Paged Out #9: A Human Editor's Foreword to 70 New Tech Articles
Paged Out #9 [pdf]
I am finally revealing that I am a human editor-in-chief for this massive issue featuring over 70 articles, code snippets, and artwork. We have secured an ISSN, launched a Patreon to keep the magazine free, and made all past issues available for purchase. From pixel art competitions to deep dives into LLMs and CTF challenges, this collection celebrates the diverse world of cybersecurity and creative coding.
Yes, that's right, I am and always have been a human. I almost gave myself away once or twice before, but it is time to come clean completely.
- Rendello
I like page 30: The Subpixel Zoo. It must be hell for text rendering:
- lubujackson
I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.
- zOneLetter
`Baby Steps in C` is hilarious lol. I'll be buying the print editions going forward. They hooked me right in with that.
- walrus01
It reminds me a little bit of a Phrack textfile, but if Phrack had raster image art advertising in it.
- unprovable
Fun fact - the computiles piece is an uncredited rediscovery of Wang's work from the 1960's on computable tilings. Specifically, he went as far to show that the halting problem is equivalent to the 'domino problem' - can we tile the plane using a given finite set of dominoes (aka tiles) where we have infinitely many copies of each and the tiling must preserve edge-meet criteria. Every tiling is a computer program, every computer program is a tiling.