Mohamed Attia's Macrocosm

Prelude Every few years, I revisit one of my favorite papers END-TO-END ARGUMENTS IN SYSTEM DESIGN and this time I decided I will write an exposition of it to maybe inspire others to read it but also serve as a set of notes for my future self.

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A while back I started maintaining a journal, it can contain things that I’ve learned like new programming techniques, new commands, new insights, …etc.

A lot of the time I find myself wanting to have a directory with a basic Python virtual environment initialized in it, so I wrote the following Emacs Lisp script to do that, you can use it as an interactive function in emacs or as a script that you call f…

In this post, I am gonna walk you through compiling python code to CPython bytecode, what code objects are, how to construct them, how to disassemble them, and how to decompile them.

Update (2021-10-19) Correct inaccurate language referring to simple ADTs thanks to e01izuz Algebraic Data Types are a way for us to define types like the ones that come with Haskell e.g.

Suppose you want to sum up the first 10 natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ...