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Alex Ellis
Writing about tech, our minds, and how things work.
A Children's Book Story About Distributed Systems
Editor’s note: the following document was found in a collection of papers and assignments, apparently dating from late …
Completing a Part-Time Master's in Computer Science While Working
“I’m going to be 29 anyways, so I might as well be 29 with a Master’s.” — me 5 years ago debating whether I should take …
The Strange Path of Accepting How Your Brain Works
I recently read Turing’s Cathedral, a book about the early history of computers, and it largely focused on the life and …
Writing an RPC From Scratch
There are many ways for computers to talk to other computers. A commonly used approach is a Remote Procedure Call, or an …
You're Reading This in the Future
You’re reading this in the future. Isn’t that weird? Even I’m reading this in the future. Let’s say I write the last “C” …
Checking if the Pi is done
I recently put together a Raspberry Pi cluster to try out some toy distributed systems projects, and I wanted to start …
Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster for Building Toy Distributed Systems
I’ve recently been getting more interested in distributed systems, and I wanted to get experience building some of the …
Debugging a launch-blocking issue
It was around 4PM a few Fridays ago when I heard that something had gone wrong, and I volunteered (was volunteered?) to …
Code Review and Criticism
I’ve been working in software for a few years, and I’ve come to take it for granted that I am not my work. My work …
Don't touch my clipboard
Looking for an em dash I was recently trying to find an em dash character to use in a piece of writing. Since I don’t …
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