Random Musings

Here is a list of most recent posts:

• 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

  If you don’t already, you should use an RSS(/Atom) reader.

• 02 March - 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.

• 01 March - Notebooks

  First, context. Skip to the next section for the important bit.

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