I maintain a Mastodon account at @wei2912@sigmoid.social, where I post updates on blog posts and other related content.
These articles are intended to let people dip their toes into unfamiliar technical topics, hopefully beyond a superficial level of understanding.
(January 1, 2017) An explanation of how AES, a commonly used modern cryptosystem, was designed to be resistant to many different types of cryptographic attacks.
(November 27, 2014) A brief introduction to Haskell, for programmers wondering what functional programming languages have to offer over imperative languages.
This blog is hosted on GitHub Pages and built with these software:
The design of this blog was inspired by Mike Bostock’s website.