Maybe one day our paths will cross 😅

The Pentium's microcode ROM holds 414,720 bits in total: 4608 micro-instructions. For more photos of the Pentium's microcode circuitry along with a detailed explanation, see my latest blog post:
www.righto.com/2025/03/pent...

Thank you! That motivates me to continue writing and sharing!

Haha it is starting to feel like an advent calendar. But no, just a lot of free time lately. Maybe I need tougher targets, any suggestions?

I hope to write a follow up post that covers the footguns I learnt about for R apps, especially jsonlite::fromJSON ;)

I think my post showing that Ruby's substring implementation is faulty is a little bit interesting, hoping someone else can chain it with another bug someday to show some true impact: nastystereo.com/security/rub...

one tip for i3 is to use pypi.org/project/quic...