Hi! I'm Amos. I write about how computers work - or at least, how they sometimes work. I write long pieces in a casual style, where we take our time to explore a problem. I tend to cover Rust a lot.
In my view, there's nothing that can't be explained if you're creative about it. And I enjoy doing that very much! I've made long series about reading files, the ICMP protocol, and I'm currently spending way too long talking about ELF executables.
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Latest series
In this series, we'll attempt to understand how Linux executables are organized, how they are executed, and how to make a program that takes an executable fresh off the linker and compresses it - just because we can.
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Recent articles
Good morning! It is still 2020, and the world is literally on fire, so I guess we could all use a distraction.
This article continues the tradition of me getting shamelessly nerd-sniped - once by Pascal about small strings, then again by a twitch viewer about Rust enum sizes.
During a recent Rust Q&A Session on my twitch
channel, someone asked a question that
seemed simple: why are small string types, like SmartString or SmolStr,
the same size as String, but small vec types, like SmallVec, are larger
than Vec?
Learning Rust is... an experience. An emotional journey. I've rarely been more frustrated than in my first few months of trying to learn Rust.
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