Stories by signa11

Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)

JWST Completely and Successfully Unfolded

Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)

Explaining Huffman’s Impossible Pyramid

Good-cat: This cat hates pipes

Lessons from Log4j

The important Unix idea of the “virtual filesystem switch”

China's Mars orbiter snaps selfies above Red Planet

Why AI Needs a Genome

People Have Been Having Less Sex–Whether They're Teenagers or 40-Somethings

No code reviews by default

Stochastic Bisection in Git

Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes

Enlightenment 0.25.0 Release

Doom Emacs Configuration the Methods, Management, and Menagerie of Madness

Floating-Point Determinism (2013)

I found (and fixed) a vulnerability in Python

Lost Talks of Linus Torvalds

For C programmers that hate C++ (2011)

Electricity Is Magnetism