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Month: April 2017

  • Spring 2017

    The hills above Salt Lake City are finally turning green. Earlier in the year my family took a short trip to southeast Utah but it rained so much one day that I didn’t think the dirt roads would be passable, so we visited Ratio, a land art installation near Green River UT. The next day…

  • Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM

    Earlier I wrote that Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming, a piece intended to convince you that there’s nothing inherently wrong with undefined behavior as long as it isn’t in developer-facing parts of the system. Today I want to talk about a new paper about undefined behavior in LLVM that’s going to be presented in June…

  • Fun at the UNIX Terminal Part 1

    This post is aimed at kids, like the 6th graders who I was recently teaching about programming in Python. It is more about having fun than about learning, but I hope that if you enjoy playing around at the UNIX terminal, you’ll eventually learn to use this kind of system for real. Keep in mind…