Lex Spoon

A little bit of history I remember the sinking feeling I had when the Communications Decency Act (CDA) passed, back in the 1990s. I was st...

In 2003, Dan Bernstein wrote about the IPv6 mess , focusing primarily on the lack of viable migration plan. Avery Pennarun wrote again about...

Today I ran into a great book chapter by Erik Kuefler and Lisa Carey about Google's build system philosophy . It's all very good, bu...

I've been hacking in M4 recently, and I ran across a great article about M4 by Michael Breen. I highly recommend it for anyone either u...

Here's a sampling trick that comes up all the time in industry, but that took me a while to work out. The problem goes like this: Su...

In a previous post, I showed that the standard build rules for C code are unreliable . Let me describe two ways to do better. In the intere...

The standard way of integrating C into a build system is to use automatic dependencies generated from the compiler . Gcc and Clang can emit ...