Random Musings¶

Here is a list of most recent posts:

12 July - Druggist

Due to some recent events, I’ve found myself in the position of needing to track medicine intake. There are medicines that have to be taken daily, which have to be audited (“Did I remember to take my bufaximol?”) and others taken as needed to manage symptoms (“How much metryptine have I taken today?”).
11 May - D4D4

A co-worker of mine was looking at some disassembled ARM code the other day, and discovered something weird. Lots of d4d4 instructions, scattered about. LLVM’s objdump says this is a relative branch to -0x58. The weird part is that they were always unreachable.
10 May - Magic File Names

A co-worker discovered an amazing thing the other day. He needed to check out our codebase on a Windows machine (for real, not inside WSL) to do something model-y with Matlab. It’s worked before, and it looked like it was going fine until he got this error:
13 April - Immigration

Sometimes people ask me questions about what it’s like living in a different country. The Netherlands is not all that different from the US, as these things go, but it’s still different enough. This is a collection of things I miss from life in Boston and things that make this place feel foreign.
06 April - Really Simple Syndication

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