Stories by signa11

Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)

Reinventing Home Directories – systemd-homed [pdf]

Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C

When TCP sockets refuse to die

The Bizarre World of Recruiting

Build a Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

Ask HN: Say Something You Dislike About Language You Love

Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated

Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shutdown decision (2013)

Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster

Growth hacks: coffee with an experienced engineer you don’t know

Artificial leaf produces first drugs using sunlight

Stacking Theory for Systems Design

Sneaking up on Bayesian Inference (A fable in four acts) (2016)

Approximating the Sine Function

Report reveals play-by-play of first U.S. grid cyberattack

Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python

Measuring Computer Systems Is Almost Certainly Harder Than You Think

How Does BitTorrent Work? A Plain English Guide

Pipework: Software-Defined Networking for Linux Containers