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An Emulator Writer's HOWTO for Static Binary Translation

Branches in branch-free code

How can undefined opcodes ud0 and ud1 have parameters?

The Story of Mel

Faster JSON parsing with SVE2 on ARM processors

js65 - Advanced 6502 assembler with patching support based on ca65 syntax

A new WebAssembly runtime enters the arena... Is it worthy?

A few minutes ago, I released my brand-new WebAssembly runtime, Wago . There's one massive problem though. Wasmtime is mature, fast, and backed by t…

From BIOS to x64 - How I Built Nyvela's Bootloader.

I've always wondered how operating systems work underneath the surface. How does my computer go from BIOS to userspace, where I can play games, stud…

x86 evolution for segmentation and paging

The NX bit is not just about security

RISC-V interpreter from the future

Executable Emoji

Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong - gingerBill

Odin's New Inline Assembly Templates

Encoding vcmpps and vcmppd

A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week

RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

Как я написал PID 1 для контейнеров на чистом ассемблере: x86-64 и ARM64

Не потому, что контейнерному миру срочно нужен ещё один init. Есть Tini, есть docker run --init , и для большинства production-сценариев я бы по-пре…

experiments with isolation on blue pill

PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now

My quest to learn Assembly programming ; Introduction

In 2026, in the AI era, why should anyone want to learn Assembly programming? Why would someone want to go that far into the low-level programming w…

What I Learned Writing Assembly After Only Knowing Java and JavaScript

Before this semester, the lowest-level language I'd written was Java, with some JavaScript on top. Then my computer architecture course threw RISC-V…

Building a Linux Kernel Module in Pure x86

Most Linux kernel modules are written in C. The reasons are obvious: The kernel APIs are designed around C. Documentation assumes C. The build syste…

BoltOS: The new era of challenging hobby OS development. (FULL DOOM PORT AND DRIVERS!)

Building an operating system from scratch is one of the ultimate challenges for a software engineer. Recently, I came across BoltOS (hosted on GitHu…

Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?

Building an Operating System In Rust Part 2

In Part 1 we built the foundation of our operating system using Rust , dove deep into murky low level waters and broke free from the shackles of std…

Building an Operating System In Rust Part 1

Building an operating system is a project I have had my eyes set on ever since I discovered free will in the realm of programming. Years ago, I did…

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

The fixed point: a compiler written in its own language just reproduced itself, byte for byte

Verbose is a small experimental language I'm building — its compiler proves properties about your code (termination, sound types) and emits tiny x86…