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Picking good name is hard. Bob Nystrom walks us through some refactor to turn long name to short name. He’s also the author of a few artciles about compilers and interpreters which we linked to in this same issue below.

Encrypting data is all about making sure that only the right people can view the data you’ve encrypted. There are two primary forms of data encryption: symmetric and asymmetric. The hardest thing about encrypting data isn’t encryption, it’s key management.

If Bluetooth is ON on your Apple device everyone nearby can understand current status of your device, get info about battery, device name, Wi-Fi status, buffer availability, OS version and even get your mobile phone number. The code to demo this is 100% open source so you will be able to learn about bluetooth and decode data transferting too. Pretty cool I must say.

Amazon Music App run a server on your laptop so it can spin up process such as open the app and play a song to by pass Mac built-in safety net in browsers that seek confirmation from users. We investigate how to find process listen on port, disassembly it, run it with a debugger set breakpoints right before the decryption calls, and read the encryption key and IV from memory. I learn a lot from it.

You’re trying to differentiate between a legitimate user and an attacker, usually by getting the legitimate user to prove that they know a credential that the attacker doesn’t. Advices from Latacora, a security firms on how to do that properly.

This is a wip book and available to read online. We link to them before. This is a new chapter. Even if you don’t want to write an interpreters, it still worth to read to understand more about function call: call stack, frame,

Avito has 600+ servers, 270TB of images, 20TB in Postgres on 100 nodes. The author shares Avito’s experience in different cases of standby usage: replication, avoid stale reads, pitfall when using standby with high request rate.

Some direction for how to think about consistency levels in the context of ACID-compliant database systems.

Have you heard about algebraic effects? I don’t. It turned out that algebraic effects are a cool concept and not as scary as I thought from those whitepaper pdfs.

It’s easy to mix them up.