Stories by signa11

What Makes a Good Programmer?

Micro-optimizations matter: preventing 20M system calls

Data layout affects memory performance

A History of Anti Satellite Programs (2k12) [pdf]

Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro

Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth

The Rendition Vérité 1000

Fascinating Debug Report About a Scary Hidden Backdoor in Intel Processors

Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves

The Apple Card is a perfect example of Apple’s post-iPhone strategy

Concurrency Management in BPF

Skip Lists: Done Right

The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide

An Intel Programmer Jumps over Wall: First Impressions of ARM SIMD Programming

How NOT to hire a software engineer

Marvel’s Spider – Man: A Technical Postmortem [pdf]

Much hot air over blinking cursors

Computer Latency at a Human Scale

Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming

Understanding Probabilistic Graphical Models Intuitively