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Lessons along the EndBOX journey

How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to expect—in this publication

Jun 17 •

Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my…

Jun 11 •

May 2025

Beginning 3D printing

A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.

May 28 •

March 2025

The next generation of Bazel builds

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in…

Mar 24 •

Bazel at Snowflake two years in

Two and a half years ago, I joined Snowflake to help their mission of migrating to Bazel. Here are the articles we have published so far.

Mar 15 •

Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree

An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices

Mar 1 •

February 2025

ioctls from Rust

Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust

Feb 13 •

January 2025

Hands-on graphics without X11

A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons

Jan 17 •

Self-documenting Makefiles

Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day…

Jan 10 •

December 2024

Revisiting the NetBSD build system

I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the…

Dec 28, 2024 •

Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS

A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.

Dec 13, 2024 •

November 2024

Demystifying secure NFS

My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.

Nov 4, 2024 •

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