Most strings found on the Internet are encoded using a particular unicode format called UTF-8. However, not all strings of bytes are valid UTF-8. The rules as to what constitute a valid UTF-8 string are somewhat arcane. Yet it seems important to quickly validate…

Some notes on things I find interesting and important. - frankmcsherry/blog

SQL injection vulnerabilities have been a plague ever since such databases have been combined with user facing applications. Such vulnerabilities arise when a SQL query string is naively combined with data that is controlled by an attacker.
To mitigate, people…

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⚡ Doing zero-boilerplate commandline argument parsing in Rust - spacekookie/thunder

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

In this post, I'll talk about a pattern for extracting values from a
weakly typed map. This pattern applies to all statically typed
languages, and even to dynamically typed ones, but the post is rather
Rust-specific.

It's been a month or so 10 days since the plugin interface emits unsilencable warnings. I have not seen any complaints. I guess noone was using the plugin interface anymore.

Hi there, this Johan from Seasoned Software, a new start-up that is working on building a continuous fuzzing service. In this post, I go…

An introduction to writing a simple web server using Thruster

Vaidehi Joshi – at last! She explains in her basecs podcast The science behind what computers mind so let all of us here have a blast! A good education can t...