Stories by luu

Hackathons don't win you customers

Unison File Synchronizer

#ifdef Considered Harmful, or Portability Experience With C

The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com"

30 GB personal music player (1999)

Meta Programming in Lua

Brewer's CAP Theorem

Getting a Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor

Xpra: Screen for X

Where I Write

Security and NaN tagging

Plugging the CSS History Leak

On compiling 34 year old C code

Clean modern readable idiomatic maintainable best practice

The return of open mail relays

Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

Howdoi: Instant coding answers via the command line

Chrome extension rants, optional permissions, and chrome.tabs

Metaprogramming custom control structures in C

How often do you use math when programming?