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Whatever crossed
my mind.

Notes, experiments, and ideas from a life spent building software.

The articles

83 entries · newest first

2025

Mar 18

The history of gperf

2019

Oct 08

Escape the Crab Mentality

Jun 09

Strings from a Security Perspective

Security

May 18

FindDupes 1.1 released

2018

May 12

Beware of BrotliStream in .NET Core 2.1

Jan 07

Performance Measurement Mistakes in Academic Publications

Jan 01

Reducing the size of self-contained .NET Core applications

2017

Aug 12

Testing 36200 DNS servers

2016

Dec 09

Secure Hashing of Passwords

Dec 03

The problem with Network Address Translation

2014

Nov 30

.NET Compression Libraries Benchmark

2012

Aug 27

Analysis of the Gamigo hashes

Leak analysis

Jul 09

The Power of Wolfram Alpha - Now in a .NET API

Jun 25

A Complete Guide to Encrypting and Signing Emails

Apr 01

Most Used Passwords Visualized #2

Apr 01

Analysis Of Leaked MilitarySingles.org Passwords

Leak analysis

Feb 12

Analysis Of Leaked NASA Passwords

Leak analysis

Feb 12

Power-Blog.com Password Leak Analysis

Feb 05

Analysis Of 1051 Phished Xbox Accounts

Leak analysis

Feb 04

Analysis Of The XboxLiveClans Leak

Leak analysis

Feb 03

Stay Away From The Rubber Ducky

Jan 30

Introduction To WP7 Development and Farseer Slides

Jan 29

Automatically Finding Danish Typosqutters

Jan 25

The Power Of Rainbow Tables

Password cracking

Jan 23

Sending Files Using Twitter

Jan 21

Analysis of 30.000 Phished Facebook Accounts

Leak analysis

Jan 19

Building The Perfect Wordlist

Password cracking

Jan 14

Most Used Passwords Visualized

Leak analysis

Jan 14

Analysis Of The RockYou Leak

Leak analysis

Jan 13

Analysis Of The Gawker Leak

Leak analysis

Jan 13

Analysis Of The Cancao Nova Leak

Leak analysis

Jan 12

Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Helper

Jan 11

Analysis of Leaked B-K Lightning Passwords

Leak analysis

Jan 11

Analysis of Leaked Stratfor Password Hashes

Leak analysis

2011

Dec 31

How To Make Codeplex Remember Your Password

Dec 07

XNA and Farseer Physics Engine 3.3 Presentation at Nokia

Dec 05

XNA 4.0 Introduction

2010

Dec 27

Benchmarking Box2D Based Physics Engines

Nov 25

Optimizing Performance On The Xbox 360 - Part 2

Optimization

Nov 21

Optimizing Performance On The Xbox 360 - Part 1

Optimization

Nov 12

Farseer Physics Engine 3.1 released

Oct 27

Tunneling explained

Sep 10

Value Types and Reference Types Explained

Sep 07

Blank Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer Window

Aug 23

Farseer Physics Engine 3.0 Has Been Released!

Aug 16

Synchronizing Google Calendar with iPhone and Outlook

Jul 31

Make Team Explorer Remember Login Credentials

Jul 03

Broad And Narrow Phase Collision Detection Systems

Jul 03

The Big O notation – Summary

May 30

The Ramer-Douglas-Peucker Polygon Simplification Algorithm

Feb 15

Physics engine series

Game mechanics

Jan 21

Performance tips and tricks series

Optimization

Jan 08

My Xbox 360 nightmares

2009

Dec 20

Facebook style auto-complete textbox in ASP.net

Web development

Nov 23

Pseudo orientation in Farseer Physics Engine

Mathematics

Oct 12

2D Physics Engine Tutorial – Part 3

Physics

Oct 11

User managed games and automatic server checks

Game mechanics

Oct 05

Floating and fixed point arithmetic

Optimization / Mathematics

Sep 25

2D Physics Engine Tutorial – Part 2

Physics

Sep 25

2D Physics Engine Tutorial – Part 1

Physics

Sep 19

Hybrid narrow phase using convexity detection

Physics

Sep 19

Convex polygon based collision detection

Mathematics / Physics / Optimization

Sep 03

Performance tips and tricks – part 4

Optimization

Sep 01

New Farseer Physics Engine based game – FreeGoo

Aug 26

Raycasting explained

Optimization / Mathematics

Aug 22

New game using Farseer Physics – Zombies 2.0

Physics Game / XNA

Aug 22

Simulators And Determinism

Optimization / Mathematics

Aug 20

Performance tips and tricks – part 3

Optimization

Aug 19

Performance tips and tricks – part 2

Optimization

Aug 18

Performance tips and tricks – part 1

Optimization

Aug 17

The famous inverse square root

Optimization

Aug 16

Mathematical operations and micro-benchmarking

Optimization

Aug 14

New game using Farseer Physics Engine – Superspace

Physics Game / XNA

Aug 11

Another game using Farseer Physics Engine – Square Off

Physics Game / XNA

Aug 11

New game using Farseer Physics Engine - Ninjic

Physics Game / XNA

Aug 10

Google analytics and Blogspot

Aug 09

The accuracy and speed of function approximations – part 3

Optimization / Mathematics

Aug 08

The accuracy and speed of function approximations – part 2

Optimization / Mathematics

Aug 08

The accuracy and speed of function approximations

Optimization / Mathematics

Aug 08

That new code smell - With C# example

Aug 08

Who owns the article?

Aug 07

The state of TTS systems

Aug 06

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Whatever crossed
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