#Systems Programming

Torvalds Draws the Line on Kernel LLMs

Linux's top maintainer just made AI tooling official policy, not optional ideology.

Article · 4w ago2

What a Rust Linux 0.11 Rewrite Actually Proves

A full 1991-era kernel in idiomatic Rust boots in QEMU. The win is pedagogical, not a path to mainline.

Article · 1mo ago0

Odin Earns Its Place as a Modern C Alternative

Clean syntax, data-oriented defaults, and explicit allocators make it worth a real evaluation.

Article · 1mo ago5

Rebuild Redis Once. The Black Box Stops Winning

From-scratch platforms turn Feynman’s rule into a practical systems workout for mid-level engineers.

Article · 1mo ago0

Write Your First CLI Tool in Zig and Cross-Compile It for Linux, macOS, and Windows

Build a small word-count utility in Zig and ship static, single-file binaries for three operating systems from one machine, no Docker or VMs required.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

Why Mitchell Hashimoto Chose Zig to Rebuild the Terminal

An architectural analysis of Ghostty, systems-level language trade-offs, and the push for structured terminal protocols.

Article · 1mo ago0

Odin Sets Its 1.0 Release for January 2027

The pragmatic systems language prepares to lock down its specification, offering a stable, Pascal-inspired alternative to C.

Article · 1mo ago0

Beyond the Colors: A Developer's Guide to htop

Stop treating your process monitor as a passive dashboard and start using it to diagnose real-world performance bottlenecks.

Article · 1mo ago5

A Graphical Desktop Environment Run Entirely Over SSH Sockets

The Outer Shell project rethinks remote server management by serving native-quality web apps over Unix domain sockets.

Article · 1mo ago0

Under the Hood of a CUDA Kernel Launch

From triple-angle brackets to SASS assembly and doorbell registers, here is how NVIDIA orchestrates GPU execution.

Article · 1mo ago0

Zig Redefines BitCast Semantics to Fix LLVM Backend Bugs

Decoupling bitwise casts from memory layouts eliminates compiler bugs and unlocks better LLVM optimization.

Article · 1mo ago0

Apple KernelKit: Bringing Embedded Swift to the Kernel

Apple's new KernelKit framework introduces Embedded Swift to the kernel space, paving a pragmatic path toward memory-safe systems programming.

Article · 1mo ago0

Beyond Epoll: Is io_uring Ready for Production?

A technical breakdown of Linux event loops, comparing readiness-based epoll with completion-based io_uring for high-performance networking.

Article · 1mo ago0

Exploring Zinnia, a Modular Rust Kernel That Boots to XFCE

A new 64-bit Unix-like operating system demonstrates how Rust's safety guarantees translate to bare-metal systems programming.

Article · 1mo ago0

Zig by Example Gives Systems Programmers a Practical On-Ramp

Modeled after Go by Example, this annotated-code resource walks developers through Zig 0.14 from Hello World to C interop — no hand-holding, no fluff.

Article · 2mos ago0