Programming

There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i https://redd.it/kildnw @programmingreddit

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer talks about hunting bugs in task manager and space cadet pinball https://youtu.be/4UduzUmetP4 https://redd.it/ki1td8 @programmingreddit

UNIX Recovery Legend, coming back from rm -rf * https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html https://redd.it/kh2mls @programmingreddit

Cyberpwned: Beating Cyberpunk 2077's hacking minigame in ~50 lines of Python https://nicolas-siplis.com/blog/cyberpwned https://redd.it/khgbsc @programmingreddit

"I took FSF Europe to court." https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court https://redd.it/kgzcv7 @programmingreddit

SerenityOS got pwned at hxp CTF 2020! Significantly harder than last year but they still got us :) Full exploit and writeup https://hxp.io/blog/79/hxp-CTF-2020-wisdom2/ https://redd.it/kh1ukh @programmingreddit

Fast Static Symbol Table (FSST): fast text compression that allows random access, so individual strings can be decompressed without touching the surrounding data https://github.com/cwida/fsst https://redd.it/kgssle @programmingreddit

The "rm -rf *" story - insights https://secalert.net/interview-with-rmrf-engineer.html https://redd.it/kgtvth @programmingreddit

The web is 30 years old today https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web https://redd.it/kgwue7 @programmingreddit

Ryzen 5800X vs Apple M1: Programming-focused benchmarks https://github.com/tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io/blob/c3b417ba2fc81768f656dadf87bf3dd28ba47182/emacs-tutor/zen3_vs_m1.org https://redd.it/kgg76f @programmingreddit

How U.S. agencies' trust in untested software opened the door to hackers https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/19/how-federal-hack-happened-448602 https://redd.it/kgnt7u @programmingreddit

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support. https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://redd.it/kg6fww @programmingreddit

Back to the '70s with Serverless http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html https://redd.it/kgikdn @programmingreddit

Better Quake strafe-jumping with genetic algorithms (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBodLDT_yrg https://redd.it/kgab2f @programmingreddit

Bouncy Castle crypto authentication bypass vulnerability revealed: "This means that passwords that result in hashes that, for instance, don’t contain bytes between 0x00 and 0x3B match every other password hash that don’t contain them." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bouncy-castle-crypto-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-revealed/ https://redd.it/kg6ja4 @programmingreddit

Made our subscription management system open source after our startup failed https://github.com/itshubble https://redd.it/kg46mv @programmingreddit

Norman Abramson, information theorist and creator of the Ethernet precursor ALOHAnet (shared access wireless packet network), dead at 88 https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/14212-the-legacy-of-norman-abramson.html https://redd.it/kfuf47 @programmingreddit

Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077 http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2020/12/hallucinations-re-rendering-of.html https://redd.it/kf9p5y @programmingreddit

Selling a Tiny Programming Project https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/selling_a_tiny_project https://redd.it/kfn3v1 @programmingreddit

Double Blind Passwords (aka Horcruxing) https://kaizoku.dev/double-blind-passwords-aka-horcruxing https://redd.it/kfk1d9 @programmingreddit