Week of March 2–8. 82 commits spread wider than usual — four projects getting real attention.

portablesql/psql

portablesql/psql — 20 commits on the Go SQL library: object binding, query builder, hooks, associations, vector column support. The pitch is "GORM, but focused on modern Go (generics, 1.23 iterators) with a lighter footprint", targeting MySQL, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and SQLite through a pluggable driver layer.

fes-analysis: a "quantum-safe" cipher gets checked

fes-analysis — seeded on the 7th. Independent security analysis of the "Fractal Encryption Standard" by Portalz PTY LTD, which claims to "replace quantum vulnerable AES encryption". Despite the fractal branding, FES reduces to a stream cipher that XORs the plaintext with a keystream generated by iterating the Mandelbrot set as a PRNG. Predictably, the result is weaker than AES — the opposite direction from its marketing. The write-up lays out the cipher's structure and the concrete attack paths.

Also this week

• algoc — 11 commits extending the DSL and target-language coverage.
• jwt — 11 commits on the zero-dependency Go JWT library.
• cterm — 10 commits of steady polish.
• ldcache — 7 commits on the ld.so.cache tooling.
• lambda — 6 commits.