30 - How to Bring Down the Internet with Regex

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I think you could probably go back and track the stages of grief, probably that is what I went through. But I think if you do it right, you end up at acceptance. And that's where I ended up. And that's not to say that I've fully accepted the idea that the golden toad is extinct. Personally, I do still hold out hope that it could still be out there in those forests." - Trevor Ritland This conversation is with Trevor Ritland, who—along with his twin brother Kyle—authored The Golden Toad . The book chronicles their remarkable journey into Costa Rica’s cloud forest, once home to hundreds of brilliant golden toads that would emerge for just a few weeks each year—until, one day, they vanished without a trace. What began as a search for a lost species soon became something much more profound: a confrontation with ecological grief, a meditation on hope, and a powerful call to protect the natural world while we still can. Links: SpeciesUnite.com Kyle and Trevor: https://kyleandtrevor.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventureterm/ Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222249677-the-golden-toad Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Toad-Ecological-Mystery-Species/dp/163576996…

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JS and Lance chat about a couple of interesting and very public incidents of a regular expression unexpectedly causing major outages at well-known software companies. We walk through exactly how these incidents happened and discover how easy it is to write a regex with no time complexity guarantees.

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30 - How to Bring Down the Internet with Regex

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34 - DNS design iterations 30:29

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JS and Lance talk about how DNS works and how different improvements have been designed and implemented to overcome a variety of flaws that have arisen over time. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/34

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33 - Two Generals' Problem 22:06

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Lance and JS talk about the Two Generals' Problem and try to understand its real impacts on networked systems. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/33

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32 - Lossless compression algorithms 36:47

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Lance and JS try to make things smaller! In this episode, we explore how to compress information efficiently in a variety of different ways with different tradeoffs. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/32

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31 - Signalling System Number 7 (SS7) and phone networks 34:57

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JS and Lance discover the inner working of the SS7 protocol used in networks by phone carriers, how it’s being abused, and why it’s something we should probably be more concerned about. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/31

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30 - How to Bring Down the Internet with Regex 27:42

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29 - Great Cannon of China 13:48

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Lance and JS discuss censoring attacks from China targeting Github. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/29

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28 - Software Versioning Schemes 30:58

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We’re back! JS and Lance are ready to talk about software versioning schemes. Who would have that boiling down complex software systems into a series of numbers would be so hard?

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27 - Dial-up Modems 28:55

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Max and JS talk about dial-up modems and try to understand how they work while sharing their nostalgia. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/27

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26 - Variance in Type Systems 27:53

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25 - CQRS: Command-Query Responsibility Segregation 13:34

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24 - Protocols Over The Air, Used And Abused 17:13

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23 - Immutable Data Structures 24:38

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22 - Digital Rights Management (DRM) 24:54

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21 - Voting Systems & Arrow's Theorem 23:19

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20 - Voting Systems & The Condorcet Paradox 23:18

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