Reading List
- Why your phone’s portrait mode fakes the blur
Surma
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26 Feb 2021
Portrait mode artificially blurs out the background of an image to make it look... “better”. Turns out the reason this is done artificially is physics more than anything else.
- How often should I rotate my ssh keys?
An intriguing tale of rotating ssh keys.
- Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions
When I re-made my site with Eleventy, the pages didn’t change much, but I had loads of fun adding new features. The most fun was webmentions and I’m here to co…
- Plain Text Protocols
Blain Smith
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1 Sept 2020
If you haven't noticed already I really love plain text so I thought I would find some plain text protocols that are used in different software systems. The Redis Protocol specification states it best by describing its own protocol, but this applies to all of the plain text protocols I will cover.
- ISO 8601: the better date format
Kirby Kevinson
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26 Feb 2021
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that there are different date formats in the world such as the American one (mm/dd/yyyy) and the European one (dd.mm.yyyy). If you’re smart enough, you’ve probably also noticed that the American one makes no sense and is just awful.
- My Terminal-First Blogging Workflow
You don't need fancy WYSIWYG editors and complicated plugins to write your blog, you just need a text file and some basic Unix tools.
- Don’t define functions inline in your public headers
ThatGeoGuy
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24 Feb 2021
Thoughts with regards to having inline definitions in dynamic library headers.
- Imagining a Better Social Media
Peter Yin
Between the negative impacts on mental health, the spread of disinformation, and concerns with data privacy, the problems with social media seem more in the spotlight than ever before. The Social Dilemma, a recent Netflix documentary highlighting these problems (with help from the people who created them), has reached 100 million people in 190 countries. It’s no exaggeration to say the problems with social media are a mainstream topic.
- Leaving Comments on My Own Pull Requests
For the record, the process of leaving comments on my own pull requests isn’t something I came up with on my own. I adopted it from a previous colleague of mine, Jean Cochrane.
- Cryptography Interface Design is a Security Concern
Cryptographers and cryptography engineers love to talk about the latest attacks and how to mitigate them. LadderLeak breaks ECDSA with less than 1 bit of nonce leakage? Raccoon attack brings the Hi…
- The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets
Matt E. Patterson
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24 Feb 2021
The future of web app development is taking shape, and it’s changing the way we think about server-side app architecture. In this article, Matt E. Patterson shows why a new WebSockets-driven …
- Technology without Industry
George Hotz
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18 Jan 2021
A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway