One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through … Read more
By Demetrius Buckley Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. Sign up to receive “Life Inside” emailed to you every week. Back in August, six of my essays, four of my short stories and a … Read more
There are many ways for computers to talk to other computers. A commonly used approach is a Remote Procedure Call, or an RPC. An RPC allows for the abstraction of calling another computer’s procedure as if it were a local … Read more
An unfortunate side effect of the rising popularity of Apple’s ARM-based computers is an increase in unportable assembly code which targets the 64-bit ARM ISA. This is because developers are writing these bits of assembly code to speed up their … Read more
To begin, we need to write a memory allocator, or as we will be calling it, a malloc function. The simplest malloc implementations maintain a linked-list of free blocks of memory that can be partitioned and given out as needed. … Read more
A few months back, I started writing a profiler from scratch, and the code since became the base of my profiler validation tools. The only problem with this project: I wanted to write a proper non-safepoint-biased profiler from scratch. This … Read more
As part of mirrord For Teams, we wanted to build a persistent component that would run in our user’s cluster and synchronize independent uses of mirrord. It quickly became apparent that we needed a component that was both: Kubernetes-native – … Read more
February 27, 2023 New page. The words you choose within your app are an essential part of its user experience. Whether you’re building an onboarding experience, writing an alert, or describing an image for accessibility, designing through the lens of … Read more
Quines are programs that, when you run, will print out its own source text. You can read this very long article about how to write one in C. Here we’re going to do it in Python and skip a lot … Read more
(This is a translation of the original article in Japanese by moratorium08.) (UPDATE (22/3/2019): Added some corrections provided by the original author.) Writing your own OS to run on a handmade CPU is a pretty ambitious project, but I’ve managed … Read more