Ethan Hawksley is a Computer Science student in the UK with a focus on systems programming and cybersecurity.
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The Second Maintainer tells the true story of the XZ Utils backdoor. It exposes the social engineering performed against open-source maintainers, the supply chain attack that threatened the very backbone of the internet, and how just 500 milliseconds saved us all.
A browser-based NES emulator built with Rust and WebAssembly, ported from a C# WinForms desktop architecture. Implements the full 6502 instruction set, NROM mapper support, and a scanline-accurate PPU with sprite evaluation.
A real-time cooperative Minesweeper port. Built with vanilla JavaScript and PeerJS to enable low-latency, peer-to-peer (P2P) multiplayer without a backend server.
A high-performance CLI utility written in Rust that synchronises YouTube playlists to local directories. Implements a custom wrapper around yt-dlp for managing offline file storage efficiently.
Articles primarily on tech, but also whatever grabs my attention.
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I had a great time at a 3-day hackathon