The Art of Programming

Faster Integer Parsing https://kholdstare.github.io/technical/2020/05/26/faster-integer-parsing.html

Programming Considered Harmful - linux.conf.au 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpuVDfSXs-g

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons? https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/

Applying "Make Invalid States Unrepresentable" https://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/applying-misu/

youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/

Software correctness is a lot like flossing • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/flossing/

Hector Martin from fail0verflow, of Wii homebrew, PS3, PS4 and Switch Linux fame, starts Patreon to fund Apple Silicon Linux port https://www.patreon.com/marcan

Common CDN resources aren't shared between sites anymore. Each site has its own cache. https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/

Use mmap With Care A case study on the complexity of handling all the edge cases that come with using mmap https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/use-mmap-with-care

Quake III's legendary fast inverse square root for dummies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo

Turning vaguely reassuring finite-state machines into regular expressions https://qntm.org/plants The equivalence of regexes and state machines is fairly well known, but not often demonstrated in this direction!

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

Trans rights are human rights.

The distant legacy of terminal emulators https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/drewdevault.com/2021/10/05/Terminal-emulation-legacy.gmi

An inside look into the illicit ad industry https://ariadne.space/2021/11/04/an-inside-look-into-the-illicit-ad-industry/

Preventing Log4j with Capabilities https://justinpombrio.net/2021/12/26/preventing-log4j-with-capabilities.html

Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/

The yaml document from hell https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

Can You Trust a Compiler to Optimize Your Code? https://matklad.github.io/2023/04/09/can-you-trust-a-compiler-to-optimize-your-code.html

Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9446.html

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/

Why Open Source AI Has No Meaning https://thenewstack.io/why-open-source-ai-has-no-meaning/

Why Not Comments https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-not-comments/