Blogs
Random long thoughts I had over the years...
Topics range from programming, math, to my views of school
The Sign of Char
January 20, 2025
Note: This is a follow up post from my microblog
WARNING: I am no expert in Assembly. The last and only time I ever wrote assembly was computing the Fibbonacci Sequences 8 years ago for the MIPS architecture
Stack Overflow: The Case of a Small Stack
December 29, 2024
Years ago I was once asked by an intern to debug a mysterious crash that seemed so innocent. While I no longer recall what the code was about, we stripped the program to a single line in
main. Yet the program still continued to crash.
Utilizing Aliases and Interactive Mode to Force Users to Think Twice Before Deleting Files
December 29, 2024
I previously mentioned in my microblog that I lost my file by accidentally overwriting my file using the cp command. This got me thinking as to why this would be impossible on
my work laptop since I would be constantly bombarded with a prompt to confirm my intention to overwrite the file.
QNX is 'Free' to Use
November 9, 2024
Recently on Hackernews, a relations developer from QNX announced that QNX is now free for anything non-commercial. QNX also made an annoncement to the LinkedIn Community as well which was where I learned about it. For those who are not familiar with QNX, QNX is a properiety realtime operating system targetted for embedded systems and is installed in over 255 million vehicles. QNX has a great reputation for being reliable and safe embedded system to build software on top of due to its microarchitecture and compliance to many industrial and engineering design process which gives customers the ability to certify...
Verifying Email Signature Manually
October 12, 2024
I noticed that the neocities community love using protonmail and some even share their public key to enable full encryption communication. What makes protonmail special is the focus on privacy and security. All emails sent between Proton Mail users are end to end encrypted meaning not even Proton can have access to the messages. However, when communicating outside of Proton ecosystem to non-Proton Mail users like those with Gmail and Outlook, communication between the two are not encrypted end to end by default. This does not mean the encryption utilized by Gmail and Outlook are inadequate. The vast majority of...