Stories by signa11

Matrix and Quaternion FAQ

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

The Secret Life of Computers

Timesharing on the MIT Weather Radar PDP-8/IX

Is anyone still using Emacs?

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

Moving Beyond Fork() + Exec()

Care about what you do – even when nobody's watching

Even more batteries included with Emacs

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon

Tobias Hieta: A Brief Overview of the LLVM Architecture [video]

Orthodox C++ (2016)

On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles

BPF in the Agentic Era

Humans ask, computers propose, humans decide

Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?

Commandments of Synchronization (2011) [pdf]

A Little Explanation of Little's Law

Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables

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