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Have Eircodes improved the situation? I know they’re supposed to provide a postcode unique to a specific address, but I’m not clear on how thoroughly they’ve been implemented.

This seems ill-advised. The protocol as documented is trivially exploitable by reflection attacks. The cat next door said one meow, and now every cat in the neighborhood is wailing…

There is a rustls side project called Graviola that's building a fast crypto provider in Rust+ASM. It's taken an interesting approach: starting with an assembly library that's been…

I basically did manual PGO because I was also reducing the size of several integer fields at the same time to pack more into each cache line. I’m excited to try out the rustc+LLVM …

I contributed a number of performance patches to this release of zlib-rs. This was my first time doing perf work on a Rust project, so here are some things I learned: Even in a pro…

The way Chrome achieves this backward-compatibility is by using the SSL Next Protocol Negotiation (NPN) extension during SSL handshaking. When the browser is establishing an SSL se…

I've found Ragel ( http://www.complang.org/ragel/ ) to be a good compromise: it's less error-prone and easier to maintain a Ragel grammar than a handwritten lexer, but Ragel lets y…

In my experience, it's useful, even when writing high-level applications, to be aware of the relative cost of low-level operations. The "Numbers Everyone Should Know" slide from th…