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• Building simple a memory allocator from scratch
  How to implement simple versions of malloc and free

  2025-09-28 programming c++

• Concurrency bits: mutexes
  A tour of concurrency primitives: mutexes

  2025-02-22 programming c++

• Concurrency bits: spin locks
  A tour of concurrency primitives: spin locks

  2025-01-18 programming c++

• Topics in Distributed Systems: Making sense of the CAP theorem
  The CAP theorem and its variations

  2024-12-15 distributed-systems

• Metastable failures in distributed systems
  An overview of metastable failures and how to deal with them

  2024-10-01 programming distributed-systems

• Actual programming
  Advice from real programmers on how to actually write code

  2024-09-05 programming c++

• Grokking generic algorithms in C++
  A closer look at how generic algorithms are implemented in practice

  2023-12-20 tutorial generic-programming c++ stl

• Type traits from the bottom up
  How type traits are implemented in the STL

  2023-10-15 c++ stl templates

• Notes on std::rotate
  Analyzing different implementations of std::rotate in the STL

  2023-09-30 algorithms programming c++ stl

• The road to std::lower_bound
  How to derive a correct and efficient binary search

  2023-04-09 algorithms c++ stl

• Notes on std::unique
  Implementing and using std::unique

  2023-02-27 algorithms programming c++ stl

• The Stepanov Language Test
  How to know if a language is suited to generic programming

  2023-01-05 generic-programming c++

• How to code it: algorithmic problem solving
  Using Polya’s How To Solve It techniques in algorithmic problems

  2022-02-24 tutorial algorithms programming

• A sample of sampling algorithms
  Algorithms for generating samples

  2021-05-02 algorithms python

• Relation between std::is_sorted and find_adjacent_mismatch
  How to implement std::is_sorted in terms of find_adjacent_mismatch

  2021-04-25 algorithms c++ stl

• Three categories of comments in source code
  How to write good comments

  2021-02-05 programming

• A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout
  Notes about the book 'A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout'

  2021-02-01 books programming