This is an introduction to data structure flattening, a special case of arena allocation that is a good fit for programming language implementations. We build a simple interpreter twice, the normal way and the flat way, and show that some fairly mechanical…

For the past three years, I've been participating in adding just-in-time compilation (JIT) to CRuby. Now, CRuby has the method-based just-in-time compiler (MJIT), which improves performance for

Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.

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Computer security would be about 80% solved if we just deprecated every technology shown in this graphic.

A collection of resources for game designers.

Last night, I encountered an old post by Zach Holman where he pushes the idea that traditional school-based CS is useless; project-based ...

A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.

Curious exactly what happens when you run a program on your computer? Learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls really are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables.

The `ldd` utility is more vulnerable than you think. It's frequently used by programmers and system administrators to determine the dynamic library dependencies of executables. Sounds pretty innocent, right? Wrong! In this article I am going to show you how…

If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.

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00:00 Things we discover vs things we decide
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