Search engines are difficult to create. They are even harder to improve to a point where you get good-enough results to keep regular users. This is why it’s so rare to see decent search engines that aren’t front-ends to the Bing or Google APIs. | Continue reading
Quote of the Day is a simple protocol that is used to deliver daily quotes. Although its usage is almost nonexistent these days, there are still a few public servers. The protocol is defined by RFC 865. According to the RFC, a QOTD server is run on port 17 for TCP and UDP connect … | Continue reading
Encryption is tricky to get right. Because some data and communications might be very sensitive or even life-critical for people, beginners are often - and quite rudely- shunned away from playing around with how it works. But if people don’t learn by making bad ciphers, they will … | Continue reading
This post is meant to be a short remark about something I noticed today. It is about Tampermonkey, a browser extension for managing User scripts. | Continue reading