Stories by signa11

[pdf] Embracing the Kobayashi Maru: Why You Should Teach Your Students to Cheat

The robots helping NHS surgeons perform better, faster – and for longer

Laugh along with GNU

Where grep came from [video]

How to drop 10M packets per second

Systems Languages: An Experience Report

Mastering Key Bindings in Emacs

Kernel support for control-flow enforcement

If You’re Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language

Ctypes.sh: foreign function interface for bash

Why filesystems have loose-coupling and your protocol doesn’t

Gravitational waves and the slow pace of scientific revolutions

Too Clever by Half

A one word change to the C standard to make undefined behavior sane again

A Brief Look at North Korean Cryptography

Modern C++ for C Programmers – Part 3

A Survey of Programming Language Package Systems

Data-Oriented Design

Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data

PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures