The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection (PDF). “In 2013 a faded 1973 line printer listing of the IMP program from 1973 was run through a special OCR program optimized to process such historical artifacts; an assembler was recreated to assemble the IMP code (looking like the modified PDP-1 Midas assembler used in 1973); and a software emulator of the original IMP hardware platform was created.”
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH, and there was much rejoicing.
Catena: A Memory-Consuming Password Scrambler, by Christian Forler, Stefan Lucks, and Jakob Wenzel. Catena supports client-independent updates and a server relief protocol.
Why Marpa works: table parsing, “I was surprised to find that the academic literature contained a major improvement to table parsing by Joop Leo, an improvement which nobody had ever made a serious attempt to implement. Marpa is the first implementation of Joop Leo’s 1991 improvement to table parsing which, as far as theory goes, makes Marpa as fast any parser in practical use today.”
Horner’s Rule, for a linear-time algorithm for the maximum segment sum.
mdb support for Go, good to know.
True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows (TXMouse), saved should I ever need it. (Also, getting halfway there with on-board tools.)
Zit, the git-based single file content tracker.
UTC might be redefined without Leap Seconds