bor.borygmus

Letting other people fill the metallic, judgmental silence.

• I am a former virus writer. Ask me anything.
• Antiobjects, and Pac-Man.
• A short explanation of Gödel’s theorem by Raymond Smullyan.
• You know your software is hard to install when… something comes up with a business model for it.
• Avery Pennarun’s weblog is basically software programming gold.
• Ditto for Robert Nystrom, who’s making an ML-like language called Magpie.
• sigfpe: What if you were only allowed one monad?
• Remember Synergy, the project by Chris Schoeneman that would make join the keyboards and mice for two computers? It got forked (for good reasons) into Synergy+ by Sorin Sbarnea and Nick Bolton!
• Alexander Limi would like to make your internet faster with resource packages.

Hello, hello. Witty banter here mingled with contrition about not posting. Laughs. Tears. Segue.

• I am a video codec engineer. Ask me anything.
• I wrote a PHP compiler. Ask me anything.
• What is the worst bug you have ever solved?
• Joe Damato walks us through the Matasano C++ security challenge.
• Thomas Ptacek on keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC).
• Jonathan Corbet summarizes Google’s how-we-use-Linux presentation at the 2009 Kernel Summit.
• Mark Dominus finds a gray code at the pediatrician’s.
• The animator of the first under-construction GIF.
• Ryan Tomayko likes Unicorn because it’s Unix.

Don’t give me that look. I’ve been busy.