Stories by GalaxySnail

Passagemath: A pip-installable modularized fork of SageMath

Tutorial: Linux kernel profiling with perf

O_DIRECT – The Problem That Grew Up with Multi-Threading

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache

Vali, a C library for Varlink

CDC File Transfer

Changing the Cursor with CSS for Better User Experience (Or Fun)

How Binary JSON Works in YDB (2022)

Wayland Compositors – Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients (2014)

PuTTY has a new website

Hashcat v7.0.0 Released

Gradual negation types and the Python type system

Linux as a UEFI bootloader and kexecing windows (2022)

Par2cmdline v1.0.0 Released

Introduction to seccomp: BPF Linux syscall filter (2014)

Login Managers: An Introduction (2022)

Reassessing Wayland

Allocator Hints for Btrfs

Curl features experimental support for HTTPS RR

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