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Why Windows IPCs Fail in Harsh Telemetry Stations & How RTOS Embedded Dataloggers Solve It

TL;DR for IIoT Architects & System Integrators: Deploying consumer Mini PCs or fanless Windows Industrial PCs (IPCs) in unmanned environmental t…

From Scratch to C: My First 3 Weeks Inside Harvard’s CS50

When I attended the opening lectures of CS50x (Harvard's flagship Introduction to Computer Science course), Professor David J. Malan gave an upfront…

Why doubling makes a dynamic array O(1) (and the realloc bug almost everyone writes)

If you have used std::vector or Python lists, you have used a dynamic array. In C you have to build it yourself, and two details decide whether it i…

fzgrep: A zero-dependency, OpenMP-parallelized fuzzy line matcher in C

I built fzgrep , a lightweight, OpenMP-parallelized fuzzy line matcher written in pure C with zero external runtime dependencies. The Problem In sta…

From Access Log to Kernel Drop: Building a Single-Process WAF Ban Pipeline in C

In self-hosted Linux infrastructure, bridging L7 application security with L3/L4 network enforcement traditionally requires stitching together multi…

The Phantom That Wasn't There: How Unreliable grep Made Us Chase Ghosts

One of the hardest stages in developing a documentation generator is alignment with legacy tools. When you migrate from an old, decades-proven propr…

I Rewrote One Function in Squirrel, Then in C. One Line of Python Was Just as Fast.

I maintain a 2D game engine in Python called ABS Engine. Last week I decided it needed C. Not because anything was slow. That is the embarrassing pa…

An unlikely experiment

There are so many great places to learn about out there on the internet, and one of those great places is the legendary Linux Kernel. If you stumble…

RISC-V 32-bit: What does GCC do? (Part 1)

1. Introduction and Problem Statement A good way to learn what a compiler really does when transforming C source code into a binary is to disassembl…

8051 What does SDCC do part 3 ?

1. Introduction and Problem Statement A good way to learn what a compiler really does when transforming a C source code into a binary is to disassem…

Debugging a GNOME Shell layout collapse: how a 4,294,967,296 px preferred height collapsed St.ScrollView to 1 px

Debugging a GNOME Shell layout collapse: how a 4,294,967,296 px preferred height collapsed St.ScrollView to 1 px Tested Environment : OS : Ubuntu 22…

Punk: a MVC framework

Every web framework does a certain amount of thinking on every request. It looks at the path and decides which route matched. It works out which cha…

Secure Your Health Data: Mastering Privacy-Preserving Inference with Intel SGX and Gramine 🛡️💊

Let’s be honest: the cloud is just "someone else’s computer." When it comes to sensitive health data—think genomic sequences, heart rate patterns, o…

Demystifying The Lexer

The Pipeline Behind compiling software can be challenging to grasp... I'll try to break it down as much as i can First of all the full pipeline look…

Design flaws in issetugid() (2017)

Why the Hell Are There So Many Layers? Breaking Down the 4 Steps of C Compilation

Notes: Prototype : a line that promises to a compiler that a certain function exists somewhere in the server or harddisk or files so it doesn't thro…

From one blocking accept() to epoll: a C TCP server up the I/O ladder, measured

I connected one client to a blocking TCP server and held the socket open without sending a single byte. Then I connected a second client and sent it…

Static Analysis in C: How to Use Clangd, Clang-Tidy & Cppcheck to Improve Your Codebase

Originally published on my personal website . If you've ever worked in a C codebase, you've probably been frustrated with the lack of tooling that i…

I built a Python -> C transpiler. Then it transpiled itself.

A few weeks ago I needed to run Python scripts in initramfs — the tiny Linux environment that exists before your actual OS boots. No interpreter. No…

A decompressor is an interpreter for hostile input: here's what that costs to ship safely

A compression library is a uniquely dangerous thing to ship. It's small, fast, and dependency-light — which is exactly why it ends up linked into we…

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 ei…

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 “f…

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, perf…

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 C…

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 co…

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 usin…

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 haunti…

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…

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…

🚀 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…