Stories by fanf2

Isn't it obvious? Avoiding just-so stories about visualizations

The Bestiary: scaly-foot gastropod / iron snail

What it's like being a creative professional and a mother

Down the “shithole”: why lexicographers need your profanity

Fast strong hash functions: SipHash and HighwayHash

Fundamental physics is frustrating physicists

IPv6 flow label: misuse in hashing

PiTubeDirect: A Raspberry Pi as a BBC Micro Second Processor

Meltdown and Spectre information update for DragonflyBSD

NSEC3 hash performance in NSD and Unbound [pdf]

Why Brigade doesn't do YAML: scripting for Kubernetes clusters

PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86

The bad neighbor: out-of-order execution and its applications

An 8-tube module from a 1954 IBM 705 mainframe: it's a key debouncer

The fresh prints of ‘bell-end'

How Wendy Carlos Changed Music

Decrypting PgBouncer's diagnostic information

Life as a New York Times reporter on the national security beat

The Golang type system for newcomers

Making TRust-DNS faster than BIND9