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Glitch effect on text in pure CSS

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My blog used to have a glitching title, initially done in svg, then in pure css when I realised that the Tor Browser didn’t display the former in every level of security settings. The pure css version is a bit … Read more

The web browser I’m dreaming of

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Those are the main features I’m expecting from a web browser: Written in a memory-safe-ish language that a plebeian like me can understand, review and contribute to, like rust and go or even lua or V, but please no lisp, … Read more

My Favourite C++ Footgun

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I’m currently learning C++ to be able to do meaningful contributions to OpenMW, so I’ve been reading a lot of code, and a couple of books on the topic. But it’s in Effective C++, by Scott Meyers, Item 17, that … Read more

Spectre exploits in the “wild”

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Someone was silly enough to upload a working spectre (CVE-2017-5753) exploit for Linux (there is also a Windows one with symbols that I didn’t look at.) on VirusTotal last month, so here is my quick Sunday afternoon lazy analysis. The … Read more