SPI: The serial peripheral interface

Watched this one from Ben Eater: SPI: The serial peripheral interface. I found it while watching this one: Hacking a weird TV censoring device, which was kind of hilarious, he reverses a profanity filter and finds its dictionary.

I noticed Ben Eater has a Keysight DSOX1204G Oscilloscope, a pretty nice looking bit of kit. Oh dear, he also seems to have a Keysight DSOX4024A Oscilloscope, which is an even nicer looking bit of kit.

When I have some time I’m gonna get some of these BME280 knockoffs and see if I can play along with the SPI video.

Software optimization resources

At last! A website that looks worse than mine: Software optimization resources.

The above resources were referenced from an article I read today: The World’s Smallest Hash Table. Also mentioned were Integer division by constants: optimal bounds and the Avalanche effect.

In cryptography, the avalanche effect is the desirable property of cryptographic algorithms, typically block ciphers[1] and cryptographic hash functions, wherein if an input is changed slightly (for example, flipping a single bit), the output changes significantly (e.g., half the output bits flip). In the case of high-quality block ciphers, such a small change in either the key or the plaintext should cause a drastic change in the ciphertext. The actual term was first used by Horst Feistel,[1] although the concept dates back to at least Shannon’s diffusion.