Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
This is an update on some recent work on the Media Source Extensions API in Firefox. There has been a lot of work done on MSE and the underlying media framework by Gecko developers and this update just covers some of the telemetry and exposed debug data that I've been involved with implementing. # Telemetry Mozilla has a telemetry system... more →
It's been a while since I last wrote about MOSREF and Wasp Lisp. MOSREF is the secure remote injection framework written in Wasp Lisp. It facilitates penetration testing by enabling a console node to spawn drone nodes on different machines. The console handles communication between nodes and can run lisp programs on any node. The console can execute programs on... more →
ZeroNet is a new project that aims to deliver a decentralized web. It uses a combination of bittorrent, a custom file server and a web based user interface to do this and manages to provide a pretty useable experience. Users run a ZeroNet node and do their web browsing via the local proxy it provides. Website addresses are public keys,... more →
In the Linux version of the Self programming language implementation the fonts used are standard X11 fonts. On modern Linux systems these don't look great and a common question asked in the mailing list is how to improve it. Fonts on the Mac OS X build of Self use a different system and they look much better. It would be... more →
It's the end of the year and I'm going through some of the patches I have for projects and putting them online so I have a record of them. I'm working through things I did on Inferno OS. # Source respositories The official Inferno source is hosted in a mercurial repository on Google Code. There is also a repository containing... more →