Stories by fanf2

The SCRAM SASL authentication mechanism

PDP-7 Unix: building a development environment from scratch [pdf]

A detailed timeline of the IMAGE satellite recovery

Developers on call

The Big Switch: a view of the advent of cloud computing, ten years on

Lessons from optics, the other deep learning

Metacrap: putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia

What's wrong with Metcalfe's Law?

DNS RFC dependency graph [pdf]

Moomin noir

SafeYAML

The songs that bind: musical tastes are formed at puberty

GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction

The Incomplete Vision of John Perry Barlow

When will the world reach 'peak child'?

FreeBSD Broadcom WiFi improvements

PostgreSQL on a VAX

Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible

Computer manpower: is there a crisis?

Paris flooding harks back to one of the great breakthroughs in hydrology