Stories by fanf2

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

Cap: An allocator that can track and limit memory usage in Rust

DNSSEC algorithms for TLDs (and everyone else)

Unhygienic and referentially opaque macros with Scheme syntax-rules [pdf]

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