Stories by fanf2

Design case history: the Commodore 64 (1985) [pdf]

Developers. Our last, best hope for ethics?

We discovered three poisonous books in our university library

On C++ random number generator quality

Rust pointers for C programmers

Sphericons (2006)

Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” is a radical, transformative work of comedy

How BuzzFeed Migrated from a Perl Monolith to Golang and Python Microservices

How to get away with financial fraud

Safe API design with the ghosts of departed proofs

Algebraic blindness: Boolean blindness for often type systems

Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool

Making Rust Arc more atomic

Anti-if: the missing patterns (2016)

Another 10 years of Internet evolution

Issues and requirements for SNI encryption in TLS

A prescient warning to Boeing on its 787 trouble

Letting neural networks be weird: The Visual Chatbot

CheckTLS secure email

Java tricks with 'var' and anonymous classes (that you should never use at work)