Stories by fanf2

A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD

Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom

DaScript: A high performance scripting language

The optical mouse (Xerox PARC, 1981) [pdf]

Constructive vs. Predicative Data Types

DNS Problems with Conntrack and Kubernetes

The newspaper of the air: early experiments with radio facsimile

Mpemba effect: what conditions make hot water freeze faster than cold water?

Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)

A guide to contiguous data in Rust

Building a Better Golang Linker

Take a virtual tour of ORNL's supercomputer center

Surviving Rust Async Interfaces

The great American sci-fi utopia or dystopia? (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Crappy paradoxes that shape nonprofit and philanthropy

UK Radon Maps

EdgeQL: We can do better than SQL

How hard is it to type-check your favorite language?

Steve Crocker on the History of RFCs

Lacc: A simple, self-hosting C compiler