Tony Finch – link log

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• 2025‑10‑30: The math mode problem in Typst.
• 2025‑10‑30: Titan.DS: LCARS style Star Trek infographic.
• 2025‑10‑30: Notes by djb on using Fil-C with Debian multiarch.
• 2025‑10‑30: Conversions in Ruby are a mess.
• 2025‑10‑30: Thread stack layout and ASLR on various unixes.
• 2025‑10‑30: Independently verifying Golang's reproducible builds.
• 2025‑10‑28: Memory safety in Apple Firebloom / iBoot.
• 2025‑10‑28: Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation.
• 2025‑10‑28: Situated software.
• 2025‑10‑28: Middle-square Weyl sequence PRNG.
• 2025‑10‑27: Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra.
• 2025‑10‑28: InvisiCaps: pointers in Fil-C by example.
• 2025‑10‑28: libfringe: an old Rust library for stackful coroutines.
• 2025‑10‑28: Stackful coroutines made fast.
• 2025‑10‑27: The Apple compact unwinding format: documented and explained.
• 2025‑10‑27: asn1c: the Lionet ASN.1 compiler.
• 2025‑10‑26: Fixing rust-lang stdarch issues in LLVM.
• 2025‑10‑26: WebDAV isn't dead yet.
• 2025‑10‑24: How to avoid fighting Rust borrow checker.
• 2025‑10‑24: Modern perfect hashing with tricks from computer chess.
• 2025‑10‑24: Image dithering: eleven algorithms and source code.
• 2025‑10‑23: I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in the D programming language.
• 2025‑10‑23: Tetrapod lamp.
• 2025‑10‑23: Awesome tiny crates that make writing Rust more fun.
• 2025‑10‑22: The best – but not good – way to limit string length.
• 2025‑10‑22: Advanced self-aware ed(1).
• 2025‑10‑21: Why SSA?
• 2025‑10‑21: Solving regex crosswords with Z3.
• 2025‑10‑20: Context parameters and API design in Kotlin.
• 2025‑10‑21: RF shielding history: when the FCC cracked down on radio interference from computers.
• 2025‑10‑19: Linux sched_ext schedulers and tools.
• 2025‑10‑20: Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development.
• 2025‑10‑18: Scheme reports at fifty: where do we go from here?
• 2025‑10‑18: Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU.
• 2025‑10‑18: How I reversed Amazon's Kindle web obfuscation because their app sucks.
• 2025‑10‑16: Pwning Nix through GitHub Actions.
• 2025‑10‑16: mudderjs: lexicographically subdivide the space between strings.
• 2025‑10‑15: OSM Perfect Intersection Editor official launch announcement.
• 2025‑10‑16: paneru: A sliding, tiling window manager for MacOS.
• 2025‑10‑15: Can we know whether a Java profiler is accurate?
• 2025‑10‑15: Practical seed recovery for the PCG pseudo-random number generator.
• 2025‑10‑15: From linear types to borrowing.
• 2025‑10‑14: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Golang.
• 2025‑10‑15: Building multi-step web login forms that work well with password managers.
• 2025‑10‑15: Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: a Diurnal Golem’s Brain.
• 2025‑10‑15: Frederik Braun: Modern solutions against cross-site attacks.
• 2025‑10‑14: pglinter: database linting and analysis for PostgreSQL.
• 2025‑10‑14: rumdl: a Markdown linter written in Rust.
• 2025‑10‑13: An angry rant about locales and filenames in libarchive.
• 2025‑10‑14: MPTCP / multipath TCP for Linux.
• 2025‑10‑13: The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again).
• 2025‑10‑13: A C to Brainfuck compiler written in Rust.
• 2025‑10‑13: Why did containers happen?
• 2025‑10‑13: So you want the PostgreSQL JIT to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs…
• 2025‑10‑13: smolBSD: build your own minimal NetBSD system.
• 2025‑10‑12: Bellcore ManaGeR: running an obscure window system on vintage Linux.
• 2025‑10‑11: Let's take esoteric programming languages seriously.
• 2025‑10‑11: StarMalloc: verifying a modern hardened memory allocator.
• 2025‑10‑11: Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration.
• 2025‑10‑09: Signs of AI slop.
• 2025‑10‑11: Eon: a programmable effects-based OCaml DNS server.
• 2025‑10‑10: Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals.
• 2025‑10‑07: A proposed Handle trait for Rust.
• 2025‑10‑07: The evolution of Lua, continued.
• 2025‑10‑07: Gleam programming language tour.
• 2025‑09‑30: Privacy and security risks in the eSIM ecosystem.
• 2025‑08‑10: How potatoes evolved.
• 2025‑10‑04: Cuckoo hashing improves SIMD hash tables.
• 2025‑10‑07: Electricity transmission network unavailability: the cause of rising wind farm curtailment costs in Britain.
• 2025‑09‑29: What's new in PostgreSQL 18.
• 2025‑10‑08: The Mondrian introduction to functional optics.
• 2025‑10‑05: A new approach to analyzing Robin Hood hashing. (2014)
• 2025‑10‑06: nfc-laboratory: NFC signal and protocol analyzer using SDR receiver.
• 2025‑09‑29: Optimizing triangles for a full-screen shader pass.
• 2025‑09‑27: Use the force (feedback) to solder small things.
• 2025‑10‑03: What does pointer provenance have to do with RCU?
• 2025‑10‑06: buffalo::buffalo::buffalo... in C++.
• 2025‑10‑07: The Gleam programming language is my new obsession.
• 2025‑10‑01: FastCDC: efficient content-defined chunking for data deduplication.
• 2025‑10‑06: Packing the world for longest lines of sight.
• 2025‑10‑07: Oilfield Units: a measurement system so cursed it made me change career.
• 2025‑10‑06: A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset.
• 2025‑09‑20: The aliens will not be silicon.
• 2025‑09‑26: Tony Hoare’s hints on programming language design.
• 2025‑10‑06: Nanopb: protocol buffers with small code size.
• 2025‑10‑06: Beyond horizons: world-record long-distance photograph 443 km, Finestrelles, Pyrenees – Pic Gaspard, Alps. (2016)
• 2025‑09‑23: Imagining a language without booleans.
• 2025‑10‑06: Property-based testing of OCaml 5’s runtime system.
• 2025‑09‑30: Temporal_rs is here! The datetime library powering JavaScript Temporal in Boa, Kiesel, and V8.
• 2025‑09‑23: Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water.
• 2025‑10‑02: A contribution to the development of ALGOL. (Algol W, Wirth & Hoare)
• 2025‑09‑27: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement.
• 2025‑09‑27: BARE messages: binary application record encoding.
• 2025‑09‑29: Subtleties of SQLite indexes.
• 2025‑09‑29: Comparing Rust to Carbon.
• 2025‑10‑02: Measuring CPU instruction reorder buffer capacity. (2013)
• 2025‑09‑28: Supply chain security for the 0.001% (and why it won’t catch on).
• 2025‑10‑02: Array size types: The biggest semantic mess in Futhark.
• 2025‑09‑02: A Theory of Law.
• 2025‑10‑01: A content defined chunking algorithm testbed.
• 2025‑08‑29: Testing time (and other asynchronicities) in Golang.
• 2025‑10‑03: Chapel's runtime types as an interesting alternative to dependent types.
• 2025‑08‑29: SQLite's durability settings are a mess.
• 2025‑09‑27: VBARE / versioned BARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution.
• 2025‑10‑02: Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
• 2025‑09‑09: Batched critical sections.
• 2025‑09‑26: Mixologician: drinking with Datalog.
• 2025‑09‑26: John Mashey on the difficulty of making a fast VAX.
• 2025‑10‑01: Thanet, Tanit and the Phoenicians: place-names, archaeology and pre-Roman trading settlements in eastern Kent?
• 2025‑09‑29: Code golfing a tiny graphics demo using maths and a pinch of insanity.
• 2025‑08‑26: Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right.
• 2025‑09‑27: NFS at 40.
• 2025‑08‑25: Everything I know about good HTTP API design.
• 2025‑09‑17: Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value.
• 2025‑08‑30: Rust ints to enums with fewer instructions.
• 2025‑09‑29: LIGO can detect daylight savings time.
• 2025‑09‑26: Tracing JITs for Python in the real world.
• 2025‑09‑26: An empirical study of type-related defects in Python projects.
• 2025‑09‑28: RISC-V conditional moves.
• 2025‑06‑25: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-year-old getcwd() bug.
• 2025‑09‑29: The science behind King's College's wildflower meadows.
• 2025‑09‑25: Recursive data structures. (Hoare, 1973)
• 2025‑09‑25: Some interesting stuff I found on internet exchange LANs.
• 2025‑09‑26: Tuning async IO in PostgreSQL 18.
• 2025‑09‑24: Zeloof Z2 homemade silicon integrated circuit.
• 2025‑09‑25: A very early history of algebraic data types.
• 2025‑09‑26: Identity types.
• 2025‑09‑26: Fast UDP I/O for QUIC in Firefox in Rust.
• 2025‑08‑25: Timing conclusions: GPS, NTP, PTP timing with Linux.
• 2025‑09‑27: Is IP fragmentation still considered vulnerable?
• 2025‑05‑13: wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots.
• 2025‑09‑26: CHERI with a Linux on top.
• 2025‑09‑18: Is sound gradual typing dead? Performance problems in Typed Racket.
• 2025‑09‑11: Pairs not taken: a history of twisted pair ethernet.
• 2025‑08‑14: Type theory and functional programming. (1999)
• 2025‑09‑19: A basis for a mathematical theory of computation. (John McCarthy, 1961-3)
• 2025‑09‑26: Performance from architecture: comparing a RISC (MIPS) and a CISC (VAX) with similar hardware organization. (1991)
• 2025‑08‑26: How "special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades.
• 2025‑09‑19: Design of the SCHEME-78 LISP-based microprocessor.
• 2025‑09‑24: From Rust through LLVM to asm: the hidden journey of atomic fetch_max.
• 2025‑09‑24: Cooling water options for the new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK.
• 2025‑09‑10: Kerberoasting: bad cryptography in Microsoft Windows Active Directory.
• 2025‑09‑12: Floating point visually explained.
• 2025‑09‑15: AeroSpace: an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS.
• 2025‑08‑26: Hedy: textual programming made easy for absolute beginners.
• 2025‑09‑09: Testing the compiler optimizations your code relies on.
• 2025‑09‑18: Bluffing in Scrabble.
• 2025‑09‑06: Jujutsu megamerges and jj absorb .
• 2025‑09‑09: Measuring explicit congestion notification (TCP ECN).
• 2025‑09‑12: Improving state machine code generation in the Rust compiler.
• 2025‑09‑12: Lessons in disabling RC4 in Microsoft Active Directory.
• 2025‑09‑22: A deep dive into memory allocation in Golang.
• 2025‑09‑16: The elephant in the biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic security.
• 2025‑09‑16: Rendezvous hashing explained.
• 2025‑09‑13: Discontiguous exponential averaging. (1998)
• 2025‑09‑14: Setsum: order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum.
• 2025‑09‑08: The Brompton-ness of it all: on manufacturing process knowledge.
• 2025‑08‑26: Laws of order: expensive synchronization in concurrent algorithms cannot be eliminated.
• 2025‑08‑31: Counting large numbers of events in small registers. (1978)
• 2025‑09‑17: The ASUS gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug: a deep technical investigation.
• 2025‑09‑15: Hosting a website on a disposable vape.
• 2025‑09‑14: foldhash: A fast, non-cryptographic, minimally DoS-resistant hashing algorithm for Rust.
• 2025‑09‑01: Default methods in Golang.
• 2025‑09‑01: Unification-free ("keyword") type checking.
• 2025‑09‑10: Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices.
• 2025‑09‑09: Pnut: a C to POSIX shell compiler.
• 2025‑09‑14: Typewriter Pica numbers.
• 2025‑09‑15: Turgot map of Paris (1739).
• 2025‑09‑08: Pezy SC: Japan is still investing in custom floating point accelerators.
• 2025‑09‑08: Concourse: an open-source CI/CD thing-doer.
• 2025‑09‑14: TypePulse: detecting type confusion bugs in Rust programs.
• 2025‑08‑27: How to slow down a program? And why it can be useful.
• 2025‑09‑14: ipnsort: an efficient, generic and robust unstable sort implementation.
• 2025‑09‑15: The two dualities of computation: negative and fractional (subtraction and division) types.
• 2025‑09‑16: Rupert's snub cube and other math holes.
• 2025‑09‑15: On the security of SSH client signatures.
• 2025‑08‑20: Functions are vectors.
• 2025‑09‑11: The simple essence of overloading: making ad-hoc polymorphism more algebraic with flow-based variational type-checking.
• 2025‑08‑26: The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe".
• 2025‑08‑20: Renewable energy unambiguously reduces UK wholesale power prices.
• 2025‑09‑03: Wild performance tricks in Rust.
• 2025‑08‑24: Lomuto’s comeback for quicksort partitions.
• 2025‑09‑11: Behind the scenes of Bun npm package install.
• 2025‑06‑06: The universal tech tree.
• 2025‑09‑08: How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads.
• 2025‑09‑14: The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms.
• 2025‑09‑04: Faster Rust builds on Mac.
• 2025‑09‑09: A new experimental Golang API for JSON.
• 2025‑08‑18: wrkflw: validate and run Microsoft GitHub Actions locally.
• 2025‑09‑09: Byte type: supporting raw data copies in LLVM IR.
• 2025‑08‑19: Repairing sequential consistency in C/C++11.
• 2025‑07‑24: Coloured pencil nerd's guide to lightfastness.
• 2025‑09‑09: Analyzing the memory ordering models of the Apple M1.
• 2025‑09‑01: Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
• 2025‑09‑12: The evolution of logical replication in PostgreSQL: a historical overview.
• 2025‑09‑09: TLD domain name renewal grace periods.
• 2025‑09‑05: Where did DNSSEC go wrong?
• 2025‑09‑09: cargo-crev: A web-of-trust code review system for Rust.
• 2025‑07‑26: Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions.
• 2025‑08‑25: API/ABI changes review for glibc.
• 2025‑09‑08: Hashed radix sort with batched operations is typically faster than a hash table.
• 2025‑09‑12: Kefir: a new C17/C23 compiler for amd64 unix.
• 2025‑08‑05: Beyond Markdown: difficulties of the Commonmark specification.
• 2025‑08‑28: A polyhedron without Rupert’s property.
• 2025‑09‑01: The Qweremin: a qwerty theremin.
• 2025‑09‑06: Meschers: geometry processing of impossible objects.
• 2025‑09‑09: Rich Hickey already answered that! Design decisions in Clojure.
• 2025‑09‑05: You don't need animations.
• 2025‑09‑11: Crimes with Python's pattern matching.
• 2025‑08‑23: Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the deportation that never was.
• 2025‑08‑01: Matrix is email wearing a hoodie.
• 2025‑08‑05: Grid-scale batteries in Scotland stabilize power with grid-forming inverters.
• 2025‑08‑25: The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries.
• 2024‑11‑22: Runtime-extensible PEG parsers for SQL.
• 2025‑07‑13: detour: load the Linux dynamic linker into a statically linked program at run time.
• 2025‑06‑11: Writing a C compiler.
• 2024‑05‑27: Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login".
• 2025‑09‑05: Waffle’s revenge: classic 1 bit 8x8 tiling patterns.
• 2025‑09‑09: The government approved Cambridge’s sewage treatment plant upgrade, then withdrew the promised funding.
• 2025‑05‑30: Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++... in Rust.
• 2025‑09‑09: A novel technique for SQL injection with PHP PDO’s prepared statements.
• 2025‑08‑13: Ascon lightweight cryptography.
• 2025‑09‑05: The type theory fire triangle: how to mix substitution, dependent elimination, and effects.
• 2025‑09‑06: Dealing with cancel safety in async Rust.
• 2025‑08‑21: Indexing JSONB in PostgreSQL.
• 2025‑09‑07: Tony Hoare: How did software get so reliable without proof?
• 2025‑06‑08: UK High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else.
• 2024‑12‑20: CandyFab: a DIY 3D sugar printer.
• 2025‑09‑07: MacBook lid angle sensor sound effects.
• 2025‑09‑02: GNU autotools mythbuster.
• 2025‑08‑10: cargo-remark: view LLVM optimization remarks for Rust.
• 2025‑07‑08: A more perfect #[derive] for Rust.
• 2025‑08‑19: The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly.
• 2025‑09‑06: Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
• 2025‑09‑03: Evolution of the ELF object file format.
• 2025‑08‑17: Beyond booleans in Lean.
• 2025‑05‑29: Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
• 2025‑08‑04: How Google Chrome V8 made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast.
• 2025‑08‑18: Recto: a truly 2D language.
• 2025‑08‑05: Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C.
• 2025‑08‑21: Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance.
• 2025‑08‑21: A new packaging model for Rust in Guix.
• 2025‑08‑16: Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my primary language.
• 2025‑07‑10: What's //go:nosplit for in Golang?
• 2025‑07‑10: fs_usage: see filesystem activity on Mac OS X.
• 2025‑07‑30: Activity Monitor anatomy: memory accounting on Mac OS.
• 2025‑08‑19: Clubcards for the WebPKI: smaller certificate revocation tests in theory and practice.
• 2025‑06‑07: Delta debugging: simplifying and isolating failure-inducing input with automatic test case reduction. (2002)
• 2025‑06‑06: Wendelstein 7-X sets new performance records in fusion research.
• 2025‑08‑29: CRDTs are built on an elegant kernel, but offer a leaky abstraction that misleads a lot of developers and researchers.
• 2025‑07‑31: Golang cryptographic assembly mutation testing.
• 2025‑08‑31: We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules.
• 2025‑08‑28: A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property: a copy cannot pass via a straight hole through the body.
• 2025‑08‑08: ChaCha12-BLAKE3: secure, simple and fast authenticated and committing encryption for any CPU.
• 2025‑09‑01: WeakC4: a search-free low-knowledge solution to 7x6 Connect 4.
• 2025‑08‑10: R0ML’s ratio bozo test: Is your volume discount a good deal? Who nose!
• 2025‑09‑01: Limits of instruction-level parallelism (1991).
• 2025‑08‑26: How to draw a Space Invader.
• 2025‑08‑28: I am an AI hater.
• 2025‑08‑05: ALS Lamon typeface review.
• 2025‑08‑30: The cryptographic sponge and duplex constructions.
• 2025‑09‑01: The beauty of batteries.
• 2025‑08‑20: Predecessor search.
• 2025‑08‑16: Why everyone gets the Formula 1 inerter wrong.
• 2025‑08‑30: Stable mutable references in the Ante programming language.
• 2025‑08‑26: One universal antiviral to rule them all?
• 2025‑08‑20: Code review can be better.
• 2025‑07‑30: Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type.
• 2025‑08‑22: The baby paradox in Haskell.
• 2025‑08‑21: Arch Linux AUR chaos malware: an analysis.
• 2025‑08‑27: Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer.
• 2025‑08‑18: Why I prefer reStructuredText to Markdown.
• 2025‑08‑29: Blocky planet: making Minecraft spherical.
• 2025‑08‑26: Emulating aarch64 in software using JIT compilation and Rust.
• 2025‑08‑25: Nullable vs nullable in C#.
• 2025‑08‑22: Speed wins when fuzzing Rust code with #[derive(Arbitrary)].
• 2025‑05‑23: How AI botnet DDoS attacks use compromised end-user devices.
• 2025‑08‑08: CHICKEN Scheme internals: the garbage collector.
• 2025‑06‑17: KiCad and Wayland.
• 2025‑08‑25: Why is cloud file-sharing hard? By analogy with programming misconceptions.
• 2025‑08‑13: The history of an old joke: “From here?!”
• 2025‑05‑18: Mystical: a way to write PostScript that looks like a magical circle.
• 2025‑08‑20: Atmos: a language for structured concurrency and event-driven programming, based on Lua.
• 2025‑06‑22: tayga: NAT64 for Linux.
• 2024‑11‑21: Tiling with three polygons is undecidable.
• 2025‑08‑19: AsciiDots: an esoteric programming language based on ascii art.
• 2025‑05‑23: The curious case of the “pygmy nuthatch” in Charlie’s Angels.
• 2025‑08‑19: Without the futex, it's futile.
• 2025‑07‑23: Web browser tiny monospace fonts workaround.
• 2025‑08‑21: Sapir-Whorf does not apply to programming languages.
• 2025‑08‑25: Who's afraid of a hard page load?
• 2025‑08‑13: Type inference for plain data.
• 2025‑06‑24: The modern text rendering pipeline: unicode, bidi, segmentation, shaping, …
• 2025‑08‑19: Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial. (1996)
• 2025‑07‑30: Mosquito Bucket of Death.
• 2025‑08‑21: Fun and weirdness with SSDs and PostgreSQL.
• 2025‑07‑26: Lecture notes on the π-calculus and Concurrent ML.
• 2025‑08‑06: Minimal version selection revisited.
• 2025‑04‑30: Swarm testing data structures.
• 2025‑08‑13: Linear scan register allocation on SSA.
• 2025‑06‑05: From Krivine’s machine to the Caml implementations.
• 2025‑07‑27: Implementing a functional language with graph reduction.
• 2025‑06‑06: Magic namerefs in bash.
• 2025‑05‑15: 2025 M7.7 earthquake at Mandalay in Burma / Myanmar.
• 2025‑08‑10: Cracking the Vault: flaws in authentication, identity, and authorization in HashiCorp Vault.
• 2021‑03‑03: Linux desktop on Apple Silicon M1 in practice.
• 2025‑08‑19: The Nickel configuration language.
• 2025‑07‑18: Dissonance: a journey through musical possibility space.
• 2025‑08‑11: The enduring puzzle of static electricity.
• 2025‑08‑04: A gentle introduction to liquid types.
• 2025‑08‑19: CRLite: fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox.
• 2025‑05‑13: Intransitive operator precedence: we can do better.
• 2025‑07‑14: Row polymorphic programming.
• 2025‑07‑03: The tar archive format, its extensions, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time.
• 2025‑06‑06: A tutorial implementation of a dependently typed lambda calculus.
• 2025‑08‑20: Why some of us like "interdiff" code review.
• 2025‑08‑07: HTTP/1.1 proxies must die: the desync endgame.
• 2025‑08‑16: Anaphoric macros introduce hidden bindings in Lisp.
• 2024‑10‑17: Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways.
• 2025‑08‑16: What next in programming languages?
• 2025‑05‑21: Game math: precise control over numeric springing.
• 2025‑08‑16: The future of large files in Git is Git.
• 2025‑08‑20: Fuss, futexes and furwocks: fast userlevel locking in Linux.
• 2021‑05‑12: Creating a read-only PostgreSQL user.
• 2025‑08‑13: Snooping on slow builds using syscalls.
• 2025‑08‑10: Creating high quality electronics schematics.
• 2025‑08‑08: Hollerith 1890 census tabulator and the evolution of the IBM punched card.
• 2025‑08‑18: Basic dependency injection with objects in OCaml.
• 2025‑08‑17: A programmer's field guide to assertions.
• 2025‑08‑13: A comparison of C libraries providing generic containers.
• 2025‑05‑02: What I've learned from jj.
• 2025‑08‑14: NaN-propagation: a novel method for sparsity detection in black-box computational functions.
• 2025‑08‑05: A type designer's take on Indian sign painting.
• 2025‑08‑17: A brief consideration of input shapes for fuzzers.
• 2025‑05‑15: The centenary of the loudspeaker.
• 2025‑08‑05: Rod Bustall: in memoriam.
• 2025‑06‑25: Taming the bicycle, by Mark Twain.
• 2025‑05‑17: rapidhash: a very fast, high quality, platform-independent hashing algorithm.
• 2024‑06‑29: Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
• 2025‑07‑08: Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service.
• 2025‑06‑11: A survey of source code sandboxing across unix-like systems.
• 2025‑08‑07: You know more Finnish than you think.
• 2025‑05‑30: Parsing distfix operators.
• 2025‑07‑06: Get the location of the ISS using DNS.
• 2025‑08‑12: A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language that can be AOT compiled.
• 2025‑08‑05: Cordoomceps: replacing an Amiga's brain with a Raspberry Pi running Doom.
• 2024‑12‑04: Legacy safety: the Wrocław C++ wg21 meeting.
• 2025‑08‑10: Zig's lovely syntax.
• 2025‑06‑25: xtool: a cross-platform Xcode replacement.
• 2025‑02‑07: Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
• 2025‑08‑08: The seven virtues of simple type theory / higher-order logic.
• 2025‑06‑25: Using LXCFS together with Podman.
• 2025‑07‑30: Flat design vs rich (“skeuomorphic”) design: a bibliography.
• 2025‑08‑11: Why Metropolis–Hastings works.
• 2025‑06‑28: Map projection transitions.
• 2025‑07‑22: Tony Hoare on record handling. (1965)
• 2025‑08‑05: Can You Block It ? a simple ad block tester.
• 2025‑06‑24: Lifetime dispersion and generational GC.
• 2025‑04‑30: Apple's sillyballs (1988).
• 2025‑07‑21: The key to understanding “Dynamic Programming” is that it’s not referring to “computer programming”.
• 2025‑08‑03: rust-parallel: Run commands in parallel and aggregate outputs, like GNU parallel.
• 2025‑03‑17: A review of the Helix editor after 1.5 years.
• 2025‑08‑04: Explicit refinement types.
• 2025‑07‑19: Asynchrony is not concurrency.
• 2025‑06‑24: Mechanical watch: exploded view.
• 2025‑08‑03: CriTcl: easily embed C code in Tcl.
• 2025‑08‑06: A proper x86 assembler in Haskell using the Escardó-Oliva functional.
• 2025‑03‑24: Cool but obscure X11 tools.
• 2025‑06‑01: No value restriction is needed for algebraic effects and handlers.
• 2025‑07‑29: Jujutsu for busy devs.
• 2025‑07‑30: Programming languages and dimensions of units of measure.
• 2024‑07‑27: Bril: an intermediate language for teaching compilers.
• 2025‑06‑05: The impossible predicament of the death newts.
• 2025‑07‑18: A queer history of computing: Peter Landin.
• 2025‑08‑01: What declarative languages are.
• 2025‑04‑17: Graham: synchronizing clocks by measuring server temperature.
• 2025‑08‑05: My ideal array language.
• 2025‑07‑30: How attackers are still phishing "phishing-resistant" passkey authentication.
• 2025‑08‑01: Tracking source locations for profiling GPU programs in Futhark.
• 2025‑08‑05: AdBlock Tester: test your AdBlock extensions.
• 2025‑08‑02: Rubik's cube perfect scramble.
• 2025‑04‑21: Python's new template t-strings.
• 2025‑02‑15: Post-mortem of network outage affecting OpenStreetMap.org in December 2024.
• 2025‑07‑18: Replication of quantum factorisation records with an 8-bit home computer, an abacus, and a dog.
• 2022‑04‑30: Luhn credit card checksum using SWAR and SIMD.
• 2025‑07‑14: Stepanov’s biggest blunder in the C++ STL.
• 2025‑05‑10: In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors.
• 2025‑07‑27: MSWasm: soundly enforcing memory-safe execution of unsafe code based on CHERI.
• 2025‑08‑05: Apache ECharts: a JavaScript data visualization / graphing library.
• 2025‑07‑26: Slightly better HTML named character reference tokenization for the Ladybird browser.
• 2025‑07‑08: Find memory errors in unsafe Rust in production with GWP-ASan and the Scudo hardened allocator.
• 2025‑07‑22: Anatomy of a SYN-ACK attack.
• 2025‑07‑14: Strategies for very fast lexers.
• 2025‑07‑27: The Venetian origins of roman type.
• 2025‑07‑29: Simple and fast derived traits in Rust using rules_derive.
• 2025‑05‑21: Writing into uninitialized buffers in Rust.
• 2025‑07‑27: How LLVM optimizes power sums with scalar evolution.
• 2025‑07‑11: A hole in Ada type safety.
• 2025‑06‑27: tinyfeed: Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feed URLs.
• 2025‑07‑26: A new Concurrent ML in Guile Scheme.
• 2025‑07‑30: Types for units of measure: theory and practice.
• 2025‑07‑31: The math is haunted: an introduction to Lean.
• 2025‑04‑15: Algebraic semantics for machine knitting.
• 2025‑06‑26: Text box drawing combinators.
• 2025‑07‑31: Golang's race detector has a mutex blind spot.
• 2025‑07‑14: Binding application in Idris.
• 2025‑05‑14: The mass-energy-information equivalence principle.
• 2025‑07‑26: Rust running on every GPU.
• 2025‑05‑22: Decibels are ridiculous: celebrating a rare dumpster fire in the kingdom of metrology.
• 2025‑07‑03: Portability of tar features.
• 2025‑05‑26: A comprehensive list of Wayland compositors.
• 2025‑08‑01: Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
• 2025‑07‑19: Current technology is not ready for proper alpha blending.
• 2025‑05‑06: TinyBits: smaller, faster serialization for Ruby apps and beyond.
• 2025‑07‑05: The calculator-on-a-chip.
• 2025‑05‑14: Woodland Trust ancient tree inventory.
• 2025‑07‑19: The inerter / J-damper: a genius device that rocked Formula 1.
• 2025‑05‑10: Algebraic effects: another mistake carried through to perfection?
• 2025‑07‑23: JSON is not a subset of YAML.
• 2025‑04‑10: Computer science Logo style.
• 2025‑07‑15: How to avoid out-of-thin-air atomics without really trying.
• 2024‑05‑09: Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
• 2025‑04‑30: My sourdough starter has twins.
• 2025‑07‑16: Linear-time matching of JavaScript regular expressions.
• 2025‑07‑23: CSS font-size-adjust is useful.
• 2025‑07‑30: Poke-a-hole (pahole) and dwarves: examine data structure layouts in DWARF debug info.
• 2025‑06‑22: Hask is not a category.
• 2025‑07‑22: Tony Hoare on record handling. (1966)
• 2025‑07‑18: Losing programming language features: some stories about sum types / disjoint unions / variant records.
• 2025‑07‑15: Intra-procedural lifetime and borrowing analysis in Clang.
• 2025‑05‑15: Optimizing with novel calendrical algorithms.
• 2025‑07‑03: Firefox's optimized zip format: reading zip files really quickly.
• 2025‑07‑01: Types of types in Lean: common → exotic.
• 2025‑07‑22: John McCarthy’s 1964 proposal for the definition of product and sum types in ALGOL X.
• 2025‑06‑18: The web server doesn't render anything.
• 2021‑02‑19: Cranelift compiler efficiency, CFGs, and a branch peephole optimizer.
• 2025‑07‑10: eslogger: trace filesystem events using the Mac OS X endpoint security framework.
• 2025‑02‑28: A survey of every iterator variant in Rust.
• 2025‑06‑26: Associated vs unassociated alpha channel compositing.
• 2025‑07‑24: Parsing protobuf like never before.
• 2025‑06‑22: Compact representations for arrays in Lua.
• 2025‑07‑16: Lower your guards: a compositional pattern-match coverage checker.
• 2025‑07‑23: The Par programming language.
• 2024‑09‑27: Hacking Kia: remotely controlling cars with just a license plate.
• 2025‑02‑13: libu8ident: Unicode security guidelines for programming language identifiers.
• 2023‑01‑08: There is no software maintenance.
• 2025‑06‑24: The one-more-re-nightmare regex engine for Common Lisp.
• 2023‑11‑24: The story of titanium.
• 2021‑03‑27: ohm: a JavaScript library and PEG-based language for building parsers.
• 2025‑07‑01: Fun with git: updating the cached contents in the index by staging.
• 2025‑07‑23: BBC3 The Wrong Door — The Train Pirates.
• 2025‑07‑06: Developing a transputer ISA board.
• 2025‑06‑08: The story of ispc: Intel implicit SPMD single program multiple data compiler.
• 2025‑06‑13: Rendering crispy text on the GPU.
• 2025‑06‑22: How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
• 2025‑05‑21: The NSA selector eurorack module.
• 2025‑07‑11: They write the right stuff: software engineering for the Space Shuttle.
• 2025‑04‑11: Walking the London Loop.
• 2025‑06‑30: The provenance memory model for C.
• 2025‑07‑19: Avoiding COVID with carrageenan nasal spray.
• 2025‑06‑23: How to open a file in Emacs.
• 2025‑01‑07: Servo revival 2023-2024.
• 2025‑07‑15: A lightweight TCP in UDP tunnel using eBPF for MPTCP.
• 2025‑07‑17: The (unfinished) partial differential equation coffee table book.
• 2025‑07‑16: GPUHammer: rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical.
• 2025‑03‑22: μFork: a pure actor-based concurrent machine architecture with memory-safety and object-capability security.
• 2025‑07‑12: CSS performance: Don't animate height!
• 2025‑07‑15: Designing for the eye: optical corrections in architecture and typography.
• 2025‑02‑11: A catalog of ways that compilers generate SSA.
• 2023‑04‑27: Bringing runtime index checks to compile time in Rust.
• 2025‑05‑10: Kernighan's lever.
• 2025‑07‑10: Optimizing a simple expression parser in Rust.
• 2025‑01‑03: Remote reboots with encrypted disks on Arch Linux.
• 2025‑06‑06: yeri: JavaScript library for graphing timeseries data into an SVG.
• 2025‑04‑17: RE#: high performance derivative-based regex matching with intersection, complement, and lookarounds.
• 2024‑12‑17: Golang's weird little iterators.
• 2025‑07‑02: Chess grandmasters do not burn 6000 calories per day.
• 2025‑05‑27: Square theory and unparalleled misalignments in American-style crosswords.
• 2025‑03‑26: Succinct data structures.
• 2025‑07‑15: Adding lookbehinds to Rust’s regex crate.
• 2025‑07‑18: Dana Scott on the lambda calculus, then and now.
• 2025‑06‑11: Modern minimal perfect hashing: a survey.
• 2025‑06‑27: Structuring arrays with algebraic shapes.
• 2025‑07‑10: PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale.
• 2025‑02‑28: Historic tale construction kit: make your own Bayeux tapestry.
• 2025‑04‑04: Some pitfalls of safe Rust.
• 2025‑02‑13: Building a hyper-personalized seach engine that isn't very good.
• 2025‑07‑11: Faking a JPEG to feed to an abusive web crawler.
• 2025‑06‑05: Unix, Plan 9, and the lurking SmallTalk.
• 2023‑06‑22: An epicyclic clock.
• 2021‑03‑20: The design of forms in government departments.
• 2025‑01‑22: Guided by the beauty of our test suite: snapchot texting, fuzz testing, and panic freedom in Rust.
• 2025‑06‑24: Forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed!
• 2025‑06‑22: Nearley.js: a toolkit for parsers written in JavaScript.
• 2025‑05‑31: Dynamic witnesses for static type errors in OCaml, or, ill-typed programs usually go wrong.
• 2025‑04‑14: Unlocking sudoku's secrets with graph theory and abstract algebra.
• 2025‑04‑12: Molecules with silly or unusual names.
• 2025‑04‑30: NIST F4 caesium fountain atomic cock joins elite group that keeps the world on time.
• 2025‑04‑23: Exploiting undefined behavior in C/C++ programs for optimization: a study on the performance impact.
• 2025‑05‑16: Rustls server-side performance.
• 2025‑06‑24: Bazel’s original sins.
• 2025‑06‑18: fx: view and process JSON with JavaScript on the command line.
• 2025‑07‑06: Speed up Magit on MacOS by using git from Homebrew.
• 2025‑07‑08: PostgreSQL replication slots: preventing WAL bloat and other production issues.
• 2025‑07‑12: A new Finnish flavor of feline coat coloration, “salmiak”.
• 2025‑01‑10: Soldering the Tektronix way.
• 2025‑01‑14: Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
• 2025‑04‑15: Getting started with the W65C832 FPGA core, a 32 bit extended 6502.
• 2024‑05‑06: Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust.
• 2022‑11‑09: Rain of Fire Falling: The crash of American Airlines flight 191.
• 2025‑07‑08: svg-term-cli: animated terminal sessions using SVG and CSS.
• 2024‑11‑23: gofumpt: a stricter gofmt.
• 2022‑12‑26: Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization.
• 2025‑01‑10: SIMD in Rust: you do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time.
• 2025‑06‑25: Reading NFC passport chips in Linux.
• 2025‑06‑06: Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise / Perlin noise.
• 2025‑05‑29: Bootstrapping HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3.
• 2025‑06‑01: The Story of Mel, annotated.
• 2025‑05‑26: Client rate throttling in the Heroku platform API Ruby gem.
• 2025‑06‑11: Idris 2: quantitative type theory in practice.
• 2025‑06‑18: Type inference zoo.
• 2025‑04‑12: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with.
• 2025‑07‑08: Emacs which-key vs Embark for help on prefix keymaps.
• 2025‑05‑30: Parsing mixfix operators.
• 2021‑03‑19: A Mind Is Born: 256 byte Commodore 64 demo.
• 2025‑04‑15: What the hell Is a target triple?
• 2025‑06‑16: Critical analysis of the Meshtastic protocol.
• 2025‑07‑05: The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor.
• 2025‑05‑06: What is my fuzzer doing? How to get coverage of Rust code.
• 2025‑07‑08: SIMD.info: searchable reference for C intrinsics.
• 2025‑06‑05: Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data.
• 2025‑06‑18: The plight of the misunderstood atomic memory ordering.
• 2025‑05‑31: Mel's Loop: a comprehensive guide to The Story of Mel.
• 2025‑02‑05: Mach-O linking and loading tricks.
• 2025‑05‑14: ZJIT has been merged into Ruby.
• 2025‑06‑17: Nasal sprays for covid prophylaxis.
• 2024‑05‑28: Statistical shortcomings in standard math libraries, and how to fix them.
• 2021‑06‑17: Exploring ways to make async Rust easier.
• 2025‑05‑29: Making openat(2) and friends more useful in OpenBSD.
• 2025‑02‑15: Taichi: high-performance parallel programming in Python.
• 2025‑06‑14: Lambda calculus cooked N ways: Benchmarks for capture-avoiding substitution.
• 2025‑06‑04: AMEN: Church numeral addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and nothing are a complete combinator basis.
• 2025‑06‑08: Making sense of atomic acquire-release semantics.
• 2025‑05‑29: Programming = proving? The Curry-Howard correspondence today.
• 2025‑06‑02: Efficient manipulation of binary data using pattern matching.
• 2025‑05‑17: Structured combinators for efficient graph reduction.
• 2025‑06‑19: The missing 11th of the month.
• 2025‑03‑31: A brief history of Erlang’s BEAM compiler.
• 2025‑05‑18: Fortran for C programmers.
• 2025‑06‑05: Vectorized interpreters: mass rapid transit for programming languages.
• 2025‑06‑30: Building accurate postal address matching systems.
• 2024‑07‑05: I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize.
• 2025‑06‑25: A new 3rd edition PNG spec was just released!
• 2025‑05‑27: Using otel to emit and view debug traces from Golang command-line tools.
• 2025‑05‑07: Tantacrul on Finale: how music software dies. (video)
• 2025‑06‑30: Booleans are a trap.
• 2024‑11‑25: The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT.
• 2025‑06‑06: Recovering control flow structures from Java bytecode without CFGs.
• 2025‑06‑24: Programming parallel computers.
• 2025‑07‑01: Parsing layout, or: Haskell's syntax is a mess.
• 2025‑06‑16: Roadmap towards the redefinition of the second.
• 2025‑06‑30: That boolean should probably be something else.
• 2025‑05‑27: BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability.
• 2024‑10‑22: Use test data that looks like data.
• 2025‑06‑02: When do pattern match compilation heuristics matter?
• 2025‑06‑03: Where did C++ <random> go wrong?
• 2025‑05‑27: Relocation generation in assemblers.
• 2025‑05‑02: POSIX shell and utilities quick reference.
• 2025‑03‑25: The Prospero challenge.
• 2025‑06‑03: From Prometheus to RRDtool graphs.
• 2025‑05‑16: I don't like NumPy.
• 2021‑11‑12: Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
• 2025‑06‑06: How common is multiple invention?
• 2025‑06‑17: The saga of phkmalloc.
• 2025‑04‑08: netbird: Connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
• 2025‑03‑30: Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar.
• 2025‑06‑19: Elliptic curves as art.
• 2024‑12‑17: UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
• 2025‑05‑20: A Python frozenset interpretation of dependent type theory.
• 2024‑07‑25: strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense.
• 2025‑06‑07: cdimage: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc.
• 2025‑05‑13: Writing that can change how you think about programming languages.
• 2025‑06‑22: Basic facts about GPUs.
• 2025‑05‑26: Ironies of automation. (1983)
• 2025‑05‑14: The database row that did and didn't exist according to Django.
• 2025‑01‑25: Why the north of England is poor.
• 2025‑06‑05: The IELR(1) algorithm for generating minimal LR(1) parser tables for non-LR(1) grammars with conflict resolution.
• 2025‑06‑12: The Epic Verse calculus: a core calculus for functional logic programming.
• 2025‑05‑26: Against Curry-Howard mysticism.
• 2025‑06‑23: Making emacs tramp go brrrr.
• 2024‑11‑06: The Manchester Compiler Compiler and CPL: reflections of a user 50 years on.
• 2025‑01‑13: Why is my Chumby’s CPU usage always 100%?
• 2025‑04‑13: 10 years of pomological watercolors.
• 2021‑02‑18: ECFiber: building a fibre-to-the-premises network in rural Vermont.
• 2024‑08‑11: Trolltech's Qt documentation process.
• 2025‑04‑25: Bluefishjs: composing diagrams in with declarative relations.
• 2025‑05‑16: Heron: modern hardware graph reduction.
• 2025‑03‑18: Portable dynamically linked packages on Linux.
• 2025‑04‑09: I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’: linear dependent types.
• 2025‑06‑18: A collection of articles about retries.
• 2025‑02‑16: Arithmetic with continued fractions.
• 2025‑06‑23: BNFGen: a random text generator based on context-free grammars
• 2025‑05‑21: Staged compilation with two-level type theory.
• 2025‑04‑30: autosetup: a Tcl-based build environment "autoconfigurator".
• 2025‑02‑14: Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone.
• 2025‑03‑22: HAFLANG: hardware acceleration of functional languages.
• 2025‑04‑25: Bluefishjs: a diagram drawing framework for JavaScript.
• 2025‑03‑29: A language server protocol (LSP) implementation for PostgreSQL.
• 2025‑01‑05: Reliable system call interception with Linux seccomp.
• 2023‑08‑04: The joys of UNIX keyboards.
• 2024‑12‑13: Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
• 2025‑06‑12: A multivalued language with a dependent type system. (A precursor to Epic Verse.)
• 2025‑03‑30: Towards fearless SIMD in Rust, 7 years later.
• 2025‑01‑28: A retrospective on SCCS, the Source Code Control System.
• 2025‑04‑12: Why is there a "small house" in IBM's code page 437?
• 2025‑05‑22: Blazingly fast™ type class resolution with a trie.
• 2025‑05‑15: Fixing the traffic jam in the science of technology safety.
• 2025‑06‑10: Dependent types and program equivalence.
• 2025‑02‑08: Fend: an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
• 2025‑06‑03: What's higher-order about so-called higher-order references?
• 2025‑05‑02: Optimizing programs written in Guile Scheme.
• 2025‑03‑24: faer: a general-purpose linear algebra library for Rust.
• 2024‑12‑26: Rewriting the Ruby parser.
• 2025‑05‑21: Dependent types at work in Agda.
• 2025‑04‑08: On the complexity and performance of parsing with derivatives.
• 2025‑03‑21: I want a good parallel computer.
• 2025‑05‑15: A Rust API inspired by Python, powered by Serde.
• 2025‑06‑08: Simulating time with square-root space.
• 2023‑05‑07: Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks.
• 2024‑09‑21: Boolean blindness.
• 2025‑04‑12: awe: A compiler for the Algol W programming language.
• 2025‑04‑01: Electron band structure in germanium, my ass.
• 2025‑06‑18: Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks.
• 2025‑01‑11: Jef Raskin: Intuitive equals familiar. (1994)
• 2025‑02‑27: Efficient communication and collection with compact normal forms in Haskell.
• 2025‑06‑02: Pattern matching and exhaustiveness checking algorithms implemented in Rust.
• 2025‑03‑14: HashChain: a family of very fast factor-based sublinear exact-matching string search algorithms.
• 2024‑10‑08: Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
• 2025‑05‑26: Microsoft Windows Registry attack surface analysis.
• 2025‑03‑13: Triangle of power notation: exponents roots and logarithms.
• 2025‑05‑31: Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: bias in CEO selection towards risk-taking, analysed using polluted Superfund sites.
• 2025‑04‑11: Situated software.
• 2025‑06‑05: IELR(1): practical LR(1) parser tables for non-LR(1) grammars with conflict resolution.
• 2025‑03‑07: JA4+: a suite of network fingerprinting standards.
• 2025‑05‑09: Static interpretation of higher-order modules in Futhark: functional GPU programming in the large.
• 2025‑04‑25: Logarithms of algebraic data types for property-based testing.
• 2024‑09‑22: The sorry state of Java deserialization.
• 2025‑06‑06: Implementing dependent types in pi-forall.
• 2025‑06‑13: jemalloc postmortem.
• 2025‑04‑23: What is cosh(List(Bool))? Or beyond algebra: analysis of data types.
• 2025‑05‑05: Helmdar: 3D scanning Brooklyn on rollerblades.
• 2025‑02‑11: Elementary functions NOT following the IEEE 754 floating-point standard.
• 2025‑04‑11: London Cycle Orbital: peaceful cycling at London's margins.
• 2025‑01‑25: The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up.
• 2025‑05‑16: Lock-free Rust: how to build a rollercoaster while it’s on fire.
• 2024‑10‑10: What is systems programming, really?
• 2021‑06‑22: Exploit a binary with sigreturn oriented programming (SROP).
• 2025‑05‑15: Diagnosing a double-free concurrency bug in Rust's unbounded channels.
• 2025‑04‑23: PiDP-11 and other replicas of old computers.
• 2021‑08‑29: Postgres extensions in Rust.
• 2025‑04‑04: The crisis of zombie social science.
• 2025‑03‑21: MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second.
• 2025‑05‑17: CHERIoT: the last ten years.
• 2025‑05‑16: Initialization in C++ is seriously bonkers.
• 2025‑03‑23: gif320: A GIF viewer for DEC VT320 terminals.
• 2025‑04‑14: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: dissecting and dividing algebraic data structures.
• 2025‑06‑04: Distance-based ISA for efficient register renaming.
• 2024‑10‑12: Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX.
• 2025‑06‑01: Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees.
• 2025‑06‑08: Weaponizing dependabot: confused deputy pwn request at its finest.
• 2025‑01‑16: ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
• 2025‑04‑11: The yaml document from hell.
• 2024‑10‑12: Ki: wireless power for kitchen appliances. (video)
• 2025‑05‑16: Reservoir sampling: who discovered Algorithm R?
• 2024‑10‑28: EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
• 2024‑11‑10: Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
• 2025‑06‑03: How to take the inverse of a type.
• 2025‑05‑18: PostgreSQL lock conflicts quick reference.
• 2025‑05‑25: Bidirectional typing.
• 2025‑05‑15: A leap year check in three instructions.
• 2025‑05‑11: Alan Kay did not invent object-oriented programming.
• 2025‑04‑29: Syntactic musings on match expressions in Rust.
• 2025‑06‑06: Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns.
• 2025‑06‑03: Zero-cost 'tagless initial' in Rust with GADT-style enums.
• 2025‑05‑31: Precision Clock Mk IV.
• 2025‑03‑13: Nanowar Of Steel - HelloWorld.java
• 2024‑11‑02: The ATS programming language: unleashing the potential of types and templates!
• 2023‑11‑19: A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
• 2025‑06‑04: DejaGNU (2011)
• 2025‑02‑13: On Jujutsu and Magit.
• 2024‑05‑28: aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
• 2025‑05‑23: That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years.
• 2025‑05‑01: roons: modular marble logic.
• 2025‑05‑22: Designing APIs for humans: Stripe object IDs.
• 2025‑04‑27: Silent bugs matter: a study of compiler-introduced security bugs.
• 2025‑03‑28: Wasm SpecTec has been adopted.
• 2025‑05‑30: Implementation of dependent types.
• 2025‑04‑11: Why do AI company logos look like arseholes?
• 2025‑03‑15: Displaying Korean text efficiently.
• 2021‑05‑23: Faster remainder by multiplication, with applications to compilers and software libraries.
• 2025‑05‑17: Don’t use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF).
• 2025‑04‑06: When should a Java JIT compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
• 2025‑05‑15: Crossness pumping station: seduced by symmetry.
• 2025‑03‑22: SKIM: The implementation of functional languages using custom hardware.
• 2025‑05‑12: De Bruijn's combinatorics.
• 2025‑04‑13: Dijkstra on mathematical notation.
• 2025‑04‑02: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on a change-id commit footer.
• 2024‑12‑15: Prequal: Load is not what you should balance.
• 2025‑05‑17: MicroHs: Haskell implemented with combinators by Lennart Augustsson.
• 2025‑02‑22: How to write mathematics. (1973)
• 2025‑05‑31: Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k.
• 2023‑10‑05: Surety: The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995.
• 2025‑02‑27: But can DOOM run it? Programming satan’s computer.
• 2025‑05‑15: 10 years of stable Rust: an infrastructure story.
• 2025‑05‑14: The first year of free-threaded Python.
• 2025‑01‑16: Is Wasm Memory64 actually worth using?
• 2023‑12‑05: Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
• 2024‑04‑25: Why does Windows use backslash as its path separator?
• 2025‑05‑24: There is no Diffie-Hellman but elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman.
• 2025‑05‑08: Implement your programming language twice.
• 2025‑04‑18: Dissolving the Fermi paradox.
• 2025‑05‑21: The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization.
• 2025‑05‑06: A formulae-as-type notion of control: classical logic and call/cc in Scheme.
• 2025‑05‑22: Gradients are the new intervals for signed distance function evaluation.
• 2025‑05‑22: Violating memory safety with Haskell's value restriction.
• 2025‑05‑26: Type-level bounded recursion in Rust.
• 2025‑05‑17: O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call.
• 2025‑03‑31: comrak: a CommonMark and GFM compatible Markdown parser and renderer in Rust.
• 2025‑05‑05: On the design of compact elastic binary trees (cebtree).
• 2024‑04‑09: How I tripped over the Debian weak keys vulnerability.
• 2023‑07‑17: Why specs matter.
• 2025‑05‑29: ΠΣ: dependent types without the sugar.
• 2023‑09‑19: build123d: A Python CAD programming library.
• 2025‑01‑10: Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim.
• 2025‑05‑05: Archers did not volley fire.
• 2024‑12‑20: “Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
• 2025‑03‑31: LALRPOP: a parser generator for Rust.
• 2024‑10‑20: Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
• 2025‑04‑06: How to sync anything.
• 2025‑04‑18: Sneak peek: A new ASN.1 API for Python.
• 2025‑02‑02: Parametric subtyping for structural parametric polymorphism.
• 2025‑04‑27: DIY book lamp: simple electronics meets paper craft.
• 2024‑08‑15: A non-uniform quasirandom number generator for games.
• 2025‑03‑11: Backyard cyanide from the cherry laurel.
• 2025‑04‑29: Let's Debug figures out why you can’t issue a certificate with Let's Encrypt.
• 2025‑04‑18: Squiggle: a simple programming language for intuitive probabilistic estimation.
• 2023‑08‑23: XTerm control sequences.
• 2025‑04‑09: facet: type reflection, serialization, deserialization — know the shape of your types in Rust.
• 2025‑03‑12: Representing type lattices compactly.
• 2025‑04‑18: Decomposing transactional systems.
• 2025‑03‑28: Specifying Wasm with SpecTec.
• 2025‑05‑22: Fast allocations in Ruby 3.5.
• 2025‑05‑14: Preventing outages with pkill's new --require-handler flag.
• 2025‑03‑11: Far-UVC: germicidal ultraviolet light can inactivate a wide range of pathogens with minimal effects on human tissues.
• 2025‑01‑30: Scaling the Let’s Encrypt rate limits to prepare for a billion active TLS certificates.
• 2025‑05‑12: Load-store conflicts.
• 2024‑07‑26: Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?
• 2024‑08‑28: Examples of MVC for the Web.
• 2025‑05‑06: A continuation-passing evaluation semantics for classical proofs.
• 2025‑02‑20: TRAVERTINE: CVE-2025-24118 safe memory reclamation race in the XNU Mac OS kernel.
• 2025‑02‑25: How core git developers configure git.
• 2025‑04‑26: Venera 8 Kosmos 482 descent craft reentry forecasts.
• 2025‑05‑19: Modular type classes.
• 2021‑06‑12: PubSub and RPC with dynamic types in Rust.
• 2025‑05‑17: Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful.
• 2025‑04‑26: Visibly pushdown languages: between regular and context-free.
• 2024‑08‑04: Programming mantras are proverbs.
• 2024‑05‑17: Existential types in Rust.
• 2025‑05‑10: Castle Kellmore 2.5D rendering on the PlayDate handheld game console.
• 2023‑01‑21: RP2040 DMA is Turing complete.
• 2025‑02‑14: TeX and Typst layout models.
• 2025‑05‑02: Elm property-based test case distributions.
• 2025‑05‑22: Violating memory safety with Haskell's value restriction.
• 2025‑05‑16: From Haskell to a new structured combinator processor for graph reduction in hardware.
• 2025‑03‑26: Pi Pico Rx: a crystal radio for the digital age?
• 2025‑05‑16: Pallene: a statically typed ahead-of-time compiled sister language to Lua, with a focus on performance.
• 2024‑11‑24: Mark–Scavenge garbage collection: waiting for the trash to take itself out.
• 2025‑03‑30: Learn CSS layout the pedantic way.
• 2025‑02‑28: It's the latency, stupid!
• 2024‑11‑24: Anatomy of a thunk leak in Haskell.
• 2025‑05‑15: How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
• 2021‑03‑19: A bestiary of mathematical functions for systems designers.
• 2025‑05‑17: The programming language that never was.
• 2025‑01‑25: Proper decoupling practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind.
• 2021‑02‑14: Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
• 2025‑03‑25: On the ignorability of attributes in C++.
• 2025‑04‑15: Two years of Rust.
• 2024‑09‑01: Raspberry Pi boot optimization: 3.5 sec to Linux userspace code.
• 2025‑05‑16: Cloaca: a concurrent hardware garbage collector for non-strict functional languages.
• 2025‑04‑16: Atomicless concurrency.
• 2025‑04‑30: A collection of quotes on the design of notation as a tool of thought.
• 2025‑05‑17: Programming in Martin-Lof's type theory: an introduction. (1990)
• 2025‑03‑05: Encoding Hangeul, Koreas writing system.
• 2025‑02‑11: Optimal bounds for open addressed hash tables without reordering.
• 2024‑12‑04: SQL OFFSET is worse than keyset pagination.
• 2025‑03‑09: Efficient communication and garbage collection in Haskell with compact normal forms.
• 2025‑04‑23: Detecting if an expression is constant in C.
• 2025‑02‑26: The miserable state of cellular modems and mobile network operators.
• 2025‑05‑13: YamlScriot: YAML done wisely.
• 2025‑03‑30: Hacker laws, theories, principles, and patterns that developers will find useful.
• 2022‑05‑25: How I think about C99 strict aliasing rules.
• 2025‑02‑10: Dazed and Confused: a large-scale real-world user study of reCAPTCHAv2.
• 2023‑03‑07: HVM: higher-order virtual machine, a massively parallel, optimal functional runtime in Rust.
• 2024‑09‑07: gRPC: the ugly parts.
• 2025‑04‑25: setenv() isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us.
• 2021‑03‑12: Factoring in gravitomagnetism could do away with dark matter.
• 2024‑06‑03: {fmt}: a modern C++ string formatting library.
• 2025‑05‑07: The state of SSL/TLS stacks.
• 2025‑05‑01: verb: Emacs org mode HTTP client.
• 2025‑05‑02: Adaptive hashing in SBCL.
• 2025‑05‑10: Stacking lookup tables in a lexer generator.
• 2025‑04‑15: The .su ccTLD might be safe after all.
• 2025‑04‑18: Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?
• 2024‑10‑30: Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite.
• 2021‑12‑05: Why is it hard to automatically suggest what index to create?
• 2024‑10‑27: A comparison of the C# and Rust borrow checkers.
• 2025‑03‑04: Eradicating trivial vulnerabilities, at scale.
• 2025‑02‑11: The `satisfies` operator in TypeScript.
• 2025‑03‑13: When is "this trait can be implemented" part of the trait's public API? Sealed traits in Rust with cargo-semver-checks.
• 2025‑03‑29: Compiler construction textbook by Niklaus Wirth.
• 2022‑10‑05: Memories: Edinburgh ML to Standard ML.
• 2025‑04‑30: BBC 1 logo 1985: a computer originated world.
• 2025‑03‑16: Performance of Git's new bundle-uri.
• 2025‑04‑26: Parallel ./configure
• 2025‑04‑10: Practical UNIX manuals with mdoc: structure, style, and composition.
• 2025‑05‑10: Beating the fastest lexer generator in Rust.
• 2025‑05‑06: Propositions as types.
• 2024‑11‑10: Ferranti punched tape codes, including Flexowriter. (1961)
• 2025‑01‑09: Rethinking errors, warnings, and lints.
• 2024‑09‑11: A short guide to the copyright wars.
• 2024‑08‑14: The soul of maintaining a new machine: communities of practice among Xerox photocopier repair engineers.
• 2025‑04‑16: Learning rate: What does it mean for a technology (such as solar power) to follow Wright’s Law?
• 2023‑12‑03: fastgron: make JSON greppable, super fast!
• 2025‑04‑15: Sunlight: a certificate transparency implementation built for scalability, ease of operation, and reduced cost.
• 2025‑04‑04: On JavaScript's weirdness.
• 2025‑04‑14: Flat origami is Turing complete.
• 2025‑03‑06: The Combined Cipher Machine, 1942-1962.
• 2023‑08‑20: VIK: an FPC interface for connecting keyboard modules.
• 2025‑03‑23: browse-at-remote: browse remote code forges with emacs.
• 2025‑04‑07: A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation.
• 2024‑08‑21: Which social media sites support which meta tags?
• 2024‑07‑04: Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services.
• 2024‑03‑31: Changes to `u128`/`i128` layout in Rust.
• 2021‑04‑06: Directory entry says what? Current Gopher type field types.
• 2025‑05‑02: Designing type inference for high quality type errors.
• 2021‑10‑16: Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program.
• 2024‑11‑04: IAU standards of fundamental astronomy.
• 2025‑01‑23: Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard.
• 2023‑01‑08: djot: a light markup syntax.
• 2025‑05‑02: The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power.
• 2024‑12‑26: SpiNNaker: a million-core ARM machine. (2011)
• 2025‑04‑27: Technical debt as theory building and practice.
• 2024‑10‑09: 50 years of database queries.
• 2024‑06‑29: ChatGPT is bullshit.
• 2024‑05‑19: polyfill-glibc: patch Linux executables for compatibility with older glibc.
• 2025‑05‑04: Pixels in Islamic art: square Kufic calligraphy.
• 2024‑06‑04: You will regret using natural keys.
• 2025‑04‑15: Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc.
• 2021‑10‑16: Stored procedure OUT parameters in PostgreSQL 14.
• 2025‑01‑03: Can PostgreSQL use this index, please?
• 2023‑08‑31: Co-dfns: High-performance, reliable, and parallel APL.
• 2025‑04‑23: Danglepoise raise/lower dining table lights.
• 2025‑02‑06: Three basic rules of safety hygiene in Rust.
• 2024‑07‑04: Beating NumPy's matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C.
• 2024‑10‑28: Don’t implement unification by recursion.
• 2025‑04‑08: Obituary for Doug Lenat’s Cyc, the greatest monument to logical AGI.
• 2025‑04‑10: A discipline of error handling.
• 2024‑04‑10: A memory of the nineteen-nineties, by Teller.
• 2024‑11‑01: Control characters in ASCII and Unicode.
• 2024‑10‑24: A free, open source IPv6 textbook.
• 2025‑03‑31: WALI: WebAssembly with thin Linux kernel interfaces.
• 2025‑02‑28: The Fibrovisor: a display made from a tat shop fibre-optic wand.
• 2024‑12‑23: A worked example of copy-and-patch compilation.
• 2022‑07‑30: Welcome to the anthropocene: the age of human die-offs.
• 2025‑04‑25: The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do its 93 penises tell us?
• 2025‑03‑24: CSS animation with offset-path.
• 2024‑09‑05: Why eager languages don't have products and lazy languages don't have sums.
• 2024‑08‑17: Replace Docker Compose with systemd, podman, and quadlet.
• 2024‑11‑02: Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more...
• 2022‑05‑01: Uncurled: everything Daniel Sternberg learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades.
• 2025‑04‑18: Exacerbating cross-site scripting: the iframe sandwich.
• 2025‑03‑27: The Verilog preprocessor: force for `good and `evil
• 2024‑12‑29: SEninja: symbolic execution plugin for Binary Ninja.
• 2021‑09‑08: Rust programs written entirely in Rust, without libc.
• 2021‑09‑30: Always-on processor magic: how “Find My” works while iPhone is powered off.
• 2025‑02‑16: CPL elementary programming manual.
• 2022‑01‑08: Dr Russell Barkley’s 30 essential ideas everybody needs to know about ADHD. (YouTube)
• 2024‑12‑12: Century-scale storage: If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
• 2025‑04‑23: Does using Rust really make DNS name decompression safer?
• 2023‑10‑03: ARMv8 instruction set overview.
• 2023‑01‑29: Stonebraker: one size fits none: everything you learned in your DBMS class is wrong. (video)
• 2025‑04‑17: The halting problem is a terrible example of NP-harder.
• 2025‑04‑17: An iOS dlsym() PAC calculation bug.
• 2025‑04‑19: Breaking down multipart parsers: file upload validation bypass.
• 2025‑03‑22: A critical bibliography about the pirate site LibGen.
• 2025‑01‑23: See a PostgreSQL query, byte by byte, over TLS.
• 2024‑12‑04: Macros in the Dart programming language.
• 2025‑03‑28: Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) in Lucene and Elasticsearch.
• 2025‑04‑19: 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python.
• 2025‑01‑03: The Intel Alder Lake SHLX anomaly.
• 2025‑01‑20: The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem.
• 2025‑04‑15: A cautionary tale about continuity in constructive solid geometry.
• 2025‑04‑18: Probabilistic programming: doing statistics using the tools of computer science.
• 2021‑03‑19: Fuzzing TLS certificates from their ASN.1 grammar.
• 2025‑01‑24: Compile-time speed analysis of compiler frameworks for database query compilation.
• 2022‑01‑27: Two reasons Kubernetes is so complex.
• 2021‑05‑01: Internal combustion engine.
• 2024‑12‑23: My colleague Julius.
• 2024‑10‑03: Birth of the Bazel.
• 2024‑03‑08: You're wrong about the climate of tidally-locked planets.
• 2024‑04‑27: TOTP key URI format.
• 2024‑12‑05: Bicameral, not homoiconic.
• 2021‑08‑10: Three fundamental flaws of SIMD.
• 2025‑01‑18: Hands-on graphics with the NetBSD console.
• 2024‑05‑12: International meteor organization / international fireball program: amateur data collection of meteor events.
• 2024‑11‑01: Memento filter: a fast, dynamic, and robust range filter.
• 2021‑10‑12: Reproducible builds for Debian: a big step forward.
• 2025‑01‑04: Common Package Specification: a year closer to standard C++ dependency management.
• 2025‑02‑25: Proving a stupid sort algorithm with Dafny.
• 2025‑01‑30: A home built pipe organ.
• 2024‑06‑28: Misconceptions about static analysis of loops in C.
• 2024‑12‑26: Reads causing writes in PostgreSQL.
• 2024‑06‑19: How Vannevar Bush engineered the 20th century.
• 2025‑04‑18: NIST uncertainty machine.
• 2024‑09‑23: A Dieter Rams inspired iPhone bedside dock.
• 2022‑11‑20: Inside C++ boost::unordered_flat_map.
• 2024‑04‑09: Mac OS Grand Central Dispatch as a Rust async runtime.
• 2022‑01‑24: 11 pivotal moments in the history of timekeeping.
• 2025‑04‑20: Things Zig comptime won't do.
• 2021‑05‑04: How to solve the hardest logic puzzle ever.
• 2024‑09‑06: Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with (without Send + Sync + 'static).
• 2021‑12‑05: Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
• 2025‑02‑16: Unexpected uses of the GF2P8AFFINEQB bit matrix multiply instruction.
• 2021‑05‑03: Simple as in SNMP.
• 2022‑08‑03: jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C.
• 2025‑03‑20: Fear and loathing of the English passive.
• 2024‑10‑10: A modest proposal: C++ resyntaxed. (1996)
• 2025‑02‑14: Switching on strings in Zig.
• 2025‑01‑21: The hunt for EINVAL in embedded Rust.
• 2025‑01‑22: Mercator: Extreme.
• 2024‑12‑01: Why do we call it "boilerplate code?"
• 2023‑07‑28: The future of Clang-based tooling.
• 2023‑05‑31: Modern CPUs have a backstage cast of support cores.
• 2025‑04‑03: How Java got the generics it has, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love type erasure.
• 2024‑11‑20: Railroad time in the USA started on 18 November 1883.
• 2024‑10‑24: Linking directly to text fragments in web pages.
• 2025‑04‑11: What do bodies think about?
• 2024‑10‑24: Flatter wait-free hazard pointers.
• 2025‑03‑25: Database protocols are underwhelming.
• 2024‑05‑26: Hurl: an exceptional programming language.
• 2025‑03‑26: An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages.
• 2023‑09‑30: SnapperGPS 2: a printed circuit board design for a snapshot GNSS receiver.
• 2021‑09‑21: Taming Golang’s memory usage.
• 2022‑12‑09: Using bitmaps to perform range queries.
• 2024‑05‑06: Pair your compilers at the ABI café.
• 2025‑03‑22: Imberbus: a classic bus service across the Salisbury Plain to the lost village of Imber.
• 2025‑02‑04: A developer’s philosophy.
• 2025‑04‑12: WebRTC for the curious.
• 2021‑10‑25: A prototype original iPod.
• 2025‑01‑20: Automatic server reloading on change in Rust with listenfd and systemfd.
• 2025‑02‑16: Spin: formal verification of multi-threaded code.
• 2024‑11‑13: Using portable SIMD in stable Rust.
• 2024‑12‑15: PopSec: how not to blow up a pipeline.
• 2024‑11‑19: The thing about the Kobayashi Maru.
• 2025‑04‑11: What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?
• 2025‑02‑17: 0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance.
• 2024‑11‑08: The history of Standard ML ideas, principles, culture.
• 2021‑05‑03: What3Words: flaws in the algorithm.
• 2025‑01‑22: The London Underground is too hot, but it’s not an easy fix.
• 2022‑10‑18: Designing systematic colour schemes.
• 2025‑02‑07: Numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units of measure.
• 2024‑02‑03: A 3D mouse with 3D printed flexures and PCB coils.
• 2024‑12‑30: Adjust your sett: a tartan editor.
• 2025‑03‑27: RSS/Atom feed best practise.
• 2021‑08‑27: High performance correctly rounded math libraries for 32-bit floating point.
• 2025‑03‑31: sharun: run dynamically linked ELF binaries everywhere.
• 2024‑08‑16: How to write seemingly unhygienic and referentially opaque macros with Scheme syntax-rules.
• 2025‑01‑22: How to unlock LUKS using Dropbear SSH keys remotely in Linux.
• 2025‑03‑18: y-cruncher: a multi-threaded Pi program.
• 2024‑07‑26: Please stop calling databases CP or AP.
• 2022‑08‑05: C23 is coming: here's what's on the menu.
• 2025‑03‑11: Owi: performant parallel symbolic execution made easy with OCaml and WebAssembly.
• 2025‑02‑02: Hollywood: split a computer console into multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama.
• 2025‑03‑26: Build better Golang release binaries.
• 2021‑03‑05: The Black Death: marmots and Mongols?
• 2024‑08‑30: Bubble sort is not robust either.
• 2025‑03‑01: A dictionary of affixes: the building blocks of English.
• 2025‑03‑31: Policy for the distribution of ISO publications and the protection of ISO’s copyright: ISO POCOSA 2012.
• 2024‑09‑19: Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks.
• 2023‑12‑04: Wayland isn't going to save the Linux desktop.
• 2025‑01‑04: The state of Garnet in 2025.
• 2025‑03‑31: Incremental zero-config code navigation using stack graphs with tree-sitter at GitHub.
• 2024‑12‑04: Keyset cursors, not offsets, for pagination with PostgreSQL.
• 2024‑04‑29: Thorium nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades.
• 2024‑10‑03: Less htmx is more.
• 2021‑09‑14: Understanding pg_repack: what can go wrong, and how to avoid it.
• 2025‑01‑19: Hasochism: the pleasure and pain of dependently typed haskell programming.
• 2024‑11‑03: Rhombus: Racket’s new spin on macros without all the Scheme/Lisp parentheses.
• 2025‑03‑23: Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations.
• 2024‑11‑10: RISC-V vector extension overview.
• 2025‑03‑12: Constant-time code: the pessimist’s case.
• 2024‑11‑01: What is the point of an online conference?
• 2025‑03‑14: PAM unixsock.
• 2024‑11‑21: pv: pipe viewer progress bar.
• 2024‑03‑10: Learning lessons from the cyber-attack: British Library cyber incident review.
• 2024‑10‑25: A map of every road sign in the Netherlands.
• 2024‑11‑21: TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash.
• 2025‑01‑07: Building ultra long range TOSLINK.
• 2024‑06‑22: Overlays get ignored.
• 2024‑07‑16: Ethicswishing
• 2025‑03‑09: Performance of returning errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++.
• 2025‑01‑13: Underrated ways to change the world.
• 2025‑01‑25: World's first MIDI shellcode: remote code execution on a synthesizer.
• 2024‑12‑12: The Jujutsu version control system.
• 2022‑11‑18: Hardening unused mail domains.
• 2024‑10‑02: The fastest mutexes: Cosmopolitan libc and nsync.
• 2021‑06‑21: Finding the bottom turtle: bootstrapping from source.
• 2021‑08‑03: Working around a case where the PostgreSQL planner is "not very smart".
• 2025‑03‑28: Xee: a modern XPath and XSLT engine in Rust.
• 2024‑10‑18: ugrapheme: Unicode extended grapheme clusters in nanoseconds with Python.
• 2025‑03‑12: On the state of coherence in the land of type classes.
• 2021‑02‑18: 50 years of text games - 1977: Zork.
• 2024‑10‑30: Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem.
• 2024‑12‑19: IPtables interactive diagram.
• 2024‑11‑12: What does f(x) mean in C++?
• 2021‑08‑10: Ultra-processed foods, diet quality, and health using the NOVA classification system
• 2025‑03‑31: There’s white stuff growing on your cheese that isn’t mold.
• 2024‑11‑07: Userland disk I/O.
• 2025‑02‑16: Gaussian random number generators.
• 2023‑05‑09: OmniPaxos: replicated state machine and consistent distributed log in Rust.
• 2024‑09‑11: We spent $20 and accidentally became the admins of .MOBI
• 2025‑02‑13: A fast 6502 code generator.
• 2022‑10‑14: Algorithms for modern hardware.
• 2025‑02‑08: Turner, Bird, O’Neill, and the sieve of Eratosthenes.
• 2024‑11‑19: Adding Apple’s 🌐 globe key to a QMK-powered keyboard.
• 2021‑11‑18: A simple, possibly correct, LR parser for C11.
• 2025‑02‑08: Colossus: the first large-scale electronic computer.
• 2024‑09‑23: KGT (Kate’s grammar tool): BNF dialect converter and railroad diagram generator.
• 2024‑06‑25: The magic of participatory randomness.
• 2025‑03‑09: Keep calm and panic: performance of errors in Golang.
• 2025‑02‑27: macOS tips and tricks.
• 2024‑07‑11: tview: a Golang terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets.
• 2021‑06‑12: Designing Rust client bindings for REST APIs.
• 2024‑12‑21: The ugly truth about Spotify is finally revealed.
• 2024‑06‑18: Box plots are the better default choice for visualizing performance.
• 2024‑12‑05: The tragedy of Stafford Beer.
• 2025‑02‑03: Pinning down "Future is not Send" errors in async Rust.
• 2024‑08‑19: Don't repeat yourself and the strong law of small numbers.
• 2024‑11‑02: Strachey’s general purpose macrogenerator.
• 2024‑04‑23: A photo album of space age consumer electronics.
• 2025‑01‑16: The mess that is handling structure arguments and returns in LLVM.
• 2024‑05‑28: Your web API shouldn't redirect HTTP to HTTPS.
• 2025‑01‑16: COW vs BEEF: busting the biggest etymology myth in linguistic history.
• 2024‑10‑25: Bit twiddle hack: insert a 0 bit in the middle of a value.
• 2025‑03‑22: Brotli compression for the web.
• 2023‑12‑03: Monocypher 4: the clean break.
• 2021‑06‑20: Is Julia really fast?
• 2025‑01‑05: Don't clobber the frame pointer when writing asm for Golang.
• 2024‑08‑29: Kahan’s lecture notes on the status of the IEEE Standard 754 for binary floating-point arithmetic.
• 2025‑01‑31: Why is unauthenticated encryption insecure?
• 2025‑03‑16: Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub.
• 2025‑02‑22: Neut: a functional programming language with static memory management.
• 2023‑07‑29: Why is c the symbol for the speed of light?
• 2023‑07‑30: Serverless functions post-mortem.
• 2025‑01‑04: UltraLogLog: a practical and more space-efficient alternative to HyperLogLog for approximate distinct counting.
• 2025‑02‑14: Intensional Joy: a concatenative account of internal structure.
• 2025‑01‑13: The missing JIT tier for SQL query compilers.
• 2022‑09‑07: Wasmtime 1.0: a look at performance.
• 2021‑02‑18: Local privilege escalation exploit in Ubuntu apport crash handler.
• 2024‑04‑29: Principles for keyboard layouts.
• 2024‑06‑29: Programming advice I’d give to myself 15 years ago.
• 2021‑03‑12: Routing the technical interview.
• 2025‑01‑25: Advent of code 2024 in the BQN array programming language.
• 2023‑05‑23: How to include Git version information in a Golang binary.
• 2024‑10‑18: Understanding DNS resolution on Linux and Kubernetes.
• 2025‑01‑12: exec-path-from-shell: Make Emacs use the $PATH set in your shell.
• 2023‑02‑01: Surprises in the Rust JSON ecosystem.
• 2024‑10‑30: ANSI C89
• 2024‑10‑05: PostScript 1.0: a code study.
• 2025‑03‑21: Shaarli: personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service.
• 2024‑06‑07: Leopard-free programming.
• 2021‑07‑05: The rise and fall of the OLAP cube.
• 2023‑11‑05: Ungrammar in Go and resilient parsing.
• 2025‑01‑14: Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
• 2025‑01‑23: The mythical IO-bound Ruby on Rails app.
• 2024‑12‑03: Filtered sampling from sorted values with randomized binary search.
• 2025‑02‑09: blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency.
• 2025‑02‑08: Tips for mathematical handwriting.
• 2025‑02‑15: Gorton: The hardest working font in Manhattan.
• 2025‑01‑11: Building Bauble: interactive signed distance functions with WebGL.
• 2024‑05‑09: datatype99: algebraic data types for C99.
• 2021‑05‑25: The unwritten contract of solid state drives.
• 2024‑11‑21: DBSP: automatic incremental view maintenance for rich query languages.
• 2025‑02‑09: Getting the type of a template argument as string in C++ without RTTI.
• 2025‑03‑14: Hash Chain: efficient exact online string search / matching through linked weak factors.
• 2024‑05‑29: Rhodes must fall: The legacy of Cecil Rhodes in the University of Oxford.
• 2024‑11‑17: Urban Machine: robotics and AI to reclaim lumber for reuse.
• 2023‑03‑15: Youtube2Webpage, if you much better from text than from videos.
• 2024‑06‑06: TPM GPIO fail: how bad OEM firmware ruins TPM security.
• 2021‑11‑09: Driftwood: know if private keys are sensitive.
• 2021‑02‑20: Siag: a spreadsheet based on X and Scheme in a grid.
• 2023‑12‑26: rscss: a reasonable system for CSS stylesheet structure.
• 2025‑02‑04: Delilah: Alan Turing’s secret wartime voice encryption project.
• 2024‑01‑02: LLM generated code is like particleboard.
• 2025‑01‑22: get_secrets: Negotiate symmetric secrets between two remote peers using mTLS secret exporter.
• 2023‑10‑21: Electromechanical refreshable Braille module.
• 2023‑12‑27: How America turned the tide in the cockroach wars.
• 2024‑11‑16: Nixie tubes.
• 2024‑08‑10: Rust on the RP2350.
• 2021‑02‑20: Reading with E-ink.
• 2025‑01‑06: Collatzeral damage: bitwise and proof foolish.
• 2021‑07‑05: The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry. (1944)
• 2023‑12‑31: How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC.
• 2025‑01‑13: Doug Lenat's source code for AM and EURISKO.
• 2021‑03‑18: The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t.
• 2024‑06‑09: Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres.
• 2021‑03‑26: The magical applications of zero-sized types in Rust.
• 2024‑11‑23: Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?
• 2021‑10‑19: Optimizations enabled by -ffast-math.
• 2025‑02‑27: Can Doom run it? Adding with NAND gates in Doom.
• 2025‑01‑06: Cray 1 supercomputer performance comparisons with home computers.
• 2025‑02‑28: Notes: long-form comments in GHC.
• 2023‑08‑21: Flex without the flex: bending FR4 PCBs.
• 2025‑03‑09: Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter.
• 2021‑04‑04: Almquist shell (ash) variants.
• 2021‑10‑03: Fixing a Mac SE/30 to run A/UX.
• 2024‑10‑24: A line map for Milano's trams in TeX.
• 2024‑06‑13: Crafting an interpreter with Rust.
• 2025‑02‑08: From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution.
• 2024‑09‑26: Major leap for nuclear clock paves way for ultraprecise timekeeping.
• 2024‑11‑01: Unicode codepoints that expand or contract when case is changed in UTF-8.
• 2025‑02‑04: Notes on type layouts and ABIs in Rust.
• 2024‑07‑04: nq: a command line job queue utility.
• 2025‑01‑19: The surprising struggle to get a UNIX epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++.
• 2025‑02‑07: PolySubML: A simple ML-like language with subtyping, polymorphism, higher rank types, and global type inference.
• 2022‑05‑01: Sophie Wilson on the future of microprocessors. (YouTube)
• 2025‑02‑14: Type safe variadic printf in Idris.
• 2025‑01‑09: WorstFit: hidden transformations in Windows character sets.
• 2024‑12‑31: Optimizing static search trees in Rust.
• 2024‑09‑23: IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system. (1999)
• 2024‑05‑15: Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension.
• 2021‑05‑28: The last days of Tokyo's Nakagin capsule tower.
• 2024‑01‑31: A homemade telephone exchange for rotary dial phones.
• 2024‑11‑19: In loving memory of the square checkbox.
• 2024‑06‑26: The many faces of undefined in JavaScript.
• 2024‑04‑04: CHERIoT and supply chain security.
• 2025‑02‑04: Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL.
• 2024‑12‑11: Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined.
• 2024‑12‑21: Stacked error handling for large Rust projects.
• 2024‑11‑21: Handling cookies is a minefield.
• 2023‑05‑28: The silent (r)evolution of SAT.
• 2023‑12‑17: Lessons from implementing the Hurl programming language.
• 2025‑01‑12: Why I chose Common Lisp.
• 2021‑11‑24: Google cloud load balancer outage report.
• 2021‑02‑16: Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time.
• 2021‑07‑30: The Inter font family.
• 2024‑12‑25: When Unisys tried to cash in on GIF by charging royalties.
• 2024‑11‑11: Row major vs. column major arrays, row vectors vs. column vectors.
• 2021‑02‑27: 10 software engineering laws everybody loves to ignore.
• 2025‑03‑02: Hardware discovery: ACPI and Device Tree.
• 2025‑01‑04: FIFO queues are all you need for cache eviction.
• 2022‑11‑10: Anatomy of a scalable software transactional memory.
• 2024‑11‑20: Type safety back and forth.
• 2024‑11‑27: A collective of nouns.
• 2024‑10‑20: Responsive TOC leader lines with CSS.
• 2021‑02‑20: The beigeness, or how to kill people with bad writing: the Scott Alexander method.
• 2021‑08‑29: Caches, modes, and unstable systems.
• 2025‑02‑15: Unofficial Jepsen test of Patroni, a PostgreSQL high availability solution.
• 2025‑01‑10: Peter Kirstein describes how Britain got its first Internet connection.
• 2021‑04‑01: pg_auto_failover: PostgreSQL extension and service for automated failover and high-availability.
• 2025‑02‑01: Enabling Touch ID for sudo on macOS, before and after Sonoma.
• 2025‑02‑27: Socrates is a state machine: sans IO with async Rust.
• 2024‑11‑20: Ghosts of departed proofs. (functional pearl)
• 2025‑01‑09: dnsclay: DNS UPDATE/AXFR/NOTIFY to many custom DNS operator APIs gateway
• 2024‑10‑20: Using Euro coins as standard weights.
• 2024‑10‑01: Implementing virtual system calls with vDSO.
• 2022‑10‑04: What color is your markup?
• 2021‑12‑22: 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday.
• 2025‑02‑28: How CouchDB prevents data corruption with fsync.
• 2024‑10‑23: Our optimizers need a rethink.
• 2025‑01‑11: Rewrite it in Rust: a computational physics case study.
• 2025‑01‑20: Hash function design, SMHasher and Goodhart's Law.
• 2021‑06‑04: Post Office Trial: Marshall spells it out in a speech to University of Law.
• 2022‑10‑08: I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need for holistic systems.
• 2025‑02‑20: A tail calling interpreter for Python, and other musttail updates.
• 2024‑10‑06: A fast revese linear scan register allocator for Cranelift.
• 2024‑12‑30: Concurrent cycle collection for Scheme in Rust.
• 2023‑08‑22: Normalcy bias: it's not cool to overreact.
• 2024‑06‑29: Devops: the funeral.
• 2025‑02‑06: Thoughts after months of using Zig.
• 2024‑10‑21: A multithread concurrency cost hierarchy.
• 2021‑03‑04: Bitsquatting windows.com.
• 2024‑08‑27: Using dtrace on MacOS with SIP enabled.
• 2025‑02‑16: Program logics à la carte.
• 2021‑04‑29: Move constructors in Rust: is it possible?
• 2022‑12‑04: Leaving the basement: scaling up Mastodon at Hachyderm.
• 2025‑02‑07: Profiling in production with function call traces.
• 2023‑12‑11: How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python.
• 2024‑11‑11: The CVM cardinality estimation algorithm.
• 2024‑04‑10: Steve Klabnik's Jujutsu tutorial.
• 2021‑08‑12: ZeroVer: 0-based versioning.
• 2024‑11‑11: Far too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout.
• 2025‑02‑15: Gorton recreations.
• 2024‑04‑18: Formal mechanised semantics of CHERI C: capabilities, undefined behaviour, and provenance.
• 2025‑02‑17: How does Ada's memory safety compare with Rust’s?
• 2024‑10‑01: Kurt Vonnegut’s chess-like game GHQ.
• 2021‑05‑29: Really advanced Typescript types.
• 2024‑06‑15: Pitfalls of PostgreSQL logical decoding.
• 2024‑10‑21: The network is reliable? An informal survey of real-world communications failures.
• 2024‑06‑02: For want of a relative path to ld.so
• 2024‑09‑07: PERQ
• 2024‑12‑22: Blender USD scene import is accidentally quadratic.
• 2023‑12‑28: The heart of a language server.
• 2024‑12‑28: On Ada's dependent types, and its types as a whole.
• 2021‑08‑10: A security analysis of STARTTLS in email protocols.
• 2022‑01‑09: SSH agent restriction.
• 2025‑01‑08: Fidget: a library for representing implicit surfaces.
• 2023‑05‑29: Writing to the macOS clipboard the hard way.
• 2025‑01‑22: Compiler fuzzing in continuous integration: a case study on Dafny.
• 2025‑01‑17: Get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling in Rust.
• 2025‑02‑05: The Sudoku affair.
• 2024‑09‑24: A busy beaver Collatz coincidence.
• 2024‑11‑27: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory in the Macintosh LC III.
• 2025‑02‑02: Introducing sealed capability types for CHERIoT.
• 2024‑10‑12: The ultimate conditional pattern matching syntax.
• 2023‑01‑06: A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.
• 2025‑01‑31: Byte queue limits for Linux network drivers.
• 2025‑01‑05: D2: declarative diagramming, implemented in Golang.
• 2024‑12‑04: Francis Crick’s central dogma of genetics is not a "dogma," and it has never been broken.
• 2024‑11‑09: Algol 68: a retrospective.
• 2024‑10‑05: The solid-state register allocator.
• 2025‑02‑02: Conway's law: how do committees invent?
• 2025‑01‑16: ipcc-downloader: download iOS cellular carrier profiles.
• 2025‑02‑16: Small-data computing: Hans-J Boehm’s correct calculator arithmetic.