Aul Ma's research facility
  • Personal
    • Smart drugs are mostly bullshit
      • Does anyone want some cawffee
      • Pharma is complex
      • Why am I talking about caffeine?
      • Okay, but what about “better” drugs? R-right guise?
      • The industry is built on vague language
      • The most popular supplements barely have evidence
      • Simpler ways to improve cognition
      • Outro
  • Software engineering
    • Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
      • Why not just flags or scripts?
      • Example 1: Reusable installers
      • Example 2: AI experiment runners
      • Example 3: Ephemeral utilities
      • Example 4: P2P VPN tunnels
      • Closing thoughts
    • Public access databases
      • The magic of image boards
      • Distributed hash tables
      • Public access KVS
      • Handling capacity limits
      • Putting it all together
      • Future work
    • Offline computing
      • Benefits
      • Implication
  • Cryptography
    • A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
      • Part 1: selecting the bucket
      • Part 2: selecting ports
      • Part 3: sockets and networking
      • Part 4: winner selection
      • Part 5: putting it all together
Aul Ma's research facility
  • Writings
  • View page source

Writings

  • Personal
    • Smart drugs are mostly bullshit
  • Software engineering
    • Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
    • Public access databases
    • Offline computing
  • Cryptography
    • A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
Next

© Copyright 2026, Matthew Roberts.

Mirrors: Github Pages | Read The Docs