Stories by fanf2

Full-text search performance since PostgreSQL 8.3

40ms bug: a missing writev, Nagle's algorithm, and delayed ACKs

Undoing, fixing, or removing commits in Git: choose your own adventure

What mother never told you about VM service (1983) [pdf]

Fast Flexible Paxos

Hegel: An advanced static type checker for JavaScript

Lox: A word that hasn't changed sound or meaning in 8k years

Dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python

Dog: A command-line DNS client

New amd64 micro-architecture levels

Vt52-FPGA

Exception safety in Rust: using transient droppers to prevent memory leaks

AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review

Linear scan register allocation [pdf]

Notes on Paxos

BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools

Hardware performance counter support (via rdpmc) in Rust

Rust Design-for-Testability: A Survey

Hyper-regional chippy traditions of Britain and Ireland

WordTsar: A Wordstar Clone