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Stories by bitfield

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
L 70 pts 22 comments by bitfield Apr 1, 2025 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
charset=“wtf-8” (wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com)
L 70 pts 45 comments by bitfield Nov 25, 2024 programming Programming (General) thread
I Went To SQL Injection Court (sockpuppet.org)
L 66 pts 10 comments by bitfield Feb 26, 2025 databaseslawsecurity Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects (code.dblock.org)
L 64 pts 96 comments by bitfield Dec 22, 2024 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash." (matt.might.net)
L 64 pts 29 comments by bitfield Dec 13, 2024 practicesrelease Productivity / Career / Business thread
Naming Conventions That Need to Die (2018) (willcrichton.net)
L 57 pts 76 comments by bitfield Oct 21, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Rust's Most Subtle Syntax (zkrising.com)
L 50 pts 44 comments by bitfield Nov 3, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
How I think about Zig and Rust (lewiscampbell.tech)
L 48 pts 51 comments by bitfield Jan 17, 2025 rustzig Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
How to Think About Time (errorprone.info)
L 45 pts 13 comments by bitfield Dec 9, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
SQLite: Defense Against The Dark Arts (sqlite.org)
L 45 pts 4 comments by bitfield Oct 6, 2024 databasessecurity Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
The IPv6 transition (blog.apnic.net)
L 42 pts 21 comments by bitfield Feb 20, 2025 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Where’s _why? What Happened When One of the World’s Most Beloved Programmers Vanished (2012) (slate.com)
L 42 pts 24 comments by bitfield Nov 21, 2024 historicalpersonruby Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks (brooksblog.bearblog.dev)
L 41 pts 20 comments by bitfield Nov 8, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Never Missing the Train Again, Thanks to Rust (lilymara.xyz)
L 41 pts 12 comments by bitfield Oct 18, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
TigerBeetle coding style guide (github.com)
L 41 pts 16 comments by bitfield Oct 1, 2024 databasespracticeszig Programming (General)Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git (lwn.net)
L 39 pts 55 comments by bitfield Dec 12, 2024 rustvcs Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Common Misconceptions about Compilers (sbaziotis.com)
L 39 pts 18 comments by bitfield Dec 10, 2024 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Simple trick to save environment and money when using GitHub Actions (turso.tech)
L 39 pts 17 comments by bitfield Nov 4, 2024 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security (arstechnica.com)
L 38 pts 39 comments by bitfield Dec 30, 2024 security Security / Privacy thread
Rust error handling is perfect actually (bitfieldconsulting.com)
L 38 pts 40 comments by bitfield Sep 15, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
String vs &str (blog.sulami.xyz)
L 35 pts 44 comments by bitfield Feb 6, 2025 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers (purplesyringa.moe)
L 33 pts 6 comments by bitfield Jan 31, 2025 c Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Programming Languages That Blew My Mind (2023) (yoric.github.io)
L 33 pts 17 comments by bitfield Oct 31, 2024 assemblyerlangjavamlrust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Why Clojure? (gaiwan.co)
L 31 pts 8 comments by bitfield Feb 24, 2025 clojure Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop (lwn.net)
L 29 pts 32 comments by bitfield Feb 28, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Are Golang Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study (dolthub.com)
L 27 pts 36 comments by bitfield Nov 24, 2024 goplt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryDesign / UX / Visualization thread
FoA: Ferris-on-Air: An experimental Wi-Fi stack for rust on the ESP32 (github.com)
L 26 pts 0 comments by bitfield Jan 26, 2025 networkingrust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The errors of TeX (yurichev.com)
L 24 pts 3 comments by bitfield Dec 8, 2024 historicalpdfpractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
How Many Hours Can You Code? (thecodist.com)
L 23 pts 33 comments by bitfield Dec 23, 2024 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
BASIC Star Trek Games (newton.freehostia.com)
L 22 pts 7 comments by bitfield Jan 15, 2025 gamesretrocomputing Gaming / Retro Computing thread