Stories by fanf2

Fast IPv4 to hostname lookups (using databases not the DNS)

A brief history of badge ribbons at SF conventions

How to effectively dump PostgreSQL databases

Neater async failure handling in TypeScript

Prometheus for Beginners

Execute-only pages vs. PAN (privileged access never) on arm64

Ethernet power line adapter noise interference

Mutexes are faster than spinlocks

What's What in the World of TeX

An entomologist rates emoji ants

Interior Mutability Patterns in Rust

Spinlocks Considered Harmful in Rust

Why MemSQL uses skiplist indexes

A brief history of liquid computers

Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network

Right-to-left styling: a guide on how to style for RTL in CSS

The university is a ticking time bomb

Hard Work and Success

Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs

Too Much Crypto [pdf]