My Favorite Articles/Blog Post

(slightly ordered)

• Lua and LLVM blog post: Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically! (possibly my all-time favorite, changed how I see C and compilers)
• Language abuse blog post: C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
• The infamous Ken Thompson speech: Reflections on Trusting Trust
• NVIDIA Research paper: Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees
• Reverse engineering/optimization blog post: How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
• Interpreter blog post: (Re)writing an interpreter in Rust
• JSC blog post: Speculation in JavaScriptCore
• CPU vulnerability blog post: Zenbleed
• CPU vulnerability page: https://downfall.page/
• Language design/memory safety blog post: Higher RAII, and the Seven Arcane Uses of Linear Types (there's a lot more related posts on the blog, check them out if you're interested)
• SpiderMonkey compiler design blog post: 75x faster: optimizing the Ion compiler backend
• Open source bad actor (with unethical demo) paper: On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits
• Unicode: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
• Database design: Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps
• Language design blog post: Why Swift’s Type Checker Is So Slow
• Rusty C23 macro abuse: Writing C23 Macros to Feed an Addiction
• C extension blog post: The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C Compiler
• Sysadmin humor email: 500 mile email