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2020-01-23: A floating point bit twiddling toy.
2020-01-23: The difficulties of retiring Internet Explorer.
2020-01-23: New browser on the block: Flow, from Ekioh in Cambridge.
2020-01-22: The history of HAProxy.
2020-01-21: A Unix quiz.
2020-01-21: axel: lightweight CLI download accelerator.
2020-01-21: The hunt for the fastest zero: when does C++ use memset?
2020-01-20: 'Remarkable' computational complexity proof that MIP* = RE.
2020-01-19: IEEE 802.3cg 10Mb/s single-pair Ethernet: a guide.
2020-01-19: 10Mbit/s single-pair Ethernet enables connected intelligence in 2020.
2020-01-19: The soundness pledge in Rust.
2020-01-19: Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: a Redditor's colossal feat of worldbuilding.
2020-01-19: C++ coroutines gcc initial implementation pushed to master.
2020-01-19: No, dynamic type systems are not inherently more open.
2020-01-19: The Cryptopals cryptography challenges.
2020-01-18: About face (recognition).
2020-01-17: eSQLate: Build minimum viable admin panels quickly.
2020-01-18: fast_template: really easy blogging with GitHub Pages.
2020-01-16: Mistakes were made: huge ERP screwups.
2020-01-16: What is the random oracle model and why is it collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions?
2020-01-16: Autocomplete as an interface.
2020-01-15: Is TypeScript worth it?
2020-01-16: Two edge cases in PostgreSQL full-text search.
2020-01-16: EASYCHAIR: CIA covert listening devices.
2020-01-16: Making the LinkedIn A/B testing engine 20x faster.
2020-01-15: How to identify an "immoral maze".
2020-01-15: Some advantages of the Caddy http server.
2020-01-14: The split personalities of "brutalist" web development.
2020-01-14: The few remaining uses of the name "Macintosh".
2020-01-14: CSVlint: A ruby gem to validate CSV files and check their syntax and contents.
2020-01-14: CleverCSV: a Python package for handling messy CSV files.
2020-01-13: 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers.
2020-01-13: Reflections on Mercurial's journey to Python 3.
2020-01-13: wasm3: The fastest WebAssembly interpreter.
2020-01-13: The Niland geyser: a moving mudpot.
2020-01-12: The deep sea.
2020-01-12: Visual subnet calculator.
2020-01-12: HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience.
2020-01-11: Scheme: R7RS versus R6RS.
2020-01-11: T1: a programming language for constrained environments, derived from BearSSL.
2020-01-11: A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now.
2020-01-10: Ironies of automation.
2020-01-10: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?
2020-01-10: kudeki-chain: git commits with increasing numbers of leading zeroes.
2020-01-09: The birth of the Internet in the UK. (YouTube)
2020-01-09: Web front-end performance checklist 2020.
2020-01-09: Fast IPv4 to hostname lookups: PostgreSQL vs ClickHouse.
2020-01-09: A brief history of badge ribbons at sf conventions.
2020-01-08: The many places you can set PostgreSQL configuration parameters.
2020-01-08: How to effectively dump PostgreSQL databases.
2020-01-08: Neater async failure handling in Typescript.
2020-01-08: Prometheus for beginners.
2020-01-07: How to start a blog using Hugo.
2020-01-07: EMI spikes from gas lift chairs can cause display interference.
2020-01-07: SHA-1 is a shambles. (less technical overview)
2020-01-07: SHA-1 is a shambles: first chosen-prefix collision on SHA-1 and application to the PGP web of trust.
2020-01-07: Pegasus Mail, 30 years on.
2020-01-07: Execute-only pages vs PAN (privileged access never) on arm64.
2020-01-07: Debian Buster sysvinit notes.
2020-01-07: Ethernet power line adapter radio noise interference.
2020-01-07: Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool.
2020-01-06: ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500 billion rows on an Intel NUC.
2020-01-06: Files are fraught with peril.
2020-01-05: Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice.
2020-01-05: Linus on spinlocks and schedulers.
2020-01-04: Notes on technical writing.
2020-01-04: Mutexes are faster than spinlocks.
2020-01-04: What's what in the world of TeX.
2020-01-04: Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same.
2020-01-03: Which emoji scissors can cut?
2020-01-03: An entomologist rates emoji ants.
2020-01-03: Interior mutability patterns in Rust.
2020-01-03: Spinlocks considered harmful in Rust.
2020-01-02: Serving dynamic vector tiles from PostGIS.
2020-01-02: Why MemSQL uses skiplist indexes.
2020-01-02: A brief history of liquid computers.
2020-01-02: I'm not feeling the async backpressure.
2020-01-02: Polio eradication program faces hard choices as endgame strategy falters.
2020-01-01: Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
2020-01-01: Semigroup resonance FizzBuzz.
2020-01-01: Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust.
2020-01-01: Measuring mutexes, spinlocks, and how bad the Linux scheduler really is.
2020-01-01: Right-to-left styling: a guide on how to style for RTL in CSS.

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