Every time a software estimate is inflated to absorb uncertainty and daily overhead, it stops measuring actual time and turns into a messy abstraction. Once your "hours" and "days" become a proxy for effort rather than the clock, you are already using Story…

The underappreciated gem of /proc/<pid>/mem

The attacker compromised the @redhat-cloud-services GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publisher to ship patch-client@4.0.4 with a Mini Shai-Hulud worm. The same…

Ben Gesoff's personal website

I reverse-engineered the Pizza Tycoon win condition from the original executable, and found a bug. Or a marketing ploy?

My blog, mostly about programming

I have spent a large portion of my career working in Java. In that time, you get used to huge classes. New functionality? Just add a new method and field to the class. The cost of each new field is rarely considered. Performance is often considered from a…

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Roy van Rijn - Experienced Developer & Architect, Robotics Enthusiast & Hobby Mathematician @royvanrijn

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How Fast Can You Parse a File with…

From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations.

Learn how Pandas simplifies real-world data analysis with cleaner code.

A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

Unravel the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)! This article explores how SRP is often misinterpreted and how to apply it correctly to avoid overengineering and underengineering, ensuring cohesion and maintainability in your code.

A cron job for every man, woman, and child.

People love configurable software.

Announcing stumpalo, an extremely fast bump allocator for rust, with chunk reuse and safe scoped stack support.

A blog mostly about Clojure programming

You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people…

Many people have been surprised to find out that a top-tier programming language, PHP (#2-7 depending on metric), suddenly has an extra year of support, since sometime after March 2024.
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