The web is 30 years old today
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

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The "rm -rf *" story - insights
https://secalert.net/interview-with-rmrf-engineer.html

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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

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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/

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"I took FSF Europe to court."
https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court

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

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

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

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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

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Hotwire: An alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1341420143239450624?s=20

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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
https://medium.com/@larseidnes/we-rendered-a-million-web-pages-to-find-out-what-makes-the-web-slow-72bbba9ade96?source=friends_link&sk=f320883b433b49e1db07761caa4205d9

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C Is Not a Low-level Language
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

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Comic Mono font
https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font

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Conan O'Brien saying "You know?" 100 times in 1 minute - Speech Analysis project
https://eric-jadi.medium.com/you-know-speech-analysis-and-video-summarization-69b400b2ac70

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I wired my christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlpIojusBE

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JavaScript Performance In The Wild 2020 - We Rendered A Million Web Pages To Find Out What Makes The Web Slow
https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild

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Germany tops the list of the most desired tech job relocation destinations
https://sifted.eu/articles/tech-workers-relocate-to-germany

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Cyberpwned, an automatic solver for Cyberpunk's hacking minigame using OCR, available now on Android! Play Store approval is pending, but you can side-load the current release and take a look at the (horrible, messy) source code.
https://github.com/nicolas-siplis/cyberpwned

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Google Discloses Poorly-Patched, Now Unpatched, Windows 0-Day Bug
https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/google-discloses-poorly-patched-now.html

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A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators (diagrams + code)
https://mukulrathi.co.uk/create-your-own-programming-language/llvm-ir-cpp-api-tutorial/

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