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.
So it turns out when they’re talking about the AT Protocol (the Authenticated Transfer Protocol) they are *not* talking about the Hayes AT command set. Just FYI for any old timers around here. :)
Today I found: List of most visited websites. Go DuckDuckGo! :)
Some interesting discussion about content moderation and user safety: Bluesky’s user safety situation.
Today I was checking out bare-metal systems available from OVHcloud.
Some web programming articles from this week:
Had a quick read of this old chestnut: OWASP SCP Quick Reference Guide v2.
Apparently Amazon might be making a browser. Some features I would like in a web browser:
Every now and again I have this problem: I see an ad for a product I’m interested in on a web page just at the same time that I click on a button or link to take me to the next page. I click the back button to go back and see the ad, but the ads are regenerated and the ad that I saw isn’t there any more. Designers who are serious about maximising sales should avoid this happening to their users. When you click back you should see what you saw last time.