Requiem for a Hash Function, or: How I learned to love package maphash
Requiem for a Hash Function, or: How I learned to love package maphash September 22, 2025 Zürich, Schweiz I am coming off from surgery right now and have some time on my hands, so I wanted to share a story about a learning experience. This post is a bit of a dual purpose one on a teachable moment as a software engineer — a chance to offer a retrospective from bad decisions and earn penance therefor. There is one episode that sticks out in my memory with a fair bit of shame: implementing the