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Stories by LenFalken

Common Crawl (commoncrawl.org)
Technical explanation of the Québec vaccination passport (len.falken.ink)
This site can't be reached, but the content still exists somewhere in the cosmos (ipfs.io)
I had written this article before submitting https://lobste.rs/s/liwv8u/why_can_t_we_submit_magnet_ipfs_urls and not the other way around. It took 1+ day for this content to propagate to the IPFS gate.
SummonScript - Manifest manifold models with magical machinations (github.com)
Overview: https://youtu.be/kqYgkv2R5Ig Gear case study: https://youtu.be/mS1kLKEyC1g Surface level details: https://youtu.be/o58s1bPI1ZA
Fun Format Friday: What's the most malicious way your project(s) could be used?
On a micro-scale, macro-scale, to anything in-between.
Using a text editor to handcraft an ebook (len.falken.ink)
Beautiful, concise explanation of why a cycle-accurate 6502 emulator is easier than not (github.com)
DOOM: The Gallery Experience by bobatealee (bobatealee.itch.io)
Fun Format Friday: You've awoken to 1960
How do you proceed with your life now? Do you have time to wait for C, Lisp, C#, JS, or Rust? The first personal computers aren't for awhile. Try to be as realistic as you can. Edit: To be clear you are exactly as you are now, in the place you are (give or take). Things are going to more or less ...
Play music from your LCD monitor with a radio (github.com)
YouTube 2005 Modernized (codepen.io)
I recreated https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/websites/youtube-website/webp/youtube-website%5E2005%5Eaugust-homepage.webp but tried to stick to today's YouTube's styling conventions, while still trying to keep that certain feel of 2005 YouTube. This was fun. Took about 3hr.
Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
Makefile.md - Possibly Use(ful|less) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown (zoo.dev)
zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum (github.com)
Why is there no [forth] tag :)
Fun Format Friday: This Friday we have been tasked by ISO to design a new standard for
Measuring programmer productivity.
Fun Format Friday: 10 Code Commandments
It's 11:40am and I thought hey, could be fun to have some sort of "fun thoughts to have" Fridays here on lobsters. Basically if you have something silly or fun to ask the community it's the day to do it :D. So a starter I've thought of is "10 Code Commandments". This is inspired by my friend who'...
Backing up for mortals (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
How random are lobste.rs? (docs.google.com)
So far about 200 responses from reddit and already some clear patterns. I look forward to sharing this when it's cleaned up and has more data. If this is not appropriate for lobste.rs, I apologize. I'm doing this because I'm curious how effective a machine learning password bruteforce attack w...
Fox News' "if the election were held today, who would you vote for?" voting system exploit (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
Some thoughts on simple state machines using x86_64 / assembly (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
Kind of a response to https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/state-machines/ .
Fun Format Friday: Code is the fabric of life
We've learned to tap into the API of Life and now have the ability to do things like volume(universalCoordinates).spawn(h20) What're the first programs you'll write and what are some longer term programs you'd like to write? --- I may end FFF after today. It was fun.
Fun Format Friday: Why do you hate your most beloved text editor?
We know everyone loves text editors. We know everyone loves specific text editors, because they let everyone else know. But we know the truth: true love always has a dark side. What's your text editor's dark side?
A zero dependency Rust IRC bot customized with shell scripts (github.com)
Writing for the Internet across a human lifetime (len.falken.ink)
w-shingling finds similarities in 6 Legend of Zelda Game Boy games (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
So you think short domains are cool?! (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
Why can't we submit magnet or ipfs URLs?
I've recently run into being fed up with the technology that is domains. I'm looking into sharing my content as magnet or ipfs links, but I see they aren't supported here. Why? http/s clients are needed (and only the most simplest ones) to access lobste.rs but simply because lobste.rs is a centraliz...
Types comparison: Rust -> Zig (len.falken.directory)
Stack frame layout on x86-64 (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Bosch FGS-4000 demo (youtube.com)