Stories by fanf2

Let's Encrypt numbers to know

Fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder written in Golang

The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography

Galois Theory for Beginners (2010) [pdf]

New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass

Pony: deny capabilities for safe, fast actors

Beyond public key encryption

Dexter: automatic indexer for PostgreSQL

Hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL

The 5 best punctuation marks in literature

Starfish Prime: a 1.4 megaton nuclear test in space

Skylake bug: a detective story

In-place merge sort

Fun with branch (mis-)prediction and imbalanced quicksort pivots

Fast Deterministic Selection [pdf]

What is ‘skip locked’ for in PostgreSQL 9.5? (2016)

How do whales and dolphins sleep without drowning?

This is how sperm whales sleep

Morton-order Matrices Deserve Compilers’ Support (1999) [pdf]

Frinkiac: Simpsons full text search