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  • Grieving the loss of details #Grief #Loss #Reflection

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    Sep 24, 2026

  • Write while learning #Learning #Writing #Productivity

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    Sep 19, 2026

  • Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Craftsmanship

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    Sep 13, 2026

  • The NX bit is not just about security #Security #Technology #ComputerScience

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    Sep 4, 2026

  • accept() and socket inheritance #Programming #Networking #SysAdmin

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    Aug 20, 2026

  • DuplicateHandle works on sockets, mostly #Programming #Networking #SoftwareDevelopment

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    Aug 19, 2026

  • Race-free handle inheritance, maybe #Programming #Concurrency #Rust

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    Aug 18, 2026

  • std::process::Command is a bad citizen on Windows #Rust #Windows #Programming

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    Aug 16, 2026

  • Impressions of Teal #Tech #Gaming #Review

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    Jul 26, 2026

  • Thoughts on "SIMD in Pure Python" #Python #SIMD #Performance

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    Jul 26, 2026

  • log is non-monotonous in PHP and Lua #Programming #PHP #Lua

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    Jul 22, 2026

  • log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua #Programming #PHP #Lua

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    Jul 22, 2026

  • Sorted rank coding #Algorithm #DataScience #Coding

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    Jul 13, 2026

  • Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if #Programming #Optimization #Code

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    Jul 12, 2026

  • Doubling code performance with a "useless" if #Programming #Optimization #Performance

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    Jul 12, 2026

  • Optimal parse with phminposuw #Programming #Algorithms #ComputerScience

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    Jul 11, 2026

  • Does technical blogging spark joy? #Blogging #Tech #Writing

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    Jul 4, 2026

  • Suffix BWT vs cyclic shift BWT, and fast computation #Algorithms #DataStructures #ComputerScience

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    Jul 3, 2026

  • Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes #Programming #Optimization #Lua

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    Jul 2, 2026

  • You might misunderstand arithmetic coding #Coding #Algorithms #ComputerScience

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    May 3, 2026

  • This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code #Wasm #WebAssembly #Tech

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    Apr 28, 2026

  • Wasm is not quite a stack machine #Wasm #WebAssembly #Programming

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    Apr 27, 2026

  • Wait, if (flags & O_SYNC) is wrong? #Programming #Tech #OpenSource

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    Apr 23, 2026

  • Programming used to be free

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    Apr 13, 2026

  • No one owes you supply-chain security

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    Apr 11, 2026

  • Simplest hash functions

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    Apr 6, 2026

  • There is absolutely nothing wrong with Web

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    Mar 31, 2026

  • Optimization lessons from a Minecraft structure locator

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    Mar 18, 2026

  • Reinventing aliasing XOR mutability and lifetimes

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    Mar 15, 2026

  • An ode to bzip

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    Mar 12, 2026

  • Faster practical modular inversion

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    Dec 20, 2025

  • Rust's v0 mangling scheme in a nutshell

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    Dec 15, 2025

  • Faster comparison modulo ฮฑ-equivalence

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    Nov 30, 2025

  • A look at Rust from 2012

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    Nov 25, 2025

  • ntoh*/hton* is a bad API

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    Nov 18, 2025

  • Finding duplicated code with tools from your CS course

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    Nov 17, 2025

  • JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

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    Nov 2, 2025

  • The expression problem and Rust

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    Sep 30, 2025

  • Fenwick layout for interval trees

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    Sep 10, 2025

  • If I hear "design pattern" one more time, I'll go mad

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