Stories by fanf2

Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard

Djot: A Light Markup Syntax

The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power

SpiNNaker: A million-core ARM machine. (2011)

Technical debt as theory building and practice

Polyfill-glibc: patch Linux executables for compatibility with older glibc

Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy (2020)

Can PostgreSQL use this index, please?

Co-dfns: High-performance, reliable, and parallel APL

Three basic rules of safety hygiene in Rust

A discipline of error handling [pdf]

A memory of the nineteen nineties (1997)

Control Characters in ASCII and Unicode

WALI: WebAssembly with thin Linux kernel interfaces

The Fibrovisor: a display made from a tat shop fibre-optic wand

A worked example of copy-and-patch compilation

The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do its 93 es tell us?

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