Agosto

Posts:

• Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages, on the sensitivity conjecture. I think Quanta magazine articles are sometimes inaccurate or misleading, but I really liked this one.
• Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?, on the nightmarish world of online advertising we live in.
• Why can I log in to my Facebook account with a misspelled email/password?, a neat thing Facebook does with passwords.
• Can ads on a page read my password?, in hindsight this is obvious but I hadn’t thought about it.
• Diff Strategies, on how to implement diff.
• How a ‘NULL’ License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
• Decoded: GNU coreutils, simple explainers on Coreutils (rm, ls, ln…) source code.

Videos & TV Shows:

• Years and Years, season 1.

Podcasts:

• The Waterfall - Welcome to Night Vale, “Josh Crayton finds that he has lost a very important ability.”.

Projects:

• I created some backup scripts and hooks and posted them on Github. In particular:
  1. An extremely simple hook for yapf,
  2. a script for making full backups for my NextCloud calendar and
  3. a script for auto-adding posts that I mark as favourite to the current month log. I’m writing a post to briefly explain how they work.
• Una presentación sobre si Valerie Solanas bebió agua.

En español:

• ¿Qué son los CIE?, sobre los Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros.
• Meterlos en casa, sobre la crisis del Open Arms y el discurso público sobre este.