The Curious Engineer

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35 from 16 Jul 2015 to 21 Sep 2026
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monthly (12 in the last year)
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personal blog

2026 10

  1. /research
  2. Peer review in the LLM (mania) age
  3. Here it is
  4. Flat vs segmented memory -- it's recursive
  5. all entries
  6. System call instrumentation on Linux/x86-64 using memory-indirect calls (in vain?), part two
  7. /highered
  8. IFIP foray
  9. jumped ship
  10. Universities: is bigger better?

2025 8

  1. thesis work on the Cake language
  2. this modified implementation of CPython
  3. written about before
  4. Meta
  5. as I blogged about earlier this year
  6. standing page
  7. in my earlier post
  8. Devel

2024 8

  1. later musings
  2. previous proof-of-concept
  3. making a single-file C source program executable and self-rebuilding
  4. interesting tricky cases
  5. blogged about at length
  6. my last post
  7. shell-and-Make one-filer
  8. shell–Make hybrids

2022 3

  1. linked into a chain loader
  2. about the problems with link-time symbol wrapping using the --wrap option
  3. last post

2021 2

  1. a simple user-space approach to intercepting and modifying system calls
  2. wrote about

2020 2

  1. ranted in the past
  2. funding institutions

2017 1

  1. custom program headers

2015 1

  1. older post about ELF introspection