Stories by signa11

Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment

A Curl 2025 Review

(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)

Schrödinger's test: The /dev/mem case

Tieredsort: Header only, blazing fast (3-4x) C++17 sorting for numeric types

Rex: Safe Rust Kernel Extensions for the Linux Kernel, in Place of eBPF

An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

When SIMD Fails: Floating Point Associativity

Faster Practical Modular Inversion

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26)

Bazzite: A Gem for Linux Gamers

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

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