A tour of my laptop’s firmware The Embedded Controller and Its Legacy Realtek WiFi Firmware and a Fully 8051-based Keylogger Using RealWOW Technology 05 Jul 2021 In the previous blog post, I looked at the EC firmware in my laptop. … Read more
Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C Overview View on GitHub (pull requests welcome) What format is data saved in? (in memory and on disk) When does it move from memory to disk? Why can there only be one … Read more
In which we learn about numbers, memory and character mapped graphics Starting With The Numbers Before we launch into parts of the game, we need to make sure we understand how computers count. If you’re comfortable with binary, hexadecimal, bytes … Read more
Over the past several weeks I have been attempting to reimplement the API of an existing python library as a wrapper for an equivalent library in Rust. tl;dr: this ended up being much harder than I expected it to be, … Read more
It is said that there are three things you must do in your lifetime: plant a tree, have a child, and write a book. I recently finished the last one. Nevertheless, I wrote a programming book. A programming book in … Read more
The New York Times caused a stir recently when, in an article about pandemic book sales, it disclosed that “98 percent of the books that publishers released in 2020 sold fewer than 5,000 copies.” Though this statistic was shocking to … Read more
And it looks like this, to be precise: Somebody paid $20.00 for that message. And that’s it. Sometimes they pay $100.00, some other times they pay $50.00. It depends on the product. This is our most expensive authentication: $100.00. The … Read more
For complete beginners! Writing interactive fiction has never been easier – there are so many authoring systems available. Twine has become especially popular for web-based IF because of its user friendly approach, using visual tools to allow you plan your … Read more
In 2014, news headlines heralded the findings of a study comparing the effect of taking handwritten versus typed notes on student performance. The study was titled “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard”, and found that students who took longhand … Read more
I’ve just finished the final rewrite of my website. I’m not lying: this is the last time I’m ever going to do it. This website has gone through countless rewrites – from WordPress to Jekyll to multiple static site generators … Read more