Stories by fanf2

Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite

How Diesel autogenerates a Rust API from a database schema

The mystery of the blend: the blender file format explained (2009)

How Google manages 250,000 desktop/laptop computers securely and efficiently [pdf]

DNS resolver latency (cache hit rate) vs. query rate

Psychological safety in operations teams [pdf]

Metro map colour-coding: effect on usability in route tracing [pdf]

Fool Britannia: the future of the UK has never looked so grim

How I convinced my 1987 Canon Cat to talk to my 2017 MacBook Pro

Criterion: statistics-driven micro-benchmarking for Rust

DNS for Tor exit nodes

Homeowners trapped by ‘fleecehold', the new cash cow for property developers

Blockchain graveyard

Sex isn't chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X and Y

Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly

The Icelandic translation of Dracula is actually a different book

A clever line of JavaScript

Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at Last

DNS TTL violations in the wild, measured with RIPE Atlas

Git PSA: git-rev-parse