Key:
- Deep Dive 🔍: Longer, more detailed posts that require significant research.
- Tech 💻: Normal tech blog post. More polished than Lab Notes, less researched than Deep Dive.
- Lab Notes 🧪: Rough notes, typically technical, usually bullet points about some topic.
- Essay 📝: Nonfiction writing, usually nontechnical.
- Micropost 🍪: Tiny, short thought. Less polished.
2025
2024
- 2024-11-08 - Find your own bugs (_Micropost 🍪, _Tech 💻, _Twitter Archive 🐤, Open Source, Software Development)
- 2024-11-08 - It’s worth writing, even if someone else covered the topic already (_Micropost 🍪, Creativity, Writing)
- 2024-05-26 - Creative pitfall: You don’t need to innovate in every area (_Essay 📝, Creativity, Entrepreneurship)
- 2024-05-01 - Be your most authentic self (and write about whatever you want) (_Micropost 🍪, Blogging, Creativity, Life, Writing)
- 2024-02-11 - The astonishing cost/benefit asymmetry of a four-day work week (_Essay 📝, _Twitter Archive 🐤, Life)
- 2024-01-07 - Tip: When you’re learning a new programming language, look up prominent open source projects and copy their style (_Twitter Archive 🐤, Software Development)
2023
- 2023-12-29 - Even if people already know the plot, they appreciate the way you tell the story (_Micropost 🍪, Creativity)
- 2023-12-28 - Accept the constraint and deal with the consequences (_Micropost 🍪, Decision Making, Life)
- 2023-12-26 - Life is a business; life is a game; life is art (_Essay 📝, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Favorite, Life)
- 2023-12-22 - Learning on your own pales compared to spending time with experts (_Micropost 🍪, Career)
- 2023-10-12 - Resolving git conflicts perfectly every time (using diff3) (_Tech 💻, Git, Software Development)
- 2023-10-09 - WIP: What’s the deal with memory ordering? (seq_cst, acquire, release, etc) (_Lab Notes 🧪, C++, Concurrency)
- 2023-10-09 - KPTI: The virtual memory 101 fact that’s no longer true (_Tech 💻, Computer Architecture, Linux Kernel)
- 2023-09-14 - Do you need to learn how to implement a red-black tree? (_Twitter Archive 🐤, Career, Other)
- 2023-09-07 - Mutexes, atomics, lockfree programming (_Lab Notes 🧪, C, C++, Computer Architecture, Concurrency)
- 2023-08-09 - How the hardware/software interface works (_Tech 💻, C, Computer Architecture, Linux Kernel)
- 2023-08-05 - TIL: Debugging microcontrollers may require hardware breakpoints (_Micropost 🍪, _Tech 💻, Assembly)
- 2023-08-05 - WIP: Business models can have significant technical impact (_Tech 💻, Software Development)
- 2023-07-29 - TIL: ARM64 doesn’t include conditional instructions (_Tech 💻, Assembly, Computer Architecture)
- 2023-07-28 - Distance between application programming and standard library programming (_Micropost 🍪, _Tech 💻)
- 2023-02-27 - Experiment: Categories for my posts (_Micropost 🍪, Blogging, Creativity, Other, Writing)
- 2023-02-16 - Syscall ABI compatibility: Linux vs Windows/macOS (_Tech 💻, Assembly, Computers, Linux, Linux Kernel, macOS)
- 2023-02-04 - Pick an impressive project, then checkout to the first commit (_Twitter Archive 🐤, Other)
2022
2021
- 2021-05-12 - Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (_Deep Dive 🔍, C, Favorite, Linux Kernel)
- 2021-03-06 - What you should know before taking your gap year (and lessons from mine) (_Essay 📝, Life)
- 2021-01-09 - An actionable framework for yearly goal planning (_Twitter Archive 🐤, Life, Productivity)
2020
- 2020-10-14 - What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school (_Deep Dive 🔍, C++, Favorite, Linux, Linux Kernel)
- 2020-09-26 - How to set up a minimal Linux kernel dev environment on Ubuntu 20.04 (_Tech 💻, Linux, Linux Kernel)