Notices by Tony Finch (fanf@mendeddrum.org)

https://adam.nels.onl//blog/maybe-everything-is-a-coroutine/ - Maybe everything is a coroutine.

https://github.com/esp32-open-mac/FoA - Ferris-on-Air: An experimental Wi-Fi stack for the ESP32 in Rust.

storm éowyn is taking the piss

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09423 - QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet.

@clacke in my version of english we say “on purpose” instead of “purposely”

(and “purposefully” is as you described it)

https://keymaterial.net/2024/06/15/reconstructing-public-keys-from-signatures/ - Reconstructing public keys from cryptographic signatures.

as far as i know there are no systems based on UTF-16 that disallow bare surrogates

UTF-16 doesn’t exist, it’s always WTF-16

nice to read that @beasts have migrated their support email to Request Tracker https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2024/12/05/a-big-change-that-you-hopefully-wont-notice/

@jwz i was sad to learn that the pottery that made the original teapot had a major fire last year so they cannot make any more utah teapots :-( https://friesland-porzellan.de/produkte/information

https://github.com/elikaski/ECC_Attacks - Known attacks and a primer on elliptic curve cryptography.

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-performance-outperforms/ - Rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.

https://blog.drewolson.org/gleam-is-pragmatic/ - The Gleam programming language is pragmatic.

i am reminded by @cks of how fun web virtual hosting was back in the 1990s

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/NameBasedVirtualHostsImportance?showcomments

sadly, U+23DE and U+23DF top and bottom curly bracket are not allowed in identifiers

C23 follows UAX#31 which also does not allow symbols in identifiers — these are category Sm Symbol, math

this is magnificent https://lobste.rs/s/xhskrk/brackets_are_awesome_don_t_use_them#c_pcwfby
nobody tell steve bourne

https://qntm.org/clean - It's time to stop recommending Clean Code.

@lanodan yeah i deliberately prevented the compiler from inlining because i wanted to be sure i was measuring what i thought i was; the versions in BIND are inlined .. . i should add a few sentences about the benchmark methodology, oops, forgot!

on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-07-28-tolower-avx512.html

tolower() with AVX-512

i got nerdsniped and this is the result

https://codeberg.org/reach/reach/src/branch/main/common/ecdh-omr - ECDH-OMR: elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman oblivious message retrieval.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cement-recycling - Recycling steel with cement in an arc furnace could produce zero-emissions concrete.