Jonathan Blow of “The Witness” fame likes to talk about just typing the obvious code first. Usually it will turnout to be fast enough. If it doesn’t, you c...

I am not aiming at a general audience. I assume you have some notion of what security is and how it is provided (to the extent it is), in…

The source code of OpenBSD is great documentation of how to do things well.

This post describes a compile-time technique for catching use-after-move bugs in modern C++. It’s currently used to prevent some mistakes in the Serenity Operating System.

This post is about uninitialized memory, but also about the semantics of highly optimized “low-level” languages in general. I will try to convince you that reasoning by “what the hardware d...

Performance clearly matters to users. For example, the most common software update on the AppStore is "Bug fixes and performance enhancements." Now that Moore's Law has ended, programmers have to work hard to get high performance for their applications. But…

In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it

A pledge to drop Python 2 support by 2020.

So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages. Other languages

I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff an