Systems Programming

3 articles tagged “Systems Programming”.

• I Want to Understand Computers, Not Just Use Them

  2 October 2026 · 7 min read

  After years of shipping abstractions, I'm going deeper: processes, memory, networking and failure modes that frameworks hide from you.

• What Building malloc Taught Me About Memory

  13 March 2026 · 4 min read

  I wrote a tiny malloc in C to learn how memory really works. Surprisingly simple, and it changed how I think about every allocation.

• Comptime vs. Macros: Metaprogramming in Zig and Rust

  10 November 2025 · 3 min read

  Zig comptime vs Rust macros: how each language does compile-time metaprogramming, with examples of when to reach for each approach.

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