Pre-Requisites System calls, eBPF, C, basics of low-level programming. Introduction eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a technology that allows users to run custom programs within the kernel. BPF / or cBPF (classic BPF), the predecessor of eBPF provided a … Read more
The most common belief open source maintainers have is that offering something for free gives them the right to some of their users’ money. This belief makes them fight for open source, or to even compare it to the millennium-old … Read more
People say there are things that are complex and there are things that are just complicated. Complexity is considered interesting, complicatedness is considered harmful. The process of setting up an x86_64 CPU is mostly complicated. I’ll describe one way to … Read more
(Except there is no profit, only pain) In OBS 30.2 I introduced the new “Hybrid MP4” output format which solves a number of complaints our users have had for pretty much all of OBS’s existence; It’s resilient against data loss … Read more
Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment Jan 23, 2019 • Avik Das A simple clock and weather application I’ve had sitting on my dining room table In a previous article, I explained how I set … Read more
As someone who has used a static site generator every day at work for years I am on the threshold of believing “actually just writing HTML by hand is probably easier” This becomes obvious when you eg get a new … Read more
For the past few days, I have been trying to find a library that would allow me to write programs with a GUI in C++. My requirements were pretty straightforward: Only Windows support required Commercial use allowed Easy styling, including … Read more
Books Colleen Hoover Is a Wildly Successful Author. Why Did She Stop Writing? The literary sensation’s first film adaptation stars Blake Lively and hits theaters this summer, but devoted readers and TikTok haters wonder what’s next. So does she. Hoover … Read more
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I needed a bit of a break from “real work” recently, so I started a new programming project that was low-stakes and purely recreational. On April 21st, I set out to see how much of a Unix-like operating system for … Read more