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Recent posts
Why the Circular Specification Problem and the Observer Effect Are Distinct
What Factors Explain the Nature of Software?
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?

Blog archive
  • How we use binary search to find compiler bugs. This is such an obvious JIT debugging technique that I almost didn’t read to the end of the article. I’m glad I did because… this hadn’t occurred to me before!
  • A Vision of Metascience. It’s unlikely that the current way we go about research is optimal: how can we explore the design space and improve how we go about doing things?
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