Stories by fanf2

What does it mean for code to be “explicit”?

How the Å came to be

Water's odd behavior stems from its ability to exist in two liquid states

NeoPG: a cleaned-up fork of GnuPG 2

Oumuamua pursued: the path of an interstellar asteroid

Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors

The death and life of the 13-month calendar

Star Wars: Regency

The fat in a perfect croissant

Warnsdorff's rule for finding knight's tours

The story of the Gömböc

The mysterious case of the Linux page table isolation patches

In-place editing gets safer in perl 5.28

Tracking down the roots of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (2012)

The orgin and constraints of “shitgibbon” compounds

The 2017 Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing

Dead store elimination (still) considered harmful [pdf]

What were the worst Nobel Prize snubs is science history?

Programming in the Wild West

ECSV: a format for astronomical tables (in CSV) with metadata (in YAML)