Stories by rsecora

Monte Carlo Methods or Why It's a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino

C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines

The High-Tech auction is a family affair. (1987)

SGI IRIX bloat. Lessons on performance, features and management (1993)

Adapting a design system to work for the Metaverse

Minecraft DDoS Attack

Moniac: Monetary National Income Analogue Computer

War Is a Racket. (1935)

Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)

Nginx optimization: Understanding sendfile, TCP_nodelay and TCP_nopush

Lisp Macros, Delayed Evaluation and the Evolution of Smalltalk

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

How the Finnish survive without small talk (2018)

Why GNU grep is fast

OpenGL vs. Direct3D

Snaring the Bad Folks / Cloud security is a hard problem

More dangerous subtleties of JOINs in SQL

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices

Project Code Rush: Documentary on the development of Mozilla (1998-2000)

Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust

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