Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025

My personal framework for reading research papers

Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer engineers understand how these systems work under the hood.

Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?

I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.

How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.