Stories by iamwil

What Is a Database?

The Broken Half of Interactive Programs

Destroyed at the Boundaries

Re-Reading Tanenbaum’s Critique of RPC 30 Years Later

A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm – 30 Years Later

Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time

Savage, a computer algebra system written in Rust: rust

The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods

Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR

Student Saves Skyscraper

Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

Ask HN: How have side-effects complicated your code base?

Ask HN: How does Common Lisp deal with side effects?

Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics [2020]

Rendering in Real Time with Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Textures

How to fold an origami cat: Lexus takumi challenge (2020)

Diablo II: Resurrected Outages: An explanation, how we’ve been working on it

Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power

Data Compression with Arithmetic Coding

Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world

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