Don’t ask me how I ended up playing with MATLAB. That is on my university, not me. While uploading code to an Arduino, one thing bothered me. MATLAB kept the object returned by the arduino const...

Over the course of several months in early 2025, I contributed multiple patches to the Linux kernel mainline, focusing primarily on concurrency issues, string safety improvements, and hardware-spec...

Most Linux systems rely on binary blobs to activate the full capabilities of hardware like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips. But what are these blobs, and how does the kernel load them? Understanding Firm...

General Overview Whenever you want to monitor a file or directory with inotify, you use inotify_init() to get a file descriptor known as “inotify instance”, and then you create a watcher to watch y...

You might have seen “*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend With This Code?” where JF Bastien discusses this line of code: *(char*)0 = 0; JF covers the majority of the topics relat...

I was playing with my TCP stack and wondered what would happen if I initialized my TCB struct with nested designated initializers and some strange tricks, which led to a tragedy. struct TCB *ctrl_...