| | | C++ safety, in context | Published: 11 March 2024 | Tags: c++, infosec | | Herb Sutter discusses what he believes to be the best path forward towards making software (in this case written in C++) more secure. | Some highlights: | less focus on the language itself, more focus on being forced to use “already-well-known safety rules and best practices by default”, with explicit opt out the four most urgent types of safety that need to be addressed: “type, bounds, initialization, and lifetime safety” basically programming languages themselves aren’t the problem, it’s how people use them (duh)
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| A journey of improvements to Neurosity’s Brain Operating System | Published: 22 February 2024 | Tags: rust, optimization, embedded | | Bruno de Carvalho describes some of the improvements he made to an embedded stack that resulted in a 70% stack size reduction, “75% lower NodeJS heap usage”, CPU no longer crashing, and 65% longer battery life. | Some highlights: | Basic plan is to roll out quick wins to reduce issues for current customers, then work on structural corrections the device uses your geolocation to find out what country you’re in to filter out EEG noise specific to the region’s electricity wires (50Hz vs 60Hz, just a fun fact I thought was pretty cool) performance heavy parts were taken out from the main node js app and rewritten in rust
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| Making the most of your Shells History on Linux and macOS | Published: 18 February 2024 | Tags: bash, zsh, terminal | | Andreas Heck goes over some interesting commands you can use in bash and zsh to mess around with your history of commands. | Some highlights: | CTRL + R to search through all old commands !! to execute last command again you can save history to a file and restore from a file with history -w and -r
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