Stories by fanf2

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)

Vim on a mechanical typewriter

PostgreSQL and ZFS best practices

The sorry state of OpenSSL usability

Willrow Hood's Ice Cream Machine in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

SSL Labs grading overhaul preview

Pg_squeeze: A PostgreSQL extension for automatic bloat cleanup

The day zero was banned from British roulette

FaCT aka ConstanC: a constant-time programming language

BT InLink in London: building a privatised “smart city” by stealth

Scientists have found a drug that can repair cavities and regrow teeth

Tom Weller's “Science Made Stupid” and “Cvltvre Made Stvpid”

Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability [pdf]

Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply

“A simple makefile” is a unicorn

Eleven Linux syscalls that suck