linux

volta vs fnm: Should You Switch? 14ms vs 17ms

volta 2.0.2 vs fnm 1.39.0 switching Node 20.19.2 ↔ 22.14.0: session A-then-B median 13.9 ms vs 17.0 ms; steady node -v 7.4 ms vs 6.4 ms (direct 4.7 ms).

lzma vs bz2 Compress: Localhost Lab

Path.read_text vs open().read: Localhost Lab

XZ Utils Backdoor: A Technical Deep Dive

How a two-year-long social engineering effort inserted a backdoor into xz/liblzma's release tarballs, and how a Postgres developer's curiosity about slow SSH logins caught it.