Stories by signa11

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

Why is IPv6 so complicated?

Discovering Dennis Ritchie's Lost Dissertation

Handling Instruction Branching in Modern Processors

A History of Teapots and Unix

IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Source Revealed About AI Engg Culture

A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

The role of LLMs in patch review

The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise

The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026

Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs

Oneness Is All You Need

ELF and Dynamic Linking

Implementing Amazon Dynamo in Elixir

Idiomatic Lisp and the Nbody Benchmark

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