Stories by fanf2

Terrible Choices: MySQL

Git as a tamperproof file archive using chained RFC3161 timestamps

Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)

Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming (2021)

The scandalous history of the last rotor cipher machine (2021)

Reflecting on transducers in Scheme (2023)

CompilerFax: Phone a compiler, fax it some code, it faxes back the results

TCP Performance and the Mathis Equation (2009)

A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter (2022)

Remembering Ned Freed (1959-2022)

Don't Repeat Yourself and the Strong Law of Small Numbers

Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)

A survey of approaches to securing BGP and inter-domain routing

The Terminal Escapes: Engineering unexpected execution from command line interfa

Regexploit: A tool for finding DoS-able regular expressions

Tests aren't enough: adding type hints to Python urllib3

Qiwi: A quick, emulation-focused launcher for QEMU

Bootp and ARP History

Summary of the USA federal government's zero-trust memo

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