Stories by signa11

Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer

My Favourite C++ Footgun

Can memcpy be implemented in LLVM IR?

Linux-Kernel: Printk() Indexing

The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)

Emacs as Your Calendar

Entity Component System architectures (and why you should care)

How does a USB keyboard work?

USB Made Simple

The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software

2021 – The Year Windows Became a First Class Python Development Environment

Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf]

From SIMD to AST Extraction

Fast reciprocal square root in 1997?

Pencil and Paper Thinking

Biden’s Internet Plan Pits Cities Against Dominant Carriers

Chinese ‘artificial sun’ hits new mark in fusion energy mission

Emacs link scraping (2021 edition)

Evolutionary Deep Intelligence

Calling Kernel Functions from BPF