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Dayvster 🌊May 25, 2026 • 16 min read
In Defense of Manual Memory Management
Why Manual Memory Management Still Matters ? It is now easier than ever to write software...
#programming#zig#systems
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TejasMay 24, 2026 • 5 min read
Under the Hood: Demystifying Database Internals (InnoDB vs. ARCHIVE)
Most developers treat database engines as black boxes: you write a query, and data magically returns...
#systemdesign#database#intenal#systems
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Frank SnellingMay 24, 2026 • 3 min read
What failing at building an AI agent taught me about building AI agents.
I scored 3/50 on a take-home benchmark for a job application. And I still got the job. At the time...
#ai#agents#systems#python
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kent-tokyoMay 24, 2026 • 6 min read
Rust in 2025-2026: From 'Most Loved Language' to Core Infrastructure
Rust has held the top spot in Stack Overflow's "most admired language" survey since 2016, nearly...
#rust#linux#programming#systems
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Gyimah-BenjaminMay 24, 2026 • 1 min read
I built a 32-bit OS from scratch and named it after my mom
The Beginning A few months ago I didn't know what a bootloader was. Today I have a working...
#programming#showdev#sideprojects#systems
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Gideon Towolawi May 24, 2026 • 6 min read
Why These and That in Every System
We all know about DSA—Data Structures and Algorithms. But that's not all there is to programming, no...
#cpp#devjournal#softwareengineering#systems
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Mohammed Aman KhanMay 25, 2026 • 3 min read
Zinc – zero-copy shared memory for polyglot stacks. Want your feedback before publishing to npm / PyPI / crates.io / etc.
Here's the problem I kept running into: two processes on the same machine, say, a Python model loade...
#performance#rust#showdev#systems
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Jovann ThompsonMay 27, 2026 • 6 min read
Systems Primitives: A Practical Reading Framework
While debugging my first software system, I kept running into the same problem: I could see failures...
#architecture#softwareengineering#debugging#systems
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Sandesh OjhaMay 23, 2026 • 3 min read
I built a Redis clone in C: From blocking I/O to epoll to crash safe persistence
I had been hearing about sockets, TCP connections, and networking for years without truly...
#database#networking#showdev#systems
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Tanay KediaMay 23, 2026 • 3 min read
What happens when you send an Ethernet frame? I wrote 289 lessons to find out.
Every networking course I found had the same problem. Either it's pure theory — OSI model diagrams,...
#networking#programming#systems#tutorial
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Gilson Leite Siqueira JuniorMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read
Dubweave, for Aline
I built dubweave for my wife, Aline. She speaks Portuguese, and I kept finding these videos (essays,...
#privacy#showdev#sideprojects#systems
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Devansh KashyapMay 22, 2026 • 2 min read
Building a SQL-like Relational Database Engine in C++ From Scratch
Most of us use databases every day. But at some point I started wondering: How does SQL actually....
#cpp#database#sql#systems
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Tyler TanMay 22, 2026 • 11 min read
Building SQLite from Scratch: 740 Lines of C++23 to Understand Every Byte of a .db File
You fire up a MySQL client, connect to port 3306, send off your SQL, and the server parses,...
#computerscience#cpp#database#systems
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AndrewDangerouslyMay 28, 2026 • 3 min read
Performance Tuning: The Day the Server Got “Tired” and Started Acting Funny
Every sysadmin eventually encounters a system that isn’t technically down—but is clearly not doing.....
#devops#performance#sre#systems
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Alphonce OyungaMay 26, 2026 • 1 min read
As someone who is trying to Develop an engineering mindset, this article strongly resonated with the struggles I have faced trying to understand software development from a systems first perspective rather than language first. This is good advice.
10 First-Principles Strategies to Learn Any Programming Language Deeply ...
#learning#programming#softwareengineering#systems
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mihir mohapatraMay 22, 2026 • 8 min read
Rust Concepts: dyn Trait, Custom Iterators, Deref/Drop & Axum REST API (Part 5)
This is Part 5 of the Core Rust Concepts series. Part 1 — Ownership, Borrowing, Lifetimes,...
#rust#webdev#intermediate#systems
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iqan1996May 25, 2026 • 1 min read
Windows 11 Microsoft Account Login Recovery During Internet Restrictions
Windows 11 locked me out of my own Microsoft account during an internet blackout. Not because the.....
#microsoft#networking#systems#tutorial
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Arjun AdhikariMay 25, 2026 • 6 min read
Cron Not Working on Mac? How to Fix the macOS Sleep Trap with launchd
If you've ever built an automated script like a Python crypto price scraper, a daily backup script,....
#automation#productivity#systems#tutorial
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Paull Knya-zMay 22, 2026 • 3 min read
Booting from FAT12: How I added file reading to my x86 kernel
My kernel Paull-kernel (32‑bit x86, protected mode) already had a command line and could run built‑i...
#computerscience#showdev#sideprojects#systems
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MatBanikMay 26, 2026 • 12 min read
Reset Windows Update: The Definitive MSP Guide to RWU
Published May 22, 2026 on matbanik.info Manuel Gil's Windows Update reset script crossed half a...
#programming#architecture#systems#tech
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Nathan C.May 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Rux: A Modern Systems Programming Language Worth Watching
The programming language ecosystem evolves quickly, but occasionally a new project appears with a...
#news#performance#programming#systems
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AndrewDangerouslyMay 28, 2026 • 3 min read
Security in Linux: The Day SELinux Decided Everyone Was the Enemy
Every sysadmin eventually learns a painful truth about Linux security: the system is not trying to.....
#devops#linux#security#systems
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Shedrack ErhaborMay 22, 2026 • 5 min read
Moving Beyond "Tribal Software": Why the Singularity Demands the Interplanetary Hybrid Human
The real bottleneck to our future isn't our code or our hardware—it's our cognitive operating system...
#architecture#systems#philosophy#ai
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Lillian DubeMay 27, 2026 • 4 min read
The Day the Treasure Hunt Engine Drowned in 300 ms Queries
The Problem We Were Actually Solving In 2024 the Veltrix festival needed a treasure-hunt engine tha...
#webdev#programming#architecture#systems
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