In 1988 I wrote a Flowchart Generator for the BBC Micro, here's a brief video of it running in an emulator. Thanks to The National Museum of Computing (UK) who were able to read the 5.25in disk and share an image.
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Flowchart Generator Software for BBC Micro running on BeebEm
My A-Level project from 1988 - Flowchart Generator for the BBC Micro, running on BeebEm emulator.You can download the .ssd file here: https://stardot.org.uk/...
New log4j RCE Vulnerability for 2.17 could be arriving today. Stay tuned!
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New log4j RCE Vulnerability for 2.17 could be arriving today. Stay...
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Fourth Log4j RCE Vulnerability Discovered. Another log4j rce 0day
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New Log4j RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Apache Logging Library
Fourth
log4j rce Vulnerability discovered, again puts whole internet on Risk.
log4j rce Vulnerability discovered, again puts whole internet on Risk.
A Review of the Zig Programming Language (using Advent of Code 2021)
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A Review of the Zig Programming Language (using Advent of Code 2021)
I’ve long thought that Zig was an interesting programming language, potentially more interesting than Rust in many respects given that Zig seems to be targetting a more modern C-like language replacement whereas Rust firmly looks like it is trying to take…
I'm giving out microgrants to open source projects for the third year in a row! Brag about your projects here so I can see them, big or small!
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It's a season of giving, so let's start up the third year of The Icculus Microgrant! I'm throwing in 250 dollars, and collecting money of any amount to distribute to open source projects. Want to be part of it? DM me. This is what last year looked like: …
A Review of the Zig Programming Language (using Advent of Code 2021)
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A Review of the Zig Programming Language (using Advent of Code 2021)
I’ve long thought that Zig was an interesting programming language, potentially more interesting than Rust in many respects given that Zig seems to be targetting a more modern C-like language replacement whereas Rust firmly looks like it is trying to take…
Fintech firm hit by log4j hack refuses to pay $5 million ransom
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Fintech firm hit by Log4j hack refuses to pay $5 million ransom
One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version. Soon enough, threat actors approached ONUS to extort $5 million and threatened to publish customer data…
glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default
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glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default
Most of my readers are probably aware of the Y2038 issue by now. If not, it refers to 3:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038, when 32-bit time_t will overflow. The Linux kernel has internally switched to 64-bit timekeeping several years ago, and Alpine made the…
Study: Developers spend almost 2 days a week just waiting for other developers to review their code
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The Pull Request Paradox: Merge Faster by Promoting Your PR
Adding more context to our Pull Requests got them merged two days faster. Here's how it works...
You can’t copy code with memcpy; code is more complicated than that
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You can’t copy code with memcpy; code is more complicated than that
There's more to code than just instructions.
GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker
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GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker
A small but noteworthy change that landed today for the GCC 12 compiler itself is support for using the Mold linker.
With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
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With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter...
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An overview of core components that are involved in the execution of JavaScript code.
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How JavaScript Works behind the scenes?
An overview walk-through of all the core components that are involved in the execution of JavaScript code.
How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop
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How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop | Piotr Kołaczkowski
Imagine you wrote a program for a pleasingly parallel problem, where each thread does its own independent piece of work, and the threads don’t need to coordi...
In 2022, YYMMDDhhmm formatted times exceed signed int range, breaking Microsoft services
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Dear @msexchangeteam. The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed to Load. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to long.
We Have A Browser Monopoly Again and Firefox is The Only Alternative Out There
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Firefox is the Only Alternative
Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination…
[blog post] Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
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[blog post] Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
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