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A while back, I worked on a RISC-V-based userspace simulator for fun. In doing so, taught myself a lot more than I wanted to know about what happens in-between when the Kernel is asked to run a program, and when the first line of our program’s main function is actually executed. Here’s a summary of that rabbit hole.
We can argue that we are out-of-scope for the UK’s Online Safety Act.
A detailed step-by-step guide for turning rough rocks into beautiful gems with a rotary rock tumbler.
Announcing a shared commitment to advancing the future of systems programming and reliable distributed software.
A guide on building a simple Linux distribution from scratch. Detailed guide on building the kernel and the init process. Finally, a little distribution is built with u-root that is capable of connecting to the Internet.
Rocky Jaiswal. Christian developer living in Berlin. Blogs about programming & technology.
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
DevOps Engineer and Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and scalable web applications.
This article was adapted from a Google Tech on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT epis...
A perspective on continual learning, motivating our paper on sparse memory finetuning
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In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. Code is now easy to generate using LLMs, but it’s still just as hard to review. Many software…
iVerify brings operating system-level telemetry, behavioral baselining, and AI-driven threat hunting to hundreds of thousands of mobile devices
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
I have gotten a significant amount of response on the Quake 2 extension mechanism. I do read everything that comes my way (I can't respond to all of it, though), and I have learned a few things from the mail.
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms.
Dithering is still a surprisingly applicable technique, not just for practical reasons (such as preparing a full-color image for output on a non-color printer), but for artistic reasons as well. Dithering also has applications in web design, where it is a useful technique for reducing images with high color counts to…
I should have titled this post “I hate S3”. 📢 What is the status quo? FTP is dead (yay), SFTP is too dependent on SSH and unix authentication. AWS made S3 pervasive and now every webapp that needs to store files assumes you’ll be able to connect it S3. This …
Typst's math mode has a strange precedence problem that most people using it will run into at some point.
“Your name was brought up.”
Deriving the basic mathematical properties of the Smith chart from electrical engineering
Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox
Assembled CTO John Wang on why coding makes him a better leader—and how AI tools are redefining what it means to build at scale.
When you paste ChatGPT’s response instead of your own feedback, you’re not being helpful. You’re being lazy and creating more work for everyone.
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
Personal website talking about some stuff I've made and technology
What happens when you give a distributed SQL engine a trillion-row dataset? GizmoEdge crushed the Coiled challenge with a 1,000-worker cluster on Azure.
Typst 0.14 is out now. With accessibility by default, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more, it has everything you need to move from draft to...
If DM could form a BH at the center of a planet, wouldn’t that then collapse the planet into that BH, consuming it? Wouldn’t the same apply to stars, extinguishing them?
Sound: Kalason oto (often simply “ kalason ”) Location : Alahan Panjang, Kab. Solok, West Sumatra This post is dedicated to Pak Budahar - a real Minang musical legend who literally spread music across Sumatra, providing sweet solace to his passengers for decades. Next time you honk your horn,
