What Happens Before Your C Program Reaches the CPU?
Most developers know how to write C code. Far fewer know what actually happens after they press Run . A common mental model looks like this: Write Cod…
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Stripping away the layers of abstractions: How does a filesystem work?
Modern operating system filesystems (like ext4 or NTFS) are intimidating to look at. If you dive into their source code, you're immediately drowned in…
Hello, Array: malloc, free and Manual Bookkeeping
Post 1 of the Dynamic Arrays in C series · Full source code The Problem No One Starts With You have five integers. You put them in an array: int numbe…
How I Built My Own Shell From Scratch in C — Ion
I never really knew what a shell actually was until I switched my entire workflow to Linux and started using EndeavourOS as my daily driver. That comp…
From Arduino IDE to AVR GCC | AVR Bare Metal #1
Introduction It has been a while since I started playing around with microcontrollers. My journey began with the Arduino UNO and programming it using …
Ghost in the Stack (Part 1): Why uninitialized variables remember old data
Have you ever written a C program, run it, and watched it print values you never assigned? At first glance, it feels almost as if old data is haunting…
Symbolic Constant Conundrum
Introduction A symbolic constant in any programming language is a name — a symbol — that can be used to stand in for a constant — a literal value. Pro…
JavaC
Normally languages like C and C++ compile their code directly into machine code to be executed by the machine. This machine code is specific to the ma…
Why Bitcoin Core RPC is Too Slow for High-Frequency Trading (And How to Fix It)
If you are building algorithmic execution models for Bitcoin, you already know the pain of latency. The moment you rely on polling a standard Bitcoin …
cpp-linter-hooks: The Most Complete pre-commit Solution for C/C++ Projects
If you work on Python projects, you've probably used pre-commit — running black , ruff , mypy before every git commit , blocking anything that doesn't…
Lime, a parser generator that can merge grammars at runtime
Lime is a new parser generator similar to Yacc, Bison, ANTLR, etc. except it's faster and has the ability to merge or remove grammars at runtime. See …
🚀 ForgeZero v1.9.0 — The "Architect" Update: LSP Integration, Cross-Compilation & Industrial-Grade Reliability
If you've been sleeping on ForgeZero ( fz ) — the zero-config C build tool that actually respects your time — v1.9.0 just dropped and it's a proper gl…
Did you know that a shell is just an ordinary program?
Many people think that the command line (bash, zsh) where we type our commands is some deeply integrated, magical part of the operating system. In rea…
From SIMD Parsing to AI-Ready Infrastructure: Building Forge-Core v4.3
Most ingestion systems treat validation, analytics, and interoperability as separate, expensive passes. In building Forge-Core, I wanted to prove that…
Embed mruby as a Single Binary That Runs Everywhere
I've been working on RapidForge a self hosted platform that turns scripts into webhooks, pages and scheduled jobs. RapidForge itself ships as a single…
Deep inside the COM: Reading Windows ROT Without Asking Permission. Detective story
This is Part 4 of the "Inside the Running Object Table" series. Parts 1-3 covered the public COM API and rpcss internals. This one is about going furt…
Опыт написания компилятора вручную: Часть 2
Компилятор и главный репозиторий: GitHub Здесь я напишу о своём личном проекте — компиляторе к C-подобному языку. Я не являюсь профессиональным разраб…