Stories by fanf2

Evaluating the cost of atomic operations on modern CPU architectures [pdf]

A map of station pubs

Infographic: operation costs in CPU clock cycles

Invisible asymptotes, and strategic planning at Amazon

Iterators vs. cursors: a case study in objects vs. values in Java

The making of TANK. (YouTube)

TANK, by Stu Maschwitz. (YouTube)

Can we please talk about privacy, not GDPR, now?

Prettier: an opinionated code formatter for JavaScript etc.

Prettier-emacs: Minor mode to format JavaScript code when you save

Various ways to disable stdio buffering from the command line

Lafable: large agile framework appropriate for big lumbering enterprises

What do we mean when we say “show the thing”?

Twitter for Academics 101

A guide to agile communication

Datalog and emerging applications: a tutorial [pdf]

Hippos crap so much that sometimes all the fish die

The Cult of the Root Cause

Sweden cancels Elsevier contract as open-access dispute spreads

Was early modern writing paper expensive?