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Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
Michael Martin wraps a ZX Spectrum series with a practical write-up on coaxing high-quality digital audio from the machine's 1-bit beeper—covering techniques, trade-offs, and surprisingly good results on every Spectrum model.
21 min · 4,768 words
Dissecting House of Apple 2 on modern glibc
An interactive GDB walkthrough of House of Apple 2 on glibc 2.43: FSOP past vtable checks, wide-stream arbitrary call, stack pivot, and ROP—with a follow-along lab.
2 min · 383 words
Go concurrency distilled This mini book provides a brief overview of many concurrency topics in Go. Each topic comes with interactive examples — feel free to experiment with them by changing the code and clicking Run . There's also a [PDF version](https://github.com/nalgeon/go conc distilled) with static examples. This is a quick refresher on Go concurrency, not a beginner's guide.
28 min · 6,445 words
NetBSD: Playing with disklabels
A hands-on walkthrough of NetBSD disklabels for someone coming from Linux/DOS: how labels are structured, how to inspect and edit them safely, and the gotchas when partitioning disks the BSD way.
7 min · 1,633 words
Building a 64-Bit OS — Chapter 3: Interrupt Descriptor Tables (The magic behind a working keyboard)
Building a 64-Bit OS — Chapter 3: Interrupt Descriptor Tables (The magic behind a working keyboard) Interrupts Interrupts are easily one of my favorite topics.
11 min · 2,612 words
Blinking a Blue Pill LED with Rust, from scratch
A from-scratch Blue Pill walkthrough in Rust without a HAL: wiring and flashing, the reset vector, volatile GPIO writes, delay loops, and the assumptions a working blink can hide.
22 min · 5,155 words
Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming LanguageFrom a data-structures homework tree to closures, a chunk allocator, and a mark-and-sweep GC in C
A playful systems write-up: starting from evaluating 1+1 as a binary tree, the author builds a graph-reduction language in C with closures, a chunk allocator, and a garbage collector that cuts fib(40) from 12GB to 1.7MB.
2 min · 422 words
Inside Forge: Writing a Container Runtime From Scratch
A from-scratch walkthrough of Forge, a container runtime built in Go on Linux primitives—covering namespaces, cgroups, rootfs setup, and lessons from building the runtime by hand.
16 min · 3,673 words
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
Matt Keeter shows how Facet reflection plus naga lets Rust unit tests catch WGSL/Rust struct layout mismatches—padding on mat3x3, dynamic arrays, and field offsets—before GPU hangs force a reboot.
6 min · 1,444 words
Software sandboxing: The basics
A deep primer on software sandboxing: threat models, OS mechanisms, and practical patterns for isolating untrusted code—foundational reading for secure systems and agent runtimes.
39 min · 9,084 words
Language Interoperability From the Ground UpOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A bottom-up explanation of how code written in different languages can work together. Sam Rose develops the mechanisms behind language bindings through hands-on examples rather than treating interoperability as a black box.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written
A practical guide to writing C++ that actually uses the machine well—covering language and hardware basics, common pitfalls, and habits that keep hot paths fast without premature micro-optimization theater.
17 min · 3,904 words