Published on 2026-04-18 My laptop’s CPU can do billions of operations per second. I know this because the spec sheet told me, and I believed it, because I am a trusting person. So when I wrote a program to scan … Read more
The name Pies (pronounced “p-yes”) stands for Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor. This utility starts and controls execution of external programs, called components. Each component is a stand-alone program, which is executed in the foreground. Upon startup, pies reads the … Read more
☰ About Episodes Bonuses Articles Merch The Program audio series year in review: 2025 Previous reports: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 It seems the world survived 2025, and this little sci-fi anthology podcast with it. Interestingly enough, The Program … Read more
Programming some m68k assembler for my custom SBC at 1am on the subway. Sorry it’s blurry! Ever since moving to New York City, I’ve found my time to be in more demand than ever. Between work, meetups, and social events, … Read more
2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs, covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our … Read more
1. Introduction by Ruud Helderman Licensed under MIT License 1. Introduction This is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably … Read more
How to Build Truly Portable eBPF Programs In a perfect world, everyone’s systems would be fully updated, patched regularly, and running the latest kernel. But let’s be real—that’s rarely the case. Some environments still rely on legacy versions of Ubuntu … Read more
“First, the federated model and CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA) can no longer assign IDs and send info to MITRE for quick publication. Second, all of that is the foundation for the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which is already beyond struggling, … Read more
Lisp is not the most popular language. It never was. Other general purpose languages are more popular and ultimately can do everything that Lisp can (if Church and Turing are correct). They have more libraries and a larger user community … Read more
In GitHub Actions, you can use the shell keyword to specify the shell that runs a given run: block. This keyword is optional for workflows but mandatory for action definitions. The shell normally defaults to something sensible for your runner, … Read more