A post/question about formal grammars, wherein I search for a good formalism for describing infix
expressions.

One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t. Here are the things that have worked.
Convert external sources to motivation…

Let's Destroy C. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Let me tell you why you should (nearly) never use PEG (parsing expression grammars). Nearly everything I will say applies to parser combi...

A C program that writes "hello, world!" to the console using inline assembly instead of standard library functions, demonstrating direct system call invocation.

An app for scaring away malware

wingolog: article: static single assignment for functional programmers

(Thanks to Amit Sahai for spurring me to write this post!) The Background We all remember Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem from kindergarten.  This is the thing that, given a formal syste…

Using Ekko to sort of bypass Hunt Sleeping Beacons

Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive…

Test Driven Development is often taught to improve a your workflow; I present Documentation Driven Development as an alternative approach.

In this series, I'll be trying out each of the four major BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD), including install, configuration, and web serving. We're paying a visit to the weird cousins from the other continent, and we'll…

A curated catalogue of versioning schemes used in open source software—from the conventional to the creative.

Ethics and Information Technology - Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of...