Month: October 2019
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Text Rendering Hates You
Alexis Beingessner takes a delightful dive into the variety of issues that face developers who have to implement text rendering. Turns out this is, and might always remain, an unsolved issue.
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Time-Efficient Shuffling
Dan proposes a more complexity-efficient alternative to the Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm. And it's silly.
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Using JSLint For Evil - YouTube
JSON inventor Douglas Crockford explains why he gave permission for the reference implementation of JSLint to be used for evil.
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Supply-Chain Security and Trust
Bruce Schneier shares thoughts about why supply-chain attacks are, for now, undefeatable.
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Temporarily disabled GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take
This checkin to GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Looks like this cache has been muggled, and its hiding place is no longer usable. I'll look to see if it can be moved somewhere else in the vicinity and the puzzle updated accordingly.
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Consume less, create more
We should spend less time reading and more time writing online. Dan's comments on an inspiring essay.
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