Stories by aragonite

Rocket Mail

How Node.js and V8 keep each other working

The Little Book of Semaphores (2016)

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Reminiscences on the History of Time-Sharing (1983)

Spork: A posix_spawn you can use as a fork

A fork() in the road (2019) [pdf]

Software Internals Book Club

Who is Marcus Rodriguez? [video]

Who invented file extensions in file names? (2023)

"Mother of all Demos" (1968)

Jeffrey Snover on .NET and Windows: "Not a Happy Marriage"

Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms (1997) [pdf]

The Art of Operating Systems (2019)

The Foundations of LLMs, 1943-2026: A Curated Collection of Seminal Papers

Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function

Performance • tldraw Docs

Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012)

Deriving the Y Combinator (2008)

On TypeScript's Flaws (2024)

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