Programming

Building MS-DOS From Scratch Like It’s 1983 https://hackaday.com/2021/12/20/building-ms-dos-from-scratch-like-its-1983/ https://redd.it/rkz1v9 @programmingreddit

Zig programming language 0.9.0 released https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html https://redd.it/rl87pr @programmingreddit

LISP with GC in 436 bytes https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/ https://redd.it/rkxbqj @programmingreddit

Every business process secretly wants to fail https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211123-05/?p=105954 https://redd.it/rkrc51 @programmingreddit

A challenger to the throne of vector graphics. SVG is dead, long live TinyVG! https://zig.news/xq/a-challenger-to-the-throne-of-vector-graphics-svg-is-dead-long-live-tinyvg-4on8 https://redd.it/rkw5wz @programmingreddit

Losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/12/qoi-specification https://redd.it/rkt6y5 @programmingreddit

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS https://twitter.com/Naaackers/status/1471494415306788870 https://redd.it/rka1s4 @programmingreddit

Some of you might remember my article on ray casting in 2D game engines. You seemed to like it so a major redesign was only a matter of time. The update includes better images, demoes, dark mode and more. As always, please be critical and report any issues and things you do not like. https://sszczep.dev/blog/ray-casting-in-2d-game-engines/ https://redd.it/rjx29i @programmingreddit

The Non-Productive Programmer https://gerlacdt.github.io/posts/nonproductive-programmer/ https://redd.it/rjx1l4 @programmingreddit

Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/696785 https://redd.it/rju4g6 @programmingreddit

Doom ported on a 64-MHz Cortex M4F based device (a USB BLE dongle), with only 256 kB RAM (github repository and video links in the article). https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/11/13/porting-doom-to-an-nrf52840-based-usb-bluetooth-le-dongle/ https://redd.it/rjfjxw @programmingreddit

A database transaction that lasts for months https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-12-17-month-long-transaction/ https://redd.it/rj9au6 @programmingreddit

Perl turns 34 today https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1 https://redd.it/rj4o75 @programmingreddit

Third Log4j High Severity CVE is published. What a mess! https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html https://redd.it/rj6vnr @programmingreddit

Log4j 2.17.0 released with a fix of DoS vulnerability CVE-2021-45105 [3rd bug] https://www.cyberkendra.com/2021/12/3rd-vulnerability-on-apache-log4j.html https://redd.it/rj48ol @programmingreddit

"Putting a JNDI log4j trigger in my email signature so I can see if anyone’s logging copies of my mail" https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1471714222358814721 https://redd.it/rij787 @programmingreddit

Log4Shell Update: Full bypass found in log4j 2.15.0, enabling RCE again (CVSS score 3.7 -> 9.0) https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-severity-of-cve-2021-45046-increased/ https://redd.it/rie93f @programmingreddit

The Web3 Fraud https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud https://redd.it/ri9433 @programmingreddit

PinePhone Malware Surprises Users, Raises Questions https://hackaday.com/2021/12/16/pinephone-malware-surprises-users-raises-questions/ https://redd.it/ri6eka @programmingreddit

Software Engineering Idioms You Should Know https://endaphelan.me/posts/software-idioms-you-should-know/ https://redd.it/rhv8bz @programmingreddit