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…
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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…
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…
A open-source contribution story!
Hello everybody, I'm writing today to share my Tuesday's update. I dedicate my Tuesdays to contributing to open-source projects. So I'm searching pr…
Линтинг C stubs для OCaml с помощью Opengrep
В статье освещается кейс по использованию SAST инструментов (Semgrep/Opengrep) для проверки корректности написанных C stubs для языка программирован…
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…
Building NexisK: A Technical Deep Dive into My i386 Kernel
Building NexisK: Inside My i386 Kernel, Custom Bootloader and Memory Management Building an operating system kernel from scratch is not primarily ab…
Program Organization (with Examples in C)
Introduction In my book Why Learn C , Chapter 13, Program Organization , I wrote in part: For all but the most trivial programs, a typical C program…
I spent months building an exact incremental-computation library in C. I finally put the reproducible benchmarks on GitHub.
I’ve been working on a performance project called HKD Kernel. The premise is that a lot of large computations repeat work unnecessarily. If only a t…
I Ran a 284B-Parameter LLM From 3.2GB of RAM — in Plain C
DeepSeek-V4-Flash has 284 billion parameters and takes up about 160GB on disk. My laptop does not have 160GB of RAM. It doesn't even have 32GB. It r…
Porting Intel SSE Intrinsics to ARM NEON in a Real C Project
I recently wanted to see what actually happens when an existing C project containing Intel SSE intrinsics is ported to ARM64. The usual example is s…
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…
QH256 in C — A Deterministic 256-Bit State Structure for K501-AIONARC
QH256 in C — A Deterministic 256-Bit State Structure for K501-AIONARC A small, deterministic C reference implementation of QH256 for the K501-AIONAR…
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…
Skred (self-created sound engine) as an effects box
https://youtu.be/aDWJljOwHuc?si=iQa6RKruoFdKtqKX This video shows of a GUI front end experiment to use the Skred sound engine as an audio effect pro…
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…
Как PVS-Studio улучшает качество embedded-проектов
Embedded-разработка отличается множеством уникальных настроек, компиляторов и систем сборки. А при использовании стандартных методов анализа могут в…
You don't understand a system until you've rebuilt it
"Build your own X to understand it" is advice so common it has stopped meaning anything. I repeated it for years without being able to say why it wo…
Emotions on a cloned voice: a 25 MB graft, a steering vector, and a lot of dead ends
Part of qwen3-tts — a pure C inference engine for Qwen3-TTS. TL;DR Qwen3-TTS ships 9 neutral preset speakers. No emotion control, and cloning a voic…
Adding GPU backends to a pure-C TTS engine: Metal, CUDA, and the rented-Mac trick
Part of qwen3-tts — a pure C inference engine for Qwen3-TTS. TL;DR The engine is pure C and CPU by default . We added two opt-in GPU backends that l…
Building a chikku OS
mintOS Developer Handbook Table of Contents Boot Process Screen Driver Keyboard Driver Input System Kernel Library Parser & Shell Tool Purpose G…
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…
🚀 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…