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"building a debugger" available now ~ c++ developer advocate at microsoft ~ poet ~ film/noisemaker ~ mask enthusiast ~ they/them
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I, uh, was not familiar with this skateboarding parlance

I've refreshed my blog! Planning on some Wasm posts soon tartanllama.xyz

Everyone say hi to Poptart

It’s never too late to start masking again to protect yourself and others from infectious diseases, especially at crowded events.

Building a Debugger is now officially released! It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes. Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

New people hard

Whale that can't find enough food: krill issue

this weekend I’m traveling up to Queensland with my bike to cycle for charity in the Brissie to the Bay ride 🚴‍♀️ I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️ www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/...

👀 this is a very cool topic, will definitely be watching this

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My recommendation for anyone wanting to write their first tech book is: multiply your expectations of how much effort it will take by *at least* 3. "But I have realistic expectations" - cool, multiply them by 3 "It can't be that bad" - sweet summer child, multiply them by 10

Me: Got a lot to do today, sure hope nothing goes wrong Haunted SSL cert: 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

By the way, I've reviewed this book back in February: vitaly-reads.beehiiv.com/p/vitaly-rea... Still not ready with my 3rd issue, unfortunately.

this also applies to your second tech book

My recommendation for anyone wanting to write their first tech book is: multiply your expectations of how much effort it will take by *at least* 3. "But I have realistic expectations" - cool, multiply them by 3 "It can't be that bad" - sweet summer child, multiply them by 10

Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint

Building a Debugger is now officially released! It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes. Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

I think a lot about this and how a lot of the art I love is "have a really bad time, but in a safe environment that you control"

They Will Call You Violent

Today I found a poem that one of my uni lecturers prompted us to write to remember the OSI model layers, in case you wondered if I was always cringe

This is such a wonderful portrait of Kurosawa, what a gift 😭

Kids Return (1996), Takeshi Kitano /// Blue Spring (2001), Toshiaki Toyoda

Roman Sands RE:Build is the biggest, surest, meanest, slickest GOTY pick of 2025. Lock the fuck in now Gamer, invest early and you too can win a massive Cultural->Social capital ROI

Clair Obscur understands two things very well: personal grief is cosmic, and getting grey hair is hot