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It’s more likely than you think!
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel
A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
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Links: November 2023 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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Julio Merino
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
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Julio Merino
Code reviews: A success story
A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
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Julio Merino
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you…
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Julio Merino
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
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Julio Merino
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries…
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Julio Merino
Blog System/5
Blog System/5
A newsletter on operating systems, build systems, programming languages, software engineering, and my own software projects. Specifics include FreeBSD, Linux, Rust, Bazel and EndBASIC.
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