🆕 blog! “1KB JS Numbers Station” Code Golf is the art/science of creating wonderful little demos in an artificially constrained environment. This year the js1024 competition was looking for entries with the theme of "Creepy". I am not a serious bit-twiddler. I can't create JS shaders which produce intricate 3D worlds in a scrap of code. But I can use slightly obscure JavaScript… 👀 Read more:

1KB JS Numbers Station – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #code #HTML #javascript #tts

🆕 blog! “We've got to stop sending files to each other” Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.  ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I … 👀 Read more:

We’ve got to stop sending files to each other – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #rant #skeuomorph #ux

Are there any good collaborative code editors? I'm sick of this antipattern of downloading files from git, sending pull requests, merge conflicts etc. Why can't a group of us edit source code as easily as using Google Docs?

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🆕 blog! “It is 1939 and you want to use public-key cryptography” Imagine, just for a moment, that a mathematical breakthrough had occurred on the eve of the second World War. Perhaps Turing or Rejewski or Driscoll realised that prime number theory held the key to unbreakable encryption. This blog post attempts to answer the question "could public-key … 👀 Read more:

It is 1939 and you want to use public-key cryptography – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #ComputerScience #encryption

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