Stories by fanf2

Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done

XPath injection issues are severely underrated

A tale of a build system bug. (ninja/GCC/Windows)

Experience in Production with Flask, Bottle, Tornado, and Twisted

Errol: An always correct method for printing floating-point numbers [pdf]

Errol: Binary floating-point to decimal string conversion algorithm

P: A language for asynchronous event-driven programming and model checking

Optimizing a join using LIKE by using PostgreSQL FTS instead

Edsac 1951 (YouTube)

The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML

Plocate: A Much Faster Locate

Samurai: A ninja-compatible build tool written in C

PARI/GP: a computer algebra system for fast computations in number theory

Efficient text editing on a PDP-10

Static single assignment for functional programmers

Compiling with Continuations, or Without? Whatever

Compiling without continuations (2017)

RPKI secure BGP routing Q&A

Jacl: Just Another Configuration Language

Better Than JSON?