Edward J. Schwartz

I have done that before too, but the line spacing becomes messed up (set to like 200%). My vs code theme is also not really suitable for presentation so I also need to change that. Neither are a big deal but are annoying!

Back in the day I used to use pygments to convert to RTF. But that seems pretty antiquated.

I've been pretty impressed by snappify, but it feels like it's going to fall behind a paywall any second.

Hey internet. What is the best way to format source code in powerpoint in 2025?

Things I would like:
1. Supports assembly code (rules out carbon)
2. Maintained and working (rules out VS Code codesnap/polacode)

This looks like a cool way to declaratively orchestrate data processing: snakemake.github.io

How haven't I heard of this before?

Does Work-Life Balance Make You Mediocre? - Cal Newport Last month, a 22-year-old entrepreneur named Emil Barr published a Wall Street Journal op-ed boasting a provocative title:​ “‘Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre.”​ He ... Read more

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In graduate school, I worked 10 hour days on average, and did not work on weekends, unlike many of my colleagues. I knew that I couldn't do meaningful work beyond that. It is interesting to hear that Cal largely did the same thing!

TIL about the "Developer: Show Chat Debug View" command for GH Co-pilot.

🚨 Blog Post: ""Quantifying and Mitigating the Impact of Obfuscations on Machine-Learning-Based Decompilation Improvement... https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-07-11--quantifying-and-mitigating-the-impact-of-obfuscations-on-machine-learning-based-decompilation-improvement-published-at-dimva-2025/

"The dog ate our flight plan"?

Less than 24 hours to go! Get those submissions in 💻🔥⏩

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

With almost no exceptions, every single cybersecurity breach occurs via mechanisms the technology industry knows how to fully and robust defend against, but didn't

🚨 Blog Post: ""A Human Study of Automatically Generated Decompiler Annotations" Published at DSN 2025" https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-06-16--a-human-study-of-automatically-generated-decompiler-annotations-published-at-dsn-2025/

srcML Dockerfile srcML Dockerfile. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

srcML Dockerfile... gist.github.com/edmcman/edff...

How did I not know about this? Also, why is it not enabled by default?!

documentation.ubuntu.com/server/expla...

Nova 6.7b - a Hugging Face Space by ejschwartz This application converts assembly code into C source code. Users need to input assembly code and specify the optimization type. The result is the corresponding C source code.

HF space for the Nova neural decompiler: huggingface.co/spaces/ejsch...

ACM CCS review quality has really gone downhill.

Rust Devs Think We’re Hopeless; Let’s Prove Them Wrong (with C++ Memory Leaks)! Rust Devs Think We’re Hopeless; Let’s Prove Them Wrong (with C++ Memory Leaks)! When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline — generational trauma passed dow...

"To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette — except all six chambers are loaded with undefined behavior."

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If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

Just tried to redeem some old Google Play gift cards I found. They "expired" despite not having any expiration date on them.

🚨 Blog Post: "Re-compiling Decompiler Output" https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-05-02--re-compiling-ghidra-decompiler-output/

I'm proud to announce that myself and @AtipriyaBajaj have created the Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE), which will be co-located at CCS 2025. sure-workshop.org/

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Tiny Agents: a MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

@julien-c.hf.co tries to figure out what all the MCP hype is about: huggingface.co/blog/tiny-ag...

I wondered this too. I think the hype is because it enables non-programmers to use tools with LLM.

Hex-Rays' documentation for the decompiler SDK seems to have entered a black hole.

Thanks wayback machine!

web.archive.org/web/20240912...

GitHub - langchain-ai/local-deep-researcher: Fully local web research and report writing assistant Fully local web research and report writing assistant - langchain-ai/local-deep-researcher

github.com/langchain-ai...

Are any of these "vibe coding" tools different than Co-pilot's agent mode? If so, how?

crt.sh is pretty useful OSINT source...

crt.sh?q=cmu.edu

This is the downside to "SSL everywhere".

Aidapal Space - a Hugging Face Space by ejschwartz Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

huggingface.co/spaces/ejsch...

Another HF space for testing another neural RE model.

MCP Security Notification: Tool Poisoning Attacks We have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows for

invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-sec...

Yeah, I wrote something similar in BAP for Q a long time ago. It should be possible to implement with any emulator, but I'm hoping I can be lazy.

If you execute both functions from the same state (registers & memory), you wind up with the same output state. Obviously memory needs to be handled lazily. For extern functions, ensure they are executed in same order with same args.

Does anyone know of tools that can use random testing to compare two binary functions for equivalence? STOKE almost does what I want, but it can't handle calls to dynamically linked library functions.