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Stories by mikejsavage

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
L 90 pts 5 comments by mikejsavage Jun 12, 2019 historicalnetworking Data / Databases / InfrastructureDesign / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
10 years of Dear ImGui (github.com)
L 79 pts 19 comments by mikejsavage Aug 15, 2024 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The log/event processing pipeline you can't have (apenwarr.ca)
L 77 pts 9 comments by mikejsavage Feb 16, 2019 programming Programming (General) thread
Still File (skrekkogle.com)
L 70 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Jan 1, 2017 art Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (danluu.com)
L 69 pts 8 comments by mikejsavage Mar 16, 2024 performanceweb Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice (danluu.com)
L 58 pts 10 comments by mikejsavage Jan 5, 2020 practices Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
I Fixed Windows Native Development (marler8997.github.io)
L 54 pts 24 comments by mikejsavage Feb 15, 2026 windows thread
Is C++ fast? (zeuxcg.org)
L 50 pts 16 comments by mikejsavage Jan 18, 2019 c++performance Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Meow Hash (mollyrocket.com)
L 42 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Oct 20, 2018 release thread
Some benefits of simple software architectures (wave.com)
L 41 pts 13 comments by mikejsavage Mar 10, 2022 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (youtube.com)
L 39 pts 44 comments by mikejsavage May 19, 2019 practicesvideo Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
AMD GPUs go brrr (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
L 36 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Nov 14, 2025 aiperformance AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Writing a Really, Really Fast JSON Parser (chadaustin.me)
L 34 pts 17 comments by mikejsavage May 26, 2017 programming Programming (General) thread
The Quest for Very Wide Outlines (bgolus.medium.com)
L 33 pts 0 comments by mikejsavage Aug 17, 2021 graphics thread
A further W^X refinement (marc.info)
L 33 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage May 27, 2019 openbsdsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
Is It Snappy? (isitsnappy.com)
L 33 pts 10 comments by mikejsavage Jun 17, 2017 performancetesting Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
CSS Sans (yusugomori.com)
L 32 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Apr 14, 2019 css Web Development thread
V programming language (vlang.io)
L 31 pts 71 comments by mikejsavage Feb 25, 2019 plt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Rational rendering and floating bar (iquilezles.org)
L 31 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Jan 2, 2019 graphics thread
Learning Jai via Advent of Code (forrestthewoods.com)
L 28 pts 11 comments by mikejsavage Feb 14, 2023 programming Programming (General) thread
SIMD Matters (box2d.org)
L 27 pts 3 comments by mikejsavage Aug 22, 2024 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
How fast should an unoptimized terminal run? (youtube.com)
L 27 pts 18 comments by mikejsavage Jul 4, 2021 programmingvideo Programming (General) thread
Swallowing the elephant (pharr.org)
L 27 pts 1 comments by mikejsavage Jul 17, 2018 graphicsperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Design decisions on creating Jai, a new language for game programmers (youtube.com)
L 26 pts 8 comments by mikejsavage Jul 16, 2018 pltvideo Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryDesign / UX / VisualizationGaming / Retro Computing thread
Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool (aras-p.info)
L 25 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Sep 6, 2023 graphics thread
Tag suggestion: performance/optimisation
L 24 pts 10 comments by mikejsavage May 26, 2017 metaperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
It would be nice to have a tag for performance and optimisation related posts, because at the moment it's occasionally quite difficult to tag them well. Sometimes the C/C++/assembly tags fit, but that's not really what the posts are about. Some examples from the first page of my submission histor...
"Papers I Have Loved" by Casey Muratori (youtube.com)
L 24 pts 7 comments by mikejsavage Sep 26, 2016 compscigraphicsvideo Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
A game developer talks about three papers that lead to cool things: marching cubes, quaternions and GJK.
llvmbox: Self contained, fully static llvm tools & libs (github.com)
L 22 pts 11 comments by mikejsavage Feb 1, 2023 cc++ Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
The 5-in-1 network admin's cable (ossmann.com)
L 22 pts 1 comments by mikejsavage Feb 5, 2017 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
How to make your game run at 60fps (medium.com)
L 21 pts 1 comments by mikejsavage Mar 5, 2019 games Gaming / Retro Computing thread