Stories by signa11

Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control

In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded?

A viable solution for Python concurrency

The End of Solitude (2009)

Erlang’s Halloween: Some dead code that not even Dialyzer

Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

Borrowing Trouble: The Difficulties of a C++ Borrow-Checker

Himalaya: CLI Email Client

Thanks to a nasty GPSD bug, real-life time travel trouble arrives this weekend

Measuring Std:Unordered_map Badness

Fun and Scary Code from Qt and KDE

What Books Should Everyone Read?

Digging into Julia's Package System

Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020)

Big Ball of Mud (1999)

Printf(“%s %s”, dependency, injection)

A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (1997)

The C++ Priv idiom: an alternative to Pimpl