Stories by fanf2

Where does my computer get the time from?

Introduction to Memory Safety in Firebloom / iBoot

PS-HTTPD: a web server written in PostScript

OmniPaxos handles partial connectivity when other protocols can’t

Gefs: A good enough filesystem for Plan 9

Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings

Code as Policies: LLM Programs for Embodied Robot Control

Breaking a PRNG: Is It Called Xor Shift or Xor Shit?

Brief Notes on Computer Word and Byte Sizes

Squire 2.0: next generation open-source rich text editor

A qp-trie for BIND

An Update on Leap Seconds (2022)

New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?

Elektročas HH3 – the most accurate pendulum clock on the planet

Work begins in Western Australia on world’s most powerful radio telescopes

An Update on Leap Seconds

Building the fastest Lua interpreter, automatically

A Jq255 Elliptic Curve Specification, and a Retrospective

Literature Clock

Gitopper: GitOps for the Non-Kubernetes Folks