Stories by fanf2

On "The OSI Deprogrammer"

The thorny problem of keeping the Internet's time (2022)

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC (2019)

Identity crisis: sequence vs. UUID as primary key

Four Months with Ada

I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?

Box Plots Are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance

Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild; here's

Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig

Destructing Trees Safely and Cheaply

Building a virtual machine inside ChatGPT (2023)

Fuzzing an eBPF Implementation in Rust

Thomas Rokicki's survey of algorithms for Conway's Game of Life [pdf]

Nsss: A secure NSS-like implementation for static linking

Call-by-push-value. (1999) [pdf]

Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than XOR filters

Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals

A year in the Nakagin tower's metabolist future of 1972

Mull: Practical mutation testing for C and C++

Make your QEMU 9p server 10 times faster with this one weird trick