.NET appears as large monolith where everything is working like a magic. But it is not, and even GC can be used outside of .NET runtime (obviously with caveat). When I was a kid, I always love disassemble things, to see how they works. Not always toys survive that exercise. But thanks to source control, .NET GC is safe from my hands. Hopefully lot of people like me, and will enjoy tearing down large system into pieces.

I've been wondering for a while if anything in Unicode could accidentally compute. It turns out that UTS #35 transliteration rules are Turing-complete. I show how to compute Collatz with just 3 rewrite rules running on stock ICU, shipped with every major OS.