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I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years
So there I was, implementing a one element ring buffer. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a perfectly reasonable data structure.
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The origins of XXX as FIXME
In which I go digging into source archives from 40-50 years ago, to figure out why we use XXX to mark dodgy code.
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Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)
Thoughts on how to write automated tests for a TCP implementation.
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Optimizing a breadth-first search
Optimizing a breadth-first search of an implicit graph for secondary storage, and memory use in general.
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A monorepo misconception – atomic cross-project commits
Are cross-project changes in a single atomic commit the key advantage of monorepos? I do not think so.