Articles from utcc.utoronto.ca

Articles from utcc.utoronto.ca

Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
10 days ago

Why I think you shouldn't digitally sign things casually (utcc.utoronto.ca)
14 days ago

The speed of improvement in servers may have slowed down (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-3-1

The Go 'range over functions' proposal and user-written container types (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-2-26 Container

Understanding a recent optimization to Go's reflect.TypeFor (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-2-16

Use `any` for generics and `interface{}` for interfaces (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-1-27

An old Unix mistake you could make when signaling init (PID 1) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-1-12 Unix

Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-1-9

Why is Unix's lseek() not just called seek()? (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-1-4 Unix

Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-1-4

Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2024-1-1

Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-12-31

Why grub-install can give you an "unknown filesystem" error (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-12-21 File System

In Go, constant variables are not used for optimization (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-12-19

Partially emulating #ifdef in Go with build tags and consts (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-12-15

The Unix V6 shell and how control flow worked in it (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-12-2 Unix Shell

API stability and making assumptions (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-11-28 API

Unix Shells and the Current Directory (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-11-27 Unix

Go modules and the domain expiry problem (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-11-12

People do change what a particular version is of a Go module (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-11-2

Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/OpenBSDPfStatesAndDoS (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-10-15 Unix

Why I don't like HTTP as a frontend to backend transport mechanism (2014) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-10-12

A user program doing intense IO can manifest as high system CPU time (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-9-14

The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-9-12 Shell

The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-9-1

Go 1.22's (likely) new reflect.TypeFor() generic function (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-8-29

Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) impede modest contributions. "[B]asically a CLA means I'm not sending in our bug fixes. Not because I'm nasty, but because I can't." (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-8-19

Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-8-7

How the rc shell handles whitespace (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-8-6 Shell

On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2023-7-28 Linux

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