Bonjour! Tuesday assorted links: Toolkit — a field guide to the systems you build A Studio od small tools for engineers and the curious 🔗

Toolkit

Toolkit — System design, distributed systems, and the layers underneath

A study hall for systems engineering — interactive simulators, deep how-it-works guides, a long-form handbook, and a lab notebook of cited measur...

--- I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers | Greg's Half Ideas So I built local.vibe — a friendly dashboard and local .vibe hostname for every local web app on your Mac. No more localhost:3000 vs localhost:5173 roulette. 🔗

Greg’s Half Ideas

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

So I built local.vibe — a friendly dashboard and local .vibe hostname for every local web app on your Mac. No more localhost:3000 vs localhost:51...

--- Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines Ghostbox siphons disposable little dev machines from GitHub Actions. SSH in, expose a port, give an agent a shell, and let the machine expire. 🔗

Ghostbox

Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines

Siphon a temporary machine from GitHub Actions. SSH in, run the thing, give an agent a shell, and let it disappear.

Namaste! Friday assorted links: A Primer on Bézier Curves A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them. 🔗

A Primer on Bézier Curves

A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them.

--- Quarkdown | Markdown with superpowers Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system. Free and open source. 🔗

Quarkdown | Markdown with superpowers

Quarkdown is a modern, open-source, Markdown-based typesetting system for creating papers, presentations, knowledge bases and static websites.

Buenos días! Thursday assorted links: Copy Fail A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. 🔗

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint

Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets ...

Good Morning! Wednesday assorted links: Bitcoin Books — Satoshi Services Every book that built the canon. 59 titles. 12 years. $258 to $103,644 per Bitcoin. 🔗

Bitcoin Books — Satoshi Services

58 books. 12 years. The Bitcoin canon from $258 to $103,644 per coin.

--- nsite.run - Deploy to the decentralized web nsites are static websites hosted on the nostr network. Your site's files are stored as cryptographic blobs on blossom servers and made discoverable via signed nostr events. Anyone running a gateway can serve your site — no central host controls it. 🔗

nsite.run - Deploy to the decentralized web

Ohayō gozaimasu! Monday assorted links: I Left Port 22 Open for 54 Days: An SSH Honeypot Study Field report from an SSH honeypot left open for 54 days: 269K login attempts, 48K unique passwords, and a surprising cast of attackers. 🔗 https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up --- Cheating at Tetris - Chalkdust 🔗

Chalkdust

Cheating at Tetris - Chalkdust

Ffreuer Bristow works out which pieces can force someone to lose

Namaste! Sunday assorted links: USB Cheat Sheet 🔗

USB Cheat Sheet