Stories by signa11

A few CPU hardware bugs

Wirth's Revenge

A Simple fwd_diff for Forward-Mode AD in C++

The Dumbest Performance Fix Ever

Trust in Ranking

Profiling in production with function call traces

Can AI companies become profitable?

For the Love of Troff [pdf]

The state of Linux music players in 2026

Zerobrew: A drop-in, 5-20x faster, experimental Homebrew alternative

Modern C++ Use in Chromium

Dcli: Declarative Package Management for Arch Linux (Inspired by NixOS)

Asciinema: Making Movies at the Command-Line

Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch

I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

Predictions for the New Year

Cursor CEO Built a Browser Using AI, but Does It Work?

eBPF Party: Interactive eBPF Playground

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