Stories by signa11

Eventual Rust in CPython

Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers

Elixir: The Great WebSocket Hunt: 50k Connections, Zero Crashes

Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Clouded Judgement 12.12.25 – Long Live Systems of Record

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?

Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world

The story of Erdős problem #1026

Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland

Zig asserts are not C asserts

Stack Overflow: Challenge #14 Signal from Noise

Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won't Steal Your Job

Cursed circuits #2: switched capacitor lowpass

Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft

Flow Control: a programmer's text editor

Unredacted Magazine Issue 008 SEP 2025 [pdf]

Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive

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