Stories by fanf2

Bloaty McBloatface 1.0: a size profiler for binaries

BBC R&D scalable Internet broadcasting using multicast QUIC [pdf]

Stacked Borrows: an aliasing model for Rust

High uptime headaches due to floating point high resolution timers

A timesyncd total failure and systemd's complete lack of debugability

Meet the street artist transforming London's railway bridges into works of art

Rust and the case of the redundant comparison

The Mythical Brown Windsor Soup

Pollen calendar

What's going on in the Rosetta timelapse video from the surface of a comet

On system rollback and totalised fields: An algebraic approach to system change [pdf]

What is philosophy of science, and should scientists care?

Transparency logs via append-only authenticated dictionaries

DOCSIS time protocol: PTP over cable for 5G microcells

History of the BASIC Engine

Saltpack: a modern crypto messaging format, a NaCL-based replacement for PGP

One line of JavaScript made FT.com 10 times slower

Introduction to compute shaders

Swift's “Never” type

The science behind non-Newtonian noodles (2014)