Stories by signa11

The Erlang Runtime System

TSB: How it all went so wrong for the bank

Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum

The programming talent myth

Mind your dependencies

The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes

How COBOL Became the Early Backbone of Federal Computing

Implementing smart pointers for the C programming language

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer

Programming language versioning bothers me

Rust: The New LLVM

A Crude Personal Package Manager

Using Parallel Without a Clue: 90x Perf Loss Instead of 8x Gain

BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor [pdf]

Cd Is Wasting Your Time

OneWeb: Global, satellite-based internet services to Earth

Programmers Need to Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part I]: SQL Obfuscation

Katahdin: programming language where syntax and semantics are mutable at runtime

Natively Implemented Functions in Erlang