Tony Finch – link log

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• 2024‑12‑30: Revealing peanut butter overheads with flame graphs.
• 2024‑12‑28: Ferris-on-Air: An experimental Wi-Fi stack for the ESP32 in Rust.
• 2024‑12‑28: Von Neumann ordinals look like leaves.
• 2024‑12‑24: Safety vs performance in C, C++, and Rust sort implementations.
• 2024‑12‑23: diman: A Rust library for checking units of measure at compile time.
• 2024‑12‑21: Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes.
• 2024‑12‑21: A phantom memory leak that wasn't there.
• 2024‑12‑19: Fetching RSS/Atom feeds respectfully with curl.
• 2024‑12‑19: Please stop citing TIOBE.
• 2024‑12‑17: Murder mystery: GCC builds failing after sbuild refactoring.
• 2024‑12‑16: Revisiting Hubris appconfigs.
• 2024‑12‑16: Crash recovery in Exhubris.
• 2024‑12‑16: OpenERV energy recovery ventilator.
• 2024‑12‑16: Parse me, baby, one more time: bypassing HTML sanitizers via parsing differentials.
• 2024‑12‑13: Things you never wanted to know about Golang interfaces.
• 2024‑12‑13: UNIX Review magazine interviews Larry Tesler.
• 2024‑12‑10: Gyroscopic Gyros.
• 2024‑12‑10: Common misconceptions about compilers.
• 2024‑12‑05: Faster SQL pagination with keysets, continued.
• 2024‑12‑04: Inheritance was invented as a performance hack in Simula.
• 2024‑12‑04: The Hoare cube.
• 2024‑12‑04: OKLCH colour picker and converter.
• 2024‑12‑04: Egoless engineering.
• 2024‑12‑01: Typst as a programming language.
• 2024‑12‑01: DELETEs are difficult.
• 2024‑11‑30: Compilation on the GPU? A feasibility study.
• 2024‑11‑30: Everything you never wanted to know about linker script.
• 2024‑11‑30: Combining git repos with josh-filter.
• 2024‑11‑29: Slow networking between cloud VMs on the same host.
• 2024‑11‑29: Using Pandoc and Typst to produce PDFs.
• 2024‑11‑29: Coded character sets history and development.
• 2024‑11‑28: Wislist for Linux from the mold linker's POV.
• 2024‑11‑27: if constexpr requires requires { requires } in C++.
• 2024‑11‑27: Structured editing and incremental parsing.
• 2024‑11‑27: Offpunk: an offline-first command-line web browser.
• 2024‑11‑27: Chawan: a web browser for your terminal.
• 2024‑11‑26: A solution to the onion problem of J. Kenji López-Alt.
• 2024‑11‑25: Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies.
• 2024‑11‑24: Petnames: A humane approach to secure decentralized naming.
• 2024‑11‑23: copycat: intercept system calls using seccomp.
• 2024‑11‑22: Syntax error recovery in parsing expression grammars (PEG parsers).
• 2024‑11‑21: SQL, homomorphisms, and constraint satisfaction problems.
• 2024‑11‑21: Modern hardware for future databases.
• 2024‑11‑21: Analytical anti-aliasing.
• 2024‑11‑20: Map keys and lifetimes in Rust.
• 2024‑11‑20: How did software get so reliable without proof?
• 2024‑11‑20: Nominal types for storing, structural types for manipulating.
• 2024‑11‑20: Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm.
• 2024‑11‑19: How many values does a boolean have?
• 2024‑11‑17: Styling Graphviz with CSS.
• 2024‑11‑11: Precise inference of expressive units of measurement types.
• 2024‑11‑11: Type inference for units of measure.
• 2024‑11‑10: Formalising graphs with coinduction in Agda.
• 2024‑11‑10: The design of a self-compiling C transpiler targeting POSIX shell.
• 2024‑11‑10: The principles of Mr. Harrison's longitude clock / maritime chronometer.
• 2024‑11‑09: Texture-less GPU text rendering.
• 2024‑11‑09: Known attacks and a primer on elliptic curve cryptography.
• 2024‑11‑08: The main features of CPL. (1963)
• 2024‑11‑08: The mechanical evaluation of expressions: Landin on the lambda calculus. (1964)
• 2024‑11‑08: CPL: failed venture or noble ancestor?
• 2024‑11‑08: Some proposals for improving the efficiency of ALGOL 60 — Strachey & Wilkes.
• 2024‑11‑07: Bringing faster stack unwinding exceptions to Rust.
• 2024‑11‑06: Mimic: a fast System/370 simulator for the IBM RT PC. (1987)
• 2024‑11‑05: Resurrection: the journal of the Computer Conservation Society.
• 2024‑11‑05: The Autocode programs developed for the Manchester University computers. (1958)
• 2024‑11‑05: The official Aztec C online museum.
• 2024‑11‑05: In search of types.
• 2024‑11‑04: Macros, safety, and SOA (struct-of-arrays) in Rust.
• 2024‑11‑04: A Hamiltonian circuit for Rubik's Cube.
• 2024‑11‑04: C++, complexity, and compiler bugs.
• 2024‑11‑03: qcp: QUIC remote file copy.
• 2024‑11‑03: RRB vector: a practical general purpose immutable sequence.
• 2024‑11‑02: Why PostgreSQL pg_dump is amazing.
• 2024‑11‑02: The Lounge: a‎ modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client in TypeScript.
• 2024‑11‑01: Emacs org mode syntax cheat sheet.
• 2024‑11‑01: ActivityBot: a simple ActivityPub bot server in PHP.
• 2024‑11‑01: CIL: C intermediate language, a front end for linters.
• 2024‑11‑01: ASCII control characters in the terminal.
• 2024‑10‑31: C++ ABI compatibility: the day the standard library died.
• 2024‑10‑30: malloc(0) & realloc(…，0) ≠ 0
• 2024‑10‑29: TCP SYN spoofing attack directs abuse complaints at Tor relays.
• 2024‑10‑28: The widely cited studies on mouse vs. keyboard efficiency are completely bogus.
• 2024‑10‑28: OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it.
• 2024‑10‑28: Old MacDonald had a barcode, E-I-EICAR.
• 2024‑10‑28: What’s new in POSIX 2024 XCU commands and utilities.
• 2024‑10‑27: A new git-repack algorithm shrunk Microsoft’s Javascript monorepo git size by 94%.
• 2024‑10‑26: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted.
• 2024‑10‑24: Why write a new RTOS for CHERIoT?
• 2024‑10‑24: Zero or sign extend.
• 2024‑10‑23: Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner.
• 2024‑10‑23: Breaking Bad: how compilers break constant-time cryptography implementations.
• 2024‑10‑22: Rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.
• 2024‑10‑22: A Mathematica interpreter in Typescript.
• 2024‑10‑22: On the problem of naming things.
• 2024‑10‑21: Jujutsu (jj) in practice.
• 2024‑10‑21: Learn Rust the dangerous way.
• 2024‑10‑20: Better defunctionalization through lambda set specialization.
• 2024‑10‑20: QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet.
• 2024‑10‑20: The origins of the term “daemon” in computing.
• 2024‑10‑19: Clapping Music for two flip-disc displays.
• 2024‑10‑18: superlinker: a tool for reinterpreting ELF executables and shared libraries.
• 2024‑10‑18: French supreme court decides about museums’ secret 3D scans of their sculptures.
• 2024‑10‑18: The strange cases of consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies.
• 2024‑10‑17: C89 draft standard in HTML.
• 2024‑10‑15: The origin and pronunciation of "GHIBLI".
• 2024‑10‑12: The road to OCIv2 images: what's wrong with tar?
• 2024‑10‑11: Safety goggles for alchemists: the path towards safer transmute in Rust.
• 2024‑10‑11: Quantifying the Kevin Bacon game: a statistical exploration of Hollywood’s most connected actors.
• 2024‑10‑10: Designing a fast concurrent hash table in Rust.
• 2024‑10‑09: SQLite's use of Tcl.
• 2024‑10‑08: Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io
• 2024‑10‑08: The origins of PostScript.
• 2024‑10‑08: Tartufo searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets.
• 2024‑10‑08: Z.200 CHILL: the ITU-T programming language.
• 2024‑10‑07: A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology.
• 2024‑10‑07: Big ball of mud: the de facto standard software architecture.
• 2024‑10‑07: AVX bitwise ternary logic and the Amiga blitter.
• 2024‑10‑07: Octothorpes: hashtags for the open Internet.
• 2024‑10‑06: The Gleam programming language is pragmatic.
• 2024‑10‑06: Playing with PostgreSQL and the BOLT linker layout optimizer.
• 2024‑10‑05: Towards standards for handwritten zero and oh: much ado about nothing (and a letter). (1967)
• 2024‑10‑04: Persi Diaconis: Why did Markov invent Markov Chains? (video)
• 2024‑10‑04: Blessed.rs: an unofficial guide to the Rust crates ecosystem.
• 2024‑10‑04: "A=B", a book about computer methods of discovery and proof of hypergeometric identities.
• 2024‑10‑03: Terminal colours are tricky.
• 2024‑10‑02: Height hunt: a quest to find and visit every possible road vehicle height restriction sign in the UK.
• 2024‑10‑02: TigerBeetle code style.
• 2024‑10‑02: An introduction to the Filament hardware design language.
• 2024‑10‑01: The case of the missing increment: Golden Cove twice as fast as expected?!
• 2024‑09‑30: Beyond multi-core parallelism in Rust: faster Mandelbrot with SIMD.
• 2024‑09‑29: A p-adic representation of the rational numbers for fast easy arithmetic. (1979)
• 2024‑09‑28: The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t in Gentoo.
• 2024‑09‑27: Malicious SHA-1.
• 2024‑09‑26: Attacking UNIX systems via CUPS.
• 2024‑09‑26: Rewriting Rust.
• 2024‑09‑25: A brief history of microprogramming.
• 2024‑09‑24: A few secure random bytes in PostgreSQL without pgcrypto.
• 2024‑09‑23: An overview of cross-architecture portability problems.
• 2024‑09‑23: “Truly hygienic” let statements in Rust.
• 2024‑09‑22: The roots of Work-as-Done and Work-as-Imagined.
• 2024‑09‑21: Questioning the criteria for evaluating non-cryptographic hash functions.
• 2024‑09‑21: The working archivist's guide to enthusiast CD-ROM archiving tools.
• 2024‑09‑21: The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler.
• 2024‑09‑19: Digital signatures and how to avoid them.
• 2024‑09‑19: 20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the mainline kernel.
• 2024‑09‑18: Use IDENTITY columns instead of SERIAL in PostgreSQL.
• 2024‑09‑18: Database replication design spectrum.
• 2024‑09‑18: Handling 8kHz raw mouse input on Windows.
• 2024‑09‑18: Bézier curve arc length parametrizations.
• 2024‑09‑18: Emptying the dishwasher With systems theory.
• 2024‑09‑17: Watching letters: a history of Latvian orthography.
• 2024‑09‑17: Ratchets in software development.
• 2024‑09‑17: The centrality of stupidity in mathematics.
• 2024‑09‑16: Ante: A low-level functional language with algebraic effects and safe shared mutability.
• 2024‑09‑15: Turning disposable vapes into a fast charge power bank.
• 2024‑09‑15: AT&T’s CRISP Hobbits.
• 2024‑09‑15: A time consuming vDSO pitfall for 32-bit code on arm64 Linux.
• 2024‑09‑14: Speeding up Valkey to over 1M requests per second with memory prefetching.
• 2024‑09‑14: Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch.
• 2024‑09‑13: Energy after fire.
• 2024‑09‑12: smolweb HTML specification
• 2024‑09‑10: Invisible salamanders are not what you think: AEAD’s lack of key commitment.
• 2024‑09‑10: Signatures are like backups.
• 2024‑09‑09: Debunking CISC vs RISC code density.
• 2024‑09‑09: A low-level look at A-normal form.
• 2024‑09‑09: What is the best pointer tagging method?
• 2024‑09‑06: Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority: How we turned MBTA Red Line equipment into a car speedometer.
• 2024‑09‑04: LSP: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
• 2024‑09‑04: OptView2: inspect missed optimizations by LLVM clang.
• 2024‑09‑03: Is this Rust trait sealed or not?
• 2024‑09‑03: Unmaking the Makefiles: exorcising the Rust compiler test suite one file at a time.
• 2024‑09‑02: Parsing awk is tricky.
• 2024‑09‑01: A simple generic parallelism idiom and C++17 specifics.
• 2024‑09‑01: CHERIoT: a study in CHERI for RISC-V microcontrollers.
• 2024‑08‑31: CHERI myth: I don’t need CHERI if I have safe languages?
• 2024‑08‑31: Fortran dot/comma bug urban legend.
• 2024‑08‑29: Your immune system is not a muscle.
• 2024‑08‑29: Compiling JavaScript to Wasm: partial evaluation, weval, and the first Futamura projection.
• 2024‑08‑29: Air Con: pay $1697 for an on/off switch, or fix the Android controller tablet?
• 2024‑08‑29: Two Turkish i dots too many.
• 2024‑08‑29: Rate limiting, ATM cells, and GCRA.
• 2024‑08‑29: Time-series compression algorithms, explained.
• 2024‑08‑29: What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic.
• 2024‑08‑27: 5000x faster CRDTs: an adventure in optimization.
• 2024‑08‑27: MiniJinja: learnings from building a template engine in Rust.
• 2024‑08‑27: Don’t make fun of renowned author Dan Brown.
• 2024‑08‑27: Should scientific fraud and research misconduct be illegal?
• 2024‑08‑27: Emulating x86 / amd64 on RISC-V.
• 2024‑08‑26: Poor foundations in geometric algebra.
• 2024‑08‑26: Writing a Rust compiler in C?!
• 2024‑08‑25: Linux pipes are slow.
• 2024‑08‑25: Old buildings in Cambridge.
• 2024‑08‑24: Printing the web: HTML and CSS for paper books.
• 2024‑08‑24: CORS is stupid: a guide to cookies and cross-origin request security.
• 2024‑08‑24: Geometric search trees.
• 2024‑08‑23: We need visual programming. No, not like that.
• 2024‑08‑23: Ted Dunning on histograms vs quantile sketches.
• 2024‑08‑23: Speeding up serde_json strings by 20%
• 2024‑08‑18: How OCaml type checker works, or, what polymorphism and garbage collection have in common.
• 2024‑08‑18: The door problem: what does a game designer do?
• 2024‑08‑18: Techniques for safe garbage collection in Rust.
• 2024‑08‑17: MVCC: The part of PostgreSQL we hate the most.
• 2024‑08‑15: A LaTeX-typeset reproduction of Reynolds' "Types, Abstraction and Parametric Polymorphism".
• 2024‑08‑15: A history of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).
• 2024‑08‑14: Incremental TT munchers: perhaps the most powerful macro parsing technique in Rust macro_rules.
• 2024‑08‑14: The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast.
• 2024‑08‑14: Round in circles and back again: Max Roberts updated London Underground concentric circles and spokes map.
• 2024‑08‑14: spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig.
• 2024‑08‑13: Good retry, bad retry: an incident story.
• 2024‑08‑13: Division, modulus, and remainder for computer scientists.
• 2024‑08‑12: Hard drive disassembly: an IBM Deathstar from Nov. 2000.
• 2024‑08‑11: Rosie pattern language: modern text pattern matching to replace regex.
• 2024‑08‑10: Confusion attacks: exploiting hidden semantic ambiguity in Apache httpd.
• 2024‑08‑08: Kyua graduates: The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks.
• 2024‑08‑08: A better light source for scanning color negative film.
• 2024‑08‑07: A trilingual inscription at Behistun near Persepolis led to the decipherment of cuneiform.
• 2024‑08‑07: Situated software.
• 2024‑08‑06: Building rqlite 9.0: cutting disk usage by half.
• 2024‑08‑04: Helmut Schmidt Future Prize acceptance speech by Meredith Whittaker.
• 2024‑08‑04: Git credential: password store integration for git-over-https
• 2024‑08‑03: There is (still) only one statistical test!
• 2024‑08‑03: Where do debuggers find shared library paths in core dumps?
• 2024‑08‑03: Primitive recursive functions for the working programmer.
• 2024‑08‑02: Another variable-length integer encoding.
• 2024‑08‑01: What your web framework never told you about SQL injection protection.
• 2024‑07‑31: Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?
• 2024‑07‑30: Quint: An executable specification language with delightful tooling based on the temporal logic of actions (TLA).
• 2024‑07‑30: A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes.
• 2024‑07‑30: Calculating the cost of a Google Deepmind paper, or, how to burn $10,000,000 on an arXiv preprint.
• 2024‑07‑29: How to build highly-debuggable C++ binaries.
• 2024‑07‑27: Unsafe read beyond of death: optimized short string SIMD load.
• 2024‑07‑27: Counting bytes faster with SIMD, interleaving, and prefetching.
• 2024‑07‑27: Driving compilers.
• 2024‑07‑26: CompilerFax: phone a compiler, fax it some code, it faxes back the results.
• 2024‑07‑26: Meta-Thunderbolt-Inception
• 2024‑07‑26: Rosemary Grant on the Galapagos finches: “Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought”.
• 2024‑07‑26: Color spaces: CIELAB, OKLAB, OKLCH.
• 2024‑07‑25: An extensive benchmark of C and C++ hash tables.
• 2024‑07‑22: Using algebra to refactor data types.
• 2024‑07‑22: From recursive descent to LR via Pratt parsing.
• 2024‑07‑21: How not to use box shadows.
• 2024‑07‑19: Concerns about passkeys.
• 2024‑07‑19: NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing.
• 2024‑07‑19: The GNU make jobserver Implementation.
• 2024‑07‑18: Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes.
• 2024‑07‑18: Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type.
• 2024‑07‑17: XSS injection using undeclared charset encoding and ISO-2022-JP sniffing.
• 2024‑07‑16: How the Stream Deck rose from the ashes of the legendary Optimus Maximus keyboard.
• 2024‑07‑15: Pull requests via `git push`.
• 2024‑07‑15: Objective tests for aphantasia.
• 2024‑07‑13: git-pr: A new git collaboration service.
• 2024‑07‑12: Nine rules for successful power meetings.
• 2024‑07‑12: Beating the cache with value speculation.
• 2024‑07‑12: That afternoon headache is a sign of stale air.
• 2024‑07‑12: Are you sure you want to use mmap() in your database management system?
• 2024‑07‑11: Hash maps that don’t hate you.
• 2024‑07‑11: First contact with SQLite.
• 2024‑07‑10: Towards reproducible rebuilds of Debian packages.
• 2024‑07‑09: Is prefix of string in table? A journey into SIMD string processing.
• 2024‑07‑08: On understanding data abstraction, revisited.
• 2024‑07‑06: Properly property testing concurrent data structures.
• 2024‑07‑04: The X window system at 40.
• 2024‑07‑04: xsum: exactly-rounded summation of floating point values.
• 2024‑07‑03: The sad state of property-based testing libraries.
• 2024‑07‑02: BusyBeaver(5) is now proved to be 47,176,870.
• 2024‑06‑29: POSIX 2024 changes.
• 2024‑06‑29: Bytecode breakdown: unraveling Factorio's Lua security flaws.
• 2024‑06‑29: A eulogy for DevOps.
• 2024‑06‑27: Valve.Computer: A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves.
• 2024‑06‑27: OpenSSL CVE-2024-5535: `SSL_select_next_proto` buffer overread.
• 2024‑06‑26: Why I attack.
• 2024‑06‑26: Rigorous numerical integration in Arb.
• 2024‑06‑26: Profiling with ctrl-C.
• 2024‑06‑25: Re-creating early generative art: Schotter, by Georg Nees.
• 2024‑06‑25: Sans I/O when the rubber meets the road.
• 2024‑06‑25: Network protocols, sans I/O.
• 2024‑06‑24: ChocoPy: a subset of Python 3 for teaching compiler construction.
• 2024‑06‑24: Rust’s new sort algorithms.
• 2024‑06‑24: Resolving metastability issues during bootstrapping CLOS.
• 2024‑06‑23: How to design a CPU ISA (instruction set architecture).
• 2024‑06‑23: Why is AVX 512 useful for the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator?
• 2024‑06‑23: A history of Psion and Symbian.
• 2024‑06‑22: Optimizing SQLite for servers.
• 2024‑06‑22: The simple essence of algebraic subtyping: principal type inference with subtyping made easy.
• 2024‑06‑21: 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch.
• 2024‑06‑21: Reflections on software performance.
• 2024‑06‑20: How to use the new counted_by attribute in C and Linux.
• 2024‑06‑20: Avoiding the top 10 NGINX configuration mistakes.
• 2024‑06‑20: Public JavaScript CDNs are useless and dangerous.
• 2024‑06‑20: The full-source bootstrap: building from source all the way down.
• 2024‑06‑19: Demystifying Rust's ? operator and Try trait.
• 2024‑06‑18: Peak population projections.
• 2024‑06‑18: Avoiding Emacs bankruptcy.
• 2024‑06‑18: Equality has more than one meaning in mathematics.
• 2024‑06‑17: Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages.
• 2024‑06‑17: Making robots plan faster with SIMD and Rust.
• 2024‑06‑17: The ineffable types of Rust: how to make self-borrows safe.
• 2024‑06‑16: MicroMac, a 128k Macintosh emulated on an RP2040.
• 2024‑06‑16: There are only three frequencies: never, sometimes, always.
• 2024‑06‑16: Generators vs list comprehensions with join() in Python.
• 2024‑06‑16: Stupid TLS facts: session resumption.
• 2024‑06‑16: Reconstructing public keys from cryptographic signatures.
• 2024‑06‑16: The story of reformatting 100k source files at Google in 2011.
• 2024‑06‑15: Exponentially better rotations.
• 2024‑06‑13: Whose CIDR is it anyway? Scanning all of whois and rdap.
• 2024‑06‑13: Chaos in the medium: watercolour plotting.
• 2024‑06‑13: Understanding DNS in Kubernetes.
• 2024‑06‑12: Bamboo can be as invasive as Japanese knotweed.
• 2024‑06‑12: Breaking AES-GCM on nonce reuse.
• 2024‑06‑12: Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias.
• 2024‑06‑11: Characterizing the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 ADC.
• 2024‑06‑11: Forsp: a Forth+Lisp hybrid CBPV language.
• 2024‑06‑10: Dangers of newlines in inline assembly.
• 2024‑06‑09: Using HDMI EMI for fast wireless data transfer.
• 2024‑06‑09: A (draft) taxonomy of SIMD usage.
• 2024‑06‑09: How many High Streets are there in London?
• 2024‑06‑08: Towards federated key transparency.
• 2024‑06‑08: A fast alternative to the modulo reduction.
• 2024‑06‑08: Fibonacci hashing: the optimization that the world forgot (or: a better alternative to integer modulo).
• 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.
• 2024‑06‑07: Speeding up rustc by being lazy.
• 2024‑06‑06: lelwel: a resilient LL(1) parser generator for Rust.
• 2024‑06‑06: let rand = main as usize;
• 2024‑06‑06: Shortcat: Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse.
• 2024‑06‑06: First steps with DHCPv6-PD on OpenBSD.
• 2024‑06‑06: Propagating bounds through bitwise operations in abstract interpretation.
• 2024‑06‑04: Simple proofs with Z3Py.
• 2024‑06‑04: Why do electronic components have such odd values? Renard numbers and ISO 3.
• 2024‑06‑04: Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams in bddbddb.
• 2024‑06‑04: bddbddb: using Datalog with binary decision diagrams for program analysis.
• 2024‑06‑04: Sound, precise, and fast abstract interpretation with tristate numbers.
• 2024‑06‑04: Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits.
• 2024‑06‑04: LL and LR in context: why parsing tools are hard.
• 2024‑06‑04: automemcpy: a framework for automatic generation of fundamental memory operations.
• 2024‑06‑02: Tiny Tapeout: an educational project to get your designs manufactured on a real chip.
• 2024‑06‑02: Tock: an embedded operating system in Rust.
• 2024‑06‑02: The borrow checker within Rust.
• 2024‑06‑02: Rust and dynamically-sized thin pointers.
• 2024‑06‑01: Rust regex engine internals as a library.
• 2024‑06‑01: Performance culture.
• 2024‑06‑01: X is justifiably slow?
• 2024‑06‑01: Electromagnetic linear clock.
• 2024‑05‑31: The greatest clock (and map) ever made.
• 2024‑05‑30: Ultrasonic cold brew coffee.
• 2024‑05‑30: Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL.
• 2024‑05‑29: Recycling steel with cement in an arc furnace could produce zero-emissions concrete.
• 2024‑05‑29: Why rejecting invalid XML in the browser is a bad idea.
• 2024‑05‑28: A study of MAC address randomization in mobile devices and when it fails.
• 2024‑05‑28: Surveilling the masses with Wi-Fi-based positioning systems.
• 2024‑05‑28: I’ve womansplained him to death.
• 2024‑05‑28: The Cephes mathematical library.
• 2024‑05‑28: TerminalTextEffects: a visual effects engine for xterm-compatible terminal emulators.
• 2024‑05‑28: IPv6 link-local stunts: ping ff02::1 etc.
• 2024‑05‑28: Programming pearls: Bumper sticker computer science.
• 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.
• 2024‑05‑28: Wasmi WebAssembly interpreter’s new execution engine.
• 2024‑05‑27: Reclaiming IPv4 Class E 240.0.0.0/4.
• 2024‑05‑26: Statically typed functional programming with Python 3.12.
• 2024‑05‑26: RuSSH: a Rust SSH client and server library.
• 2024‑05‑26: Extend your battery life with the scx_rustland Linux scheduler.
• 2024‑05‑26: Taming floating-point sums with Rust.
• 2024‑05‑21: vu128: Efficient variable-length integers
• 2024‑05‑21: Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun.
• 2024‑05‑19: I am too old to create a popular programming language.
• 2024‑05‑19: How often is the wife taller than the husband?
• 2024‑05‑19: AOT JS compilation by wevaling the wasms.
• 2024‑05‑19: Compilers for free with weval, a wasm partial evaluator.
• 2024‑05‑19: VirusTotal YARA has been rewritten in Rust as YARA-X.
• 2024‑05‑18: Why writing correct software is hard.
• 2024‑05‑18: Fix your video game’s timestep!
• 2024‑05‑18: Fixing iterative damping interpolation in video games.
• 2024‑05‑18: TCP performance and the Mathis equation.
• 2024‑05‑18: Practical third-party library sandboxing with RLBox.
• 2024‑05‑17: The rainbow hats puzzle.
• 2024‑05‑17: Golang disables Nagle’s algorithm, making it evil on shitty networks.
• 2024‑05‑17: A transport protocol's view of Starlink.
• 2024‑05‑17: What even is a pidfd anyway?
• 2024‑05‑16: History of the Italian electrical system.
• 2024‑05‑16: A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics.
• 2024‑05‑16: Strings in Julia vs Rust: you probably don't need to validate UTF-8.
• 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.
• 2024‑05‑16: Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing, and formal verification.
• 2024‑05‑15: A tale of two sieves.
• 2024‑05‑15: The creator of Magic: The Gathering knows exactly where it all went wrong.
• 2024‑05‑14: Optimizing the Roc parser/compiler with data-oriented design.
• 2024‑05‑14: A triad of factors that explain the nature of software.
• 2024‑05‑13: How to include Git version information in a Golang binary.
• 2024‑05‑13: Submitting a Linux kernel patch with b4.
• 2024‑05‑13: Exploring GNU C extensions in the Linux kernel.
• 2024‑05‑13: Parsing JSON is a minefield.
• 2024‑05‑12: The alternative programming language implementation problem.
• 2024‑05‑12: GPUs go brrr: how to keep the nVIDIA H100 tensor cores fed.
• 2024‑05‑12: Functional semantics in imperative clothing in the Roc programming language.
• 2024‑05‑12: Can we make bicycle manufacturing sustainable again?
• 2024‑05‑12: Emoji history: the missing years.
• 2024‑05‑12: Garbage collectors are scary.
• 2024‑05‑12: Breaking DKIM and BIMI in 2024 using the Debian OpenSSL bug CVE-2008-0166.
• 2024‑05‑11: In Rust, methods should be object safe.
• 2024‑05‑11: Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head.
• 2024‑05‑11: Thread: the wireless tech we can't use or teach.
• 2024‑05‑09: ppstep: an interactive C/C++ preprocessor macro debugger.
• 2024‑05‑09: It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
• 2024‑05‑09: Rust through the ages.
• 2024‑05‑09: Scanners work fine over iSCSI.
• 2024‑05‑09: Needle: a DFA regex library that compiles to JVM bytecode.
• 2024‑05‑09: The await event horizon in JavaScript.
• 2024‑05‑08: B612: the Airbus cockpit display font.
• 2024‑05‑08: The C preprocessor iceberg.
• 2024‑05‑07: A 100x speedup with unsafe Python.
• 2024‑05‑07: Secure Randomness in Golang 1.22.
• 2024‑05‑07: Search has been put in the vibe space.
• 2024‑05‑06: JTAG hacking with a Raspberry Pi: introducing the PiFex.
• 2024‑05‑06: How to successfully rewrite a C++ codebase in Rust.
• 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: Thinking is bad: implications of human error research for spreadsheet research and practice.
• 2024‑05‑05: How to build a $20 billion semiconductor fab.
• 2024‑05‑05: Byte magazine August 1983: The C Language.
• 2024‑05‑05: Bit-stealing made legal: compilation for custom memory representations of algebraic data types.
• 2024‑05‑05: TypeID: type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifiers.
• 2024‑05‑05: Understanding Stein's paradox in higher-dimensional statistics.
• 2024‑05‑03: ECDH-OMR: elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman oblivious message retrieval.
• 2024‑05‑02: Hobby’s algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines.
• 2024‑05‑02: Piccolo: a stackless Lua interpreter in Rust.
• 2024‑05‑02: TestResult: a Rust error type that panics early.
• 2024‑05‑02: Designing an efficient memory layout in Rust with unsafe and unions, or, an overlong guide in avoiding dynamic dispatch.
• 2024‑05‑02: Unwind considered harmful?
• 2024‑05‑02: The world's loudest Lisp program, for tunnel evacuation.
• 2024‑05‑02: PaperWM.spoon: tiled scrollable window manager for Hammerspoon on MacOS.
• 2024‑05‑01: It's time to stop recommending Clean Code.
• 2024‑04‑30: Rink: an open source unit-aware calculator.
• 2024‑04‑30: iRRAM: exact arithmetic in C++.
• 2024‑04‑30: PostgreSQL supported platforms over time.
• 2024‑04‑30: Bytecode VMs in surprising places.
• 2024‑04‑30: PowerShell monad manifesto.
• 2024‑04‑30: State of the terminal.
• 2024‑04‑30: A random walk through the Ada programming language.
• 2024‑04‑29: So, you want to write an unsafe crate in Rust?
• 2024‑04‑29: fend: an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
• 2024‑04‑29: The space bar stabilizer problem.
• 2024‑04‑29: FreeBee: AT&T 3B1 UNIX PC emulator.
• 2024‑04‑29: Bloat busters: pg_repack vs pg_squeeze.
• 2024‑04‑29: Importing ECMAscript modules with require() in node.js.
• 2024‑04‑29: WireGuard endpoints and IP addresses.
• 2024‑04‑29: Simple NDP proxy to route your IPv6 VPN addresses.
• 2024‑04‑28: The invention of the integrated circuit recorded in Jean Hoerni's patent notebook.
• 2024‑04‑28: Synth wars: The story of MIDI, the one interface that ruled them all.
• 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.
• 2024‑04‑26: Passkeys: a shattered dream.
• 2024‑04‑25: The weird world of Windows file paths.
• 2024‑04‑24: How web bloat impacts users with slow devices.
• 2024‑04‑24: So you want to learn to break ciphers?
• 2024‑04‑24: Digitized continuous magnetic recordings of the Carrington event from Greenwich and Kew.
• 2024‑04‑23: Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges.
• 2024‑04‑23: The bubble sort curve.
• 2024‑04‑23: No one buys books.
• 2024‑04‑22: Manual for Larry Tesler’s PUB markup language. (1971)
• 2024‑04‑20: Microsoft Windows denial of service by Hisense TV.
• 2024‑04‑19: A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
• 2024‑04‑19: Cable maintenance ships: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat.
• 2024‑04‑19: Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks.
• 2024‑04‑18: Formal methods: just good engineering practice?
• 2024‑04‑18: A domino computer.
• 2024‑04‑17: Feathers are one of evolution’s cleverest inventions.
• 2024‑04‑17: Will we have a negative leap second?
• 2024‑04‑17: The hardest problem in web design: centering things.
• 2024‑04‑16: Some useful types for database-using Rust web apps.
• 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.
• 2024‑04‑14: Sandboxing all the things with Flatpak and BubbleBox.
• 2024‑04‑14: sotrace: show hidden dependencies in Linux binaries.
• 2024‑04‑13: Transcript of Martha Wells’ Jack Williamson Lecture 2024, on MurderBot.
• 2024‑04‑11: The simple beauty of XOR floating point time series compression.
• 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: The link between abortion and crime.
• 2024‑04‑09: path.join considered harmful, or openat() all the things.
• 2024‑04‑09: An introduction to jump threading optimizations in gcc.
• 2024‑04‑09: Concurrency vs paralellism.
• 2024‑04‑09: The server chose violence: error handling in the Hubris embedded OS.
• 2024‑04‑08: Excuse me sir, would you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?
• 2024‑04‑08: It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware.
• 2024‑04‑08: Putting out the hardware dumpster fire.
• 2024‑04‑05: The state of time in Rust: leaps and bounds.
• 2024‑04‑05: Features I wish PostgreSQL had as a developer.
• 2024‑04‑05: The case against self-closing tags in HTML.
• 2024‑04‑05: Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil emacs.
• 2024‑04‑04: Conway's Game of Life through time.
• 2024‑04‑04: The V8 sandbox.
• 2024‑04‑04: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood denial of service vulnerability.
• 2024‑04‑04: Putting an xz backdoor payload in a valid RSA key.
• 2024‑04‑03: Cowgol: an experimental, Ada-inspired language for 8 bit micros.
• 2024‑04‑03: Diff modulo base, for comparing rebased branches.
• 2024‑04‑03: Multiple cursors for emacs.
• 2024‑04‑01: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining?!
• 2024‑04‑01: When concurrency matters: behaviour-oriented concurrency.
• 2024‑04‑01: The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might actually want to live in.
• 2024‑03‑31: A kinematically coupled piezo nanometer-resolution microscope focus stage.
• 2024‑03‑31: Countering trusting trust.
• 2024‑03‑31: A systematic analysis of the Juniper Dual EC DRBG backdoor.
• 2024‑03‑30: Basic things to support your software project.
• 2024‑03‑30: The "not rocket science" rule of continuous integration (and the story of monotone and bors).
• 2024‑03‑30: Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving.
• 2024‑03‑29: Could ice cream possibly be good for you?
• 2024‑03‑29: A new provisioning tool built with mgmt.
• 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.
• 2024‑03‑27: Who killed the network switch? An embedded Rust debugging story.
• 2024‑03‑26: Preventing cross-service UDP loops in QUIC.
• 2024‑03‑25: Interval parsing grammars for file format parsing.
• 2024‑03‑23: Unexplanations: SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra. (not!)
• 2024‑03‑21: Progressing towards the redefinition of the second based on an optical frequency standard.
• 2024‑03‑21: A giant leap for the leap second. Is humankind ready?
• 2024‑03‑21: Bug hunting in btrfs.
• 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.
• 2024‑03‑10: Compiling without continuations.
• 2024‑03‑10: Kinds are calling conventions.
• 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.
• 2024‑03‑09: SuperC: parsing all of C by taming the preprocessor.
• 2024‑03‑09: The SuperC parsing framework.
• 2024‑03‑08: A flexible and economical UTF-8 decoder.
• 2024‑03‑08: USAF computer security technology planning study: memory safety bugs in 1972.
• 2024‑03‑07: CAP twelve years later: how the "rules" have changed.
• 2024‑03‑07: The CAP theorem: the bad, the bad, and the ugly.
• 2024‑03‑06: Conway’s Law: the only unbreakable law.
• 2024‑03‑06: How I use git worktrees.
• 2024‑03‑06: Use weird tests to capture tacit knowledge.
• 2024‑03‑06: Maybe everything is a coroutine.
• 2024‑03‑05: The "missing" graph datatype already exists. It was invented in the 1970s: relational algebra and datalog.
• 2024‑03‑05: Behind F1's velvet curtain.
• 2024‑03‑04: The hunt for the missing graph data type.
• 2024‑03‑04: Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot.
• 2024‑03‑04: Motion blur all the way down.
• 2024‑03‑04: Kubernetes failure stories.
• 2024‑03‑03: The case against geometric algebra.
• 2024‑03‑03: 50 years ago: the new Cambridge University Press printing house.
• 2024‑02‑26: Tracing the baseband: cellphone modems.
• 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.
• 2024‑02‑24: Really large git repositories.
• 2024‑02‑22: What modern NVMe storage can do, and how to exploit it: high-performance I/O for high-performance storage engines.
• 2024‑02‑22: A security kernel based on the lambda calculus.
• 2024‑02‑18: Ten Python datetime pitfalls, and what libraries are (not) doing about it.
• 2024‑02‑18: Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory.
• 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.
• 2024‑02‑07: jj init : an introduction to the jujutsu version control system.
• 2024‑02‑06: RCL: A reasonable configuration language.
• 2024‑02‑03: Pkl: a programming language for configuration.
• 2024‑01‑29: __VA_OPT__ minutiae.
• 2024‑01‑29: Recursive macros with C++20 __VA_OPT__.
• 2024‑01‑17: Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult: empty slices in C, C++, and Rust.
• 2024‑01‑15: MULTIPLY: the Francis Hookham collection of hand held electronic calculators.
• 2024‑01‑15: When random isn't.
• 2024‑01‑14: QMK and keyboards.
• 2024‑01‑08: niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
• 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.
• 2024‑01‑05: Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64.
• 2024‑01‑04: Golang: what we got right, what we got wrong.
• 2024‑01‑04: An overview of the Starlark programming language.
• 2024‑01‑03: Spatial Shell: a window layout assistant for i3 and sway.
• 2024‑01‑03: newm-atha: a touchpad and touchscreen centric wayland compositor.
• 2024‑01‑03: SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
• 2024‑01‑02: What I've learned about flow fields for generative art.
• 2024‑01‑02: A CAP tradeoff in Kubernetes.