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RSS Thoughts and links about programming, by Russ Cox Table of Contents (favorites in bold) The xz attack shell script April 2024, updated April 2024 A detailed walkthrough of the xz attack shell script. Timeline of the xz open source attack April 2024, updated April 2024 A detailed timeline of the xz open source attack, from 2021 to 2024. Go Changes December 2023 The way Go changes, and how to improve it with telemetry. Go Testing By Example December 2023 The importance of testing, and twenty tips for writing good tests. Open Source Supply Chain Security at Google November 2023 A remote talk at ACM SCORED 2023 Running the Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler October 2023 Ken Thompson’s Turing award lecture, running inwith some early computer viruses On Duff’s Device and Coroutines January 2008 An abuse of C Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Knuth January 2008 The only winning move is not to play. Debugging the Universe January 2008 Physicists at work I Could Tell You, But ... January 2008 ... well, let’s leave it at that. Play Chess with God January 2008 The perfect chess machine Superoptimizer January 2008 When in doubt, use brute force. Division via Multiplication January 2008 A now-standard compiler optimization Scooping the Loop Snooper January 2008 The halting problem, in verse Crabs, the bitmap terror! January 2008 A destructive, pointless violation of the rules Bitblt January 2008 The canonical introduction Literate Programming with Lguest January 2008 The most readable VM you’ll ever see. Killing Quicksort January 2008 How to force Quicksort to run in quadratic time Introduction January 2008 Hello, world © 2024 Russ Cox. Unless otherwise noted, these posts are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution License . Atom /...