Stories by GalaxySnail

Designing a Better strcpy (2020)

Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning

Plumbum v2.0.0 Pythonic Shell Combinators Released

Python 3.15.0 beta 1 is here

curl DNS 2026, part IV, threads

Comparing Compression Tools

cppreference.com has been under maintenance for a year

Passagemath: A pip-installable modularized fork of SageMath

Tutorial: Linux kernel profiling with perf

O_DIRECT – The Problem That Grew Up with Multi-Threading

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache

Vali, a C library for Varlink

CDC File Transfer

Changing the Cursor with CSS for Better User Experience (Or Fun)

How Binary JSON Works in YDB (2022)

Wayland Compositors – Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients (2014)

PuTTY has a new website

Hashcat v7.0.0 Released

Gradual negation types and the Python type system

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