Archive

• What’s with the name?
  2023-02-06 - Other
  
• How to enable colored compiler output with CMake + VSCode
  2023-02-05 - C++, CMake
  
• Should everyone be a leader?
  2023-02-04 - Essay
  
• Save all the code you write
  2023-02-04 - Twitter Archive
  
• Pick an impressive project, then checkout to the first commit
  2023-02-04 - Twitter Archive
  
• Why I enjoy hanging out with entrepreneurs
  2023-01-30 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Why I write in public
  2023-01-28 - Writing
  
• A takeaway I often get from exploit writeups
  2023-01-25 - Twitter Archive
  
• Can we have non-atomic std::shared_ptr in C++?
  2023-01-23 - C++, Twitter Archive
  
• Location Capital
  2022-12-21 - Essay
  
• Remote onboarding
  2022-12-20 - Career, Essay
  
• Short thread about LLDB pretty printing internals
  2022-10-13 - C++, Twitter Archive
  
• Tips for writing LLDB pretty printers
  2022-10-13 - C++
  
• My audio development journey
  2021-11-11 - Career, Twitter Archive
  
• “Menu reference” shaped solutions
  2021-10-28 - Other, Twitter Archive
  
• I get asked why I’m into C++ and not Rust.
  2021-09-02 - Other, Twitter Archive
  
• git diff can natively detect code movement
  2021-08-26 - Other, Twitter Archive
  
• Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory
  2021-05-12 - C, Deep Dive, Favorite, Linux Kernel
  
• The tradeoffs in using -Weverything
  2021-04-13 - C, C++
  
• Surgical formatting with git-clang-format
  2021-04-02 - C, C++
  
• What you should know before taking your gap year (and lessons from mine)
  2021-03-06 - Life
  
• How to pick a market that will make you money
  2021-01-28 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Open source licensing for supervillains
  2021-01-22 - Deep Dive, Favorite, Legal
  
• An actionable framework for yearly goal planning
  2021-01-09 - Life, Productivity, Twitter Archive
  
• Evergreen tweets
  2020-12-28 - Blogging, Twitter Archive
  
• How to set up a business email for free
  2020-12-16 - Other
  
• Tips for reading the Linux kernel
  2020-12-09 - Linux Kernel
  
• Tips for effective technical presentations
  2020-11-23 - Other, Twitter Archive
  
• How to manage your time like a millionaire
  2020-11-23 - Productivity
  
• Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings
  2020-11-13 - Favorite, Life
  
• Taking a gap year and working at a fast food restaurant
  2020-11-12 - Life
  
• What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school
  2020-10-14 - C++, Deep Dive, Favorite, Linux, Linux Kernel
  
• Tips for submitting your first Linux kernel patch
  2020-09-26 - Linux Kernel
  
• How to set up a minimal Linux kernel dev environment on Ubuntu 20.04
  2020-09-26 - Linux, Linux Kernel
  
• The “Early Stage Founder” Card
  2020-09-18 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Admitting defeat
  2020-09-12 - Blogging
  
• 3 Key Habits I Used to Learn Chinese
  2020-09-11 - Language Learning
  
• The downside of a novel product
  2020-09-04 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Don’t sleep on Google Sheets for backend infra!
  2020-09-02 - Web Dev
  
• Realizing that you are the end of line
  2020-08-25 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Don’t confuse std::move and std::forward
  2020-08-05 - C++, Twitter Archive
  
• Getting bit by unique_ptr
  2020-08-03 - C++, Twitter Archive
  
• You can use /proc/*/mem to bypass memory protections
  2020-07-22 - Linux, Twitter Archive
  
• Read bits are not enforced for memory mappings
  2020-07-10 - Linux, Twitter Archive
  
• macOS has a native memory leak checker
  2020-06-30 - macOS, Twitter Archive
  
• How to set up an ARM64 playground on Ubuntu 18.04
  2020-06-24 - Assembly, Linux
  
• 3 Life Skills I Learned From Indie Hackers
  2020-06-24 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Advice for finding mentorship
  2020-06-20 - Favorite, Life
  
• People hate surveys, but like being interviewed
  2020-06-18 - Entrepreneurship
  
• Taking responsibility for lost sales
  2020-05-01 - Entrepreneurship
  
• I landed code in LLDB!
  2019-12-21 - Other
  
• Reproducing a GCC 8.1 ABI compatibility bug
  2019-12-03 - Assembly, C++, Twitter Archive
  
• Being pedantic about C++ compilation
  2019-11-28 - C++, CMake, Linux
  
• struct stat notes
  2017-04-20 - Linux
  
• How setjmp and longjmp work
  2016-02-09 - Assembly, C, Favorite, Linux
  
• Off to the (Python Internals) Races
  2015-06-07 - Linux
  
• Building a Sketchy Website 101
  2015-04-25 - Other
  
• Netcat “-e” Analysis
  2014-11-03 - Linux
  
• Beginner Crackme
  2014-10-27 - Assembly, Linux, Other
  
• Netcat Refresher
  2014-03-05 - Linux
  
• Noise machine
  2013-10-11 - Other