Author Archives: bjornstahl

This post is about experimenting with imitating and extending the window management concepts from the venerable Plan9, Rio. The backstory and motivation is simply that I’ve had the need for a smaller and more ‘hackable’ base than the feature-heavy Durden environment for a while, and this seemed like … Continue reading →

TLDR; Crazy person is trying to do something about how nightmarishly bad the interface between you and the command-line/command-line utilities really is, i.e. getting rid of terminal protocols.   To start with ‘why’? If you have never had the pleasant experience … Continue reading →

I spread the coding effort needed for protocols and 3rd party software compatibility out over longer periods of time because the underlying work is mundane, tedious and very very repetitive. The QEmu backend is by far the more interesting and potent … Continue reading →

Revising the approach to dissemination slightly, we will try out having a monthly (or bi-monthly if there is not enough relevant changes for a monthly one) update to the project and sub-projects. For this round, there’s a new tagged Arcan … Continue reading →

A few days have gone by since the project was presented, and while I am not very active on the forums and other places where the project have been discussed, I have seen some questions and received some directed ones … Continue reading →

Following the Arcan 0.5 release, here is Durden – the desktop environment I prefer to use for most computing endeavors these days. While there is no voice-over presentation, there is at least a longer playlist that shows off most (display- … Continue reading →

This took a while, but for good reason. In a sense, the project has reached its halfway point and most of the scaffolding is now being removed. The major changes are so numerous that I will not try and elaborate … Continue reading →

Finally tagged a new release of the very-much-in-progress experimental mixup between reverse engineering, visualization and debugging. Overview presentation slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/letoram/senseye and the code can, as usual, be found at: https://github.com/letoram/senseye Make sure to build and run against an … Continue reading →

A few months back, there was this buzz on Twitter and Reddit in regards to the possibilities of automatically extracting raw images from dumps- or live- memory. I was a bit indisposed at the time, but thought that now — … Continue reading →