Stories by luu

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]

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