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Numbers and tagged pointers in early Lisp implementations
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-numbers/ [www.snellman.net]
2017-09-06 04:48
Let’s take a tour through some early Lisp implementations, and look at how they represented data in general, and numbers in particular.
source: L
The mystery of the hanging S3 downloads
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-07-20-s3-mystery/ [www.snellman.net]
2017-07-22 02:08
Further analysis of the captures verified that this was a systematic problem and not a coincidence.
source: L
The origins of XXX as FIXME
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-04-17-xxx-fixme/ [www.snellman.net]
2017-04-23 18:03
XXX is everywhere, but where did it come from?
source: bsdnow
I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-13-ring-buffers/ [www.snellman.net]
2016-12-14 00:32
Three approaches.