Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Building an Event Loop From Scratch

  Published: 26 May, 2026 |  at  09:43 AM

  A hands-on walk from a blocking TCP echo server to a tiny kqueue-based event loop, using C++ to demystify what Node hides behind socket callbacks.

• Learning C++ by Implementing SOCKS5

  Published: 11 May, 2026 |  at  02:07 PM

  I started my career writing C and C++ for embedded systems. Then I didn't touch it for over a decade. This is the story of going back, with SOCKS5 as the excuse.

• Hello, World, but Without an Operating System

  Published: 9 May, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  What happens when you take the most familiar first program in software development and remove the operating system underneath it.

• I Tried to Catch a Systems Paper Before the Internet Did

  Published: 4 May, 2026 |  at  03:40 PM

  What happened when I tried to turn a fresh systems paper about integer formatting into a small C++ library before the wider internet had settled around it.