Stories by The-Compiler

Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001)

Beating the Averages (2003)

Are the Government's Conversations with AI Accessible Under Public Records Laws? [pdf]

Measuring nothing (with great accuracy) (2014)

Pointer Chasing in Modern Systems: Why it hurts, When it helps

Kermit oral history panel (2012)

LLVM AI Tool Use Policy

WTF per Minute – An Actual Measurement for Code Quality

A Complete Guide to Lock Convoys (2022)

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

Parachute use to prevent death: a review of Randomized Controlled Trials

The Cost of Free Doughnuts

That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing

Why Reproducible Builds?

Multi-Architecture Continuous Testing at Google

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like

Users don't always conform to the perfect visions of engineers (2011)

I am no longer chairing defenses where students use generative AI

In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome

Haskell Researchers Discover Programmer Who Gives a Shit (2010)

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