Cool or obfuscated and scary code snippets for your amusement that really are/were in the Qt or KDE repositories. Happy Halloween!

No one knows this story. In Berlin in the 90s, two friends, Carsten and Juri, create Terra Vision, something that seemed impossible at the time: the precursor to Google Earth. 25 years later, the German computer nerds are facing the global corporation in…

Ali Ghodsi was happily researching AI at Berkeley when he helped invent a revolutionary bit of code—and he wanted to give it away for free. But few would take it unless he charged for it. Now his startup is worth $28 billion, and the career academic is a…

Cool or obfuscated and scary code snippets for your amusement that really are/were in the Qt or KDE repositories. Happy Halloween!

A git blame plugin for emacs inspired by VS Code's GitLens plugin - Artawower/blamer.el

The article describes all the possibilities to crop images that CSS provides in 2021. You no longer need hacks!

The Ministry of Public Health is investigating a valid coronavirus access pass QR code issued in the name of Adolf Hitler. A cybercriminal created this QR code as proof that he can make valid access passes under any name, RTL Nieuws reports. They told the…

The idea that our genome represents a
computer-like code has been shown in the last few decades to be badly
mistaken. The genome shares in the life and the ‘dance’ of the entire
cell

Coding Font is an app that gamifies finding your favorite coding font. Here is how it was built.

Babelfish for PostgreSQL is an Apache-2.0 and PostgreSQL open source project that adds a Microsoft SQL Server-compatible end-point to PostgreSQL to enable your PostgreSQL database to understand the SQL Server wire protocol and commonly used SQL Server commands.

TL;DR: Join us to read rustc source code and learn how things work!

Former President Trump’s new social network might be in hot water before it even launches. Mastodon, a free social media framework, alleges that Truth Social is passing open source software off as its own, and has given them 30 days to fix this. If it doesn’t…

From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with…

Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annarettberg/meow-the-infinite-book-two

This was a presentation I gave to the University of Twente in early 2021. It's a case study of how simple, straightforward coding can turn several thousand lines…

In general, I’ve found there to be 5 classes of Solidity exploits. Each exploit has a certain “code smell” associated with it.