This offers an interesting technical analysis of systemd (in part 3). I’m not a huge fan of the social/historical parts (1-2, 4), although they offer some perspective.

Very much not-production-ready (didn’t even compile on my machine), but looks pretty cool (rad, even).

In this blog, we go on an interactive journey to understand common queueing strategies for handling HTTP requests.

Looks super cool, I’ll have to remember it when I next need to do network diagnostics.

Pen-and-paper secret sharing, looks fun. Don’t know how I would ever use this though.

one of my favourite RFCs probably

A nice explanation of async that’s not about “threads slow”, but rather about how async as an abstraction emerges from sensible design decisions.

Some thoughts on custom allocator interfaces with nice examples.

How OpenBSD prohibited all syscalls from unknown locations.

Looks really cool. I wonder what’s inside.

This is the closing-file-handles-on-Windows post.

I'm titling this post Surprisingly Slow because the slowness was either surprising to me or the sub-optimal practices leading to slowness are prevalent enough that I think many programmers would be surprised by their existence.

A paper about message-passing memory allocator: could be useful for actor systems.

Rediscover gravity and explore a beautiful Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction, and falling down leads you back to where you started. Manipulate gravity to change your perspective and see the world in new ways. Master the rules of the universe and restore a barren world with vegetation and life.

Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve worked a 16-hour day, when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why, when you accidentally woke up an Eldritch abomination at the bottom of the ocean. But most of all, this cookbook exists to help Sad Bastards like us feel a little less alone at mealtimes.

Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.

What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family.

A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits

Fling, jet, grapple and roll through a psychedelic world as you experience the bizarre mating rituals of alien jellyfish. You'll need careful timing and strategy to explore every cleft and cranny in this chill but challenging 1-button arcade game.

Series of posts about how make C++ exceptions fast.

Trustfall is a query engine for querying any kind of data source, from APIs and databases to any kind of files on disk.