Stories by signa11

Achieving generic bliss with reflection in modern C++

Another misstep for Audacity

Program Design in the UNIXenvironment [pdf]

FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls

0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011)

Would Alfred Hitchcock Use Emacs?

Xargs Considered Harmful

Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)

China Is Pulling Ahead in Global Quantum Race

Three Months in Monte Carlo

Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and see what it does

ClojErl: Implementation of Clojure on the Erlang Virtual Machine

Everyone knows grep is faster in the C locale

Rust for Linux Redux

IPv4 Route Lookup on Linux

25-Year-Old Lived for More Than a Year Without a Heart

AT&T will let unlimited-data customers pay more to avoid the slow lane

Refterm v2 – Resource usage, binary splat, glyph sizing, and more

Neovim – Init.lua

Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash