Signal Messenger: Embrace, extend, extinguish
Opinion piece on why I think that Signal won’t save us.
Should you become a computer scientist?
It’s probably bad advice, but it’s free.
The Sophie Germain Prime Project
The Sophie Germain Prime Project primarily aims to collect, analyse and distribute Sophie Germain primes. Such special prime numbers p have the additional condition that 2p + 1 is also prime (called a safe prime).
A Survey of Results on the Blum-Blum-Shub Pseudorandom Number Generator
Deep dive into the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator.
Why do I find Rust inadequate for codecs?
With memory safety becoming more important in the world of computer science, I offer a brief opinion piece on why I choose to implement codecs in C.
Radix sort and 32-bit IEEE754 floating point numbers.
An efficient sorting procedure for 32-bit floating point numbers in 20 lines of C code.
A review of my new Model F keyboard.
A short blog post reviewing my current experiences with my brand new Ultra Compact FSSK Model F keyboard.
Measuring Constant Overhead
Brief remarks on introducing the notion of and measuring the constant overhead of a runtime system.
Lempel-Ziv factorisation for file type detection.
A very short explanation of how to make use of Lempel-Ziv factorisation for file type detection and segmentation.
jcram: a principled approach to code golf.
Can a simple and principled data compressor find its place in the world of emerging, purpose-built code-golf languages?