What are regular Unix files?
A primer on regular files and their key characteristics
Software Engineering
Understanding compiler runtime libraries: when hardware needs software's help
Learn how the compiler inserts functions to execute operations that the machine can’t perform with native instructions.
Python performance: 6x speedup by fixing a decimal module linking error
A case study on debugging a symbol error in the Python interpreters.
How to diagnose and mitigate linking errors
How to think about programs, how they compile, and how to mitigate hard linking errors.
Assembly Fibonacci
Do you really know assembly if you haven’t done recursion?
From strings to bytes
A recent talk I gave in London on how computers interpret data.
Horus: a new observability system for distributed microservices
Horus plugs in a gap in the open source ecosystem with a full-stack observability system that’s easy to integrate