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3 project management tips for the Well-Rounded Software Developer Wednesday June 9 2021
Why all developers should learn how to perform basic network troubleshooting Sunday June 6 2021
Building an audience: A lesson from the younger me Saturday June 5 2021
My introduction in the Piazza forum for Graduate Algorithms (GA) Monday May 17 2021
Distributed Computing @ OMSCS over – what a ride! Thursday May 13 2021
Distributed Computing CS7210 Distributed Computing – A course review Thursday May 13 2021
Front-yard overseeding journey Thursday May 13 2021
Distributed Computing – Goodbye and thanks for the wonderful semester Wednesday May 5 2021
My first lawn seeds germinating! Friday April 30 2021
iperf3 3 and TCP maximum segment size (MSS) Monday April 12 2021
Got the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccination Thursday April 8 2021
PAXOS made moderately complex – slots Wednesday March 17 2021
PAXOS – I’m coming for you! Monday March 15 2021
Understanding linearizability Wednesday March 10 2021
Speaking up for others Sunday February 14 2021
Distributed system snapshots: consistent vs inconsistent cuts Saturday February 13 2021
COVID-19 stunting Elliott’s social skills Thursday February 11 2021
PAXOS (not) made simple Thursday February 11 2021
The FLP theorem: impossibility of achieving consensus within distributed systems Monday February 8 2021
YouTube Review: “My Guitar Teacher TOMO FUJITA Gives Words of Wisdom” Saturday January 30 2021
Week in Review: 2021/01/17 – 2021/01/24 Monday January 25 2021
Why is Lamport’s Scalar Clock only consistent, not strongly consistent? Friday January 22 2021
8 fallacies of distributed computing Sunday January 17 2021
What are good models and what models are good? Saturday January 16 2021
Distributed Computing – Lesson 1 Summary Friday January 15 2021
Spring 2021: Distributed Computing Friday January 15 2021
2020 year in review Wednesday January 13 2021
Two memorable quotes from Ira Glass’s interview Tuesday January 5 2021
Just a thought: On working from home Monday January 4 2021
Reader expectations and three dimensions for emphasizing writing Sunday January 3 2021
You should NOT always prefer active over passive voice Friday January 1 2021
Want to improve your craft of writing? Imitate! Tuesday December 29 2020
To fading memories Tuesday December 22 2020
A short review on Zettlr (open source Zettelkasten app) Monday December 21 2020
Top 5 Zettelkasten.de forum posts Saturday December 19 2020
Tagging my personal information management (PIM) with key/value pairs as key words Friday December 18 2020
Squeezing the most out of your study sessions (midterm and final exam preparation) Tuesday December 15 2020
Neil Strauss’s 3 pass writing technique Thursday December 10 2020
Giant Scale Services – Summary and notes Friday December 4 2020
Free E-book: Advanced operating systems (AOS) refresher course – summary and study guide Friday December 4 2020
Failure: I want more of it. Thursday December 3 2020
Enterprise Java Beans – notes and summary Saturday November 28 2020
30 different ways to write paragraphs – series introduction Tuesday November 24 2020
Recovery management in Quicksilver – Notes and Summary Sunday November 22 2020
Software craftsmanship: convey intent in your error codes Saturday November 21 2020
20s for education, 30s for experience, 40s for career. Friday November 20 2020
Three project management tips for software developers Friday November 20 2020
A letter from my future self: “Dear 2019 Matt” Wednesday November 18 2020
Interesting research papers on database transactions Tuesday November 17 2020
Operating System Transactions – Summary and notes Monday November 16 2020
Snapshotting my understanding of MapReduce Monday November 16 2020
RioVista – Summary and notes Monday November 16 2020
Lightweight recoverable virtual machine – Summary and Notes Sunday November 15 2020
Distributed File Systems – Summary and notes Thursday November 12 2020
Daily Review: Day ending in 2020/11/11 Thursday November 12 2020
Testing your gRPC services using grpc_cli Wednesday November 11 2020
3 tips on getting eyeballs on your code review Monday November 9 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/11/05 Friday November 6 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/11/04 Thursday November 5 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/11/03 Wednesday November 4 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/11/02 Tuesday November 3 2020
Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/11/01 Monday November 2 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/11/01 Monday November 2 2020
Five tips for surviving (or thriving) in the OMSCS program as a computer science graduate student Sunday November 1 2020
Distributed Shared Memory (Part 2 of 2) Notes Sunday November 1 2020
Distributed Shared Memory (Part 1 of 2) Notes Saturday October 31 2020
Global memory systems (part 1 of 2) notes Monday October 26 2020
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/21 Thursday October 22 2020
Distributed Systems – Active Networks (notes) Wednesday October 21 2020
Distributed Systems – Latency Limits (Notes) Tuesday October 20 2020
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/18 Tuesday October 20 2020
How to clean your cleaning tools (notes) Sunday October 18 2020
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/17 Sunday October 18 2020
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/16 Saturday October 17 2020
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/15 Friday October 16 2020
Project 3 – Snapshotting my understanding (gRPC) Thursday October 15 2020
Not putting all your eggs in one basket and Daily Review: Day ending in 2020/10/14 Thursday October 15 2020
Daily Review – Day Ending in 2020/10/13 Wednesday October 14 2020
Lamport’s Clocks (notes) Tuesday October 13 2020
Daily Review – Day Ending in 2020/10/12 Tuesday October 13 2020
What I learned from writing synchronization barriers Tuesday October 13 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/10/11 Monday October 12 2020
Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/10/11 Sunday October 11 2020
Don’t break the (writing) chain … has been broken Saturday October 10 2020
Super long day & Having good co-workers Wednesday October 7 2020
Being paged out of bed at 3 AM … Tuesday October 6 2020
What does “invariant partial ordering” mean in Leslie Lamport’s “Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System” Monday October 5 2020
Farmhouse style doors – sliding door ideas for my home office Monday October 5 2020
Weekly Review & Week ending in 2020/10/03 Sunday October 4 2020
Deadlocking in centralized counting barrier implementation Friday October 2 2020
Distributed Systems Introduction notes Friday October 2 2020
What’s the point of the parity flag in the dissemination barrier? Friday October 2 2020
First day of moving to Renton & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/10/01 Friday October 2 2020
Learning how to build a personal brand (two books I picked up) Friday October 2 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/29 Thursday October 1 2020
OpenMP tutorial notes (Part 1) Tuesday September 29 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/28 Tuesday September 29 2020
Project 2 (barrier synchronization) – Snapshot of my knowledge Monday September 28 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/27 Monday September 28 2020
Weekly Review: week ending in 2020/09/27 Monday September 28 2020
My Anki settings for cramming for an exam Sunday September 27 2020
Shared memory multiprocessing (notes for advanced operating systems) Sunday September 27 2020
Midterm preparation (part 3/3) – Virtualization to Test-And-Set Saturday September 26 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/24 Friday September 25 2020
Midterm preparation (part 2/3) – Virtualization to Test-And-Set Thursday September 24 2020
On building online learning communities & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/23 Thursday September 24 2020
Midterm preparation – Questions and my guesses for OS Structures section Thursday September 24 2020
On drifting apart & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/22 Thursday September 24 2020
Multi pass approach for studying to advanced operating systems midterm (fall 2020) Wednesday September 23 2020
Advanced Operating Systems (AOS) notes Wednesday September 23 2020
Being present in the moment & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/21 Tuesday September 22 2020
Parallel Systems – Scheduling (notes) Tuesday September 22 2020
(Re) learning how to doodle & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/20 Monday September 21 2020
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) notes Monday September 21 2020
Weekly Review: week ending in 2020/09/06 Sunday September 20 2020
Barrier Synchronization (Part 2/2) Sunday September 20 2020
How to convert .heic images to .jpeg using command line on MacBook Sunday September 20 2020
Finally clean air & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/18 Saturday September 19 2020
Barrier Synchronization (Part 1/2) Saturday September 19 2020
On letting go & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/17 Friday September 18 2020
Making sense of the “sense reversing barrier” (synchronization) Friday September 18 2020
Crashing and burning during lunch & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/16 Thursday September 17 2020
Synchronization notes (part 2/2) – Linked Based Queuing lock Thursday September 17 2020
Tired like a zombie & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/15 Wednesday September 16 2020
Synchronization (Notes) – Part 1 Wednesday September 16 2020
Honoring my body’s internal alarm clock & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/14 Tuesday September 15 2020
Shared Memory Machine Model (notes) Monday September 14 2020
Losing 2 hours searching for a website bookmark & Weekly Review: week ending in 2020/09/06 Monday September 14 2020
Remembering September 11 & Daily Review (day ending on 09/11/2020) Saturday September 12 2020
CPU and Device Virtualization (notes) Saturday September 12 2020
Memory coordinator test cases (and expected outcome) Saturday September 12 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/10 Friday September 11 2020
Memory Virtualization (notes) Friday September 11 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/09 Thursday September 10 2020
Papers to read for designing and writing up the C memory coordinator Thursday September 10 2020
How to obtain the length of the memory statistics array when calling virDomainMemoryStats Thursday September 10 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/08 Wednesday September 9 2020
A snapshot of my understanding before tackling the memory coordinator Wednesday September 9 2020
Quotes from “My life story” by Veritasium Wednesday September 9 2020
Introduction to virtualization (notes) Tuesday September 8 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/07 Tuesday September 8 2020
A naive round robin CPU scheduler Monday September 7 2020
Distancing oneself from a difficult problem Sunday September 6 2020
Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/09/06 Sunday September 6 2020
Advanced Operating Systems (Project 1) – monitoring CPU affinity before launching my own scheduler Saturday September 5 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/04 Saturday September 5 2020
Making sense of libvrt bit map when calling virDomainPinVcpu Friday September 4 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/03 Friday September 4 2020
L3 Microkernel Thursday September 3 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/02 Thursday September 3 2020
How to build the libvrt documentation from source Thursday September 3 2020
Why do people fall prey to pyramid schemes? Wednesday September 2 2020
How to launch and ssh to a KVM instance Wednesday September 2 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/01 Wednesday September 2 2020
Syncing releases with uvt-simplestreams-libvrt Tuesday September 1 2020
A snapshot of my understanding before beginning project 1 (scheduler, memory coordinator) Tuesday September 1 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/31 Tuesday September 1 2020
Advanced Operating Systems – OS Structure – Exokernel Tuesday September 1 2020
Advanced Operating Systems: The SPIN Approach Monday August 31 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/30 Monday August 31 2020
Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/08/30 Sunday August 30 2020
Selecting research papers to read for Advanced Operating Systems Saturday August 29 2020
My time management tip #1 – Pomodoro Technique Saturday August 29 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/27 Friday August 28 2020
Thinking out loud – Not fully understanding virtually indexed physically tagged (VIPT) details Friday August 28 2020
Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/26 Thursday August 27 2020
OS Structure Overview Thursday August 27 2020
How to go beyond physical memory ? Wednesday August 26 2020
Daily Review – 2020/08/26 Wednesday August 26 2020
Daily Review – 2020/08/25 Tuesday August 25 2020
Operating Systems – Memory Virtualization – Paging Tuesday August 25 2020
Word of the day “Notwithstanding” Monday August 24 2020
Fear is a Guide Monday August 24 2020
Memory segmentation Monday August 24 2020
Weekly Review – 2020/08/17 – 2020/08/23 Monday August 24 2020
My classmates syllabus in excel form Sunday August 23 2020
Snapshotting my understanding before tackling homework assignment #1 Saturday August 22 2020
Done with advanced operating systems refresher course Saturday August 22 2020
Little Elliott has found her voice Saturday August 22 2020
Advanced Operating System Notes (File Systems) Saturday August 22 2020
My First Research Paper: COVID19 and the impact on higher education Friday August 21 2020
Daily Review – 2020/08/20 Thursday August 20 2020
Advanced Operating Systems – Day 3 Recap Thursday August 20 2020
Advanced Operating System Notes – Memory Systems (2/2) Wednesday August 19 2020
Daily Review – 2020/08/18 Wednesday August 19 2020
Advanced OS – Study Notes Reflection (from day 1) Tuesday August 18 2020
How to configure Ubuntu w/ nested virtualization using Vagrant and Virtualbox on MacOS Tuesday August 18 2020
Advanced operating systems – Pre-assessment (81% prepared for the course) Monday August 17 2020
Advanced operating system course starts today Monday August 17 2020
Weekly Review – 2020/08/09 – 2020/08/16 Monday August 17 2020
Creating my own digital library Sunday August 16 2020
I’m a messy person: it’s time for a change. Sunday August 16 2020
Guitar practice journal #1 Saturday August 15 2020
Logical Writing & Steven Pinker’s Coherence Relations Saturday August 15 2020
A healthy (no oil), quick (15 minutes prep, 15 minutes cook), plant based instant pot dish Friday August 14 2020
A No-Excuses Guide to Blogging – Excuse #5 – “I don’t want to be wrong” Wednesday August 12 2020
What vacation looks like with a 10 month year old Wednesday August 12 2020
Swapping values of two variables with XOR Friday May 1 2020
Waiting for one day … Tuesday April 28 2020
Week 1 and Week 2 of compilers Thursday January 23 2020
Top 6 photos from first family photo shoot Tuesday December 17 2019
Almost half way through M.S. in Computer Science Saturday December 7 2019
Masters in CS paying off Friday November 15 2019
Next up: Compilers (theory and practice) and reflecting on fatherhood Friday November 8 2019
Information Security – Project 4 Saturday November 2 2019
My wolf pack Monday January 28 2019
Week 1 of master’s in computer science Tuesday January 22 2019
History of i,j,k variables ? Monday October 29 2018
No exercise (or tennis) this week Thursday October 18 2018
Linear algebra – exam 1 Monday October 15 2018
Assembly RA (return address) Friday October 12 2018
Tennis serve in slow motion Wednesday October 10 2018
3Blue1Brown – Linear Algebra videos Tuesday October 9 2018
Flexing C muscles Thursday October 4 2018
Linear algebra check in Monday September 17 2018
Admitted into Georgia Tech Master’s in Computer Science Thursday September 13 2018
Friday night arguments Sunday August 12 2018
Libraries are love Sunday August 12 2018
“I’m not going to raise my kids the way my parents raised me” Thursday June 28 2018
My first singing (and guitar) recital Monday June 25 2018
Friday donut ritual Friday June 8 2018
Why I love Seattle Thursday June 7 2018
The beauty of dynamic programming Friday June 1 2018
Disabling remote loading of images (in e-mails) Monday April 16 2018
Why I picked up the guitar Sunday April 15 2018
Wrapping up discrete mathematics course Sunday April 15 2018
Graph theory and upcoming final exam Monday April 2 2018
Career contentment Friday March 23 2018
Software and system ownership Saturday March 10 2018
Where discrete mathematics meets an interview question Tuesday February 27 2018
Blistered fingers Saturday January 20 2018
Lessons learned coding the quicksort algorithm in assembly (i.e. MIPS) Monday January 15 2018
Dog palace Friday December 29 2017
Reading my first science fiction book Thursday December 14 2017
Dog done run & pool party Thursday September 14 2017
Practicing my ukulele Sunday September 10 2017
Returning to social media? Tuesday September 5 2017
A sneak peak of my wedding photos Wednesday August 30 2017
Caretaking Friday August 18 2017
Be a man Wednesday May 31 2017
Friday night in Sunday May 14 2017
A brief introduction to cache organization Saturday May 13 2017
Defusing a Binary Bomb (phase 1) Friday March 3 2017
How does the modulus operator work? Monday February 6 2017
Here’s some assembly instructions … now write the corresponding C code Wednesday January 18 2017
Let’s get lower than Python Tuesday January 10 2017
Calculating page table entry size Monday December 19 2016
Fakebook Tuesday October 18 2016
Graduate record examination (GRE) in 2 months Wednesday October 5 2016
Reflections on 1984 Monday September 26 2016
Data structures and algorithms in Java – Inspectional reading Saturday September 17 2016
My GSD alarm Wednesday September 7 2016
A simple C problem Sunday July 10 2016
Teaching as a form of learning: Binary Search Trees (BST) Saturday July 2 2016
It’s just a phase Sunday May 22 2016
Learning a new language Friday April 1 2016
A short thank you letter to my body Tuesday March 29 2016
Python progression path – quiz Monday March 28 2016
Relearning how to juggle Friday March 25 2016
Belgium terrorist attack and the media Tuesday March 22 2016
AWS Lambda part 2 – packaging and deploying Sunday March 13 2016
Monitoring background processes with SumoLogic Wednesday March 2 2016
Getting older Friday January 22 2016
Putting your mentor on a pedestal Saturday November 28 2015
SpeedCurve Library: Travis CI + coverage + tox Tuesday November 24 2015
Implementing Licenses API for github3.py Wednesday November 18 2015
Contributing to github3.py Wednesday October 7 2015
Mocking boto exception Saturday October 3 2015