Stories by luu

Writing a Unix Shell

Windows Spying

JVM Anatomy Park

An explanation a day (on a Postgres feature or component)

Postgres Merge Joins

What Should I Work On? A Mini Guide for New Programmers

Postgres Index Scans

Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes

A 50 Year-Old Teletype Powered by a Raspberry Pi

One week's worth of bugs

Compressed Computation for Text Indexing (2016) [pdf]

Space-Efficient Construction of Compressed Indexes in Deterministic Linear Time

Notes on Deliberate Practice

Writing simple-check, a QuickCheck library for Clojure (2013)

How to Generate Self-Referential Programs

Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing

Impressions from RC and NYC

Personal Bests as Reference Points

Leaving intentional bugs in code for testers to find

A study of branch prediction strategies (1981) [pdf]