Stories by signa11

Data-Oriented Design

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

PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures

Slow and fast methods for generating random integers in Python

TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation – a war story

Arch Linux: A Developer-Friendly Operating System

PoC||GTFO-18 [pdf]

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph

Understanding quantum physics through simple experiments [pdf]

A Primer on Bézier Curves

Massacring C Pointers

Docker Considered Harmful (2016)

Timeless Debugging of Complex Software

The Problem You Solve Is More Important Than the Code You Write

The most expensive four words in the English language: “This time is different”

Why You Must Learn to Love DNSSEC

Functional Data Structures

What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future for C++

The Standard Model (of Physics) at 50

X86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary