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Mar 1, 2026
How to Think About Wire Protocol Design
Every field in a binary header is a decision. TCP or UDP, length-prefix or delimiter, flat commands or grouped — a walkthrough of the choices that shape a protocol before you write a line of code.
systems-programming networking go protocols distributed-systems 28 min
Horizontal stacked text saying: Designing Custom Byte-Level Wire Protocols, with hex dump bytes and protocol box labels on a dark background.
Feb 28, 2026
Building a Native Brainfuck Compiler: From 8 Characters to x86-64 Machine Code
A deep dive into bfcc - a brainfuck-to-ELF64 native compiler that parses, optimizes, and emits raw x86-64 machine code without an assembler or linker.
compilers systems-programming x86-64 brainfuck elf optimization ai-assisted 12 min
Visualization of the bfcc compilation pipeline, showing stages from source code to optimized IR to machine code to ELF binary.