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💡Typhon is an embedded, persistent, ACID database engine written in .NET that speaks the native language of game servers and real-time simulations: entities, components, and systems. It delivers full transactional safety with MVCC...
A presigned URL is a replay attack you did on purpose. Replayable auth tokens are the textbook way to create vulnerable systems, but Tigris ships them as a first-class feature with presigned URLs and so does every other object storage...
Avian accident in EKSN. I was reading while waiting for something interesting to show up in EKSN when I heard a pretty loud thud. Sure enough, it was a chiffchaff smashing right into a window pane at full speed. Alas, the unlucky bird...
“For you the theatre is everything, for me it is nothing,” Ellen Terry tells Henry Irving in David Hare’s play Grace Pervades. She and Irving were the greatest actors of their generation, and it’s impossible to believe that the theatre...
there are little thingsblooming all around usthat are neither simplenor ordinarybut are mistaken as suchbirdsongthe curious octavesof a long-forgotten memorybeehivea planet within a planeta summer’s nightin which we allow the starsto...
This is our little chipmunk friend, Chippy. He’s been around for at least three years now and he’s super cute. I love watching him run around the yard. Recently I thought the little fella moved away. He didn’t, he just moved to the back...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Anyone entering a cinema, this month in 1986, had very little to complain about, as a whole slew of famous, notorious and...
Explosive diarrhea is not the name of my next band. Since Hispanic migrant farm workers will be blamed for planting the microscopic parasite on the lettuce it only makes sense to pre-blame Taco Bell for the outbreak poisoning patriotic...
Git worktrees have been around for over ten years, but if you’re like me, you might not have heard of them until recently. AI coding tools now regularly use worktrees to make local changes in parallel, allowing multiple coding agents to...
Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself. This is possible (I conject) because of the statistical “fingerprint” you...
Aristophanes in his Wasps used the expression "by Zeus" (μὰ Δί᾽, νὴ Δί᾽, vel sim.) 46 times, at lines: 76, 97, 134, 146, 169, 173, 181, 184, 186, 193, 205, 209, 217, 231, 254, 297, 298, 299, 310, 396, 416, 426, 461, 478, 509, 512, 664,...
Gacha games have been blowing up lately, and if you’re even a little into anime-style action, story, or collecting cool characters, they’re worth checking out. At their core, these are free-to-play games built around pulling random...
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Hello, loves! Let’s see if I can tire myself out with code. I enjoy crafting code and ain’t no oligarch-feeding resource-consuming job-stealing computer program gonna take that away from me. It’s 0030, I can’t sleep, so I’m going to...