AI & ML

I got tired of hand-rolling message queues in FreeRTOS. So I built embedmq.

Every FreeRTOS project I've worked on has the same problem. You have a sensor task that reads temperature. You have a UI task that needs to display it…

RugCheck AI: On-chain Token Safety for Solana AI Trading Agents

If you're building autonomous trading agents on Solana, you've hit this problem: your agent needs to vet a token before it buys — but most agents trad…

Day-04 : Understanding int in C: Binary, Ranges, and What Happens When You Overflow

What I Learned Today (Week-01/Day-04) Fundamental Data Types -> int Decimal and Binary Number System Types of int and their ranges Edge cases in th…

Because in a Life-Threatening Situation, Every Millisecond Counts

Removing expf() from a fire detector: one header, 1.95x faster, zero accuracy loss A smoke detector is not a demo project. When it fires, someone eith…

Clifford’s (aka, Claire’s) Device in C and C++

Introduction If you’ve been programming in C or C++ for a while, you likely have heard of Duff’s Device that takes advantage of C’s often-derided “fea…

teamOS Bare Metal x86 Kernel

I am building an independent hobby kernel from scratch using C and NASM assembly. The project is built to run entirely inside a web browser tab using …

[Перевод] Автоматизация SBOM в большом legacy-проекте: опыт LibreOffice и Collabora Online

Вот уже более 20 лет проходит масштабная конференция разработчиков свободного и открытого ПО – FOSDEM. Для CodeScoring она примечательна тем, что с 20…

A line-by-line translation of the OCaml runtime from C to Rust

Arc v0.0.1-alpha - A Lightweight C-Based Programming Language

We are excited to announce the first alpha release of Arc, a lightweight, C-based programming language and interpreter designed for simplicity, perfor…

Why C is still dominates C++?

Why C Is Still the GOAT (And Why People Like Me End Up Hating C++) Disclaimer: This is a personal opinion from a developer who enjoys simple tools, si…

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…

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…