Stories by fanf2

Software engineering laws everybody loves to ignore

Hardware Discovery: ACPI and Device Tree

Constantly Divisionless Random Numbers

Anatomy of a scalable software transactional memory [pdf]

Type Safety Back and Forth (2017)

A Collective of Nouns

Responsive TOC leader lines with CSS

The beigeness, or how to kill people with bad writing: the Scott Alexander metho (2021)

Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems

Pg_auto_failover: PostgreSQL extension and service for automated failover and hi

Eradicating Trivial Vulnerabilities, at Scale

Enabling Touch ID for sudo on macOS, before and after Sonoma (2023)

Socrates is a state machine: sans IO with async Rust

Ghosts of departed proofs. (functional pearl) (2018)

Dnsclay: DNS UPDATE/AXFR/NOTIFY to many custom DNS operator APIs gateway

Implementing virtual system calls with vDSO

What color is your markup?

At 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl's birthday

Rewrite it in Rust: a computational physics case study

Hash function design, SMHasher and Goodhart's Law

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