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The shell one-liner, which twenty years ago required a trip to Usenet and the confidence of a stranger, is now produced by a language model the moment one asks for an installation or a fix. I type curl | sh more often …
A compiler, asked to produce an object file from three lines of assembly, will produce a good deal more besides. It will …
1 One of the minor peculiarities of writing about systems software in the present era is the Tour of the Sandbox. One …
A few days ago I began writing a toy version of gVisor — Google’s userspace kernel — as a way of discovering, in …
There is a particular kind of understanding that only comes from building a thing yourself — not reading about it, not …
I set down this account not because I expect to be believed, but because the alternative — to carry it alone — has …
Red of Titian, red of blood and throne mercury sulfide crushed from cinnabar stone prisoners in Almadén, digging their …
I built a container runtime. Not a wrapper around runc, not a shim that delegates to someone else’s code — an …
Abyss open, fallen angel cast away chained, pixelated daydreams display sulfric inferno, platonic heat burning fresh …
I wanted a simple way to browse classical music from the terminal. The OpenOpus API is free, doesn’t require a …
The shell one-liner, which twenty years ago required a trip to Usenet and the confidence of a stranger, is now produced by a language model the moment one asks …
A compiler, asked to produce an object file from three lines of assembly, will produce a good deal more besides. It will emit debug sections describing the …
1 One of the minor peculiarities of writing about systems software in the present era is the Tour of the Sandbox. One reads a paper, reads some source, builds a …
A few days ago I began writing a toy version of gVisor — Google’s userspace kernel — as a way of discovering, in the only way one truly discovers such …
There is a particular kind of understanding that only comes from building a thing yourself — not reading about it, not studying the source, but sitting down …
I set down this account not because I expect to be believed, but because the alternative — to carry it alone — has become a weight I can no longer bear. The man …
Red of Titian, red of blood and throne mercury sulfide crushed from cinnabar stone prisoners in Almadén, digging their own grave so that a Cardinal’s robe …
I built a container runtime. Not a wrapper around runc, not a shim that delegates to someone else’s code — an actual OCI runtime that uses fork, unshare, …
Abyss open, fallen angel cast away chained, pixelated daydreams display sulfric inferno, platonic heat burning fresh clean air now just a yearning squashy …
I wanted a simple way to browse classical music from the terminal. The OpenOpus API is free, doesn’t require a key, and has solid metadata on composers …
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| 2026-04-21 | go | Running What One Did Not Write | 2843 | 14 min |
| 2026-04-20 | technical | The Sections One Did Not Ask For | 2310 | 11 min |
| 2026-04-19 | go | A Tour of the gVisor Front | 2226 | 11 min |
| 2026-04-18 | go | Hijacking Signals in Go - Notes from a Tiny gVisor | 2567 | 13 min |
| 2026-04-12 | go | mini-sentry - Building a Userspace Kernel in Go | 2045 | 10 min |
| 2026-04-12 | writing | The Signal and the Silence | 6111 | 29 min |
| 2026-03-28 | — | Vermillion | 269 | 2 min |
| 2026-03-19 | rust | ironbox - Building a Container Runtime from Scratch in Rust | 910 | 5 min |
| 2026-02-23 | poetry | Back to Work | 55 | 1 min |
| 2026-01-23 | rust | Opus Explorer - A CLI for Discovering Classical Music | 398 | 2 min |