Stories by signa11

Special Cases Are a Code Smell

Interview with Alan Kay (2k12)

Binary portability for BPF programs

Don Knuth: Dancing Links

Yggdrasil: End-To-end Encrypted IPv6 Networking

Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography

A Better Interview

Limits of programming by interface

C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof

Unix Folklore

Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer

Warning Unprivileged Linux Users with UID INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command

Ktask: optimizing CPU-intensive kernel work

Origins of D Programming Language (WIP) [pdf]

Data Locality

So You Want to Write a Linux Userland

How to optimize C and C++ code in 2018

How to invert a matrix

How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects

Filesystems and case-insensitivity