Stories by signa11

Much hot air over blinking cursors

Computer Latency at a Human Scale

Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming

Understanding Probabilistic Graphical Models Intuitively

Writing a Memory Allocator

How Inefficient Can a Sort Algorithm Be? (2012) [pdf]

You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try

Tearing Apart Printf()

Investigating Hash Collisions via Birthday Paradox

I Program: Four Example Projects

I Became a Programmer

A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster

An Introduction to ZSH Utils

Python Stdlib Gems: Collections.Counter

C Is Not a Low-Level Language

Unix Domain Sockets in Go

Micosoft’s New Skype for Web No Longer Supports ChromeOS or Linux

Making C++ Exception Handling Smaller on X64

Reimplementing Printk()

Comparing C and Rust Network Protocol Exercises