Low-Level Lore

Taming Temporaries: When Objects Live Past the Semicolon

Master temporary lifetime extension and avoid subtle dangling bugs in range-for loops.

Oct 3 • Mohit

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September 2026

When Lifetimes Actually Start: Initialization, UB, and the Heap

Avoid indeterminate-value traps and master new/delete without leaking memory.

Sep 25 • Mohit

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June 2026

Linux Finally Killed strncpy. It Took Six Years, 362 Patches, and 70 Contributors.

The story of a 40-year-old C function that looked safe but wasn't, and the codebase-wide surgery that removed it from the kernel entirely.

Jun 28 • Mohit

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March 2026

Build Leak-Proof Locals: How Storage Duration Keeps Your Code Alive

Turn automatic variables into reliable workhorses without the usual scope surprises.

Mar 1 • Mohit

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February 2026

January 2026

Bringing in all Together: Libraries, Flags, and a Real Project

You’ve mastered the basics, now let’s link a real library and see where things get messy (and how to fix it).

Jan 20 • Mohit

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Linking It All: Static Glue and Dynamic Surprises

You’ve got object files full of machine code, so why won’t they run yet?

Jan 15 • Mohit

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Assembling the Pieces: From Assembly Text to Binary Objects

Your compiler spits out assembly, but computers don’t run text files, so what happens next?

Jan 10 • Mohit

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Inside the Compiler: Trees, Parsing, and That First Assembly Glimpse

Ever wondered how the compiler knows your code is broken before it even tries to run it?

Jan 3 • Mohit

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December 2025

November 2025

The Exact Mechanics of the DynamoDB DNS Race Condition

Technical Autopsy of AWS Outage

Nov 15, 2025 • Mohit

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