a.k.a brainstorm

Computational biology, data, programming, security, EE, RF and other braindumplings. Born at 341ppm. All opinions are your own.

brainstorm at nopcode dot org

[Rithwik Jayasimha @thel3l]

Here's the link, we'll be streaming our talk @ 1PM PT

If this breaks, it's Track 1 Main Stage on the #DEFCON YT channel https://t.co/nv0lzLkMwZ

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Birthday Week 2025 celebrated innovation at scale: Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026. https://t.co/DD1pPyhG0q #BirthdayWeek

[Daniel Liu @daniel_c0deb0t]

if i wasn’t doing my current job and i was good at raising money, one of my dream moonshots that i think about from time to time is a research institute for foundational open source biology software, that’s not strongly attached to an existing prestigious uni/institute

[Krzysztof Kowalczyk @kjk]

I was curious how gzip compares to brotli and zstd for browser compression so I benchmarked Go libraries on a ~640kb javascript bundle for my Edna. zstd level 3 was the winner. Full results at https://t.co/UbsBqbjwld

[a.k.a brainstorm @braincode]

@robin7331 CAD files please?🥺🙏

[Maiden Labs 🧠 @maidenlabsAI]

maiden :3

[HSVSphere @HSVSphere]

The new rustls blog post is pretty great. Shows how much they've been working on it, it now outpaces every other cryptography library doing TLS.

[a.k.a brainstorm @braincode]

@nono2357 TL;DR about @signalapp backup: Full iOS backups are not possible, you'll lose all your messages if you lose your phone.

[a.k.a brainstorm @braincode]

@pfreixes Mine!: https://t.co/gzdVJar78N :D

[a.k.a brainstorm @braincode]

@ATinyGreenCell I would recommend you SKiDL (https://t.co/YPuvViQPYW) or atopile (https://t.co/9vTAOLX5ZG) if you need to parametrise those amounts of components and connections, nice prototype anyway! ;)

[Yann Collet @Cyan4973]

Python Enhancement Proposal:
Adding Zstandard to the standard library:
https://t.co/Jy6Eaa34U4
by Emma Harper Smith.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

[a.k.a brainstorm @braincode]

@canary_earth @cnxsoft Looks indeed really cool, but:

1) Cannot easily find a "Buy Now" button on the site.
2) Where's the source code (and schematics)?

[a.k.a brainstorm @braincode]

@signalapp Prioritise backups for iOS please?

[Owen Brake @OwenBrakes]

SiP (System in Package) devices are going to eat the world. Amazing what you can do with them today and no design required.

Integrated inductor + FETs + control in <0.5cm^2, 8A output.

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

I'm genuinely worried about Github Actions supply chain attacks. Turns out version pinning doesn't really work the way it might seem, which seems like a fatal flaw in the core design. You basically shouldn't use third party actions at all. https://t.co/3LBXYHfHSp

[AstraKernel 💫 @AstraKernel]

⚡Embedded Rust in Production 2025

- A list of embedded Rust projects used in production, as compiled by Anthony James Munns

- Includes both embedded linux as well as bare-metal/RTOS usage of Rust

- Not an exhaustive list, based on public info

https://t.co/mQ7OdO7F8A

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

For those saying “performance might sell, but it’s expensive to deliver”—no it isn’t. Software developers today put *extra effort* into the hundreds of unnecessary layers in their code. They are paying *more* for *slower* software.

Straightforward code, written with basic knowledge of the computer, with 0 actual “optimization” is lightning fast compared to most code today.

[SIGKITTEN @SIGKITTEN]

point and click reversers just discovering AI can do RE 😂 bro we've had this shit in radare2 for 2 years now

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

OPKSSH (OpenPubkey SSH) is now open-sourced as part of the OpenPubkey project. https://t.co/Lf4RY82xw3