Writing
Notes on life, systems, and performance. Plus building things that go fast.
Essays & notes
Managing Parallel, Part 4: The Machine Underneath
Managing Parallel, Part 4: The Machine Underneath. Memory ordering (x86-TSO vs Arm), NUMA topology, and cache-line atomicity
Read more →Cross-Platform Home Storage: NFS, SMB, and the UID Trap
One pool of storage that Linux, macOS, and Windows can all share: NFS for the compute nodes, SMB for the laptops, and the UID-alignment trick that stops NFS permissions from ruining your week. Built for home ML clusters and home labs.
Read more →Managing Parallel, Part 3: When Parallel Goes Wrong
Managing Parallel, Part 3: When Parallel Goes Wrong. The short list of broken contracts behind most concurrency bugs
Read more →Managing Parallel, Part 2: To thread or not to thread
Managing Parallel, Part 2
Read more →Using C++ Functions and Objects from C
A step by step guide to using C++ in C.
Read more →Managing Parallel, Part 1: Queueing, Work, Oh My!
Managing Parallel, Part 1
Read more →A short intro to stream processing
What is stream processing and how does it relate to data-flow?
Read more →C to Java Inter-Process Communication Examples
Tutorials and full code examples of how to use pipes and FIFOs to connect C/C++ compiled applications to a thread running inside a JVM using Java.
Read more →Flex and Bison in C++, a short example
How to get flex and bison to work together in C++
Read more →All About System Timing
How to time software properly: from rdtsc to clock_gettime and everything in between, plus timer synchronization.
Read more →From the archive
C++ Template Functions Based On Type Size Substitution Failure
How to use templates to build functions by type size
Read more →Hosting pages with GitHub, and More
How to host pages with GitHub pages, use jekyll and bootstrap together to make awesome pages
Read more →Secure Language
The folly of inventing secure languages
Read more →Data Wrangling
Data wrangling, why should you learn basic coding?
Read more →Do We Need More Programming Languages
A case for more programming languages
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