I'm a software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY, with particular interests in operating systems infrastructure, secure computing, and the like. You can probably find me in a coffee shop reading about terminal emulation, writing dynamic libraries to do strange things , or occasionally working on my Debian packages.
Visit ldpreload.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News May 2015 – Jul 2021
Software Engineering 2Tools & Productivity 1Systems & Performance 1Security & Privacy 1Infrastructure & DevOps 1
The git bisect command helps you identify the first commit in a range that broke something. You give it a good commit and a bad one, and it will do a binary search between the two to find the first bad commit. At each step, you say either git bisect …
If you're setting up a service where people can register their own usernames to be used as a hostname (username.example.com), email address (username@example.com), or URL path (example.com/username) within your domain, there are some common names you should avoid letting the general public register. Many …
UNIX (well, POSIX) signals are probably one of the worst parts of the UNIX API, and that’s a relatively high bar. A signal can be sent to your program at any point when it’s running, and you have to deal with it somehow. Traditionally, there are three ways …