderm.io (@shafikyaghmour) May 3, 2018

CONSOLE HACKING 2013 - U FAIL IT - Hacking the Wii U with Sven, Marcan, and Comex - 27/12/2013Two corrections to the talk slides posted by the speakers: Cor...

David A. Wheeler's Page on Countering 'Trusting Trust' through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers

Overview A vulnerability and a separate logic error exist in the gstreamer 0.10.x player for NSF music files. Combined, they allow for ve...

Talk by Adam Fletcher.Flying from BOS to SFO? You are interacting with a sophisticated set of systems, from flight search to booking to reservations to depar...