Stories by luu

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?

Why does my home's power fade and surge when I plug things in?

Preventing Respiratory Tract Infections

There’s no magic: virtualenv edition

What Happened to the American Boomtown?

Bitsliced SipHash