Stories by luu

The Internet I Knew (2014)

Fixie tries

Memoized parsing with derivatives [pdf]

WinNuke

The Pentium F00F Bug (1998)

A Python internals adventure (2014)

What Happened to TCP Flags URGENT, MSG_OOB, and SIGURG? (2007)

Tour de Babel

Proofing Spirits with a Homemade Electrobalance

Building shells with a grain of salt

Which Python operations are atomic? (2016)

A bogus study on code review

Writing a C Compiler, Part 3

Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?

React: improving the repository infrastructure

Vim on a Mechanical Typewriter

Explore Two Montreal Transit Maps, 70 Years Apart

Psychology vs. the graphics pipeline

Is file append atomic in Unix?

What is the most impressive Lisp application?