Enero y febrero

Parte del log de 2022

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs. There are some minor inaccuracies re: how NFTs have been stolen but it’s otherwise a very well put (albeit long and dense) video essay
Why do I look like this? SexyCyborg’s origin story
Solving Wordle using information theory

House of Leaves. I spent a lot of time reading this, and read less articles instead. I had never read anything from the genre, and it may be that there are better books of this kind, but this was a pretty cool read.

Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox, because, of course, tons of websites did not foresee that you could have a three digit version in a browser, duh. It’s interesting to compare this to curl’s approach, which seems to be to avoid version 7.100 at all costs.
Contexts and capabilities in Rust. I don’t love the feel of this, but it’s a good stab at a problem not only present on Rust.
On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow. Did you know there was a patent on a one line function to calculate the average of two unsigned integers?
Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage. Woopsies.
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Kernel security: beyond bug fixing
Coming to Agreement, a logic puzzle for Oxford admissions interviews, the only mathy thing on this section (sorry!)
Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, a fascinating Unicode proposal.