When many Java developers hear the word WebAssembly, the first thing they think is “browser technology”. The second thing: “it’s the JVM all over again”. After all, for a Java developer, in-browser apps are prehistory.

In December 2021, a company from San Francisco asked me to port a Rust library to Java. The task seemed simple, but it ended up requiring a from-scratch implementation of the MySQL protocol and even fixing a bug in the main Rust MySQL client! Below follows…

A lot of people get hacked or phished, and being completely secure is somewhere between difficult and impossible, especially if someone trying hard to hack you in particular. But there are several simple things you can do that decrease your risk a lot: …

Tech support as an LLM Slack bot

MSG Entertainment, the owner of the arena and Radio City Music Hall, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on an “exclusion list” to keep them out of concerts and sporting events.

ChatGPT can deliver direct answers quickly, not pages of endless links. That's reportedly scaring Google.

Sam Gregory is on a mission to root out jargon in government. He's here to explore the worst offenders and offer the best alternatives.  As civil servants, our choice of terminology makes a huge difference to how the public understands …

EDIT (12-Dec-22) Added a "Let's Hear It!" section to give folks an idea of the sound. Added "Another Disclaimer" section for those who want to dive deep into more of the nuances of hard clipping with a DSP (and why it's hard to make it sound pleasant). Adjusted…

Password manager says breach it disclosed in August was much worse than thought.

State of the Sanderson 2022 Introduction Wow. What a year. I can remember writing this essay last year, and being all giddy about the fact that I was hiding four secret novels from you all. I said, “Maybe next year, I’ll be able to explain to you all why…

First time anti-debug techniques are discovered in PyPI malware. Read how these techniques are implemented, including analysis and tips from JFrog Security Research.

Detailed internal images of second Asgard microbe reveal components similar to plant and animal cells

Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-base...

"Contrary to what The New York Times has speculated, we are not at peak newsletter. We are just at peak newsletter via email delivery."

Template project for developing DOS games/apps with DJGPP, including source-level remote debugging with GDB and DOSBox. - badlogic/dos-dev-template

After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.