I found myself reminiscing about my implementation of Blowfish today. It earned me the great honour of being listed on Bruce Schneier’s web page. My implementation made Blowfish compatible across 32-bit signed ints, 64-bit signed ints, and 64-bit floats. I wrote this code coming up on 12 years ago… how time flies.
I just found him but I’m a big fan of Bret Victor.
Looks like an interesting article, but I only read the comic and the tl;dr bullet points: Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations.
Today I discovered The T2 Tile Project. Looks pretty cool! It’s a whole new approach to computing with a focus on robustness.
The project is being run by David Ackley.
Apparently this is an old classic, but I only learned of it today: Programming Sucks.
I did some creative writing, inspired by a new friend: The Circle.
I purchased a picture frame for a thing that I’m doing, and it came with the following as the default picture mounted in it. Aw. I’m gonna stick that on the wall.
All self-respecting nerds should be aware of this one: Humble Comics Bundle: Doctor Who 2022 by Titan Comics. Love, John.
Ai, the character for love. As seen in The Art of Peace.