Reverse engineering the traffic system from Pizza Tycoon (1994): how the original devs drove dozens of cars through a city with almost no CPU budget.

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Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM.

But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s!

In this video, I'm introducing my personal research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional…

Our story begins as most database issues start: with hands on foreheads, internally or externally, saying ‘WTF is going on?’. We observed a series of database freezes on our production environment. It was quite severe. Connections spiked, writes were stalled…

From <1 kB to ~1 MB: experimentally bounding required contiguity by per-element work

View and download this historic assembly code for your own space program

Actually building floating point from scratch!

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While the Meson build system has been capturing much of the limelight in recent years by open-source projects, the cross-platform CMake build system also shows no signs of slowing down and continues evolving with new features and functionality.

Why you need nested, structured error data.

Debugging a graphics bug in Blackshift

Why scalar types give us a false sense of safety, and how wrapping primitives in domain types catches bugs the compiler never could.

A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos,...

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Taking advantage of special characteristics of the array.

In this pre-paid self-own, I study security vulnerability through the lens of self-flagellation. I go through a lot of trouble to make life worse for me and my antediluvian website's users (AS USUAL).

Get it or try it:
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The nice thing about Win32 is that it does not try to talk you out of any of this. It just gives you the messages, the handles, the drawing APIs, and enough rope to ...

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I’ve been a Postman user for my entire developer career. I remember when it was just a simple Chrome extension that made pentesting APIs slightly less painful. Those were simpler times. Today, I find myself joining the growing exodus of developers abandoning…

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