Please Don't Cite Me
Musings of the nerd-sniped. Things worth understanding deeply, and things that probably aren't.
“I told my friends about this.”
Software Philosophy
I Waited 10 Billion Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen
Modern hardware is absurdly fast, which mostly seems to have bought software the freedom to feel slower, heavier, and less deliberate than it has any right to.
Systems
HTTP/1.1 500 Segfault: Building a web server in C
Native OAuth eventually turns into a question about local process boundaries, and answering it cleanly means learning just enough HTTP to build a tiny localhost server in C.