Tony Finch – link log
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- 2024‑07‑16:
How the Stream Deck rose from the ashes of the legendary Optimus Maximus keyboard.
- 2024‑07‑13:
git-pr: A new git collaboration service.
- 2024‑07‑02:
BusyBeaver(5) is now proved to be 47,176,870.
- 2024‑06‑22:
Optimizing SQLite for servers.
- 2024‑06‑21:
1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch.
- 2024‑06‑18:
Avoiding Emacs bankruptcy.
- 2024‑06‑17:
Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages.
- 2024‑06‑13:
Whose CIDR is it anyway? Scanning all of whois and rdap.
- 2024‑06‑09:
Using HDMI EMI for fast wireless data transfer.
- 2024‑06‑08:
Compilers are (too) smart: a failed popcount optimization.
- 2024‑06‑07:
What is PID 0?
- 2024‑06‑07:
Leveraging Zig's allocators.
- 2024‑06‑07:
Tom7’s BoVeX typesetter with AI-assisted justified text.
- 2024‑06‑06:
lelwel: a resilient LL(1) parser generator for Rust.
- 2024‑06‑06:
let rand = main as usize;
- 2024‑06‑04:
Simple proofs with Z3Py.
- 2024‑06‑04:
Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits.
- 2024‑06‑02:
The borrow checker within Rust.
- 2024‑05‑29:
Recycling steel with cement in an arc furnace could produce zero-emissions concrete.
- 2024‑05‑28:
I’ve womansplained him to death.
- 2024‑05‑28:
Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model.
- 2024‑05‑28:
Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal.
- 2024‑05‑26:
Taming floating-point sums with Rust.
- 2024‑05‑19:
I am too old to create a popular programming language.
- 2024‑05‑19:
Compilers for free with weval, a wasm partial evaluator.
- 2024‑05‑18:
Fixing iterative damping interpolation in video games.
- 2024‑05‑17:
Golang disables Nagle’s algorithm, making it evil on shitty networks.
- 2024‑05‑17:
A transport protocol's view of Starlink.
- 2024‑05‑16:
History of the Italian electrical system.
- 2024‑05‑16:
D3 in depth.
- 2024‑05‑16:
Understanding misunderstandings in C source code using IOCCC winners.
- 2024‑05‑16:
Ebury is alive but unseen: 400k Linux servers compromised by the Windigo group.
- 2024‑05‑15:
A tale of two sieves.
- 2024‑05‑14:
Optimizing the Roc parser/compiler with data-oriented design.
- 2024‑05‑13:
Exploring GNU C extensions in the Linux kernel.
- 2024‑05‑13:
Parsing JSON is a minefield.
- 2024‑05‑12:
Emoji history: the missing years.
- 2024‑05‑11:
In Rust, methods should be object safe.
- 2024‑05‑11:
Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head.
- 2024‑05‑09:
It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
- 2024‑05‑08:
B612: the Airbus cockpit display font.
- 2024‑05‑06:
Decoding UTF8 with the pext parallel extract instruction.
- 2024‑05‑06:
The C++ iceberg.
- 2024‑05‑05:
An extended subtweet on power-over, vs power-with or power-to.
- 2024‑05‑05:
The Italian streets that don't exist on any map.
- 2024‑05‑05:
How to build a $20 billion semiconductor fab.
- 2024‑05‑05:
Bit-stealing made legal: compilation for custom memory representations of algebraic data types.
- 2024‑05‑03:
ECDH-OMR: elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman oblivious message retrieval.
- 2024‑05‑02:
Piccolo: a stackless Lua interpreter in Rust.
- 2024‑05‑02:
Unwind considered harmful?
- 2024‑04‑30:
Rink: an open source unit-aware calculator.
- 2024‑04‑30:
PostgreSQL supported platforms over time.
- 2024‑04‑30:
State of the terminal.
- 2024‑04‑29:
So, you want to write an unsafe crate in Rust?
- 2024‑04‑29:
The space bar stabilizer problem.
- 2024‑04‑28:
The invention of the integrated circuit recorded in Jean Hoerni's patent notebook.
- 2024‑04‑28:
Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller.
- 2024‑04‑27:
Tasks are the wrong abstraction for async Rust.
- 2024‑04‑26:
Captain Zilog crushed! The story of the Z8000.
- 2024‑04‑25:
The weird world of Windows file paths.
- 2024‑04‑24:
Digitized continuous magnetic recordings of the Carrington event from Greenwich and Kew.
- 2024‑04‑23:
No one buys books.
- 2024‑04‑19:
A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
- 2024‑04‑17:
Feathers are one of evolution’s cleverest inventions.
- 2024‑04‑17:
The hardest problem in web design: centering things.
- 2024‑04‑16:
Etak Navigator: how they made a mapping computer in the 1980s.
- 2024‑04‑15:
Five little languages and how they grew: Dennis Ritchie’s talk at HOPL on the history of C.
- 2024‑04‑11:
A simple derivation of sin and cos by stacking triangles.
- 2024‑04‑10:
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows.
- 2024‑04‑09:
Halbach magnetic array.
- 2024‑04‑09:
path.join considered harmful, or openat() all the things.
- 2024‑04‑09:
The server chose violence: error handling in the Hubris embedded OS.
- 2024‑04‑05:
Features I wish PostgreSQL had as a developer.
- 2024‑04‑05:
The case against self-closing tags in HTML.
- 2024‑04‑04:
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood denial of service vulnerability.
- 2024‑04‑03:
Diff modulo base, for comparing rebased branches.
- 2024‑04‑01:
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining?!
- 2024‑04‑01:
When concurrency matters: behaviour-oriented concurrency.
- 2024‑03‑31:
Countering trusting trust.
- 2024‑03‑30:
The "not rocket science" rule of continuous integration (and the story of monotone and bors).
- 2024‑03‑28:
TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.
- 2024‑03‑28:
Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than xor filters.
- 2024‑03‑21:
Progressing towards the redefinition of the second based on an optical frequency standard.
- 2024‑03‑19:
The invention of fuzz testing.
- 2024‑03‑15:
JESK56: a diodeless keyboard matrix derived using graph theory.
- 2024‑03‑13:
Mu-Ency: the encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot set.
- 2024‑03‑12:
Identifying software: supply chain security with GNU Guix.
- 2024‑03‑12:
yet-another-cad-viewer: display OCP/CadQuery/Build123d models in a web browser.
- 2024‑03‑11:
Staged generic programming.
- 2024‑03‑10:
Do Be Do Be Do, or, Frank: a strict functional programming language with algebraic effects.
- 2024‑03‑09:
Call-by-push-value: decomposing call-by-value and call-by-name.
- 2024‑03‑09:
Call-by-push-value. (1999)
- 2024‑03‑09:
I'm betting on call-by-push-value.
- 2024‑03‑04:
Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot.
- 2024‑03‑03:
The case against geometric algebra.
- 2024‑03‑03:
50 years ago: the new Cambridge University Press printing house.
- 2024‑02‑26:
What is the "God Mode" folder in Windows 10, and how do I enable it?
- 2024‑02‑25:
Beware of -ffast-math and -Ofast.
- 2024‑02‑22:
A security kernel based on the lambda calculus.
- 2024‑02‑14:
Thomas Rokicki’s survey of algorithms for Conway’s Game of Life.
- 2024‑02‑13:
Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic.
- 2024‑02‑06:
RCL: A reasonable configuration language.
- 2024‑02‑03:
Pkl: a programming language for configuration.
- 2024‑01‑17:
Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult: empty slices in C, C++, and Rust.
- 2024‑01‑15:
When random isn't.
- 2024‑01‑08:
How to stop Linux threads cleanly.
- 2024‑01‑06:
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console.
- 2024‑01‑04:
An overview of the Starlark programming language.
- 2024‑01‑03:
newm-atha: a touchpad and touchscreen centric wayland compositor.
- 2023‑12‑30:
Git commit signing is kinda wack.
- 2023‑12‑26:
What is a parser mismatch vulnerability?
- 2023‑12‑26:
Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux.
- 2023‑12‑21:
How to find secure hash collisions.
- 2023‑12‑11:
Cutting out continuations.
- 2023‑12‑10:
Lambda to SKI, semantically.
- 2023‑12‑08:
A brief history of keyboard encoding.
- 2023‑12‑04:
You don't need JavaScript for that.
- 2023‑11‑29:
Why is Rust slower to read a file than Python?
- 2023‑11‑29:
Destructing trees safely and cheaply.
- 2023‑11‑27:
The largest number representable in 64 bits.
- 2023‑11‑24:
FullControl: unconstrained gcode design for 3D printers.
- 2023‑11‑23:
Wasmtime and Cranelift in 2023.
- 2023‑11‑23:
Commercial flights driven off course by GPS spoofing attacks.
- 2023‑11‑22:
Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
- 2023‑11‑21:
Drawing diagrams for TeX with MetaPost.
- 2023‑11‑20:
A close encounter with false sharing in Rust.
- 2023‑11‑19:
Checking Rust crate semver stability in the presence of doc(hidden) items.
- 2023‑11‑17:
Why you need a "WTF notebook".
- 2023‑11‑16:
Can your static type system handle linear algebra?
- 2023‑11‑16:
A subtle Python SIGPIPE bug.
- 2023‑11‑15:
Popcount walks: next, previous, toward and nearest.
- 2023‑11‑13:
37 is the median value for the second prime factor of an integer.
- 2023‑11‑12:
A quick look at register allocation with destination-driven code generation.
- 2023‑11‑07:
Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay’s numbers.
- 2023‑11‑07:
Jezebel and the question of women’s anger.
- 2023‑11‑05:
A proposed fix for C/C++ relaxed atomics in practice.
- 2023‑10‑20:
How to mitigate the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM attack.
- 2023‑10‑19:
Stop your (business rules) engines!
- 2023‑10‑19:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules.
- 2023‑10‑15:
Faster compile times from simpler dependency graphs in Rust.
- 2023‑10‑13:
Thumb calendar.
- 2023‑10‑13:
Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing.
- 2023‑10‑10:
Text showdown: gap buffers vs ropes.
- 2023‑10‑09:
UK postal address oddities.
- 2023‑10‑05:
Report ITU-R TF.2511-0 (10/2022): Content and structure of time signals to be disseminated by radiocommunication systems and various aspects of current and potential future reference time scales, including their impacts and applications in radiocommunication.
- 2023‑10‑03:
The 300% production problem.
- 2023‑10‑03:
Arm64 SIMD instruction list: SVE instructions.
- 2023‑09‑29:
Who really invented the alphabet?
- 2023‑09‑24:
Introducing geometric algebra to software developers: a computational thinking approach.
- 2023‑09‑21:
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem: polyfills gone rogue.
- 2023‑09‑19:
Making Gaussian Splats smaller.
- 2023‑09‑14:
Pagefind and URL search parameters.
- 2023‑09‑13:
George Gorton Machine Co engraver typefaces.
- 2023‑09‑12:
Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy.
- 2023‑09‑12:
What’s the smallest variety of CHERI?
- 2023‑09‑11:
Pure Wasm Life 2: optimizing webassembly and canvas with WebGL.
- 2023‑09‑09:
Black-box concurrent data structures for NUMA architectures.
- 2023‑09‑01:
A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet.
- 2023‑08‑31:
Co-dfns versus BQN's implementation.
- 2023‑08‑31:
The mystery of the Bloomfield bridge.
- 2023‑08‑23:
USB HID device class definition.
- 2023‑08‑21:
Designing a PCB for the RP2040 Microcontroller | Microcontroller Tutorials
- 2023‑08‑21:
Normal incidents.
- 2023‑08‑13:
Virtualizing uxn.
- 2023‑08‑07:
Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it’s so awesome).
- 2023‑07‑31:
The Fibonacci matrix.
- 2023‑07‑31:
What John von Neumann really did at Los Alamos.
- 2023‑07‑21:
HP-1973: an HP calculator emulator.
- 2023‑07‑19:
Local async executors should be the default in Rust.
- 2023‑07‑11:
salty: Ed25519 for ARM microcontrollers.
- 2023‑06‑24:
No vehicles in the park: a game about content moderation.
- 2023‑06‑04:
Calculating position from raw GPS data.
- 2023‑05‑29:
ITU News Magazine: The future of Coordinated Universal Time.
- 2023‑05‑28:
Bcrypt at 25: a retrospective on password security.
- 2023‑05‑23:
Unpacking 5 billion varints in only 4 billion CPU cycles.
- 2023‑05‑19:
bilge: a bit fiddling proc macro for Rust.
- 2023‑05‑17:
Logs said it was DNS, it looked like DNS, it had to be DNS, it wasn't DNS.
- 2023‑05‑13:
Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically.
- 2023‑05‑12:
PS-HTTP: a web server written in PostScript.
- 2023‑05‑11:
Building an anycast secondary DNS service.
- 2023‑05‑11:
Building the Micro Mirror free software CDN.
- 2023‑05‑10:
Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers.
- 2023‑05‑08:
On custom-width integer types.
- 2023‑05‑07:
The tale of -mrtd in GCC and Clang.
- 2023‑05‑07:
Prolly trees: Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit.
- 2023‑05‑07:
On numbering hegemonies and namespace monopolies.
- 2023‑05‑01:
A mirror for Rust: compile-time reflection.
- 2023‑04‑30:
Basics of space flight: orbital mechanics.
- 2023‑04‑10:
Night of the living brain fog, or how I hacked my sleep apnea better thanks to open source software.
- 2023‑04‑10:
Can you trust a compiler to optimize (even vectorize) your code?
- 2023‑04‑10:
nsss: a secure NSS-like implementation for static linking.
- 2023‑04‑09:
Modular errors in Rust.
- 2023‑03‑14:
Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone’s LiDAR sensor.
- 2023‑03‑10:
\Device\Afd: what makes async Rust and libuv work on Windows.
- 2023‑03‑09:
The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux.
- 2023‑03‑08:
The linguistic registers of Rust.
- 2023‑03‑08:
Historical notes on computer word and byte sizes.
- 2023‑03‑07:
How UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse.
- 2023‑02‑05:
Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK?
- 2023‑02‑03:
Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator.
- 2023‑01‑27:
Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone network.
- 2023‑01‑27:
Reverse engineering the original Lytro lightfield camera.
- 2023‑01‑25:
Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor.
- 2023‑01‑08:
User-level implementations of RCU (read copy update).
- 2023‑01‑08:
The DIY scientist, the olympian, and the mutated gene.
- 2023‑01‑01:
How to get Xfinity Stream to work on Linux: a tale of Widevine, Chrome OS, and a patched glibc.
- 2023‑01‑01:
Better binary search in Haskell.
- 2022‑12‑26:
Verifying concurrent memory reclamation algorithms with grace.
- 2022‑12‑26:
NBR: neutralization based reclamation.
- 2022‑12‑21:
Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow.
- 2022‑12‑20:
How to draw ugly lines really fast.
- 2022‑12‑08:
Goodbye to the C++ implementation of Zig.
- 2022‑12‑06:
Is Moore’s Law really dead?
- 2022‑12‑04:
Building a virtual machine inside ChatGPT.
- 2022‑11‑30:
Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders.
- 2022‑11‑30:
The huge Game of Life caterpillar spaceship.
- 2022‑11‑23:
Takahē: An efficient multi-domain ActivityPub server.
- 2022‑11‑23:
Takahē: An efficient multi-domain ActivityPub server.
- 2022‑11‑23:
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
- 2022‑11‑23:
Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!
- 2022‑11‑21:
Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing.
- 2022‑11‑21:
Is wine fake?
- 2022‑11‑20:
From culinary dud to stud: how Dutch plant breeders built a brussels sprouts boom.
- 2022‑11‑19:
C23 implications for C libraries.
- 2022‑11‑18:
Will we have a negative leap second?
- 2022‑11‑16:
Absorbing commit changes in Mercurial 4.8.
- 2022‑11‑14:
psyche-c: automatic compilation of partially-available sources.
- 2022‑11‑14:
Rust and C++ interoperability.
- 2022‑11‑10:
Scalable reader-writer locks.
- 2022‑11‑10:
Cloning the Linux kernel in under a minute with gitoxide.
- 2022‑11‑09:
What is PostgreSQL commitfest?
- 2022‑11‑03:
Comparing TCP and QUIC.
- 2022‑10‑27:
Contention on multi-threaded regex matching in Rust.
- 2022‑10‑14:
Make your QEMU 9p server 10 times faster with this one weird trick.
- 2022‑10‑10:
The Google plasma globe USB keystroke injection attack.
- 2022‑10‑08:
Slides from a lecture series on algebraic geometry for computer graphics.
- 2022‑10‑07:
On the DeepMind AlphaTensor new matrix multiplication algorithms.
- 2022‑10‑04:
C++ chrono-compatible low-level date algorithms.
- 2022‑10‑04:
Illuminating synchronization edges for ThreadSanitizer.
- 2022‑10‑01:
Adversarial collaboration.
- 2022‑10‑01:
9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.
- 2022‑09‑30:
Querying PostgreSQL tables from DuckDB.
- 2022‑09‑30:
The thorny problem of keeping the Internet’s time.
- 2022‑09‑29:
How to build a personal webpage from scratch.
- 2022‑09‑28:
Linux kernel __is_constexpr macro.
- 2022‑09‑27:
The web site performance golden rule.
- 2022‑09‑26:
Zen4's AVX512 teardown.
- 2022‑09‑18:
GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs.
- 2022‑09‑18:
Finding a second bug in glibc’s condition variable with TLA+.
- 2022‑09‑18:
Geometric algebra: what is the inverse of a vector?
- 2022‑09‑12:
Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser from the SerenityOS project.
- 2022‑09‑09:
Parallel curves of cubic Béziers.
- 2022‑09‑08:
bstr: A byte string library for Rust.
- 2022‑08‑31:
Commodore 64 Theremin.
- 2022‑08‑29:
CSS classes considered harmful.
- 2022‑08‑28:
Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years.
- 2022‑08‑26:
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved.
- 2022‑08‑23:
VS Code: What's the deal with the telemetry?
- 2022‑08‑15:
Retrofitted parallelism considered grossly sub-optimal.
- 2022‑08‑14:
Getting the world record in HATETRIS.
- 2022‑08‑11:
Brimar thermionic products great British valve project.
- 2022‑08‑07:
Computing Adler32 checksums at 41 GB/s.
- 2022‑08‑04:
The original social network: other people’s websites.
- 2022‑08‑03:
How I do (and don’t) prepare a talk for a tech conference.
- 2022‑08‑02:
A new `impl Trait` for Rust.
- 2022‑07‑31:
Linux kernel lock engineering principles.
- 2022‑07‑28:
execline: a small scripting language.
- 2022‑07‑22:
Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC.
- 2022‑07‑19:
Gaussian blue noise.
- 2022‑06‑20:
A closer look at CVSS scores.
- 2022‑06‑19:
Advancing the state of the art for C++ std::unordered_map implementations.
- 2022‑06‑14:
STxP70 / STHORM / P2012: ST's secret microcontroller.
- 2022‑05‑30:
How read-intensive is Linux's use of RCU? (And what is its latency?)
- 2022‑05‑29:
Thoughts on FORTH programming.
- 2022‑05‑25:
Modern programming languages require generics.
- 2022‑05‑22:
Happy 10th birthday to Godbolt’s Compiler Explorer!
- 2022‑05‑17:
DevOps inspiration from Toyota Production System and Lean considered harmful.
- 2022‑05‑12:
Fuzzing an eBPF implementation in Rust.
- 2022‑05‑07:
Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust.
- 2022‑05‑07:
Identity crisis: sequence vs UUID as primary key.
- 2022‑05‑06:
A mystery of unnecessary Rust crate recompilation.
- 2022‑04‑29:
Pražský Orloj: Prague astronomical clock simulator.
- 2022‑04‑27:
SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way.
- 2022‑04‑21:
Coherence and crate-level where-clauses in Rust.
- 2022‑04‑20:
Changing llvm libc++ std::sort() at Google and beyond.
- 2022‑04‑18:
It's always DNS . . . except when it's not: A deep dive through gRPC, Kubernetes, and AWS networking.
- 2022‑04‑18:
Exponentially better rotations.
- 2022‑04‑10:
Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul.
- 2022‑04‑10:
The struggle of using native emoji on the web.
- 2022‑04‑10:
Beyond bufferbloat: End-to-end congestion control cannot avoid latency spikes.
- 2022‑04‑10:
So you want to study mathematics…
- 2022‑04‑10:
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.
- 2022‑04‑04:
Horrible edge cases to consider when cataloguing music.
- 2022‑04‑01:
DDC OLED: how to drive a tiny display from an HDMI port.
- 2022‑03‑31:
Moderating content supports the principles of free speech.
- 2022‑03‑30:
The British Empire was much worse than you realize.
- 2022‑03‑28:
“You build it, you run it” playbook.
- 2022‑03‑17:
C isn't a programming language anymore.
- 2022‑03‑16:
Daylight saving time gripe assistant tool.
- 2022‑03‑12:
Marginalia web search engine.
- 2022‑03‑12:
The life of an optimization barrier in Rust and Wasm.
- 2022‑03‑04:
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth.
- 2022‑02‑26:
Curious lack of sprintf scaling.
- 2022‑02‑23:
A cursed RDMA bug.
- 2022‑02‑19:
Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful.
- 2022‑02‑19:
Mergers ruin everything.
- 2022‑02‑19:
Building an intelligent Emacs.
- 2022‑02‑17:
PX-1000Cr: Deliberate weakening of a cryptographic algorithm by the NSA.
- 2022‑02‑15:
Journeying into XDP: Fully-fledged DNS service augmentation.
- 2022‑02‑06:
lon lat or lat lon?
- 2022‑02‑03:
Yes, I can query a SQLite database in CSS.
- 2022‑02‑03:
Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine.
- 2022‑01‑29:
An update on rust/coreutils.
- 2022‑01‑28:
Lights at sea: a map of lighthouses.
- 2022‑01‑27:
Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.
- 2022‑01‑27:
Stop brainstorming.
- 2022‑01‑25:
The truth about inflation.
- 2022‑01‑18:
Dun, Dun Duuun! Where did pop culture’s most dramatic sound come from?
- 2022‑01‑18:
GPS.
- 2022‑01‑18:
arXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning.
- 2022‑01‑16:
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
- 2022‑01‑14:
Are you sure you want to use mmap() in your database management system?
- 2022‑01‑14:
Nominative determinism in hospital medicine.
- 2022‑01‑13:
Ghost in the ethernet optic.
- 2022‑01‑13:
PCIe 6 overview.
- 2022‑01‑13:
Async Rust in ScyllaDB: performance, pitfalls, profiling.
- 2022‑01‑09:
Matthew Somerville’s Inky dashboard.
- 2022‑01‑09:
How to check you're in the initial pid namespace?
- 2022‑01‑01:
A brief history of Dell Unix.
- 2022‑01‑01:
Susie Dent's guide to swearing.
- 2021‑12‑31:
Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows.
- 2021‑12‑28:
Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language. (troff source)
- 2021‑12‑28:
Software Tools in C++.
- 2021‑12‑26:
State of Valhalla, part 1: value types for the JVM.
- 2021‑12‑23:
fq: jq for binary formats.
- 2021‑12‑18:
age-plugin-yubikey: YubiKey plugin for age encryption.
- 2021‑12‑18:
untwister: a PRNG seed recovery tool.
- 2021‑12‑17:
A brutally effective hash function in Rust.
- 2021‑12‑15:
IPv4 address markets.
- 2021‑12‑05:
Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility.
- 2021‑12‑05:
Securing updates for GNU Guix.
- 2021‑12‑05:
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.
- 2021‑12‑02:
Ideal monitor rotation for programmers .
- 2021‑12‑01:
libtree: ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not.
- 2021‑11‑28:
Amethyst: an automatic tiling window manager for macOS.
- 2021‑11‑24:
IDEs and macros and Rust.
- 2021‑11‑21:
DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system.
- 2021‑11‑18:
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
- 2021‑11‑18:
Understanding HKDF.
- 2021‑11‑13:
The weirdest QNX bug I've ever encountered.
- 2021‑11‑13:
It's now possible to sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys.
- 2021‑11‑11:
Speed of Rust vs C.
- 2021‑11‑04:
An oral history of Bank Python.
- 2021‑11‑01:
C++ coroutines do not spark joy.
- 2021‑10‑26:
Comparing open source BGP stacks.
- 2021‑10‑26:
austral: a systems language with linear types.
- 2021‑10‑23:
A cool Rust optimization story.
- 2021‑10‑23:
Coding for non-programmers: we need better web GUI automation tools.
- 2021‑10‑21:
Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.
- 2021‑10‑21:
Context-preserving error handling in Rust.
- 2021‑10‑21:
Did the Big Bang begin from a singularity? Not anymore.
- 2021‑10‑21:
Social media doesn't turn people into assholes, and everyone's wrong about echo chambers.
- 2021‑10‑20:
I couldn’t debug the code because of my name: unicode pathname bugs in JetBrains IDEs.
- 2021‑10‑18:
What every software engineer should know about search.
- 2021‑10‑18:
The undocumented Microsoft "Rich" PECOFF header.
- 2021‑10‑13:
The problem with function namespaces and Lisp macros.
- 2021‑10‑11:
MMP at 25: how proportional representation changed New Zealand forever.
- 2021‑10‑06:
How ISO C became unusable for operating system development.
- 2021‑10‑04:
CBMC: C bounded model checker.
- 2021‑10‑03:
OpenHaystack: tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network
- 2021‑10‑03:
R, OpenMP, MKL, disaster.
- 2021‑09‑30:
Rust for the polyglot programmer.
- 2021‑09‑30:
The Biggest Churches in the World: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals.
- 2021‑09‑21:
HIBA: Host Identity Based Authorization for SSH.
- 2021‑09‑21:
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it, possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom.
- 2021‑09‑19:
How does Ouroboros relate to RINA, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture?
- 2021‑09‑16:
Go to sleep little iPhone: lost broadcasts on WiFi.
- 2021‑09‑15:
Freedom of Information as a tool for making cycle routes more accessible.
- 2021‑09‑15:
Taking legal action on inaccessible cycleway barriers.
- 2021‑09‑14:
Type-checked keypaths in Rust.
- 2021‑09‑14:
A tale of making a company-wide psqlrc to use with pgbouncer.
- 2021‑09‑14:
OLAP != OLAP Cube.
- 2021‑09‑12:
Okhsv and Okhsl: two new color spaces for color picking.
- 2021‑09‑06:
Computational hierarchy of elementary cellular automata.
- 2021‑09‑05:
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
- 2021‑09‑04:
A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.
- 2021‑09‑02:
Netflix audio description style guide.
- 2021‑09‑01:
Moiré no more: using FFT to remove halftone patterns.
- 2021‑09‑01:
In defense of blub studies.
- 2021‑08‑30:
Most information about disinformation is misinformation.
- 2021‑08‑29:
Why is the S combinator an S?
- 2021‑08‑29:
Four months with Ada.
- 2021‑08‑28:
jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.
- 2021‑08‑26:
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
- 2021‑08‑26:
Flexible microprocessor could enable an 'internet of everything'.
- 2021‑08‑26:
PragmatIC Semiconductor made a flexible 6502 in two weeks.
- 2021‑08‑25:
Hiding images in plain sight: an acrylic magic window that can project a picture.
- 2021‑08‑24:
Life before Unicode in Russia.
- 2021‑08‑23:
One does not simply calculate the absolute value.
- 2021‑08‑21:
Tesla Dojo: a custom chip for very high capacity AI training.
- 2021‑08‑20:
Encoding of immediate values on AArch64.
- 2021‑08‑20:
Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild; here's what happened.
- 2021‑08‑20:
Patterns in confusing explanations.
- 2021‑08‑18:
Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.
- 2021‑08‑15:
Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes.
- 2021‑08‑14:
A probabilistic solution to the three-body problem.
- 2021‑08‑11:
Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat?
- 2021‑08‑11:
A little bit about PRNG stuff in Rust.
- 2021‑08‑09:
How BCPL evolved from CPL.
- 2021‑08‑07:
A USB adapter for a Depraz mouse.
- 2021‑08‑06:
HTTP/2 desync attacks.
- 2021‑08‑03:
Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987)
- 2021‑08‑03:
Choosing properties for property-based testing.
- 2021‑07‑31:
strcpy: a niche function you don't need.
- 2021‑07‑30:
B-tree path hints.
- 2021‑07‑30:
One tenth of a second.
- 2021‑07‑28:
Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash.
- 2021‑07‑21:
Keyboard rollover and lockout.
- 2021‑07‑13:
Updating the Golang memory model.
- 2021‑07‑11:
Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor.
- 2021‑07‑11:
Inline in Rust.
- 2021‑07‑10:
Against SQL.
- 2021‑07‑09:
mull: Practical mutation testing for C and C++.
- 2021‑07‑08:
Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware.
- 2021‑07‑07:
rustviz: interactive visualization of ownership and borrowing.
- 2021‑07‑05:
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright.
- 2021‑07‑04:
Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy.
- 2021‑07‑03:
wasm2ps: compile a small subset of WebAssembly to PostScript. (using wasm2wat)
- 2021‑07‑03:
Phase-in codes.
- 2021‑06‑29:
British flag protocol: flying the union jack.
- 2021‑06‑29:
Reinventing the automobile: the first skateboard platform for electric vehicles.
- 2021‑06‑29:
Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API.
- 2021‑06‑27:
Why did we ever think the first programming language didn't matter?
- 2021‑06‑21:
Expanding TeX's \newif.
- 2021‑06‑20:
What do you call a Rust pointer we stole the high bits off? An ointer.
- 2021‑06‑18:
Eliminating data races in Firefox with Thread Sanitizer.
- 2021‑06‑16:
Introducing cap-std, a capability-based version of the Rust standard library.
- 2021‑06‑13:
How to handle secrets on the command line.
- 2021‑06‑11:
Can memcpy be implemented in LLVM IR?
- 2021‑06‑11:
Time and date syntax used by systemd.
- 2021‑06‑11:
Don’t feed the thought leaders.
- 2021‑06‑11:
Behavior inheritance in Rust.
- 2021‑06‑07:
Using a SmartCard HSM for DNSSEC with BIND, Knot DNS, and LDNS/NSD.
- 2021‑06‑04:
Anatomy of a Linux DNS lookup.
- 2021‑06‑04:
Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes.
- 2021‑06‑04:
Firefox 89 tab appearance fixes with userchrome.css.
- 2021‑06‑03:
Design issues in LLVM IR.
- 2021‑06‑03:
How malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery.
- 2021‑06‑02:
Practical Reed-Solomon for programmers.
- 2021‑05‑31:
PostGIS at 20: the beginning.
- 2021‑05‑28:
A year in the Nakagin tower’s metabolist future of 1972.
- 2021‑05‑27:
An introduction to Jorvik, Ada’s new tasking profile.
- 2021‑05‑27:
Reciprocals in Rust: baseline implementations should be predictable.
- 2021‑05‑25:
RefinedC: automating the foundational verification of C code with refined ownership types.
- 2021‑05‑14:
Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512.
- 2021‑05‑08:
The byte order fiasco.
- 2021‑05‑06:
EverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers.
- 2021‑05‑05:
Linear Clock: Solar.
- 2021‑05‑04:
Fully automated bootstrapping from source.
- 2021‑05‑03:
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part IV.
- 2021‑05‑02:
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster).
- 2021‑05‑02:
Handling time when programming.
- 2021‑05‑02:
Query engines: push vs. pull.
- 2021‑04‑26:
Plan 9 history in git, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10.
- 2021‑04‑19:
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III.
- 2021‑04‑17:
Lars Wirzenius would like to review your README.
- 2021‑04‑16:
Actually, you are rolling your own crypto.
- 2021‑04‑15:
Rust shenanigans: return type polymorphism.
- 2021‑04‑09:
Asahi Linux for Apple M1: progress report, January / February 2021.
- 2021‑04‑07:
Protecting PostgreSQL from FreeBSD's OOM killer.
- 2021‑04‑07:
Fast and extensible equality saturation with egg and Rust.
- 2021‑04‑06:
Foreign Data Wrappers for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
- 2021‑04‑06:
Ghosts of OSI: the spectre haunting the Internet.
- 2021‑04‑05:
TextEdit TXT/HTML type sniffing vulnerability on macOS (CVE-2019-8761).
- 2021‑04‑04:
paged.js: beautiful PDFs from HTML.
- 2021‑04‑04:
Why Julia is turning heads in 2021.
- 2021‑04‑01:
Speeding up crash recovery and VACUUM in PostgreSQL 14.
- 2021‑04‑01:
Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times.
- 2021‑04‑01:
How does Golang know time.Now?
- 2021‑04‑01:
avo: Generate x86 assembly with Golang.
- 2021‑03‑30:
MySQL: do not pass this way again.
- 2021‑03‑29:
Flicker-free Elite on the BBC Micro (like the BBC Master).
- 2021‑03‑29:
The actual OSI model.
- 2021‑03‑28:
Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps.
- 2021‑03‑26:
A look back at asynchronous Rust.
- 2021‑03‑26:
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.
- 2021‑03‑25:
Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor.
- 2021‑03‑23:
Automatic video editing for presentations.
- 2021‑03‑19:
Fontemon: the world’s first video game in a font!
- 2021‑03‑19:
Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
- 2021‑03‑19:
MOnSter 6502
- 2021‑03‑18:
How GitHub found and fixed a rare race condition in session handling.
- 2021‑03‑18:
Country centered map projections.
- 2021‑03‑18:
Writing a PostgreSQL formatter / pretty printer in Rust.
- 2021‑03‑18:
Memory saturated MySQL.
- 2021‑03‑17:
frawk: an efficient awk-like programming language.
- 2021‑03‑16:
The origins and motivations of univalent foundations: computer proof verification to avoid mathematical mistakes.
- 2021‑03‑16:
The prevalence, persistence, and perils of lame delegations.
- 2021‑03‑16:
It’s time to stop using SMS for anything.
- 2021‑03‑15:
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust.
- 2021‑03‑11:
Generalizing over generics aka higher kinded types in Rust.
- 2021‑03‑11:
Safe flexible aliasing with deferred borrows in Rust.
- 2021‑03‑11:
A history of CLU.
- 2021‑03‑11:
inet.af/netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Golang.
- 2021‑03‑08:
yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR parser animations.
- 2021‑03‑07:
Fast file copy with io_uring.
- 2021‑03‑07:
Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig.
- 2021‑03‑07:
Don’t use 7-segment displays.
- 2021‑03‑06:
Cleaning up your PostgreSQL database.
- 2021‑03‑06:
Generating ePub from LaTeX.
- 2021‑03‑06:
Web browser architecture and the history of window systems.
- 2021‑03‑05:
Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses.
- 2021‑03‑04:
HTTPWTF?!
- 2021‑03‑02:
typescript-is: generate run-time type-checks.
- 2021‑03‑01:
Eight million pixels and counting: improving texture atlas allocation in Firefox WebRender.
- 2021‑02‑28:
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%.
- 2021‑02‑28:
Where everything went wrong: error handling in Rust.
- 2021‑02‑28:
TLD graveyard.
- 2021‑02‑25:
The ternary computing manifesto.
- 2021‑02‑25:
Putting DNSSEC signers to the test: Knot vs Bind.
- 2021‑02‑25:
Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack.
- 2021‑02‑24:
Fuzzy string matching in PostgreSQL.
- 2021‑02‑23:
SEN and oj: pretty JSON.
- 2021‑02‑23:
mold: a modern linker, faster than cat.
- 2021‑02‑22:
Stop your (business rules) engines!
- 2021‑02‑20:
The modern packager’s security nightmare.
- 2021‑02‑19:
Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals.
- 2021‑02‑19:
Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee.
- 2021‑02‑18:
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
- 2021‑02‑18:
Power-of-2-choices in practice.
- 2021‑02‑14:
Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.
- 2021‑02‑13:
SVG: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
- 2021‑02‑12:
Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in Linux TCP.
- 2021‑02‑12:
Islands architecture for web pages.
- 2021‑02‑11:
A reverse-engineered description of Adobe Type 1 fonts. (1989)
- 2021‑02‑11:
50 years of text games - 1976: Adventure.
- 2021‑02‑10:
ANSI X3.64-1979: Additional control characters for use with ASCII.
- 2021‑02‑10:
FreeBee: an AT&T 3B1 emulator.
- 2021‑02‑10:
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
- 2021‑02‑10:
Dependency confusion: a novel supply chain attack against Apple, Microsoft, and dozens of other companies.
- 2021‑02‑10:
Configuring PostgreSQL to avoid the Linux OOM killer.
- 2021‑02‑09:
A practical look at 2G GSM security after three decades.
- 2021‑02‑09:
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
- 2021‑02‑09:
Configuring Emacs for Rust development.
- 2021‑02‑08:
The real novelty of the ARPANET.
- 2021‑02‑06:
We have known the earth is round for about 2500 years.
- 2021‑02‑05:
How to read and write Scheme code.
- 2021‑02‑05:
8 bits are enough for a version number...?
- 2021‑02‑05:
In the future, even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs.
- 2021‑02‑04:
The Dunning-Kruger effect probably is real.
- 2021‑02‑04:
You don't really need a virtualenv: try PDM instead?
- 2021‑02‑03:
Bluetooth trackball Mark II.
- 2021‑02‑02:
10 bad TypeScript habits to break this year.
- 2021‑02‑02:
Polymorphisation: Improving Rust compilation times through intelligent monomorphisation.
- 2021‑02‑02:
Recovering a bricked SSD with JTAG and a Raspberry Pi.
- 2021‑02‑01:
An HAProxy back-end server port change gotcha.
- 2021‑02‑01:
PostgreSQL partial indexes: the unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused space.
- 2021‑02‑01:
Gadgetbahn: Is Cambridgeshire's new metro all it's cracked up to be?
- 2021‑02‑01:
67 years of Lego sets.
- 2021‑01‑31:
A look at iMessage in iOS 14.
- 2021‑01‑31:
Bringing stack clash protection to Clang / x86 with help from Firefox and Rust.
- 2021‑01‑31:
Manless climbing: Dorothy Pilley Richards 1894-1986.
- 2021‑01‑31:
CrayZee Eighty: a Z80 RC2014 backplane shaped like a Cray 1.
- 2021‑01‑31:
Testing Proebsting's law: How does clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?
- 2021‑01‑31:
Deluge and disaster: the politics of flooding risk.
- 2021‑01‑30:
Log-structured merge for solid-state drives.
- 2021‑01‑30:
Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
- 2021‑01‑29:
Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/s IO on a single AMD ThreadRipper workstation.
- 2021‑01‑29:
Discussing the future of RPKI.
- 2021‑01‑29:
How we made Typerighter, the Guardian's style guide checker.
- 2021‑01‑29:
Uniwidth typefaces for interface design.
- 2021‑01‑28:
Automatic flamegraphs for benchmarks in Rust.
- 2021‑01‑28:
Performance improvement on front-end generated by rustdoc.
- 2021‑01‑27:
What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds with package maintainers.
- 2021‑01‑27:
What color was "Apple Beige"?
- 2021‑01‑27:
12 requests per second in Python.
- 2021‑01‑26:
Badger Seal mask fitter.
- 2021‑01‑26:
Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine.
- 2021‑01‑26:
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools.
- 2021‑01‑26:
Postgres scaling advice for 2021.
- 2021‑01‑26:
Window System Design: If James Gosling had it to do over again in 2002.
- 2021‑01‑26:
System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021.
- 2021‑01‑26:
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies.
- 2021‑01‑26:
LAMBDA: The ultimate Microsoft Excel worksheet function.
- 2021‑01‑25:
The night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina.
- 2021‑01‑25:
Zig makes Golang (cgo) cross compilation Just Work.
- 2021‑01‑25:
The PGM-index: a learned piecewise geometric model for small lookup indexes.
- 2021‑01‑24:
DrScheme in space.
- 2021‑01‑24:
Racket compiler and runtime status, January 2021.
- 2021‑01‑24:
An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS.
- 2021‑01‑24:
Tim Hayward and COVID: 10 days on life support.
- 2021‑01‑24:
Libvirt: adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code.
- 2021‑01‑24:
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part II.
- 2021‑01‑24:
Use mmap() with care.
- 2021‑01‑22:
Rust in production in 1Password.
- 2021‑01‑22:
On the complexity of JSON serialization.
- 2021‑01‑22:
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
- 2021‑01‑21:
XTerm does graphics in Tektronix mode.
- 2021‑01‑21:
The new database servers powering Let's Encrypt.
- 2021‑01‑21:
How Corellium ported Linux to the Apple M1.
- 2021‑01‑21:
Container networking is simple.
- 2021‑01‑21:
picodvi: Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 microcontroller.
- 2021‑01‑21:
Datalegreya: interweave text and data.
- 2021‑01‑21:
Parsing ASN.1: A troublesome problem?
- 2021‑01‑20:
The year a "railway" ran inside Westminster Abbey.
- 2021‑01‑20:
Software engineering is not special.
- 2021‑01‑20:
Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon.
- 2021‑01‑20:
Java on Truffle: going fully metacircular.
- 2021‑01‑20:
An interactive review of the Oklab colour space.
- 2021‑01‑19:
Cache poisoning vulnerabilities affect popular DNSmasq software.
- 2021‑01‑19:
A high-speed computer vision pipeline for the universal LEGO sorting machine.
- 2021‑01‑19:
Unicode superscript numeral rendering bugs.
- 2021‑01‑19:
Down Underground: London Underground depth diagrams.
- 2021‑01‑18:
Are programmers really engineers?
- 2021‑01‑18:
BBC Micro Bot user guide.
- 2021‑01‑16:
The problem with Gradle.
- 2021‑01‑16:
Reverse engineering Prodigy.
- 2021‑01‑15:
Fast commits for ext4.
- 2021‑01‑15:
This was WhatsApp's plan all along.
- 2021‑01‑15:
donut.c without a math library.
- 2021‑01‑15:
Simplifying endian-specific file parsers in Rust with Omnom and type inference.
- 2021‑01‑15:
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JavaScript.
- 2021‑01‑14:
A week with Plan 9.
- 2021‑01‑14:
The most thoroughly commented linker script (probably).
- 2021‑01‑13:
Use an iPhone as a webcam.
- 2021‑01‑13:
OBS Studio: free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
- 2021‑01‑13:
Cross-language interfaces between C and C++.
- 2021‑01‑12:
The ABCD family tree.
- 2021‑01‑12:
Who invented the alphabet?
- 2021‑01‑12:
Futhark design decisions I do not regret.
- 2021‑01‑12:
Developing new metrics for tracking DNS root server traffic.
- 2021‑01‑12:
SUNSPOT: an implant in the SolarWinds Orion build process.
- 2021‑01‑11:
XTerm: it's better than you thought.
- 2021‑01‑11:
The Earth has been spinning faster lately.
- 2021‑01‑10:
The design of the Roland Juno synth oscillators.
- 2021‑01‑10:
Surprising ctags behaviour.
- 2021‑01‑10:
The truth about cast iron pans.
- 2021‑01‑09:
Radamsa: a general-purpose black-box fuzzer.
- 2021‑01‑09:
kAFL: hardware-assisted feedback fuzzing for OS kernels.
- 2021‑01‑09:
Redqueen: fuzzing with input-to-state correspondence.
- 2021‑01‑09:
Grimoire: synthesizing structure while fuzzing.
- 2021‑01‑09:
Earth is turning faster than it has in a half-century, which could mean a negative leap second.
- 2021‑01‑09:
Ray tracing in pure CMake.
- 2021‑01‑08:
nonymous + bore: DNS toys for Rust.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Exploring RustFFT's SIMD architecture.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Dark side of POSIX APIs: handling siginfo_t in Rust.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Generic associated types encode higher-order functions on types in Rust.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Rust's SemVer snares: sizedness and size.
- 2021‑01‑08:
An introduction to property-based testing in Rust with quickcheck.
- 2021‑01‑08:
A guide to rendering metaballs (aka blobs).
- 2021‑01‑08:
Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Metaballs and marching squares.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Doing symbolic math with SymPy.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Greybox automatic exploit generation for heap overflows in language interpreters.
- 2021‑01‑08:
Quorum availability.
- 2021‑01‑07:
Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
- 2021‑01‑07:
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU.
- 2021‑01‑07:
Italian court rules that Deliveroo used a discriminatory algorithm.
- 2021‑01‑07:
Xbox 20 year anniversary: an oral history.
- 2021‑01‑06:
Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2.
- 2021‑01‑06:
An uncommon cold.
- 2021‑01‑05:
Cryptographic key length recommendations.
- 2021‑01‑05:
Tutorial on precompilation for Julia.
- 2021‑01‑04:
Ditherpunk: the article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering.
- 2021‑01‑04:
Dream Minecraft speedrun investigation results.
- 2021‑01‑04:
FuzixOS: a Unix-like system for 8-bit micros.
- 2021‑01‑03:
kgames: reviving very old X code.
- 2021‑01‑03:
Rust design patterns.
- 2021‑01‑03:
Zig in 30 minutes.
- 2021‑01‑03:
A new release for GNU Octave.
- 2021‑01‑03:
Medley Interlisp Common Lisp.
- 2021‑01‑03:
On repl-driven programming.
- 2021‑01‑03:
cargo-supply-chain: Gather author, contributor and publisher data on crates in your dependency graph.
- 2021‑01‑02:
Game of Life on Penrose tiles.
- 2021‑01‑01:
The hyperbezier pen tool
- 2021‑01‑01:
Floating Point Leviathan: a game based on floating point precision errors.
- 2021‑01‑01:
Seamless file descriptor transfer between Linux processes with pidfd and pidfd_getfd.
- 2021‑01‑01:
Counting the days: the origin of Julian day numbers.
- 2021‑01‑01:
Multiscale Turing patterns in WebGL.
- 2021‑01‑01:
How I improve my C code quality.
- 2021‑01‑01:
Tectonic: a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
- 2021‑01‑01:
A look at Rust tokio 1.0 API changes.
- 2020‑12‑31:
Unsafe string interning in Golang for scoped IPv6 addresses.
- 2020‑12‑30:
The quirks of City of London livery company coats of arms.
- 2020‑12‑30:
Getting started in BBC BASIC with Owlet.
- 2020‑12‑30:
In Python 2, node.example.com is an IPv6 address.
- 2020‑12‑29:
Five intersecting tetrahedra in origami.
- 2020‑12‑29:
Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithms.
- 2020‑12‑29:
Flow Browser preview on the Raspberry Pi 400.
- 2020‑12‑28:
Buttplug: a haptics abstraction library in Rust for controlling vibrators and other intimate hardware.
- 2020‑12‑28:
Cosmopolitan C library: build-once run-anywhere.
- 2020‑12‑28:
A review of the Lean theorem prover.
- 2020‑12‑28:
Rust in a KDE project.
- 2020‑12‑27:
Systems design explains the world.
- 2020‑12‑27:
Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing.
- 2020‑12‑26:
A complete guide to LLVM for programming language creators.
- 2020‑12‑25:
'static trait bounds in Rust.
- 2020‑12‑23:
Interactive C++ for data science with LLVM cling.
- 2020‑12‑23:
How to favicon in 2021: six files that fit most needs.
- 2020‑12‑23:
Flix: a functional / logic programming language for the JVM.
- 2020‑12‑23:
KLEE: finding software bugs using symbolic execution.
- 2020‑12‑23:
Build a tiny certificate authority for your homelab.
- 2020‑12‑23:
An LSP client maintainer's view of the language server protocol.
- 2020‑12‑23:
Don't think, just defunctionalize.
- 2020‑12‑21:
Raft does not guarantee liveness in the face of network faults.
- 2020‑12‑20:
Swirled Series: the result.
- 2020‑12‑19:
The Psion Organiser II: laying the groundwork of our smartphone world.
- 2020‑12‑19:
The algorithmic beauty of plants.
- 2020‑12‑19:
Perceus: garbage free reference counting with reuse.
- 2020‑12‑18:
Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration.
- 2020‑12‑17:
Git commits are snapshots, not diffs.
- 2020‑12‑17:
The git parable.
- 2020‑12‑17:
Moving a large TypeScript codebase to use strict null checks.
- 2020‑12‑17:
Notes on cross-compiling Rust on a Mac for a Raspberry Pi.
- 2020‑12‑17:
Adding BPF target support to the Rust compiler.
- 2020‑12‑17:
Rust on the BBC micro:bit.
- 2020‑12‑17:
rpitx: radio transmission from a Raspberry Pi GPIO pin.
- 2020‑12‑17:
Why CockroachDB chose to be compatible with PostgreSQL.
- 2020‑12‑17:
FFI-safe polymorphism with thin trait objects in Rust.
- 2020‑12‑16:
Niue has launched a major effort to win back control of .nu
- 2020‑12‑16:
What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries.
- 2020‑12‑16:
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language.
- 2020‑12‑15:
Rockstar: a language for creating programs that are also hair metal power ballads.
- 2020‑12‑14:
The case of the extra 40ms. (Not TCP delayed ACKs!)
- 2020‑12‑14:
The cleverest BBC Micro floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd.
- 2020‑12‑14:
Pointer provenance is complicated: we need better language specs.
- 2020‑12‑14:
XML round-trip vulnerabilities in the Golang standard library affecting SAML.
- 2020‑12‑14:
A Golang-style defer mechanism for C.
- 2020‑12‑14:
K: a rewrite-based executable semantic framework for programming languages.
- 2020‑12‑13:
if-then-else had to be invented.
- 2020‑12‑13:
The HP-35.
- 2020‑12‑12:
More batteries included with emacs.
- 2020‑12‑12:
Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPV4 addresses.
- 2020‑12‑11:
Monads and generic associated types in nightly Rust.
- 2020‑12‑10:
An explanation of cameras and lenses with interactive 3D graphics.
- 2020‑12‑09:
"A damn stupid thing to do": CPL and the origins of C.
- 2020‑12‑09:
Architecting the future: Arm, CHERI, and Morello.
- 2020‑12‑08:
Where did combinators come from? Hunting the story of Moses Schönfinkel.
- 2020‑12‑08:
Connecting an ASR33 Teletype to an ESP32.
- 2020‑12‑08:
The Galileo eccentric satellite surprise.
- 2020‑12‑06:
Interval tree clocks.
- 2020‑12‑06:
Exotic Programming Ideas: Datalog and Souffle.
- 2020‑12‑06:
std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++
- 2020‑12‑06:
The future of 32-bit Linux.
- 2020‑12‑05:
Auto for types, but not for concepts in C++.
- 2020‑12‑05:
A Microsoft custom floating point type for efficient inference.
- 2020‑12‑04:
A tale of Template Haskell and cross compilation.
- 2020‑12‑04:
Browser cache partitioning means it is time to say goodbye to Google Fonts.
- 2020‑12‑03:
Painful lessons from the Web PKI, and how you can avoid them.
- 2020‑12‑03:
Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise git repos and other hash graphs.
- 2020‑12‑03:
Generic traits and associated types in Rust.
- 2020‑12‑03:
Futures explained in 200 lines of Rust.
- 2020‑12‑03:
Obsolete trigonometry functions and why we don't use them anymore.
- 2020‑12‑02:
Hey Alexa what did I just type?
- 2020‑12‑02:
Faster asynchronous WAL archiving with pgBackRest to avoid PostgreSQL WAL backlog.
- 2020‑12‑02:
PostgreSQL PostGIS trajectories through space and time.
- 2020‑12‑02:
TenDRA: an architecture-neutral compiler framework with C and C++ front ends.
- 2020‑12‑02:
libFirm: an optimizing compiler back-end.
- 2020‑12‑02:
Cutting up a capsized cargo ship for salvage.
- 2020‑12‑02:
The rendering equation.
- 2020‑12‑01:
Naming the Net: the Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
- 2020‑12‑01:
Design of the Mozilla Firefox CRLite infrastructure.
- 2020‑12‑01:
Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more exciting than it sounds.
- 2020‑12‑01:
The road to the Erlang JIT.
- 2020‑12‑01:
Computer graphics from scratch.
- 2020‑12‑01:
I am an 80 column purist.
- 2020‑12‑01:
How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
- 2020‑12‑01:
ARM and lock-free programming.
- 2020‑11‑30:
biVector.net: geometric algebra for computer graphics, vision, and engineering.
- 2020‑11‑30:
Geometric algebra for computer graphics.
- 2020‑11‑30:
Imaginary numbers are not real: the geometric algebra of spacetime.
- 2020‑11‑30:
ganja.js: geometric algebra for Javascript.
- 2020‑11‑29:
Summary of the Amazon Kinesis outage in the AWS us-east-1 region.
- 2020‑11‑28:
Raytracing in one weekend.
- 2020‑11‑28:
SCION EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture.
- 2020‑11‑28:
L4S: low latency, low loss, scalable throughput Internet service architecture.
- 2020‑11‑28:
Network topology design at 17,000 km/h: LEO satellite Internet.
- 2020‑11‑28:
MP-DCCP multipath tunneling and congestion control in congestion control.
- 2020‑11‑28:
On congestion control (un)fairness and active queue management (AQM).
- 2020‑11‑28:
k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
- 2020‑11‑28:
The great Internet TCP congestion control census.
- 2020‑11‑27:
Existential Haskell.
- 2020‑11‑27:
1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby.
- 2020‑11‑27:
Rebuilding the Racket compiler with Chez Scheme.
- 2020‑11‑27:
The most unusual murder weapons in crime fiction.
- 2020‑11‑27:
An introduction to geometric algebra.
- 2020‑11‑27:
Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction.
- 2020‑11‑26:
An introduction to quaternions.
- 2020‑11‑26:
How io_uring and eBPF will revolutionize programming in Linux.
- 2020‑11‑26:
CBOR for embedded C with a Rust server.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Testing a Rust crate's C API.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Strengthening memory safety in Rust: exploring CHERI capabilities for a safe language.
- 2020‑11‑26:
An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools.
- 2020‑11‑26:
WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Reasoning about colours.
- 2020‑11‑26:
A list of magic numbers encountered while debugging.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Electromagnetism using geometric algebra versus components.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Versor: a generic C++ library for geometric algebras.
- 2020‑11‑26:
Origin of the trefoil radiation warning sign.
- 2020‑11‑25:
An intro to bivectors and rotors: Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine.
- 2020‑11‑25:
An API is a user interface.
- 2020‑11‑25:
Mlang: a modern compiler for the French tax code.
- 2020‑11‑25:
Protect domains that don't send email.
- 2020‑11‑25:
How do people find bugs?
- 2020‑11‑25:
Preserving Flash: why emulation is better than migration.
- 2020‑11‑25:
Making PostgreSQL stored procedures 9X faster in Citus.
- 2020‑11‑25:
PAM bypass: when nullok is not OK.
- 2020‑11‑24:
TypeScript performance.
- 2020‑11‑24:
More subtle TCP performance problems due to Nagle's algorithm and delayed ACKs.
- 2020‑11‑24:
What went wrong with libdispatch: a cautionary tale for async concurrency.
- 2020‑11‑23:
Building your color palette.
- 2020‑11‑23:
The origin of the MIT License.
- 2020‑11‑22:
What if the world is made of cubes? Uncovering the universal geometry of geology.
- 2020‑11‑22:
Even faster bash startup.
- 2020‑11‑22:
Booting from a vinyl record.
- 2020‑11‑20:
Swirled series.
- 2020‑11‑20:
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
- 2020‑11‑20:
How to abuse and fix authenticated encryption without key commitment.
- 2020‑11‑20:
UNIX NEWS and ;login: archives from the 1970s.
- 2020‑11‑19:
Microsoft FrontPage: the good, the bad, the ugly.
- 2020‑11‑19:
Flash animations live forever at the Internet Archive.
- 2020‑11‑19:
The C standard library is not dependency free (but part of Rust's is).
- 2020‑11‑19:
The usability of ownership in Rust.
- 2020‑11‑19:
LambdaDelta: an emulator of the LMI Lambda Lisp Machine.
- 2020‑11‑19:
Archive of LISP Machine, Inc.
- 2020‑11‑19:
Wiby: a search engine for the classic web.
- 2020‑11‑19:
Forensic Architecture investigation of the Beirut port explosion.
- 2020‑11‑19:
On-demand linked libraries for Nix.
- 2020‑11‑19:
Power-cycling a USB port should be simple, right?
- 2020‑11‑19:
I should have loved biology.
- 2020‑11‑18:
Microsoft Pluton: a security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs.
- 2020‑11‑18:
Automatic syntax error recovery in lrpar.
- 2020‑11‑17:
Skija graphics for JVM.
- 2020‑11‑17:
CXX.rs: safe interop between Rust and C++.
- 2020‑11‑17:
The Rust performance book.
- 2020‑11‑17:
2020 Mac Mini: putting Apple Silicon M1 to the test.
- 2020‑11‑17:
Servo moves from Mozilla to the Linux Foundation.
- 2020‑11‑17:
Sponge4: a sponge-like hash function for seeding PRNGs.
- 2020‑11‑17:
From Russia With Love: moving a time series data service from Citus to ClickHouse.
- 2020‑11‑16:
Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA.
- 2020‑11‑16:
PostgreSQL psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet.
- 2020‑11‑16:
pgcli: a command line interface for PostgreSQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
- 2020‑11‑16:
Build systems à la carte: theory and practice (revised and expanded).
- 2020‑11‑16:
How I failed to make LinkedIn fix their broken international domain URL parser.
- 2020‑11‑16:
How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
- 2020‑11‑15:
MLS: message layer security for better encrypted group chat.
- 2020‑11‑15:
Charles proxy for web scraping.
- 2020‑11‑14:
The making of a masterpiece: Bohemian Rhapsody. (YouTube)
- 2020‑11‑14:
Python, the Full Monty: a tested semantics for the Python programming language.
- 2020‑11‑14:
On the expressive power of programming languages.
- 2020‑11‑14:
We need less powerful languages.
- 2020‑11‑14:
Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83.
- 2020‑11‑14:
When 13.3 > 14.
- 2020‑11‑13:
udp2raw-tunnel: UDP over encrypted fake TCP to bypass firewalls.
- 2020‑11‑13:
Why TCP over TCP is a bad idea.
- 2020‑11‑12:
Build your own gpg in Rust.
- 2020‑11‑12:
Replication conflicts in PostgreSQL and how to deal with them.
- 2020‑11‑12:
PostgreSQL observability: a diagram of views and functions for inspecting your database.
- 2020‑11‑12:
Full-text search performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
- 2020‑11‑12:
40ms bug: a missing writev, Nagle's algorithm, and delayed ACKs.
- 2020‑11‑12:
AndroWish: run Tcl/Tk programs on Android.
- 2020‑11‑12:
Propeller: a framework for post-link optimizations.
- 2020‑11‑12:
BOLT: a post-link binary layout optimizer for speeding up large applications.
- 2020‑11‑12:
Exploring PGO for the Rust compiler.
- 2020‑11‑11:
Miniselect: practical and generic (sorted) selection algorithms.
- 2020‑11‑11:
Undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git: choose your own adventure.
- 2020‑11‑11:
What mother never told you about IBM VM service.
- 2020‑11‑10:
Fast Flexible Paxos.
- 2020‑11‑09:
Hegel: an advanced static type checker for JavaScript.
- 2020‑11‑09:
Turing incomplete languages.
- 2020‑11‑09:
Lox: a word that hasn't changed sound or meaning in 8,000 years.
- 2020‑11‑09:
dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python.
- 2020‑11‑09:
Structured concurrency in C++.
- 2020‑11‑09:
dog: a command-line DNS client.
- 2020‑11‑09:
Towards Pijul 1.0.
- 2020‑11‑09:
Parsing the infamous Japanese postal CSV.
- 2020‑11‑08:
LLVM clang 12 support for amd64 micro-architecture levels.
- 2020‑11‑08:
New amd64 micro-architecture levels.
- 2020‑11‑07:
Go in production: what I learned 1 month later.
- 2020‑11‑07:
vt52-fpga
- 2020‑11‑07:
Kristian's interactive 3D printed Stargate with wormhole effect.
- 2020‑11‑06:
Standing on our own two feet: Let's Encrypt trust anchor rollover.
- 2020‑11‑06:
Exception safety in Rust: using transient droppers to prevent memory leaks.
- 2020‑11‑06:
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review.
- 2020‑11‑06:
The elements of style: Unix as literature.
- 2020‑11‑05:
Draft design for generic type parameters in Golang.
- 2020‑11‑05:
Linear scan register allocation.
- 2020‑11‑05:
A first look at the Erlang JIT.
- 2020‑11‑05:
UK's £55M MAST Upgrade fusion experiment (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) has achieved first plasma.
- 2020‑11‑05:
Notes on Paxos.
- 2020‑11‑04:
BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools.
- 2020‑11‑03:
Eight months of NixOS.
- 2020‑11‑03:
Hardware performance counter support (via rdpmc) in Rust.
- 2020‑11‑03:
How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free.
- 2020‑11‑03:
Rust design-for-testability: a survey.
- 2020‑11‑02:
Two workers are quadratically better than one: modelling a queue with PRISM.
- 2020‑11‑02:
Extreme bioinformatics debugging.
- 2020‑11‑02:
Hyper-regional chippy traditions of Britain and Ireland.
- 2020‑11‑02:
Mac OS boot volume layout.
- 2020‑11‑01:
Flutter Web: a fractal of bad design.
- 2020‑11‑01:
NAT Slipstreaming: firewall bypass using SIP ALG.
- 2020‑11‑01:
Using TLA+ to understand a real-world glibc bug.
- 2020‑11‑01:
WordTsar: a Wordstar clone.
- 2020‑11‑01:
WordPerfect for DOS on modern computers.
- 2020‑10‑31:
Dijkstra: the man who carried computer science on his shoulders.
- 2020‑10‑30:
3 Gbps ethernet on the Raspberry Pi compute module.
- 2020‑10‑30:
It's called Medium because it's neither rare nor well done.
- 2020‑10‑30:
A12: advancing network transparency on the desktop.
- 2020‑10‑30:
XPath injection issues are severely underrated.
- 2020‑10‑30:
A tale of a build system bug. (ninja/gcc/Windows)
- 2020‑10‑30:
Experience in production with Flask, Bottle, Tornado, and Twisted.
- 2020‑10‑30:
For complex applications (IDEs) Rust is as productive as Kotlin.
- 2020‑10‑30:
Using a 3D printer "defect" to create a new quasi-textile.
- 2020‑10‑30:
I hate GIS coordinate systems!
- 2020‑10‑30:
Errol: binary floating-point to decimal string conversion algorithm.
- 2020‑10‑30:
Errol: an always correct method for printing floating-point numbers.
- 2020‑10‑29:
SRI and Cambridge University release CHERI software stack for Arm Morello.
- 2020‑10‑29:
The remarkable number 1/89 and the Fibonacci series.
- 2020‑10‑29:
Scaling attacks to hide/spoof one image in another.
- 2020‑10‑28:
Optimizing a join using LIKE by using PostgreSQL FTS instead.
- 2020‑10‑28:
EDSAC 1951 (YouTube)
- 2020‑10‑28:
The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML.
- 2020‑10‑28:
Verona: a research programming language for concurrent ownership.
- 2020‑10‑27:
Better performance with Envoy HTTP connection pooling for PHP applications at Wikipedia.
- 2020‑10‑27:
plocate: a much faster locate.
- 2020‑10‑27:
samurai: a ninja-compatible build tool written in C.
- 2020‑10‑27:
Why was Rachel Whiteread's House demolished?
- 2020‑10‑27:
OpenMPTCProuter uses multipath TCP (MPTCP) to aggregate multiple Internet connections with OpenWrt.
- 2020‑10‑27:
Covenants, easements, and wayleaves: the hidden urban interfaces of the London Underground.
- 2020‑10‑27:
Improving PostgreSQL connection scalability with faster snapshots.
- 2020‑10‑26:
Standard ML in 2020.
- 2020‑10‑25:
PARI/GP: a computer algebra system for fast computations in number theory.
- 2020‑10‑25:
GAP: a system for computational discrete algebra.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Efficient text editing on a PDP-10.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Four dangerous animals of product development.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Static single assignment for functional programmers.
- 2020‑10‑24:
A new map of the standard model of particle physics.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Rejuvenating autoconf.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Ungrammar: a DSL for rust-analyzer's concrete syntax tree.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Understanding static single assignment (SSA) form.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Compiling with continuations, or without? Whatever.
- 2020‑10‑24:
Compiling without continuations.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Deprecating SHA-1 in OpenPGP.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Avoiding overload in AWS distributed systems by putting the smaller service in control.
- 2020‑10‑23:
RPKI secure BGP routing Q&A.
- 2020‑10‑23:
cson: CoffeeScript object notation.
- 2020‑10‑23:
jacl: just another configuration language.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Better than JSON?
- 2020‑10‑23:
StrictYAML.
- 2020‑10‑23:
How Apple is organized for innovation.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Journeying into XDP implementing DNS RRL.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Debugging async generator errors in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Private methods on a public trait in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑23:
Inside Rust std::io::Error.
- 2020‑10‑22:
Proving that 1 + 1 = 10 in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑22:
A pitfall of Rust's move/copy/drop semantics and zeroing data.
- 2020‑10‑22:
The story behind Markdown.
- 2020‑10‑22:
Non-generic inner functions in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑22:
Nickel: better configuration for less, inspired by Nix.
- 2020‑10‑22:
Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
- 2020‑10‑22:
What's new in OAuth 2.1?
- 2020‑10‑22:
AWS NLBs and mixed up TCP connections.
- 2020‑10‑22:
TPC-H performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
- 2020‑10‑22:
PEG: ambiguity, precision, and confusion.
- 2020‑10‑21:
The TRIPS project: an explicit data graph execution (EDGE) processor.
- 2020‑10‑21:
Roofline model of computer performance for HPC applications.
- 2020‑10‑21:
The asymptotic cost of address translation on memory access time.
- 2020‑10‑21:
The myth of RAM.
- 2020‑10‑21:
Lezer: a parser system in JavaScript.
- 2020‑10‑21:
A list of attempts to make Python faster.
- 2020‑10‑20:
AWS and their billions of dollars of IPv4 addresses.
- 2020‑10‑20:
Why mmap is faster than system calls.
- 2020‑10‑20:
Validating UTF-8 in less than one instruction per byte.
- 2020‑10‑20:
The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance.
- 2020‑10‑20:
Lambda the penultimate / lambda to SKI, semantically.
- 2020‑10‑20:
Binary lambda calculus.
- 2020‑10‑20:
Assorted thoughts on Zig and Rust.
- 2020‑10‑20:
Building a computer in Conway's Game of Life.
- 2020‑10‑19:
Euler's formula: a complex guide.
- 2020‑10‑19:
The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux.
- 2020‑10‑19:
BlockQuicksort: avoiding branch mispredictions in Quicksort.
- 2020‑10‑19:
ips4o: in-place parallel superscalar samplesort.
- 2020‑10‑19:
The case for a learned sorting algorithm.
- 2020‑10‑19:
MONOSPACE: a JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes.
- 2020‑10‑18:
Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd.
- 2020‑10‑17:
Keeping secrets: Diffie-Hellman and the NSA.
- 2020‑10‑17:
What they don't tell you about demand paging in school.
- 2020‑10‑17:
Building a 10BASE5 "Thick Ethernet" network.
- 2020‑10‑17:
Cryptographic signing using ssh-keygen(1) with a FIDO authenticator.
- 2020‑10‑17:
MyST: a markdown flavor and parser for Sphinx.
- 2020‑10‑16:
So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
- 2020‑10‑16:
The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences.
- 2020‑10‑15:
The fascinating influence of the Cyclone programming language.
- 2020‑10‑15:
Optional parameters in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑15:
Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC codec in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑15:
Improving security in s2n, Amazon's TLS implementation.
- 2020‑10‑15:
Unifying the technical interview.
- 2020‑10‑14:
Room-temperature superconductivity achieved for the first time (at high pressure between diamond anvils).
- 2020‑10‑14:
libsixel: DEC terminal graphics.
- 2020‑10‑14:
Improving Bluetooth audio quality on Linux.
- 2020‑10‑13:
Applying union-find for real life performance wins.
- 2020‑10‑12:
Building the mathematical library of the future with Lean.
- 2020‑10‑12:
Overloading by return type in C++.
- 2020‑10‑11:
GPU-accelerated ODE solving in R with Julia.
- 2020‑10‑11:
Why we need a C-compatible Rust crate for bitfields.
- 2020‑10‑10:
Asterisk.
- 2020‑10‑10:
Crux: exhaustive symbolic testing for C, C++, and Rust.
- 2020‑10‑10:
Alphora-style database diagramming.
- 2020‑10‑10:
Progress report on Rust Cranelift backend.
- 2020‑10‑10:
xchg rax, rax; x64 Assembly for the advanced.
- 2020‑10‑10:
CSV parser benchmark game.
- 2020‑10‑10:
Loading a CSV file at the speed limit of NVMe storage.
- 2020‑10‑08:
The Eisel-Lemire string to double precision floating point conversion algorithm.
- 2020‑10‑08:
OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
- 2020‑10‑08:
Using CTE to do a binary search of a large table with non-indexed correlated data in PostgreSQL.
- 2020‑10‑07:
The origin of the VM/370 time-sharing system.
- 2020‑10‑07:
zheap: reinvented PostgreSQL storage.
- 2020‑10‑07:
Notes on reviving and extending Marvin, a typeface for Visions magazine.
- 2020‑10‑07:
From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on with Grapefruit.
- 2020‑10‑07:
USB3: why it's a bit harder than USB2.
- 2020‑10‑06:
DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion.
- 2020‑10‑06:
Telharmonium: the first significant electronic musical instrument.
- 2020‑10‑06:
Q3 Linux touchpad like Macbook update.
- 2020‑10‑06:
TIME for a WTF MySQL moment.
- 2020‑10‑06:
From object algebras to tagless-final interpreters.
- 2020‑10‑06:
Cyclone Scheme: a new R7RS compiler.
- 2020‑10‑06:
FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
- 2020‑10‑06:
Incompatible validation criteria for Ed25519.
- 2020‑10‑06:
s7: Scheme as an extension language for other applications.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Type-level programming in Rust.
- 2020‑10‑04:
How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU, with our home-built C compiler.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Lambda calculus, Church numerals, and Graham's number.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Drop order in Rust: it's tricky.
- 2020‑10‑04:
A future for debugging Rust.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Revisiting a 'smaller Rust'.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Applying "make invalid states unrepresentable".
- 2020‑10‑04:
Tales from the science fiction bar-room.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Saving space (basically) for free by re-ordering columns in PostgreSQL.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Magic Wand Rechargeable teardown.
- 2020‑10‑04:
SaferNode: a Python script to isolate npm inside short-lived Docker containers.
- 2020‑10‑04:
A web of trust for npm.
- 2020‑10‑04:
HOPL: an online historical encyclopaedia of programming languages.
- 2020‑10‑04:
chibicc: a small C compiler.
- 2020‑10‑04:
Lambda calculus diagrams.
- 2020‑10‑03:
Computer science metanotation is a barrier to entry.
- 2020‑10‑03:
System font typography on 8 bit micros.
- 2020‑10‑03:
Falsehoods programmers believe about map coordinates.
- 2020‑10‑03:
Compiler hardening and exploit mitigations for unsafe Rust.
- 2020‑10‑02:
Toward an API for the real numbers: exact arithmetic with decidable equality comparisons.
- 2020‑10‑01:
outflank-mailman: stop Mailman from breaking DKIM signatures.
- 2020‑09‑29:
Rob Pike on colour blindness.
- 2020‑09‑28:
FPspy: Spying on the floating point behavior of existing, unmodified scientific applications.
- 2020‑09‑28:
The weight of buildings and the raising of Chicago.
- 2020‑09‑28:
BBC Micro Elite source code and commentary.
- 2020‑09‑27:
A typed, algebraic approach to parser combinators.
- 2020‑09‑27:
Modular, composable, typed optimizations in the tagless-final style.
- 2020‑09‑26:
Guided tour of Bunnie's Precursor motherboard.
- 2020‑09‑26:
Techade quiz: A near-impossible guessing game of tech through the decades.
- 2020‑09‑25:
A PEG parser for CPython.
- 2020‑09‑25:
Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM with Julia and rr.
- 2020‑09‑25:
Finding a goroutine bug with TLA+.
- 2020‑09‑25:
A pipeline made of airbags: live upgrades vs immutable infrastructure.
- 2020‑09‑24:
Traits as an emergent feature of Julia.
- 2020‑09‑24:
Bean Machine: a declarative probabilistic programming language for efficient programmable inference.
- 2020‑09‑24:
How the CPython compiler works.
- 2020‑09‑24:
Fast incremental compilation of Kotlin.
- 2020‑09‑24:
Void in Haskell is a smell.
- 2020‑09‑24:
Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS.
- 2020‑09‑23:
Delivering 45x faster percentiles using PostgreSQL, Citus, and t-digest.
- 2020‑09‑23:
JuliaCon2020: Julia is production ready!
- 2020‑09‑23:
Haskell's children: Rust, Idris, Julia.
- 2020‑09‑23:
On YOLOsec and FOMOsec.
- 2020‑09‑22:
Data and Reality, 2nd edition.
- 2020‑09‑21:
Range: My least favorite Rust type.
- 2020‑09‑21:
John Regehr's integers in C quiz.
- 2020‑09‑21:
A new X.509 certificate chain validator for LibreSSL.
- 2020‑09‑21:
Tail call optimization and debugging.
- 2020‑09‑21:
A new backend for Cranelift: instruction selection.
- 2020‑09‑21:
Speeding up C++ compilation.
- 2020‑09‑21:
Dennis Ritchie's reflections on software research.
- 2020‑09‑20:
Why not Rust?
- 2020‑09‑20:
Taking MonetDB/e for a taxi ride.
- 2020‑09‑20:
FreeBSD's Subversion to Git migration: Why?
- 2020‑09‑20:
LLVM's getelementptr, by example.
- 2020‑09‑19:
What's the fastest way to chill your beer?
- 2020‑09‑19:
"Fake COTS" and the one-day rule.
- 2020‑09‑18:
A Cuban numbers station cryptologic mystery.
- 2020‑09‑18:
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
- 2020‑09‑18:
Surfaces vs airborne: what we know now about Covid-19 transmission.
- 2020‑09‑18:
Taming nalgebra's Rustdoc.
- 2020‑09‑18:
Let's Encrypt's new ECDSA root and intermediate certificates.
- 2020‑09‑17:
DNS Flag Day 2020: what you need to know.
- 2020‑09‑17:
Maximizing DNS qname minimization.
- 2020‑09‑17:
Search and replace tricks with ripgrep.
- 2020‑09‑16:
The plot against Birmingham.
- 2020‑09‑16:
USB-C was supposed to simplify, but it's a total mess.
- 2020‑09‑16:
How America became obsessed with dips, sauces, dressings, and "food lube".
- 2020‑09‑16:
Efficient parallel and incremental parsing of practical context-free languages.
- 2020‑09‑16:
The missing datacenter OS.
- 2020‑09‑16:
Tips for PostgreSQL bulk data loading.
- 2020‑09‑16:
Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System.
- 2020‑09‑16:
A formalization and correctness proof of the CGOL language system / Pratt parser. (1975)
- 2020‑09‑16:
Differentiable dithering with gradient descent.
- 2020‑09‑15:
Which parsing approach?
- 2020‑09‑15:
Keeping time at NIST.
- 2020‑09‑15:
Debian-installer, mdadm configuration, and the bad blocks controversy.
- 2020‑09‑14:
Creating high-quality PDF/A documents using LaTeX.
- 2020‑09‑14:
What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
- 2020‑09‑13:
Diversity Explorer: ethnicity across England and Wales.
- 2020‑09‑13:
Design out waste in household electrical goods.
- 2020‑09‑12:
How GitLab.com upgraded PostgreSQL.
- 2020‑09‑11:
Getting MacOS style hotkeys working in GNU/Linux.
- 2020‑09‑10:
Leonardo da Vinci's ingenious design for a self-supporting bridge.
- 2020‑09‑10:
5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day.
- 2020‑09‑09:
Hacking Ethernet out of FibreChannel cards.
- 2020‑09‑09:
Loko Scheme: an optimizing R6RS Scheme compiler.
- 2020‑09‑08:
An explainer on Ed25519 clamping.
- 2020‑09‑08:
What we didn't get: science fiction technologies that remained fictional.
- 2020‑09‑07:
How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time.
- 2020‑09‑07:
Named parameters using designated initializers in C++20.
- 2020‑09‑07:
The Capsule hash trie collections library for Java.
- 2020‑09‑06:
Lessons from the GNOME patent troll incident.
- 2020‑09‑05:
TOTP in 20 lines of Python.
- 2020‑09‑05:
The origins of XXX as a FIXME comment marker.
- 2020‑09‑04:
Some historical reflections on NSFNET.
- 2020‑09‑04:
Don't forget: the plural of anecdote is data.
- 2020‑09‑04:
Property testing and formal verification / symbolic execution in Rust with KLEE.
- 2020‑09‑03:
A demonstrator's guide to helmets.
- 2020‑09‑03:
The femme's guide to riot fashion: this season's hottest looks for the discerning anarchist.
- 2020‑09‑02:
Butler Lampson's updated and expanded hints and principles for computer system design.
- 2020‑09‑02:
On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap.
- 2020‑09‑02:
Write tracking for Nim.
- 2020‑09‑02:
The problem with C compatibility in C++.
- 2020‑09‑02:
jsonptr: using the wuffs memory-safe, zero-allocation JSON decoder.
- 2020‑09‑02:
The wuffs programming language: wrangling untrusted file formats safely.
- 2020‑09‑01:
Lunar: a Mac OS X utility to adjust the brightness of your external display.
- 2020‑09‑01:
PostgreSQL 13: don't let replication slots kill your primary.
- 2020‑09‑01:
This is not a sonic boom, it's a vapor cone.
- 2020‑09‑01:
Taking a look at Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations.
- 2020‑09‑01:
How Arlo got injected into Ruby.
- 2020‑09‑01:
Understanding the X.500 directory.
- 2020‑08‑31:
Cracking Dlang Phobos pseudorandom UUIDs.
- 2020‑08‑31:
WebAssembly reference types in Wasmtime.
- 2020‑08‑31:
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
- 2020‑08‑31:
Sum types in Julia and Rust.
- 2020‑08‑30:
Python daemon ate my syslog message.
- 2020‑08‑30:
contained.af CTF.
- 2020‑08‑29:
WebAssembly troubles: WebAssembly is not a stack machine.
- 2020‑08‑29:
Travel demand modeling: the broken algorithm that poisoned American transportation.
- 2020‑08‑28:
Objective Rust.
- 2020‑08‑28:
Finger trees explained anew, and slightly simplified.
- 2020‑08‑28:
100 years to solve an integral: a history of the Mercator projection and the integral of the secant.
- 2020‑08‑28:
Rust-style futures in C with libuv.
- 2020‑08‑28:
Using Microsoft Word with git and pandoc.
- 2020‑08‑27:
PiSight: a Raspberry Pi inside an Apple iSight webcam.
- 2020‑08‑27:
Making QUIC quicker with NIC offload.
- 2020‑08‑27:
The design and implementation of BIND, a "Domain Names" resolver.
- 2020‑08‑27:
The design and implementation of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) servers.
- 2020‑08‑27:
BIND: the Berkeley Internet Name Domain server.
- 2020‑08‑26:
UMASH: a fast and universal enough hash.
- 2020‑08‑26:
HTMLified C standard ISO/IEC 9899:2017.
- 2020‑08‑26:
PCI Express retimers vs. redrivers: an eye-popping difference.
- 2020‑08‑25:
Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7.
- 2020‑08‑25:
Functional programming in m4.
- 2020‑08‑25:
Oracle to PostgreSQL: cursors and common table expressions.
- 2020‑08‑25:
Signifier: a brutalist response to the 17th century Oxford Fell typefaces.
- 2020‑08‑25:
Keeping CALM: when is distributed consistency easy?
- 2020‑08‑25:
Updating the PostgreSQL root.crt file for TLS client auth.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Recent advances in IPv6 security: Addressing.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Writing a fuzzer test case generator in Rust for a programming language such as Wasm.
- 2020‑08‑24:
BPF CO-RE: compile once, run everywhere for BPF portability.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Draw your own fourier epicycles.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
- 2020‑08‑24:
Building resilient services at Amazon Prime Video with chaos engineering.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Here I stand, free: noexcept allocators and an inclusive C++ STL.
- 2020‑08‑24:
A clean start for the web?
- 2020‑08‑24:
Javascript generators, meet XPath.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window.
- 2020‑08‑24:
The BLISS programming language: a history.
- 2020‑08‑24:
Never run `python` in your downloads folder.
- 2020‑08‑23:
As above, so below: Bare metal Rust generics.
- 2020‑08‑23:
Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics.
- 2020‑08‑22:
Mesh: a compacting memory allocator for C/C++.
- 2020‑08‑22:
Understanding memory fragmentation in GHC Haskell.
- 2020‑08‑21:
How NAT traversal works.
- 2020‑08‑21:
Nyxt: an extensible keyboard-oriented web browser written in Common LISP.
- 2020‑08‑21:
Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons from Firefox?
- 2020‑08‑21:
Google Chromium's impact on root DNS traffic.
- 2020‑08‑21:
Adding a microSD slot to a reMarkable tablet.
- 2020‑08‑21:
ARX, Arthur and RISC OS.
- 2020‑08‑20:
Code smell: concrete abstraction.
- 2020‑08‑20:
How the Linux kernel starts on ARM32.
- 2020‑08‑20:
Can't you just right click? Running unsigned code on Mac OS X.
- 2020‑08‑20:
A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python.
- 2020‑08‑20:
A documentation system: tutorials / howtos / reference / explanation.
- 2020‑08‑19:
Leading-trim: a future CSS spec for better vertical spacing in digital typography.
- 2020‑08‑19:
How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL.
- 2020‑08‑19:
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
- 2020‑08‑19:
Contention adapting search tree: Erlang's new scalable ETS ordered set data structure.
- 2020‑08‑19:
Open problems in robotics.
- 2020‑08‑19:
Speeding up json parsing in Golang.
- 2020‑08‑19:
Switching from i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04.
- 2020‑08‑19:
The case of the top secret iPod.
- 2020‑08‑18:
The medieval university duopoly in England.
- 2020‑08‑18:
How to break everything by fuzz testing.
- 2020‑08‑18:
Fuzzing a C/C++ API with DeepState.
- 2020‑08‑18:
Testing GNU coreutils with KLEE.
- 2020‑08‑18:
Measuring the coverage achieved by symbolic execution.
- 2020‑08‑17:
Responsible and effective bugfinding.
- 2020‑08‑17:
Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux.
- 2020‑08‑17:
Proposed register-based Golang calling convention.
- 2020‑08‑17:
A first look at IPv4 transfer market misuse.
- 2020‑08‑17:
A 35-year-old bug in patch found during the 2.11BSD restoration project.
- 2020‑08‑16:
The Gartner hype cycle is ... hype.
- 2020‑08‑16:
Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom.
- 2020‑08‑16:
daScript: a high performance scripting language.
- 2020‑08‑15:
How the Intel 8086 distributes power and clock signals.
- 2020‑08‑14:
The optical mouse, and an architectural methodology for smart digital sensors. (Xerox PARC, 1981)
- 2020‑08‑14:
Constructive vs predicative data types.
- 2020‑08‑14:
Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types.
- 2020‑08‑14:
Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary Linux kernel modules.
- 2020‑08‑14:
The newspaper of the air: early experiments with radio facsimile.
- 2020‑08‑14:
DNS problems with conntrack and Kubernetes.
- 2020‑08‑14:
Mpemba effect: what conditions make hot water freeze faster than cold water?
- 2020‑08‑13:
Rust does not have a stable ABI.
- 2020‑08‑13:
Interactive HTML trees with no JavaScript and no CSS.
- 2020‑08‑13:
Handles are the better pointers.
- 2020‑08‑13:
A guide to contiguous data in Rust.
- 2020‑08‑12:
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
- 2020‑08‑12:
Building a better Golang linker.
- 2020‑08‑11:
Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
- 2020‑08‑11:
Take a virtual tour of ORNL's supercomputer center.