What are regular Unix files?

A primer on regular files and their key characteristics

December 27, 2024

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.

December 14, 2024

Python performance: 6x speedup by fixing a decimal module linking error

Learn how fixing a Python decimal module linking error led to 6x performance improvement: a detailed guide on debugging C extensions and symbol errors in Python interpreters.

December 10, 2024

How to diagnose and mitigate linking errors

How to think about programs, how they compile, and how to mitigate hard linking errors.

December 7, 2024

Assembly Fibonacci

Do you really know assembly if you haven’t done recursion?

February 19, 2024

From strings to bytes

A recent talk I gave in London on how computers interpret data.

December 21, 2023

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

December 19, 2021