About me

Welcome to my site. Thanks for reading, and I hope you find some posts interesting.

Interests

I am particularly interested in several Computer Science topics, as well as some topics related to financial markets. I will be diving deeper into some of these topics in this blog, but I'll mention some of these topics here.

Programming Languages

• Performance vs ease of use -- choosing abstractions
• Governance
• Rust
• C & C++
• Python
• Javascript
• DWARF debug info format

Compilers

• Clang
• assembly, generic IR
• portability
• undefined behavior
• RISC vs CISC

Operating Systems

• VM and MMU
• Linux
  • eBPF
  • Networking stack
  • Virtual file system as user-space interface
  • Syscalls as user-space interface
  • _start
• Filesystems
  • FAT
  • EXT
  • BTRFS
  • Tagged/semantic vs hierarchical
  • COW
  • Snapshots

Computer Architecture

• RISC vs CISC
• Memory model
• Embedded environments

C++

• Messy w/ backwards compatibility
• Powerful typed macro system (templates)
• Compile-time programming (not useful?)
  • Circle PL
  • Obfuscation
  • Compiler build-time overhead
  • constexpr as poorly understood
    • consteval
    • constinit
    • constexpr if
• Compiler impediments
• Editors and dependent types
• Versus Rust
  • Macros
  • Generics
• Coroutines
• Networking doesn't belong in the standard library
• Feature creep
  • C++ should not need to be hosted!
  • Freestanding support
• _start
• Variadic C preprocessor hacks

Market Microstructure

• Arbitrage techniques
• FIX protocol and optimizations
• Order types
• Idiosyncratic exchange qualities

Hobbies

I try to spend most of my free time on productive pursuits

Self-hosting

• My current setup
• Self-hosting email
• Dynamic DNS
• containerd -> Docker -> Kubernetes: managing complexity

GBA modding and programming

• Hardware modding
  • Screens
  • Power draw and batteries
  • Reshelling
  • Accelerators
  • Audio improvements
• Flash carts
• Architecture

Video games