HFT in my backyard – Part I, II. The amazing world of microwave networks for high-frequency trading.
Relativistic hash tables, part 1: Algorithms, pretty nice.
Unix in those days operated in a state of continuous development and integration. For example, Dennis did most of his compiler work between midnight and 4 AM. We would come in almost every day to find a new C compiler, with yesterday’s compiler tucked away in a known place. Most of the time we never noticed. But if there was a problem we sent email to Dennis and used the previous compiler. When Dennis came in after lunch, the bug was usually fixed in an hour or two. The rest of us operated in a similar fashion.
— Steve Johnson*
Even more practical secure logging: Tree-based Seekable Sequential Key Generators, by Giorgia Azzurra Marson and Bertram Poettering. Pretty simple to implement.
Shill is a shell scripting language designed to make it easy to follow the Principle of Least Privilege. Every Shill script comes with a contract that describes what it can do, so users can run third-party scripts with confidence.
LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store developed by Symas for the OpenLDAP Project. Looks pretty promising.
SILE is a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign. No math support yet, but has layout boxes.
deer is a file navigator for zsh heavily inspired by ranger.
build is a re-spin of redo(1) ideas.
Standard ML Family GitHub Project
Why the Z-80’s data pins are scrambled, by Ken Shirriff. Cool story.
Scientists confess to sneaking Bob Dylan lyrics into their work for the past 17 years, soo tempting!
RIM BlackBerry 950 Review, 2 weeks of battery on a single AA, running a 386!