“Dubbed NewCode, the [programming] language promises to revolutionise software development, as the language makes it impossible to express a security vulnerability in a program’s source code. ‘We were inspired by Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which there is a language called NewSpeak which made it impossible to express political dissent,’ says the group’s leader, Julia Jones…. ‘The compiler is itself programmed in NewCode,’ says Jones. ‘It made it difficult to explain to the compiler itself exactly what a security vulnerability was.'” Tim Ebringer
—Language Inspired by Orwell set to Fool HackersSydney Morning Herald)
April Fool’s! The article quotes people named Julia and O’Brien (names of Winston Smith’s love interest and interrogator from Orwell’s book).
A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump…
A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son.
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing.
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters.