Charlton's Blog

What This Is

This section contains a number of subheadings where I can archive and organize the various things I’m studying/working on from a month-to-month basis. It’s essentially a long list of tersely formatted status updates that I collect and maintain along with some commentary.

Reading…

Books:

• Permanent Record - Edward Snowden. (9781250237231) (fin)

Papers:

I revisited a pair of my all-time favorites.

• Security without identification: transaction systems to make big brother obsolete - David Chaum. (doi:10.1145/4372.4373, pdf)

• Communicating Sequential Processes - Tony Hoare. (doi:10.1145/359576.359585, pdf)

Online:

• Mike Haertel - Why GNU Grep is Fast

• SPIN Magazine - Inside the IRA (1994)

• A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector

• How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops

• Peter Askew - I Sell Onions on the Internet

• Jon Christensen - Watching an acquirer ruin your company

• Justin Heckert - Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist.

• Adam Schwab - Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable

• Osamh Aloqaily - Goroutines Under the Hood

• Computers are Bad - Preventing Loss Dot Jpeg

Founding…

Squeak Records: a small, independent record label/media company based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Big Huge Giant’s first EP should be completed sometime within the next several months. The label’s next order of business concerns organizing promotional campaigns for the EP’s release.

Listening…

Himiko Kikuchi - Flying Beagle.

• See last.fm.

Watching…

FRONTLINE PBS documentaries.

Hacking

I’ve become heavily involved with the Tampa Devs meetup group. I’ll be giving a talk on application security at the August meeting. Come check it out!

Playing…

• Drums