Stories by luu

Personal Bests as Reference Points

Leaving intentional bugs in code for testers to find

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

Rust: floating point to integer casts can cause undefined behaviour

Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff

Sales Tax, E-commerce, and Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Network [pdf]

Efficient unsigned-to-signed cast avoiding implementation-defined behavior

Source Maps Are an Insufficient Debugging Format for the Web

Benchmarking boot latency on x86

Julie: an MP3 player for parties

Undefined Behavior Consequences Contest Winners

Incremental property-based testing

Reforming land use regulations

DO YOU WANT TO WIPE OUT THE FILE SYSTEM?

Speedrun: A Ludum Dare Postmortem

Formal Methods in Practice: Using TLA+ at ESpark

Using property based testing on an Ocaml DHCP library

A Critique of Typeclasses

Browser Caching Effectiveness

Book Review: The Hungry Brain