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Entering text in the terminal is complicated
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Reasons to use your shell's job control
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New zine: How Git Works!
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Notes on git's error messages
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Making crochet cacti
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Some Git poll results
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The "current branch" in git
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How HEAD works in git
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Popular git config options
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Dealing with diverged git branches
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Inside .git
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Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
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Some notes on NixOS
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2023: Year in review
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Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
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git branches: intuition & reality
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Some notes on nix flakes
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How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
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git rebase: what can go wrong?
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Confusing git terminology
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Some miscellaneous git facts
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New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
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In a git repository, where do your files live?
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Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
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What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
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Some tactics for writing in public
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Behind "Hello World" on Linux
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Why is DNS still hard to learn?
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Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
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Open sourcing the nginx playground
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New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
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Some blogging myths
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New playground: memory spy
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Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend"
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New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years
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New playground: integer.exposed
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A list of programming playgrounds
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Building a custom site for zine feedback
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Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
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How do Nix builds work?
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Some notes on using nix
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Writing Javascript without a build system
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Print copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging have arrived
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Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
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Examples of problems with integers
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Examples of floating point problems
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Some business graphs for 2022
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New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
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A debugging manifesto
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Tips for analyzing logs
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A couple of Rust error messages
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Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch
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Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?
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How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap
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Some ways to get better at debugging
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A toy remote login server
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What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
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Monitoring tiny web services
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Notes on running containers with bubblewrap
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sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis
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Pages that didn't make it into "How DNS Works"
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New zine: How DNS Works!
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A list of new(ish) command line tools
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Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
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Celebrate tiny learning milestones
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How to use undocumented web APIs
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Some tiny personal programs I've written
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Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
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Things that used to be hard and are now easy
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The multiple meanings of "nameserver" and "DNS resolver"
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A toy DNS resolver
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Reasons for servers to support IPv6
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Hosting my static sites with nginx
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Some ways DNS can break
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How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
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Why might you run your own DNS server?
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2021: Year in review
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New tool: Mess with DNS!
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DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
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How to use dig
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Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
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Some notes on using esbuild
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How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?
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How to get useful answers to your questions
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Tools to explore BGP
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All my zines are now available in print!
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New tool: an nginx playground
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Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
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Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun
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Quadratic algorithms are slow (and hashmaps are fast)
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Patterns in confusing explanations
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Write good examples by starting with real code
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Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
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You can now buy print version of my zines!
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Blog about what you've struggled with
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How to look at the stack with gdb
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The OSI model doesn't map well to TCP/IP
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I put all of my comics online!
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Notes on building debugging puzzles
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What problems do people solve with strace?
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A tool to spy on your DNS queries: dnspeep
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Get better at programming by learning how things work
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Things your manager might not know
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A little tool to make DNS queries
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Day 57: Trying to set up GitHub Actions
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Day 56: A little WebAssembly
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Day 53: a little nginx, IPv6, and wireguard
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Day 52: testing how many Firecracker VMs I can run
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles
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Day 50: Building some tarballs for puzzles, and trying to make a kernel boot faster
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Day 49: making the VMs boot faster
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Day 48: Another Go program, and a little vim configuration
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Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
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Day 46: debugging an iptables problem
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Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
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Day 44: Building my VMs with Docker
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Day 43: Building VM images
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Day 42: Writing a Go program to manage Firecracker VMs
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Day 41: Trying to understand what a bridge is
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Day 40: screen flickering & a talk about containers
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Day 39: Customizing gotty's terminal
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Day 38: Modifying gotty to serve many different terminal applications at once
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Day 37: A new laptop and a little Vue
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Server-sent events: a simple way to stream events from a server
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Day 35: Launching my VMs more reliably
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Daily blog posts about my time at RC
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Day 34: Learning about qemu
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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs
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Day 32: A Rails model that doesn't use the database with ActiveHash
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Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment
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2020: Year in review
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Day 24: a short talk about blogging myths, and a debugging tip
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Day 23: a little Rails testing
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Day 22: getting OAuth to work in Rails
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Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
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Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder
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How I write useful programming comics
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Day 20: trying to figure out how Google Cloud IAM works
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Day 18: an answer to an autoencoder question
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Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders
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An attempt at implementing char-rnn with PyTorch
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Day 13: BPTT, and debugging why a model isn't training is hard
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Day 11: learning about learning rates
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New zine: Hell Yes! CSS!
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Day 10: Training an RNN to count to three
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Day 9: Generating a lot of nonsense with an RNN
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Day 8: Start with something that works
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Day 5: drawing lots of faces with sketch-rnn
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How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
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Day 3: an infinitely tall fridge
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Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around
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Day 1: a confusing Rails error message
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A new way I'm getting feedback on my zines: beta readers!
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I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!
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A few things I've learned about email marketing
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ninja: a simple way to do builds
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Wizard Zines' first print run: Help! I have a Manager!
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Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
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Some possible future zines
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Some more CSS comics
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An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
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Some CSS comics
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When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
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scanimage: scan from the command line!
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Twitter summary from 2020 so far
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saturday comics: a weekly mailing list of programming comics
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Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
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entr: rerun your build when files change
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A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
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What happens when you update your DNS?
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Questions to help people decide what to learn
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Metaphors in man pages
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Why strace doesn't work in Docker
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New zine: How Containers Work!
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When debugging, your attitude matters
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Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions!
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Questions you can ask about compensation
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New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
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PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME
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2019: Year in review
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"server" is hard to define
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How tracking pixels work
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Challenge: find Twitter memes with suffix arrays
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Solutions to the tiny window manager challenge
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Challenge: Write a bouncy window manager
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What makes a programming exercise good?
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How containers work: overlayfs
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Some notes on vector drawing apps
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Some research on shipping print zines
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SQLite is really easy to compile
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Your Linux Toolbox: a box set of my free zines
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SQL queries don't start with SELECT
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Zine revenue for 2019
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Notes on building SQL exercises
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Taking a year to explain computer things
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New zine: HTTP: Learn your browser's language!
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How to put an HTML page on the internet
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How to write zines with simple tools
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git exercises: navigate a repository
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curl exercises
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Get your work recognized: write a brag document
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What does debugging a program look like?
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Why are monoidal categories interesting?
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New zine: Bite Size Networking!
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Organizing this blog into categories
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!!Con 2019: submit a talk!
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Networking tool comics!
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A few early marketing thoughts
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Some nonparametric statistics math
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2018: Year in review
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New talk: High Reliability Infrastructure Migrations
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How do you document a tech project with comics?
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An example of how C++ destructors are useful in Envoy
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Some notes on running new software in production
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Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS!
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When does teaching with comics work well?
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New zine: Oh shit, git!
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Some Envoy basics
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What's a senior engineer's job?
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Some possible career goals
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Why sell zines?
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New zine: Help! I have a manager!
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Build impossible programs
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An awesome new Python profiler: py-spy!
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Editing my blog's HTTP headers with Cloudflare workers
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Who pays to educate developers?
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How to teach yourself hard things
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I started a corporation!
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A few recent podcasts
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New zine: Bite Size Command Line!
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IP addresses & routing
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netdev day 2: moving away from "as fast as possible" in networking code
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netdev day 1: IPsec!
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How I use Wireshark
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Batch editing files with ed
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How to get a core dump for a segfault on Linux
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New zine: Profiling & tracing with perf!!
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Talk: Building a Ruby profiler
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Reverse engineering the Notability file format
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Open source sabbatical = awesome
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Documentation site for rbspy!
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Talks I'd love to see at RustConf
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A few things I've learned about computer networking
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How does the internet work? podcast
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Prototyping an ltrace clone using eBPF
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Measuring a blog's success: focus on conversations, not page views
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Profiler week 6/7: more experiments, and a `report` subcommand!
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Working remotely, 4 years in
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Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback
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Profiler week 5: Mac support, experiments profiling memory allocations
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Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust
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Spying on a Ruby process's memory allocations with eBPF
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Profiler week 4: callgrind support, containers, Mac progress!
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I think I found a Mac kernel bug?
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How do you spy on a program running in a container?
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How do you read the memory maps of a Mac process?
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Profiler week 3: refactoring, better testing, and an alpha release!
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Profiler week 2: support for 1.9.3 -> 2.5.0, and line numbers!
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Should I pause a Ruby process to collect its stack?
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Rust in 2018: it's way easier to use!
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Profiler adventures: resolving symbol addresses is hard!
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Profiler week 1: testing & profiling stripped binaries
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How does gdb call functions?
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2017: Year in review
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How I set up an automatic weekly blog digest
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A perf cheat sheet
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My first Rust macro
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Debugging a segfault in my Rust program
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Bindgen: awesome Rust tool for generating C bindings
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How are Ruby's headers different from Python's headers?
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How often do Ruby's stack struct definitions change?
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How do Ruby & Python profilers work?
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Taking a sabbatical to work on Ruby profiling tools
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New zine: So you want to be a wizard
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What's a reference in Rust?
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Linux comics: a small zine
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How do groups work on Linux?
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Glitch: write fun small web projects instantly
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Binder: an awesome tool for hosting Jupyter notebooks
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Operating a Kubernetes network
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Reasons Kubernetes is cool
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How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
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Profiling Go programs with pprof
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How to answer questions in a helpful way
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How I spent my time at the Recurse Center
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Cool vim feature: sessions!
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Data structure: the treap!
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Finding out if/why a server is dropping packets
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Debugging netlink requests
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What's a network interface?
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Telling people what you're working on
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Learning at work
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Figuring out how to contribute to open source
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How Kubernetes certificate authorities work
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Cherry picking commits & shell scripting in golang
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How does the Kubernetes scheduler work?
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Linux tracing zine
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Linux tracing systems & how they fit together
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Notes on BPF & eBPF
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3 short screencasts (/proc, tcpdump, strace)
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a tiny whack-a-mole game
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What can developers learn from being on call?
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Awesome NLP tutorials by Allison Parrish
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Log-structured storage
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Iptables basics
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A few things I've learned about Kubernetes
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Async IO on Linux: select, poll, and epoll
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Handwritten books
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"Let's learn tcpdump" zine: now available for everyone
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A small website mystery
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Like zines about computers? You might love Bubblesort Zines
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Using the Strict-Transport-Security header
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New zine: let's learn tcpdump!
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No feigning surprise
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The fish shell is awesome
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Some good "Statistics for programmers" resources
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Making small culture changes
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netdev conference, day 3
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netdev conference, day 2
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How to filter packets super fast: XDP & eBPF!
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netdev conference, day 1
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Slow down your internet with tc
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Bash scripting quirks & safety tips
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Blogging principles I use
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ftrace: trace your kernel functions!
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Writing down my career
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So you want to be a wizard
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Swapping, memory limits, and cgroups
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Hiring & opportunity
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How do these "neural network style transfer" tools work?
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Weird unix thing: 'cd //'
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How big can a packet get?
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A magical machine learning art tool
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Dissecting an SSL certificate
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New zine: "Networking! ACK!"
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Choosing the "best software"
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A tiny zine about machine learning
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An idea for a programming book
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How do you make an awesome team?
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Rules of programming experiments
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How to ask good questions
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Systems We Love 2016
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A container networking overview
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2016: Year in review
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What's interesting about UDP?
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How much memory is my process using?
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More drawings about computers
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Things to learn about Linux
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"A Critique of the CAP Theorem"
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Ideas about how to use AWS
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Why cute drawings?
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A few drawings about Linux
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What happens when you run a rkt container?
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Service discovery at Stripe
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A few questions about open source
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Running containers without Docker
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A litmus test for job descriptions
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Consistency vs availability (wat?)
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What's devops?
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Operations for software developers for beginners
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What even is a container: namespaces and cgroups
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Switching to Hugo
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★
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What happens when you start a process on Linux?
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A list of Linux container software
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"I just want to run a container!"
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Getting things done
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A swiss army knife of debugging tools: talk & transcript
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Some questions about Docker and rkt
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How I got a CS degree without learning what a system call is
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Learning systems programming with Rust
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New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love
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Asking good questions is hard (but worth it)
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How (and why) I made a zine
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Why do UDP packets get dropped?
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Release it, then build it
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How do you decide what to work on?
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How does gdb work?
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A few sketches
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Benchmarking correctly is hard (and techniques for doing it better)
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How do HTTP requests get sent to the right place?
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Linux debugging tools I love
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PolyConf 2016
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Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?
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Using ltrace to debug a memory leak
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Should you be scared of Unix signals?
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How to spy on a Ruby program
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A useful new strace feature
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Ideas for making better conference talks & conferences
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Learning to like design documents
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Three ways to solve hard programming problems
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"advice" for aspiring tech bloggers
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Notes from my PyData Berlin keynote
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A few reasons to be skeptical of machine learning
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Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls
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homu + highfive: awesome bots that make open source projects easier
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A second try at using Rust
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A workshop on strace & tcpdump
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What are SSL ciphers & session keys?
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The Etsy site performance report is amazing
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How does knowledge get locked up in people's heads?
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CDNs aren't just for caching
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you can take the derivative of a regular expression?!
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Some links on Java garbage collection
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Java garbage collection can be really slow
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Looking inside machine learning black boxes
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Some of my favorite blogs
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I conquered thread pools! For today, at least.
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Thread pools! How do I use them?
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I/O matters.
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How do you do capacity planning?
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tcpdump is amazing
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How does perf work? (in which we read the Linux kernel source)
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Women-only spaces are a hack
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Surprises in Ruby HTTP libraries
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What is "the stack"?
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perf top: an awesome way to spy on CPU usage
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How to measure your CPU time: clock_gettime!
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Why I love log files
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Have high expectations for your computers
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TIL: clock skew exists
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How CPU load averages work (and using them to triage webserver performance!)
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Fast integer sets with Roaring Bitmaps (and, making friends with your modern CPU)
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Sendfile (a system call for web developers to know about!)
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Guessing Linux kernel registers
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Calling C from Rust
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A few notes on my CUSEC talk
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Why I ❤ Rust
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Talking about stock options = awesome
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Java isn't slow
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Winning the bias-variance tradeoff
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Surviving meetings while remote
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Things you should know about stock options before negotiating an offer
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2015: Year in review
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How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
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Women in Machine Learning 2015 (fun!!!)
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Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)
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How I got better at debugging
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Why you should understand (a little) about TCP
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Docker is amazing
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PAPERS ARE AMAZING: Profiling threaded programs with Coz
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A millisecond isn't fast (and how we made it 100x faster)
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Is machine learning safe to use?
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An argument for hiring junior developers
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Some easy statistics: Bootstrap confidence intervals
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AdaCamp Montreal 2015
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A zine about strace
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Learning at open source sprints (no preparation required)
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A few spy tools for your operating system (other than strace!)
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Seeing system calls with perf instead of strace
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Senior engineering & fantasy heroes
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Nancy Drew and the Case of the Slow Program
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1:1 topic ideas
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You can choose who submits talks to your conference
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How the locate command works (and let's write a faster version in one minute!)
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How gzip uses Huffman coding
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How I learned to program in 10 years
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A/A testing
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Why a C++ programmer might say "I could never write Python"
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Data Day Texas 2015
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On reading the source code, not the docs
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Programming doesn't belong to men (it belongs to me)
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Fear makes you a worse programmer
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Reproducing awesomeness
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Diving into concurrency: trying out mutexes and atomics
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Spying on Hadoop with strace
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LD_PRELOAD is super fun. And easy!
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PyData NYC (I gave a machine learning talk! yay!)
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Harm reduction for developers
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Fun with machine learning: logistic regression!
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Fun with machine learning: does your model actually work?
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What women in technology really think (150 of them, at least)
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Working remote, 8 months in (seeing humans is important!)
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How to set up a blog in 5 minutes
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How does SQLite work? Part 2: btrees! (or: disk seeks are slow don't do them!)
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How does SQLite work? Part 1: pages!
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Strange Loop 2014
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You can be a kernel hacker!
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How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it!
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What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
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Pair programming is amazing! Except... when it's not.
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Open sourced talks!
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Ruby Rogues podcast: systems programming tricks!
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Fun with stats: How big of a sample size do I need?
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How I did Hacker School: ignoring things I understand and doing the impossible
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!!Con talks are up
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Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions
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Asking questions is a superpower
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Working remote, 3 months in
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Should my conference do anonymous review?
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Anonymous talk review is amazing.
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Diving into HDFS
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I can spy on my CPU cycles with perf!
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Computers are *fast*!
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Stopping to think
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★
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Don't feel guilty about not contributing to open source
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Debug your programs like they're closed source!
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♥ PyCon
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Becoming a better developer (it's not just writing more programs)
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"Ask if you have questions" isn't enough
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Reports from remote-land: remote pairing works great!
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Recovering files using /proc (and spying, too!)
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My Rust OS will never be finished (and it's a success!)
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Writing an OS in Rust in tiny steps (Steps 1-5)
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Debugging shared library problems with strace
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Hacker School's Secret Strategy for Being Super Productive (or: Help.)
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Pair programming
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More practical uses for strace!
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Using strace to avoid reading Ruby code
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A resume workshop idea
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A bookmarklet to flee from Mailman archives
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Spying on ssh with strace
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"How was Hacker School?"
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A few blogs I really like
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Three steps to learning GDB
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Sounding confident in interviews
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CUSEC = fun
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What my technical interviews have looked like
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You should give talks. They will be awesome. Here's why!
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★
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4 paths to being a kernel hacker
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Some things my kernel can't do
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Sketches for a graph layout engine
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★
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Questions I'm asking in interviews
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Coding strategies
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★
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When is "guys" gender neutral? I did a survey!
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★
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A pandas cookbook
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Understanding how killall works using strace
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Day 46: Never Graduate
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Day 45: I now have Rust code for executing executables!
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Day 44: qemu + gdb = so great
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Day 43: SOMETHING IS ERASING MY PROGRAM WHILE IT’S RUNNING (oh wait oops)
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Day 42: How to run a simple ELF executable, from scratch (I don't know)
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Day 41: Linkers are upsetting
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Day 39: Writing malloc wrong, for fun
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Day 40: 12 things I learned today about linkers.
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Day 40: Linkers are amazing.
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Day 38: After 6 days, I have problems that I can't understand at all
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Day 37: After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key
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Day 36: On programming without malloc
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Day 35: Types in Rust, for beginners
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How to call Rust from assembly, and vice versa
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Videos from PyData NYC are up!
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★
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What happens when you run 'Hello, world'
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Writing a kernel using rustboot & rust-core
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Day 34b: Writing curl using my TCP stack
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Day 34: The tiniest operating system
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Day 33: How to make music with ClojureScript
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Day 32: Magical Orchestra!!!
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Day 31: Binary trees with core.logic!
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Day 30: Making music in Clojure with Overtone. Clojure bugs with laziness! Fun!
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Day 29: Trying out Emacs!
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Day 28: Made a git workflow visualization webapp!
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Day 27: Automatically testing changes in state! Visualizing my Git workflow! Floats!
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Day 25: ACK all the things
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Day 26: Trying to describe the TCP state machine in a readable way. Failing.
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Women in Technology workshop at PyData NYC
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Day 24: Unit testing this TCP library
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Day 22: Got some TCP packets back!
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Day 23: Started writing a TCP stack in Python
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NYC Python talk
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Day 21: Trying to TCP
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Day 19: A few reasons why networking is hard
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Day 20: Traceroute in 15 lines of code using Scapy
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Day 18: ARP cache poisoning (or: In ur connection, sniffing ur packets)
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Day 17: How to write a buffer overflow exploit
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Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesome
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Do Rails programmers use node.js? Visualizing correlations in command usage
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Day 15: How a .gz file is structured, redux
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Day 14: When it's hard to write tests, that's when I should be testing
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Day 13: Off by one errors
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Day 12: Why Julia likes Julia
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Day 10: Goals. Goals? Maybe I need to be *reading* more code?
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Day 11: How does gzip work?
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Day 9: Bytecode is made of bytes! CPython isn't scary!
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Day 8: Julia writes Julia! And remembers that open source is hard.
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Day 7: An echo server in Clojure
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Day 6: I wrote a rootkit!
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Day 5: I wrote a kernel module!!!
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Where to find bike sharing systems' data feeds
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Day 4: Processes vs threads, and kernel modules!
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Day 3: What does the Linux kernel even do?
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Day 2: netcat fun!
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Day 1: What does a shell even do?
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Hacker School Day 1: Messing around with the stack in C
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Hacker School Day -4: unit testing in C. checkmk!
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Julia Serano's 'Excluded'
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PyData Boston 2013
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Open Data Exchange 2013
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Transit maps: 1941 vs 2011
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Graphing bike path data with IPython Notebook and pandas
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Trying out Octopress
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Montreal All-Girl Hack Night #2: now with cookies
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Montreal All-Girl Hack Night #1: AMAZING
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