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2023

• Sep 22 - GitHub Actions could be so much better
• Aug 20 - Two quick hacks for laptop in-flight Delta Wi-Fi with T-Mobile
• Jul 27 - Introducing shaq, a CLI for Shazam
• Jul 16 - Looking for additional maintainers on a few projects
• Jun 27 - Software-defined (Internet) radio with Liquidsoap
• May 21 - PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless
• Apr 14 - Introducing pgpkeydump
• Mar 20 - Introducing awair-local-api.rs
• Feb 11 - The unsafe language doom principle
• Jan 9 - A few small PulseAudio configuration tricks

2022

• Dec 28 - ReDoS "vulnerabilities" and misaligned incentives
• Dec 14 - Going write-only on Twitter (and introducing autopost)
• Nov 7 - Modernizing my 1980s sound system
• Oct 4 - This blog is now automatically deployed
• Sep 14 - Tornado Cash and bullets
• Aug 20 - Why don't we do email verification in reverse?
• Jul 25 - age encryption in Python with pyrage
• Jun 29 - kbs2 0.6.x
• May 9 - A most vexing parse, but for Python packaging
• Apr 30 - LLVM internals, part 5: a very brief update
• Mar 10 - Things I hate about Rust, redux
• Feb 21 - Enjoying music curation again
• Feb 2 - Setting up Navidrome with Nginx as a reverse proxy
• Jan 23 - ff2mpv now supports Chromium-based browsers

2021

• Dec 12 - Calculating my open source blast radius
• Dec 5 - Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me
• Nov 29 - LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups
• Oct 25 - A small DOCUMERICA Twitter bot
• Sep 14 - LLVM internals, part 3: from bitcode to IR
• Aug 10 - LLVM internals, part 2: parsing the bitstream
• Jul 19 - LLVM internals, part 1: the bitcode format
• Jun 1 - Playing with Apple's weird compression formats
• May 3 - kbs2 0.3.x
• Apr 13 - Tools that I want
• Mar 16 - totally_safe_transmute, line-by-line
• Feb 28 - Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
• Jan 21 - Introducing usb-ids.rs

2020

• Dec 24 - A few HiDPI tricks for Linux
• Dec 16 - Static calls in Linux 5.10
• Dec 6 - kbs2 0.2.x
• Nov 30 - How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
• Nov 5 - Towards an automated changelog workflow
• Oct 23 - Understanding static single assignment forms
• Sep 19 - LLVM's getelementptr, by example
• Aug 16 - Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals
• Aug 2 - Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust
• Jul 18 - kbs2 0.1.x
• Jun 20 - Goodbye KBSecret, hello kbs2
• Jun 13 - How x86_64 addresses memory
• Jun 3 - You may not use my projects in a military or law enforcement context
• May 20 - Things I hate about Rust
• May 7 - Locating a compiler bug with git bisection
• Apr 12 - Developing an intuition for soundness and completeness
• Mar 9 - Implementing the Clipper chip cipher in Rust
• Mar 2 - Totally ordered enums in Python with ordered_enum
• Feb 3 - Finding treacherous encoding permutations with baseperm
• Jan 23 - Anybody can write good bash (with a little effort)

2019

• Dec 25 - A (shallow) dive into the American banking system
• Nov 2 - Hacktoberfest Wrapup
• Oct 23 - Flexible Travis CI stages with YAML references
• Sep 26 - Introducing llvm-passgen
• Aug 18 - Introducing cazart
• Aug 10 - Exploring Square's S6 reader at DEF CON
• Jul 24 - Reasoning about faithless actors with undercutting semantics
• Jun 9 - Pipelines in Ruby with Open3
• May 18 - Basic disassembly with libopcodes
• Apr 23 - Make is (probably) fine
• Mar 7 - Self-encrypted mail in NeoMutt (with GPGme)
• Feb 23 - Thoughts on Perpetual Peace
• Jan 20 - General Project Updates and Thanks

2018

• Dec 18 - Kernelspace syscall interception, or: How to write a rootkit without really trying
• Nov 11 - Scanning the .nyc gTLD
• Oct 10 - Introducing netstring.cr
• Oct 3 - A Month of Robocalls
• Sep 20 - Kant, Happiness, Moral Worthiness
• Sep 1 - yossarian.net now supports IPv6!
• Aug 25 - Introducing bindef, a DSL for defining binary files
• Aug 20 - Disagreement: Language and Metalanguage
• Jul 5 - ruby-macho 2.0.0
• Jun 18 - Introducing notify.cr
• May 26 - How many GDPR notices did I get?
• May 14 - Introducing abbrev.cr
• May 8 - CMSC389R: A Wrapup
• May 5 - How I Write
• Apr 27 - KBSecret 1.6.x
• Apr 8 - Introducing qrencode.cr
• Apr 4 - KBSecret 1.3.x
• Apr 1 - Code coverage with SimpleCov across multiple processes
• Mar 26 - Thoughts on building better (online) communities
• Mar 24 - What does Facebook have on me?
• Mar 15 - blog.yossarian.net is now self-hosted
• Mar 3 - Moral Worth in Arpaly's Philanthropic Cases, from a Kantian Perspective
• Feb 10 - KBSecret has a new website
• Jan 22 - Reading Manpages Like a Pro
• Jan 17 - KBSecret 1.0
• Jan 6 - Introducing i3.cr
• Jan 3 - Megabus: A Study in Guessability

2017

• Dec 30 - Introducing x_do.cr
• Dec 18 - Installing Pi-hole on a Pi
• Dec 11 - KBSecret 0.9.x: Many, Many Things
• Nov 27 - Announcing CMSC389R — "Introduction to Ethical Hacking"
• Nov 21 - The Zone of Indifference Should be Pretty Small
• Nov 1 - Hacktoberfest Wrapup
• Oct 26 - Keybase on the CI
• Oct 17 - Thoughts on Thoughts on Motive
• Oct 3 - A Programmer's Programmer
• Sep 5 - Philosophy Summarized: The Euthyphro Dilemma
• Aug 18 - KBSecret has a website now
• Jul 21 - Introducing ruby-inih
• Jul 19 - KBSecret 0.7.x: Secret Generators, Internal Fields, and Session Notifications
• Jul 5 - KBSecret 0.6.x: Sensitive Fields, Error Handling, and DRYer Sessions
• Jun 28 - Spotify is (Still) Violating CAN-SPAM
• Jun 25 - Fragments, 1
• Jun 23 - KBSecret 0.5.x: Packages, Typed Arguments, and More
• Jun 7 - KBSecret is Maturing
• May 30 - One Month with the Pebble Time
• May 16 - Is Stasis Possible?
• May 5 - Cleaner Function Wrapping in C
• Apr 27 - Team Photos are Here
• Apr 24 - Proxying ZNC Without a Subdomain
• Apr 16 - Task Management with kbsecret
• Apr 8 - Augmenting my Workflow with kbsecret
• Apr 5 - Ballad of a D Racer
• Mar 5 - Random Mosaics with ffmpeg and Ruby
• Feb 2 - Thoughts on Aristotelian Determinism and Future Contingents
• Jan 22 - Mini-post: New Domain and More
• Jan 16 - Mini-post: Introducing ruby-mpv
• Jan 2 - Muzak, Week 5

2016

• Dec 25 - Muzak, Week 4
• Dec 19 - Muzak, Week 3
• Dec 12 - Muzak, Week 2
• Dec 5 - Muzak, Week 1
• Nov 29 - Introducing Muzak - A "Metamusic" Player
• Oct 15 - Mini-post: Switching to i3 on Ubuntu
• Oct 7 - Decoding the MetroCard, Part 2.5: Early Results
• Aug 20 - State of ruby-macho, GSoC 2016 Wrap-Up Edition
• Aug 13 - State of ruby-macho, Weeks of 8/1 and 8/8
• Jul 31 - State of ruby-macho, Weeks of 7/11, 7/18 and 7/25
• Jul 17 - Decoding the MetroCard, Part 2: Research and Past Attempts
• Jul 7 - State of ruby-macho, Weeks of 6/27 and 7/4
• Jun 26 - State of ruby-macho, Weeks of 6/13 and 6/20
• Jun 12 - State of ruby-macho, Weeks of 5/30 and 6/6
• May 18 - Neat Things I've Found This Week
• May 13 - Moving woodruffw.us to Let's Encrypt
• Mar 13 - My School Wants My Palm Print
• Feb 13 - An rwx Theory of Programming Languages
• Jan 20 - Mini post: Testing Out Multiprocess Firefox

2015

• Dec 29 - Thoughts on the "Universality" of Consciousness
• Dec 19 - Analyzing UMD Arrest Data
• Dec 7 - Mini-post: Abusing to_s for Brevity in Ruby
• Nov 9 - Mini rant: Emoji and Git
• Nov 1 - Session Management in Sublime Text
• Oct 5 - Death To Clickers
• Sep 28 - Five Things I Hate About Ruby
• Sep 1 - Thoughts on Motive
• Aug 23 - A Week On Dialup
• Aug 13 - String Formatting With Ruby Dynamic Hashes
• Jul 22 - The Dismal State of HTML
• Jul 14 - Abusing Signals for Shell Synchronization
• Jul 2 - CAN-SPAM Compliance is Important
• Jun 29 - Mini-post: Glitch Art with RMagick
• Jun 24 - Decoding the Metrocard, Part 1: Introduction and History
• Jun 9 - Mini-post: Dates That Don't Exist
• May 28 - IRC Phishing with Typosquatting
• May 8 - The 'Death' of IRC
• Apr 26 - Administrivia: RSS and Google Analytics
• Apr 23 - Mini-post: More Power User Tools
• Apr 6 - Amazon Dash: Those Who Cannot Remember The Past...
• Apr 2 - Mini-post: Digraphs and Trigraphs
• Mar 20 - Identifying and Enumerating IRC bots with IBIP
• Mar 14 - Who Needs Toolkits When You Have Xlib?
• Mar 9 - Mini-post: Introduction to Pointers
• Mar 3 - Paste Scraping: Lessons (Not) Learned
• Feb 27 - The Problem with $PATH
• Feb 18 - Mini-post: ++x++
• Feb 10 - Configuration for Fun and Profit