Stories by signa11

What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity

Descriptorless Files for Io_uring

Think Like (A) Git

A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch

Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy

Fluxsort: A stable adaptive partitioning comparison sort

On the lack of progress reports from the Mill project

An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries

The Non-Engineer’s Ultimate Guide to Software Technology – Sanpram Transnational

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