2026-02-25
Finding the Bottom Turtle · blog.dave.tf
blog.dave.tf/post/finding-bottom-turtleSome reflections on trusting trust, and how deep the rabbit hole goes.
2026-01-09
Decorative Cryptography
www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptographyLast year, I came agross a Linux kernel feature called TCG_TPM2_HMAC. It claims to detect or prevent active and passive interposer attackers.
It all sounds really great. We should care about interposer adversaries. It’s great to use the TPM features that were invented to help us with these problems.
2025-11-18
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust | corrode Rust Consulting
corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming[...] hard-learned patterns to write more defensive Rust code, learned throughout years of shipping Rust code to production. I’m not talking about design patterns here, but rather small idioms, which are rarely documented, but make a big difference in the overall code quality.
2025-07-07
Rewriting Kafka in Rust Async: Insights and Lessons Learned in Rust | Rex Wang
wangjunfei.com/2025/06/18/Rewriting-Kafka-in-Rust-Async-Insights-and-Lessons-Learned#SummaryAchieving high-performance asynchronous Rust projects transcends mere usage of the async/await syntax; it fundamentally relies on a deep understanding of the underlying task scheduling, lock optimization, and architecture design principles.
2025-05-22
Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT - Matthew Weidner
mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.htmlThis blog post describes an alternative, straightforward approach to collaborative text editing, without Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) or Operational Transformation (OT). By making text editing flexible and easy to DIY, I hope that the approach will let you create rich collaborative apps that are challenging to build on top of a black-box CRDT/OT library.
2025-04-28
Nick Appleton’s blog and stuff - Building a digital filter for use in synthesisers
www.appletonaudio.com/blog/2022/building-a-digital-filter-for-use-in-synthesisersThis is a tutorial on how to build a digital implementation of a 2nd-order, continuously-variable filter (i.e. one where you can change the parameters runtime) that has dynamic behaviour that mimics an analogue filter.
2025-03-10
The power of interning: making a time series database 2000x smaller in Rust | Blog | Guillaume Endignoux
gendignoux.com/blog/2025/03/03/rust-interning-2000x.htmlIn this deep dive post, I’ll explain how I used the interning design pattern in Rust to compress this data set by a factor of two thousand! We’ll investigate how to best structure the interner itself, how to tune our data schema to work well with it, and likewise how serialization can best leverage interning.
2024-11-27
April King — Handling Cookies is a Minefield
grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/handling-cookies-is-a-minefieldDiscrepancies in how browsers and libraries handle HTTP cookies, and the problems caused by such things.
2024-11-07
Model Predictive Control in the browser with WebAssembly | garethx
garethx.com/posts/cart-pole-mpcCommentary on software, robotics, and computer vision.
2024-10-12
Dependency Management Data
dmd.tanna.dev2024-09-10
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods – Something Similar
www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloodsBelow is a list of some lessons I’ve learned as a distributed systems engineer that are worth being told to a new engineer. Some are subtle, and some are surprising, but none are controversial. This list is for the new distributed systems engineer to guide their thinking about the field they are taking on. It’s not comprehensive, but it’s a good beginning.
What is the best pointer tagging method?
coredumped.dev/2024/09/09/what-is-the-best-pointer-tagging-methodIn this post, we are going to take a deep dive into pointer tagging, where metadata is encoded into a word-sized pointer. Doing so allows us to keep a compact representation that can be passed around in machine registers. This is very common in implementing dynamic programming languages, but can really be used anywhere that additional runtime information is needed about a pointer. We will look at a handful of different ways these pointers can be encoded and see how the compiler can optimize them for different hardware.
2024-09-07
About
www.braggoscope.com/aboutExplore the In Our Time archive.
2024-09-04
the spatula
www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io_uring_echo_serverIn this article we build off what we’ve already learned about io_uring and extend that to build an async echo server.
2024-08-19
JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi - Introducing the PiFex
voidstarsec.com/blog/jtag-pifexJTAG for Reverse Engineers
2024-07-31
Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens
medium.com/@TalBeerySec/revealing-the-inner-structure-of-aws-session-tokens-a6c76469cba7TL;DR: A world first reverse engineering analysis of AWS Session Tokens. Prior to our research these tokens were a complete black box…
Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++
best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.htmlThe Best Practices for OSS Developers working group is dedicated to raising awareness and education of secure code best practices for open source developers.
2024-07-28
Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools | Microsoft Security Blog
www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-toolsWe examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.