xorvoid

Welcome

If you stare into the void long enough, you'll find some xors staring back

When the slurg comes, the scrumble will rumble.

Welcome to my corner of the internet.

Occasionally, I post random things without any central theme. I have a lot of hobbies and interests and this blog reflects that.

If you want to chat about something, here's my email: [email protected]

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Athletic & Adventure interests:

Rock Climbing: Indoor and outdoor sport climbing (not much trad, not much bouldering)
Long-Distance Bicycle Touring: multi-week cross-continental touring
Long-Distance Running: Self-supported marathon & 50k distances (until about 2022)
Skiing: Preferably lost in the trees away from the crowds
Skateboarding: Mostly flowy carving in skate bowls

Computer Programming interests:

Low-level Programming: C, C++, Rust, Assembly, Computer Architecture.
Distributed Systems: Large-scale Parallel I/O Systems for HPC / Supercomputing
Lockfree Datastructures: Generally for high-parallelism kernel-bypass messaging
Reverse-engineering: Security analysis, old video game re-implementations from raw machine-code, deobfuscation, etc
Compilers and Decompilers: Toy compilers such as SectorC, more serious decompilers such as Dis86, and full C compilers such as xcc (unreleased)

Mathematical interests:

Finite-field arithmetic: GF(2^n) fields with applications to coding theory, data-resiliency, hashing techniches, etc (see also: Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good)
Real Analysis
Probability Theory
Functional Analysis
Mathematical Optimization

Other technical interests:

Electronics: Circuit Analysis, AC Analysis, Semi-conductors, PCB layout, etc
Physics: Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics, Electrodynamics, Condensed Matter Physics, etc