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Pointers Aren't Arrows. How C and C++ Actually Talk to Hardware.

Ask any software engineer to draw a pointer on a whiteboard. Within three seconds, they will sketch two boxes and a little curved arrow pointing between them. It looks neat. It feels intuitive.

• Pointers are integers storing memory addresses, not arrows.
• Memory is a continuous street of numbered byte lockers.
• Pointer arithmetic moves by data type size, not single bytes.

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Management rejected three tech debt proposals. The fourth one passed because I spoke their language.

The first proposal was two paragraphs about code quality, mentioning a module that had become hard to change safely and a request for two weeks to refactor it.

• Three tech debt proposals rejected due to abstract focus
• Fourth proposal passed after rephrasing with production incidents
• Management prioritized concrete data over technical explanations

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🪝You Should Probably Use Git Hooks

🚨 AI WAS NOT USED IN WRITING THIS POST 🚨 I've gone back and forth on this topic quite some time. As a solo dev, I liked it because I could run tests on commit.

• Git hooks initially used for solo testing, later adopted for team formatting and linting.
• Developers should be responsible for their own git process, even with AI assistance.
• Author's setup includes Husky, Lint-staged, ESLint, Prettier, and Vitest for code quality checks.

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I'm Tired of Being on the Network

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Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court

Ardit Kutleshi created and operated Rydox, which allowed miscreants to trade PII and cybercrime tools and services. The post Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court appeared first…

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