Vivian Voss

In July 2015 Ted Unangst grew tired of negotiating with sudo on OpenBSD and wrote his own: roughly 1,100 lines of C plus a small yacc grammar, default in OpenBSD 5.8 by October 2015.

Ask a Linux admin which time daemon their server runs.

The ORM hides the SQL.

Open chrome://on-device-internals.

Adobe CS6 in 2012: ~2,500 EUR per seat, perpetual.

GitLab, 31 January 2017, 23:30 UTC.

A card in a 280-pixel sidebar and the same card in a 1100-pixel dashboard.

Amazon since World Book Day, the publisher's direct shop six days later.

In May 2001 OpenBSD pulled IPFilter out of the source tree over a licence dispute.

Between firmware that knows almost nothing and a kernel that must know everything sits a small program with a strange job.

The dashboard is green.

Express resolves 65 packages, 3.6 MB.

mTLS, observability, zero-code retries.

Launch day for Integrated by Design, 371 pages on FreeBSD, on UNESCO World Book Day.

Every web developer has fought this fight: .card h3 colliding with a third-party widget.

On 15 March 2004, John Gruber posted a blog entry and a 1,400-line Perl script.

At 3 AM on a production cluster measured in terabytes, the question is whether any of your backup tools will finish before breakfast.

In January 1996, two men in New York founded DoubleClick.

Knuth's quote was 97%/3%.

Okta paid $6.5B for a company doing $200M in revenue.

In 2009, Salvatore Sanfilippo made Redis single-threaded.

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify()) destroys Date, Map, Set, RegExp, and throws on circular references. structuredClone handles all of them.

2,624 lines of C.

cron tells you when. periodic tells you what happened.

27% of cloud spend wasted ($182B/year). 37signals saved $10M+ leaving AWS.

Notion: notes to email client.

$700 exam.

No null.

We shipped 400KB of JavaScript so a heading could fade.

Zero overhead when probes are disabled.

In 1978, Doug McIlroy wrote four sentences.

METR: developers 19% slower with AI (believed 20% faster). 19.6% of recommended packages do not exist. 40% of Copilot output contains vulnerabilities.

In the 1990s, CS taught foundations.

Your software worked on Friday. npm update broke it on Monday.

Built in ten days for form validation.

In 1972, IBM separated values with commas.

Floating UI: 35KB.

Before 2015, HTTPS was a luxury.

107 million weekly downloads for dotenv.

30% of a knowledge worker's day spent searching.

In 2023, Klarna replaced 700 support agents with AI.

In 2012, Facebook had a problem: hundreds of microservices, a mobile News Feed, constrained bandwidth.

64 kilobytes.

In 2000, D.

Most real-time features are one-way.

2.7 million people have visited Stack Overflow to learn how to exit a text editor.

Eric Allman wrote syslog in the 1980s.

syslog has existed since 1983.

Every mainstream programming language was designed by a mathematician.

Every Electron app ships its own copy of Chromium.