Overview of how audio fingerprinting works.

Example of a binary patch to fix a Linux game issue.

Thoughts on free-software vs open-source.

Short introduction to English as She Is Spoke: a 19th-century book that was intended as a Portugues-English phrase book; however, as the “English” translations provided are usually inaccurate or incoherent, is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour in translation.

A PNG image that renders differently in Apple vs non-Apple decoders.

A domain filter for various search engines (notably: Google and DuckDuckGo). Available for Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Introduction to the particularities of the PlayStation 1 hardware that contributed to the distinctive look and feel of its 3D games.

Script that sets up a package management proxy for situations where you can ssh, but target doesn’t have an outgoing network connection to public web.

Inside pretty well every folder that you’ve ever opened is a hidden file, one which even showing hidden files doesn’t reveal: .DS_Store. As with other under-the-hood features which Apple really doesn’t want you to know about, you’ll only come across it when it causes trouble.

Understandable and accessible tracker of Global Warming and Climate Change problem from the latest available data.

Tutorial on how to grow transparent sodium chloride crystals at home.

Keyboard layout based on the QWERTY layout with extra symbols and diacritics so that typing both in French and English is easy and fast. It is also easy to learn!

Tool to test whether your network accepts listening on a given port.

Learn how to code using the built in tutorial then create your own games, playable on new and retro systems.



Upload a ransom note and/or sample encrypted file to identify the ransomware that has encrypted your data.

Tips on when to water indoor plants.

Strictly speaking, plastic can’t rust. By definition, rust is iron oxide, the combination of iron and oxygen. But plastic can combine with oxygen and oxidize.

On how affiliate networks might be used to exfiltrate massive amounts of profile data from facebook.

I learned a thing long time ago, and it was: Once you print something, you can’t get it back.

Most people are aware that the vast majority of everything that was written in ancient times has been lost. Some languages, however, have more surviving works than others.