Hello, PNG!

A dive into the PNG format, using python.

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html

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The Page With No Code

Using View Source or e.g. downloading the page with curl will show you… nothing.

https://danq.me/2023/01/11/nocode

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#web #fun #misc

zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation

https://dropbox.tech/security/zxcvbn-realistic-password-strength-estimation

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#security #cryptography #misc

Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata

https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/9581

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#audio #games #overview #extra

Don't write comments
CodeAesthetic

https://youtu.be/Bf7vDBBOBUA

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#style #aesthetic #meta

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#meme #meta

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#meme #cpp #clang

A Heisenbug lurking in async Python

If you've ever used asyncio.create_task(...), you might have not paid attention to this problem...

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/02/11/the-heisenbug-lurking-in-your-async-code

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#python #bug #misc

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cheat.sh

Cheat sheet in your terminal: curl cheat.sh/tar

Syntax: curl cheat.sh/{command}

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#cli #tools #misc

Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole: A Tale of 6 Rabbits Deep 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰

https://www.troyhunt.com/down-the-cloudflare-stripe-owasp-rabbit-hole-a-tale-of-6-rabbits-deep

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#cloudflare #stripe #learn

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#poly #meme

Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel

https://www.gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music

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#udp #rev #fun #misc

Memorable Unique Identifiers (MUIDs)

Generating offline identifiers in which p = os.urandom(x) is the private key and sha256(p) is the public key, with PoW constraints.

https://www.gkbrk.com/2022/10/memorable-unique-identifiers-muid

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#cryptography #api #misc

Birthday paradox

If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday. Let's test this theory with Python.

https://www.gkbrk.com/2022/04/birthday-paradox

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#math #python #extra

Creating a JSON Serializer in Python quickly

https://www.gkbrk.com/2021/05/json-serializer

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#python #learn

Constructing a sponge function from MD5

Let’s do some unholy programming and turn MD5 into a sponge function.

https://www.gkbrk.com/2021/03/md5-sponge

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#cryptography #learn #misc

Python’s multiprocessing performance problem

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-multiprocessing-pickle

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#python #concurrency #learn

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#meme #ux

My Hardest Bug Ever

This is the story of the hardest thing I've ever debugged, from Crash Bandicoot 1.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-ever

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#gamedev #debug #misc

Assertions are pessimistic, assumptions are optimistic

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1096

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#c #learn #misc