For those that missed it, a recording of my talk at 37C3 can be found here.| www.devever.net
Leah Rowe has written an interesting article about the history of the Libreboot project on the project's 10th anniversary. Recommended reading if you're interested in the open source firmware ecosystem.| www.devever.net
Excellent writeup by Mac Chaffee about how web application firewalls are universally a terrible idea. I've been meaning to write an article on this subject for some time, but this is a good overview of many issues with them.| www.devever.net
Fascinating writeup on the internal representation of values in Chicken Scheme.| www.devever.net
This is an interesting web framework in Go emphasising PHP-esque page-oriented development. The author cites my article The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website as inspiration.| www.devever.net
As an aside, the interactive fiction community is from a technological perspective a fascinating microcosm, including from a CS perspective. You have not just one toolchain, but an entire ecosystem of competing virtual machine specifications (Z-Machine, Glulx, TADS, Hugo), compilers, and source languages, all intending to deliver architecture-independence and the ability to preserve IF for the ages, yet apart from all general-purpose technologies typically used for the task. (Read more...)| www.devever.net
Interesting writings by Koshka, who has a fantastic Web 1.0/Geocities-esque| www.devever.net
Re: my article Web-based cryptography is always snake oil, this is another good article focused on Signal specifically and why it should not be considered trustworthy or secure.| www.devever.net
Chris Siebenmann has written an interesting response to my article “Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution”. While I don't necessarily agree with his views, I think it's an interesting response and worth reading. I've also written up my thoughts on the article as an HN comment. (Read more...)| www.devever.net