Stories by fanf2

The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi access point placement

Smithsonian Institution Open Access

Selectors explained: translate CSS selectors into plain English

A pragmatic approach to global state in a 3rd party library called from Rust

Coverage-Based Fuzzing with Libfuzzer

Some nuances of undefined behavior in Rust

QUIC and OpenSSL 3.0

Taking care of code more and more code

Hell of a handshake: abusing TCP for reflective amplification DDoS attacks

Container security: nobody knows what it means but it's provocative

Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript in a web browser

Computer animation in 1961: he Stanford card stunt program. (YouTube)

Pub: An early scriptable markup language

Recovering from Useless Vacuuming in PostgreSQL

Transaction isolation repeatable read in PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

DEC Alpha: A History in Facts and Comments (2005)

An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation

The Human Hemisphere (2015)

OCSP checks for EV certificates make the web slow and unreliable

The worst of time64 breakage