Stories by signa11

Node9: Hosted 64b OS Based on Inferno but Using Lua and LuaJIT

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (2011)

IEEE 754 Floating Point Type in C++

Avoiding hour creep: get your work done and still go home at 5PM

Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer

My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer

DWIM

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

Understanding how your program uses memory

Office 365, Skype, MS Teams, and VS Code Are All Being Rewritten in React Native

Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second

Can you explain to some degree why SPARC chips run java so well?

Erlang trace files in Wireshark

Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

A Gentle Introduction to Programming Language Theory

Landau’s Theoretical Minimum [pdf]

Graph algorithms and software prefetching

Painting by Prime Number

Internals of the Linux TUN Interface