Stories by fanf2

A23D: a 3D-printed letterpress font

Why big companies squander good ideas

Why Rust closures are somewhat hard

An introduction to inline classes in Kotlin

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]