Stories by jsnell

The VAX

Bits of Advice for the VM Writer

Zendo: Design history of a board game (2007)

Pfmatch, a pattern-matching language for network packets

Batch-GCDing GitHub SSH Keys

The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it

The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout

The Intricate Platforming of Tomb Raider (2013)

BPF – In-kernel virtual machine [pdf]

Beyond the PDP-11: Processor support for a memory-safe C abstract machine [pdf]

Nibblesort: Adventures in Optimization

Review: UndoDB, a reversible debugger

The Effect of Version Control Systems on Emacs Developers

Optimizing Unity Renderer Part 3: Fixed Function Removal

Revisiting the Intel 432 (2008)

Pointer-less Scapegoat Trees

The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid

The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid

The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid

DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers (2001)

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