The Weekly Weird - 2020-02-28

Skorgu

Back to my roots, let's talk dumb crypto tricks:
- The Flash Crash writ small. Remember, kids: friends don't let friends send market orders (via Matt Levine).
- Ok, that's just "crypto re-learns lessons that everyone else already learned". This bZx hack on the other hand, man this is the beans. (also via Matt Levine).
Look, that T-Rex in Jurassic Park actually, literaly almost killed a guy.
Like lisp? Easily write Clojure from Bash
We don't need no stinking search engine, we have bash
Ahh French, like four-twenty-ten-nine wasn't hilarious enough, now you tell me that l'envers of l'envers is Verlan? HN comments with more fun linguistics.
Need a nice, readable, vaguely-retro font? How about "you know, the way they wrote on old blueprints"?
You know my feelings about Go. This fellow agrees. By the same author, an excellent exploration of how the @#$% strings work.
This is a neat feature: using eBPF to produce structured events from SSH sessions.
Good advice on rewriting/replacing large, complex systems.
I'm not an epidemiologist, nor are you, so you're probably not even remotely qualified to interpret this model of COVID19 spread. Why am I linking it anyway?
Want an order book? Here.