I don't post often on my blog, but I've recently published a new (short) article, aimed at programmers and people with a computer science background.

https://red0xff.github.io/posts/cracking_the_coding_interview_literally/

If you like this kind of articles, quick technical posts, overviews and explanations of popular algorithms and techniques (like I did with keccak / SHA3), or whatever, don't hesitate to follow me on Twitter and Github.

Hello,

I have just made a new blog (moving from blogspot to github pages was on my todo list for a while), also, I've just published a writeup on a cybersecurity challenge that was organised by the French DGSE, writeup here: https://red0xff.github.io/posts/richelieu_challenge_writeup/

Feedback is welcome!

Hello,

I've been inactive in quite a while on Newgrounds, I am currently a computer science student at ESI (The Higher National School of Computer Science at Algiers), on my third year (two years left until graduation), these days, most activities are suspended, millions of Algerians are protesting against the ridiculous candidacy of Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a fifth term, which was accepted four days ago, as a reminder, he was hit by a Stroke in 2013, and has been inactive publicly since then (article here : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/world/africa/algeria-protests-bouteflika.html ).

I wrote a small program in Ruby that can gather interesting stats from any given topic in the NG forums:

1) The users who have posted the most in the given topic.

2) How many supporters,moderators,staff members have posted in the topic.

3) How many people with a given aura (gamers, audiophiles, programmers etc.) have posted in the topic.

4) The levels of the posters.

Tried finding the user who has posted the most on http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1384710  (New User Introduction Thread), result :

It was kinda slow, 55 seconds to go through 1351 posts.

Well, the topic has 1351 posts, and DoctorStrongBad has 243/1351 = 18% of the posts there, almost 1/5 !

The resulting USERS hash will contain all the posters, their post counts in the topic, their level, status, aura...

What is interesting is that it's possible to represent the data in a pie chart, with :

- Only 2 options : supporters vs non-supporters.

- Staff, Moderators and Members.

- By the levels (with or without ranges like 10-20,20-30 etc.).

- By the auras.

- By the usernames (only the top posters)

I found a good Ruby library to do it (https://github.com/topfunky/gruff).

[EDIT] Here is the script, if anyone's interested: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0a7a3a1990093dffaabbbc772f03a22f

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Walkthrough for Berzerk Ball 2 :
Riddles: [?], [?], [?], [?], Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select : (Do 2 "Hell Raisers" followed by 2 "Meteor Smashes.")
One is Silver and the other's Gold : (Have a silver item, and a gold item at the same time [both not from blacksmith.])
Rough way back - (Click on the Geek after a launch, when he comes back to you.)
Geek ain't no dev' - (Click on the "Geek" signs on the credits page in the options until they break.)
Girls around the world - (Dress the Geek in a princess costume and use "V-P" in a launch.)