This is my Code BEAM Europe 2025 talk, converted to a blogpost. I was always fascinated with BEAM, how it allowed easy spawning of processes that didn’t share state, allowed for sending and selectively receiving messages, and linking to each … Read more
Software development has always resisted the idea that it can be turned into an assembly line. Even as our tools become smarter, faster, and more capable, the essential act remains the same: we learn by doing. An Assembly Line is … Read more
Thanks to our supporters on Patreon I’d like to thank everyone who supported this project on Patreon, including Jason Pittman, Alexander Shendi, Gustavo Pezzi, Scott Bollinger, Ryan Harris, Rafael Campos, K MI, Nikola Markovic BGD, Wade Brainerd, Mike Garcia, Philip … Read more
I really only ever make something when I want something to exist that doesn’t already, or when I want something that does exist to more readily suit my (admittedly) idiosyncratic needs or thoughts about how it should exist. For better … Read more
NOTE: This project is actively ongoing. Pages are not perfect yet and it possible to change dramatically. This is the book for writing a 64-bit RISC-V emulator from scratch in Rust. You can run xv6, a simple Unix-like OS, in … Read more
Archives Categories Blogroll This post wraps up my notes on chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka‘s book “Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)“. Understanding cross entropy loss and perplexity were the hard bits for me in this chapter — the … Read more
Note for subscribers: if you are interested in my Ada programming articles only, you can use this RSS feed link. In our first post on the BZip2 compression topic, we have presented a new implementation, from scratch, of a BZip2 … Read more
Follow @popovicu94 I recently implemented a minimal proof of concept time-sharing operating system kernel on RISC-V. In this post, I’ll share the details of how this prototype works. The target audience is anyone looking to understand low-level system software, drivers, … Read more
I have this bad habit. When something annoys me enough times, I end up building a library for it. This time, it was CLI validation code. See, I spend a lot of time reading other people’s code. Open source projects, … Read more
I’ve wrote a tutorial on building a hypervisor from scratch in 1,000 lines of code (website). Few chapters are still in progress, but it’s already good enough to get you started. More specifically, type-1 hypervisor on 64-bit RISC-V with the … Read more