| | Hey-yo, | Hope you had a nice weekend. I recently added uptime kuma for service status monitoring to my self-hosted server via caprover. It was super simple to set up and has a ton of different notification options (email, signal, telegram, discord, etc). The dashboard looks really nice too. I’d definitely recommend it if you’re doing any self-hosting and want to add another nifty tool to your silicon utility belt. | Good luck with Ramadan to whoever follows it and here’s the issue. |
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| Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation | Published: 2 July 2023 | Tags: c | | Sébastien Michelland dives under-the-hood of how malloc works in c and focuses on one potential implementation of it. | Some highlights: | “malloc() is the mechanism through which programs obtain memory at runtime, and it often ends up being the primary way in which objects are created and managed” the process of the kernel lending memory space to processes (their virtual address space) is called paging most of the variety in malloc implementations comes from the requirement of not allowing any live blocks of memory to intersect (causing overwrite issues)
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| Better Benchmarks Through Graphs | Published: 12 February 2024 | Tags: database, performance, graphs | | Marc Brooker does an introductory exploration how graphs can be used to generate synthetic database benchmark workloads. | Some highlights: | rows in the database are treated as nodes, rows appearing in the same transaction are treated as edges modeling database transactions using a graph can also be a good way to see how to partition a database the difficulty is in producing graphs that are a specific shape
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| Super Merryo Trolls | Published: ? | Tags: graphics, assembly, games | | Garote wrote a 15 part series on creating a video game for the Apple IIgs (in highschool). | Some highlights: | covers the challenges of writing code for a very slow computer it’s a super mario bros ripoff there’s a lot of interesting low-level programming
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