Hands-on introduction to unikernels
Writing about unikernels has been on my backlog for over a year. I find the technology intriguing, if not fascinating.
Antoine Cotten
My personal web page. Perspectives on tech and whatnot.
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Scaling into Nix for multi-platform package management
I tried Nix about 3 years ago by naively booting NixOS in WSL, without prior exposure to the Nix ecosystem. At the time, I was mostly curious to find out what the hype around the project was all about, and didn’t have a concrete use case in mind while approaching it. Needless to say, the experience left me with a bitter taste to say the least.
Advent of Code won’t teach you a programming language
Every year, programmers around the globe rejoice as December approaches. Precisely 24 days before Christmas, they are about to discover what kind of twisted puzzles the man himself has devised for them this season. “The man” here is Eric Wastl, creator of the beloved Advent of Code.
Visual accessibility in source-code editors
The theme of perceptual readability in software development environments has been dear to my heart for over a decade. Accessibility topics around visual presentation are commonly associated with UI design, particularly in web development. It may at first feel like an odd idea to be willing to explore visual accessibility practices in the context of source code editing, but are these two…
OCI runtime: container creation flow
Lately, I have been digging into the OCI Runtime specification and runc, its reference implementation written in Go. Although I have been working with containers for as long as Kubernetes has existed, I must now admit that the runtime aspect of the standardization effort, which Linux containers underwent throughout the existence of the Open Container Initiative (OCI), went largely unnoticed to me.
Reviving my web page
I am reviving my personal web page after a multi-year inactivity.