Stories by sam_bristow

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

You can fly a rocket with Python and WiFi, you just shouldn't (2024)

Fair Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

Beyond 'latency numbers every programmer should know'

Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

Becoming Data Driven, from First Principles

How to hire smarter than the market – a toy model (2020)

Of Rats and Ratchets

Making my first embedded Linux system

Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords

Multicast and the Markets

Astra Space to Be Taken Private

RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study

Python-based pinball software framework

O(1) Build File

Pijul VCS – A Theory of Patches

Write Libraries, Not Frameworks (2020)

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications

Boltons should be builtins (Python)

Rust in Action (Book)