Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
I. The greatest conspiracies are open and notorious — not theories, but practices expressed through law and policy, technology, and finance. Counterintuitively, these conspiracies are more often than not announced in public and with a modicum of pride. They’re dutifully reported in our newspapers; they’re bannered onto the covers of our magazines; updates on their progress […]
Bob’s Game
Jump to navigation Jump to search Bob’s Game Bob’s Game logo Developer(s) Robert Pelloni Platform(s) DS, PC (Demo ver.), Mac, Linux, Android Genre(s) Role-playing video game Original Bob’s Game logo Bob’s Game (stylized as “bob’s game”) was a role-playing video game being developed by independent video game developer Robert Pelloni since 2003/2004. The project is […]
NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised
In May 2021, hackers breached a Spanish company called Everis with Latin American subsidiaries, compromising multiple datasets, including a NATO cloud computing platform, along with the associated source code and documentation. In addition to obtaining copies of the data, the hackers claimed to have deleted the company’s copies and to have had the opportunity to […]
Command Line Interface for Signal
signal-cli is a commandline interface for libsignal-service-java. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. To be able to link to an existing Signal-Android/signal-cli instance, signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, because libsignal-service-java does not yet support provisioning as a slave device. For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming […]
An Elixir adoption success story
How a team that was new to Elixir over-delivered a big project in just three months. Adopting a new language is more than just a technical journey. A language is only the right tool for the job if your engineers can wield it well. So, as a technical leader you don’t just select a language […]
Zero Knowledge
Welcome to the 1,258 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! Join 56,891 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: 🎧 To get this essay straight in your ears: listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts Today’s Not Boring is brought to you by… UserLeap A lot of you are already familiar with UserLeap. Since I started including a UserLeap microsurvey at the […]
Funazushi: The fermented predecessor of modern sushi
Carp is the king of freshwater fish in Japan, with the most prized being Japanese crucian carp (nigorobuna), which is the original type of carp used to make funazushi and the kind Kitashina features. It is a wild, rich-tasting species that’s found only in Lake Biwa, Japan’s largest lake and one of the oldest lakes […]
HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
Several online media outlets in Hong Kong took down opinion articles and videos from their websites or said they would move out of the city after one more columnist of the Apple Daily was arrested at the airport on Sunday. Stand News, a pro-democracy news outlet, said in a statement that it had temporarily removed […]
Static Integer Types
Over several years I’ve had several conversations with people about static integer types in programming languages. Given the number of subtleties in the design, and pitfalls in the use, of integer types it’s not surprising that most programmers are unaware of at least some of them. However, what is perhaps more surprising is that most […]
What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t
The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform during the pandemic has set a lot of people to thinking about what comes next. Moderna and BioNTech, of course, have been thinking this way for quite some time. But Sanofi now says that they’ll be investing large amounts into the technology, and this previously hadn’t been […]