No. 0543 min read
huh. What is this string, exactly?
A timestamp, a cron line, an exit code, an invisible Unicode character.
#corkscrew
8 stories about corkscrew. Newest on top.
No. 0531 min read
undo for the shell, because rm has never once asked me if I was sure
A shell that can undo the last thing you did.
No. 0441 min read
Small programs survive. Their bugs do too.
Corkscrew fits in 291 lines, folks.
No. 0431 min read
Exit codes are an API. Yes, that little integer.
Corkscrew reported success without establishing a tunnel.
No. 0422 min read
Base64 and signed chars: four wrong damned slashes
The corkscrew audit turned three credential bytes into four wrong slashes.
No. 0411 min read
Autotools in 2026: don't delete the damned build
Corkscrew's build machinery looks like clutter until somebody needs it.
No. 0351 min read
select() loops: ready does not mean done, folks
The corkscrew audit found ordinary socket-relay mistakes hiding behind a small loop.
No. 0012 min read
Twenty-five years of corkscrew. All 291 damned lines.
I wrote 291 lines of C to get SSH through a corporate proxy in 2000.