Stories by fanf2

SaferNode: A Python script to isolate NPM inside short-lived Docker containers

Tales from the science fiction bar-room

Saving space (basically) for free by re-ordering columns in PostgreSQL

Magic Wand Rechargeable Teardown

HOPL: An online historical encyclopaedia of programming languages

Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015)

Compiler hardening and exploit mitigations for unsafe Rust

Outflank-mailman: stop Mailman from breaking DKIM signatures

Rob Pike on Colour Blindness

The weight of buildings and the raising of Chicago

A typed, algebraic approach to parser combinators [pdf]

Modular, composable, typed optimizations in the tagless-final style (2019)

Techade quiz: A near-impossible guessing game of tech through the decades

A Peg Parser for CPython

Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS

Delivering 45x faster percentiles using PostgreSQL, Citus, and t-digest

Data and Reality, 2nd Edition

John Regehr's integers in C quiz

A new X.509 certificate chain validator for LibreSSL

Tail Call Optimization and Debugging