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Every C programmer calls malloc, but few know what happens after the call disappears into the standard library. The allocator is managing a heap of raw memory, carving it into chunks, tracking what's free, and trying to do all of that fast enough that you never notice the overhead. Here's how it actually works.
Memory safety in C is a notoriously difficult landscape to navigate. Here is a deep dive into how the heap actually works, and how vulnerabilities like Buffer Overflows and Use-After-Free can bring a system to its knees.
We rely on massive frameworks to handle web traffic every day. But what happens when you strip all of that away? Here is a look at building a high-performance, event-driven web server from scratch in C using macOS system calls.
We interact with compilers every single day, but the linker is the true unsung hero of the toolchain. Here is a deep dive into object files, symbol resolution, and the magic that turns text into a running program.