I'm a software engineer with a passion for understanding how software and hardware works. I do most of my work on the terminal, and building tools for the terminal. This is my personal blog where I share my thoughts and explorations.
2025
- 06 Sept More Than Just Characters Think `char` is just for letters? Think again. Deep dive into why `char` is actually a 1-byte integer, how signedness works, and how computers handle ASCII under the hood.
- 23 Feb Building a gRPC Application in Rust and Analyze Build a fast gRPC service in Rust and tear down its network packets using tcpdump to see exactly how Protobuf serializes strings and integers over the wire.
- 04 Feb Charged for Unauthenticated Requests on Azure Blob Storage – And What I Learn From It Think only AWS charges for unauthenticated requests? Here is how an infinite Loki retry loop and a leaked storage account name exposed us to Azure’s unexpected billing pitfalls