Stories by fanf2

Don't use a pencil: a key to Brexit's Russian bots

Barbarian: a sword font

One Debian developer's preferred packaging setup

How to write a stunt server using raw sockets in IPv6

Recent IETF BGP work addressing operational challenges [pdf]

Cronic: a cure for chronic cron spam

Buffer overflow in musl-libc DNS response parser

A README maturity model

The DUHK attack: don't use hard-coded keys for RNG seeds

What everybody gets wrong about Jekyll and Hyde

Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television

Surviving IPv6 fragmentation [pdf]

A history of the ampersand

The self-referential functional option pattern in Golang

Genode: a capability-oriented microkernel OS

Introduction to the Zig programming language: “more pragmatic than C”

Exploring lock-free Rust: from locks, via atomics, to Crossbeam

DéjàVu: a map of code duplication on GitHub [pdf]

This is what the no-deal Brexit cliff edge looks like

ML modules and Haskell type classes: a constructive comparison [pdf]