Developer Links

Collections of useful links for developers.

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Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm

In this video we will take an in depth look at the fast inverse square root and see where the mysterious number 0x5f3759df comes from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo

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#performance #c

An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course.

https://devlinks.pinkjelly.org/general

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#lisp #extra

Ipv6 watch

It is August 2021 and the IPv6 adoption at major websites is bad... Most of those websites have the money, time and people to enable IPv6 but still they are only reachable via IPv4...

https://ipv6.watch/

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#network #ipv6 #extra

Compilers as Teachers

We like to stress that Rust takes its commitment to developer friendliness very seriously, and that the Rust compiler considers confusing error messages a bug.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/compilers-as-teachers/

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#rust #compiler

Movfuscator - The single instruction C compiler

The Movfuscator compiles programs into "mov" instructions, and only "mov" instructions.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

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#c #compiler #asm #esoteric

URL vs URI

What is the Difference Between a URL And a URI?

https://medium.com/@ferencalmasi/what-is-the-difference-between-a-url-and-a-uri-8d4f473b04b

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#url #web #extra

Slate

A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors.

https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate

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#ui #framework #web

The Itanic Has Sunk

Intel's once-vaunted Itanium architecture officially died.

https://honeypot.net/post/the-itanic-has-sunk/

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#intel #hardware #cpu

Understanding js `arguments` object

In this thread, we'll learn about arguments, its length property, when to use it, and more!

https://twitter.com/codingyuri/status/1421093145572347909?s=20

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#javanoscript #tips

Documenting our migration to Docker

This is our experience with Docker! If you're migrating to containers, we're sure you'll find some useful tips to avoid possible mistakes.

https://www.artifakt.com/blog/cloud/documenting-our-migration-to-docker/

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#docker #tips

Malicious Input: How Hackers Use Shellcode

Attackers use shellcode to target a vulnerable process running on another machine. Learn how threat actors use it to compromise enterprises.

https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/malicious-input-how-hackers-use-shellcode/

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#security

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#meme #github

strcpy: a niche function you don't need

The C strcpy function is a common sight in typical C programs. It’s also a source of buffer overflow defects...

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/07/30/

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#c #extra

Static⁣.wiki

Read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

https://static.wiki/

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#wikipedia #misc

Free Geoip Api

Free ip geolocation api using c++ and php

https://github.com/Markus-Go/ip-countryside

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#cpp #php #geoip

Python Graph Library

Plotly is a library for creating graphs with options to export to html, useful for web applications.

https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py

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#python #graph #extra

Recursion in SQL Explained Visually

Lets think about queries as a function. In a sense that a function takes an input and produces an output. Queries operates on relations or…

https://medium.com/swlh/recursion-in-sql-explained-graphically-679f6a0f143b

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#sql #misc

How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions

Last December, I was invited to a private bug bounty program to test a beta version of GitHub Actions, so I decided to just try it out and see what would happen.

https://blog.teddykatz.com/2019/11/12/github-actions-dos.html

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#security #github #bugbounty

ASCII Play

An ASCII Art playground.

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/

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#ascii #misc

Copy Securely Secrets

A small bash noscript to securely copy/Paste content using RSA encryption/decryption.

https://github.com/Sanix-Darker/css

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#bash #extra