Stories by gavide

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

Jetpack: Consensus Made Generally Fast (OSDI '26)

Chatflare: Chat with your friends via Cloudflare cache hits

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

A faster way to calculate the day of the week

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

Don't use (pancakes emoji) as menu icon

Almost Always Unsigned

The Compose Key and –/.XCompose

Finding duplicated code with tools from your CS course

I Solved Connect 4

Optimization lessons from a Minecraft structure locator

SSH has no Host header

A modern tale of blinkenlights (reverse engineering a smartwatch)

Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?

Announcing the Beta release of ty

TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression

S&box is now open source

Post Quantum secure your Rust programs