Hacker News
- Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified http://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-history-md5-hashed.html 71 comments
- Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/tripling-down-against-conference.html 176 comments
- Introducing Chaos Mode http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/03/introducing-chaos-mode.html 7 comments
Lobsters
- The Costs Of Programming Language Fragmentation https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/10/the-costs-of-programming-language.html 6 comments programming
- Why Isn't Debugging Treated As A First-Class Activity? https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/07/why-isnt-debugging-treated-as-first.html 7 comments debugging
- Speeding Up dwarfdump With Rust https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/03/speeding-up-dwarfdump-with-rust.html 4 comments performance , rust
- Mixed Blessings Of Greenfield Software Development http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/mixed-blessings-of-greenfield-software.html 3 comments practices , programming
- Maintaining An Independent Browser Is Incredibly Expensive http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-browser-is.html 23 comments browsers
- Microsoft Using Chromium On Android Is Bad For The Web http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/10/microsoft-using-chromium-on-android-is.html 3 comments android , browsers
- Confession Of A C/C++ Programmer http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/07/confession-of-cc-programmer.html 23 comments c , c++
- Rust Optimizations That C++ Can't Do http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/04/rust-optimizations-that-c-cant-do.html 29 comments c , rust
- What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't, In Six Short Lines http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/02/what-rust-can-do-that-other-languages.html 51 comments rust
- Spectre Mitigations Murder *Userspace* Performance In The Presence Of Frequent Syscalls https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/06/spectre-mitigations-murder-userspace.html 16 comments linux
- What Is The Minimal Set Of Optimizations Needed For Zero-Cost Abstraction? https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/08/what-is-minimal-set-of-optimizations.html 19 comments rust
- What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility? https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/03/what-if-c-abandoned-backward.html 32 comments cpp
- What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility? https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/03/what-if-c-abandoned-backward.html 19 comments programming
- [2017] Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's) - With AVG breaking Firefox in the news, it seems relevant. https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html 11 comments firefox
- Problems Scaling A Large Multi-Crate Rust Project https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/10/problems-scaling-large-multi-crate-rust.html 25 comments rust
- The Costs Of Programming Language Fragmentation https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/10/the-costs-of-programming-language.html 9 comments programming
- Why Isn't Debugging Treated As A First-Class Activity? https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/07/why-isnt-debugging-treated-as-first.html 179 comments programming
- Speeding Up `dwarfdump` With Rust https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/03/speeding-up-dwarfdump-with-rust.html 4 comments programming
- The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won http://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/the-fight-for-patent-unencumbered-media.html 16 comments opensource
- Ancient Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified (Robert O'Callahan reflects on almost leading Mozilla development down the wrong path) http://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-history-md5-hashed.html 16 comments programming
- Maintaining An Independent Browser Is Incredibly Expensive http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-browser-is.html 53 comments firefox
- Maintaining An Independent Browser Is Incredibly Expensive http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-browser-is.html 29 comments programming
- Microsoft Using Chromium On Android Is Bad For The Web http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/10/microsoft-using-chromium-on-android-is.html 101 comments programming
- Let's Never Create An Ad-Hoc Text Format Again http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/07/lets-never-create-ad-hoc-text-format.html 44 comments rust
- Is x86 sustainable? http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/is-x86-architecture-sustainable.html?m=1 9 comments asm
- How I Found A 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/how-i-found-20-year-old-linux-kernel-bug.html 13 comments linux
- WebAssembly: Mozilla Won http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/webassembly-mozilla-won.html 167 comments programming
- [old article, sadly still relevant] Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?m=1 41 comments privacy
- Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?repost 70 comments technology
- Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html 52 comments privacy
- Random Thoughts on Rust: crates.io and IDEs http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/08/random-thoughts-on-rust-cratesio-and.html 23 comments rust
- Rewrite Everything In Rust http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/02/rewrite-everything-in-rust.html 24 comments linux
- "If Google achieves a state where the Internet is really only accessible through Chrome (or Android apps), that situation will be very difficult to escape from, and it will give Google more power than any company has ever had. " http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?spref=tw 12 comments technology
- Well, I'm Back: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?showcomment=1408137721125 12 comments firefox
- Introducing Chaos Mode http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/03/introducing-chaos-mode.html 5 comments programming
- Firefox self fuzzing patches - finds bugs! http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/03/introducing-chaos-mode.html 3 comments netsec
- Well, I'm Back: Abstraction Penalties, Stack Allocation And Ownership Types http://robert.ocallahan.org/2007/10/abstraction-penalties-stack-allocation_23.html 8 comments rust
Linking pages
- C++ proposal dismisses backward compatibility | InfoWorld https://www.infoworld.com/article/3535795/c-plus-plus-proposal-dismisses-backward-compatibility.html 402 comments
- Dev Time Optimization -- Part 1 (1.9x speedup, 65% less disk usage) - Will https://azriel.im/will/2019/10/08/dev-time-optimization-part-1-1.9x-speedup-65-less-disk-usage/ 14 comments
- More details about the WebAPI effort - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/more-details-about-the-webapi-effort/ 0 comments
- Introducing the getBoxQuads API - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/03/introducing-the-getboxquads-api/ 0 comments
- Coordinate Conversion Made Easy - the power of GeometryUtils - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/04/coordinate-conversion-made-easy/ 0 comments