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2023-07-25
Why did people love Private Access Tokens but hate the Web Environment Integrity API? They're the same thing!

2021-07-21
Are cross-project changes in a single atomic commit the key advantage of monorepos? I do not think so.

2017-03-19
A hash function implementation specialized for generating multiple keys of the same length at the same time, using AVX2 SIMD instructions.

2016-12-13
So there I was, implementing a one element ring buffer. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a perfectly reasonable data structure.

2016-07-27
Why I wrote yet another timer wheel implementation.

2016-01-12
Is this a post really just about a trivial data conversion tool? Or is it actually an excuse to start talking about different ways to configure programs?

2015-09-01
A trip deep into a retrocomputing jungle.

2015-06-05
Updated results for the zlib benchmarks from last year, including a new fork zlib-ng as well as a new version of the Cloudflare code.

2015-05-11
The time I built an "OkCupid for elections" for the ex-communists.

2015-03-19
Some thoughts on why we have never released very much of our code as open source, despite always intending to.

2014-12-05
I had a partial email outage lasting a few weeks. The ultimate root cause was pretty surprising to me.

2014-08-04
A small benchmark suite for zlib, and testing the two current high performance zlib forks with it.

2012-02-22
A review of using laptop form-factor Android 3.x, after using it as my main computing device for a couple of weeks.

2006-10-20

2006-01-04

2005-11-27

2004-01-28