This post discusses how ad-hoc structs designed to be implementation details can be used to reintroduce aliasing to rust and cut down on the number of fights with the borrow checker. This was going to be the post with the most clickbaitiest title I was ever going to write…

I recently did some work as a side project for company called Patero that involved creating quantum hardened prototype of one of their products. This post discusses how to secure state-of-the-art cryptographic protocols against attacks from (future) quantum computers. It starts off with an introduction to how crypto protocols in…

Bin2c is a tool for embedding files in C89 compliant source code. The advantages and disadvantages of bin2c over existing methods of embedding files are discussed at length in the below project’s ReadMe. In short: bin2c’s goal is to quickly generate C code that is fast to compile and very…

sort | uniq sorts data given to it via stdin and then removes any duplicates. Personally, I use this quite often to create a ranking of something. For example, looking below, you could create a ranking of the words I use most often in this blog: $ curl "https://cupdev.net/blog/" |…

A while back, we released ferrum.js, a relatively small javascript library that “brings features from rust to JavaScript” in a way that is supposed to feel native to js developers. …