The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, Enlightenment E16, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has roots in a faulty implementation of Newton’s algorithm!

An algebraic exposition of the basics of abstract algebra. Groups without symmetries.

A Portable Executable (.EXE), ELF64 and HTML polyglot that runs natively on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.

An in-depth exposition of matching techniques with focus on simplicity, demonstrated in C++.

A translation, typesetting and compilation of A. S. Dyatlov’s Russian-language book ‘Chernobyl - How It Was’

Opinion piece on why I think that Signal won’t save us.

It’s probably bad advice, but it’s free.

The Sophie Germain Prime Project primarily aims to collect, analyse and distribute Sophie Germain primes. Such special prime numbers p have the additional condition that 2p + 1 is also prime (called a safe prime).

Deep dive into the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator.

With memory safety becoming more important in the world of computer science, I offer a brief opinion piece on why I choose to implement codecs in C.