Stories by fanf2

A proposal for UUID version 6, that naturally sorts in time order

The Git commit-graph file format and other optimizations

Article 13 of the EU copyright directove considered harmful

California passes its own GDPR to stymie a data protection ballot initiative

Fictitious route names from a neural network trained on UK Climbing logbooks

Computational Necromancy: MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM on the TI Explorer

How open is too open?

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