Stories by fanf2

Future directions for optimizing compilers

Things you probably don't want on your [airline] website's payment pages

The two dualities of computation: negative and fractional algebraic data types [pdf]

First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?

How gRPC uses HTTP/2

Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a Python multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate

Best practices for mobile form design

Tealemetry: an IoT tea coaster and thermometer

What drives IPv6 deployment?

Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses

Political sextant

A Rust pattern: iterating over an Rc<Vec<T

Function poisoning in C++ with gcc

Burroughs B5500 emulator

Convergence of AIX and 4.3BSD [pdf]

Diffy: a server comparison engine for digital forensics in the cloud

Uvm: a BSD virtual memory system (2016)

A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016)

A critique of resizable distributed hash tables: Riak Core vs. random slicing