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Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemons
Faster Shell Startup With Shell Switching
Choosing What To Read
Debugging A Failing Hotkey
How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?
Four Kinds of Optimisation
Minor Advances in Knowledge Are Still a Worthwhile Goal
How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI?
"Programming" and "Programmers" Mean Different Things to Different People
pizauth: First Stable Release
  • Implicit practice: a sight reading parable. How does deliberate practise relate to what we do for work? We often forget that work can, and often should, involve deliberate practise.
  • Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay. I broadly agree with this: unwrap() in Rust, used properly, makes code better. My (very) minor source of disagreement is that I’ve almost never seen expect help when debugging, but it always makes code messier.
  • How and why to do link-time symbol wrapping (or not?). More fun with linkers!
  • Whence Systems Research? Why should we think big, when should we think big, why do we often fail to think big? This article doesn’t exactly answer these questions – indeed, it bounces around them – but it does at least give some rather useful examples and pointers.
  • Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years. I’ve seen some odd behaviour in monitors over the years but have never had enough data to conclude whether it’s them or me: more data definitely shows it can be the hardware, at least sometimes!
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