#222 – July 30, 2017
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character. Simplistically, when you type two or more characters and they magically attach to each other, you're using ligatures that were supported by your OS, your app, and your font.
A hacker stole $31M of Ether—how it happened and what it means for Ethereum
Around 12:00 PST, an unknown attacker exploited a critical flaw in the Parity multi-signature wallet on the Ethereum network, draining three massive wallets of over $31,000,000 worth of Ether in a matter of minutes. Given a couple more hours, the hacker could've made off with over $180,000,000 from vulnerable wallets.
10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How A Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
Claude Shannon wasn’t especially interested in offering direct answers to questions like those. If he were alive to read this piece, he’d probably laugh at us. His mind was a heat-seeking missile targeting problems. What got him up in the morning was dissecting how things worked, not digressions into creativity and productivity
Using Hilbert Curves to 100% Zelda
I used Hilbert Curves to make it quicker to walk through a list of locations on a map, so I could could fully complete a video game.
Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
In the beginning, things were simple: you had two strings (a username and a password) and if someone knew both of them, they could log in. Easy.