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Life of a Programmer

`Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.’ - EWD

2025

Pains and Gains (3)
sport travel
Annoyance
misc
Climbing
travel
Pains & Gains (2)
sport
Signals & Multithreading
mm
trace-cmd et al
mm
Recap
travel mm
East Himalaya
travel
Struggle
misc

2024

Ever Since
reading
Rain Dancer
family
Fatigue
misc
Mac Mini M4
mac
Detraining
sport
ICU
family
Sudden Call
family
Higher Than Mountains
reading
Crowds
travel
Notes on Unknown (2)
mm sport rdma
Notes on Unknown
mm
Pains & Gains
mm
Education
family
Ramblings - 4
misc
Look After Child
family
fio Trickery
storage
Joys and Sorrows
misc
Holidays
travel
Up & Down
storage
Sunset Surface Pro 4
misc
Ramblings - 3
sysadmin
AI
misc
IBV_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR
networking rdma seastar c++
Rest or not
sport
Overreaching
sport
MSG_ZEROCOPY (2)
networking
Himalaya
movie
MSG_ZEROCOPY
networking
RDP w/ Admin
Windows
ASAN Report Before Program Exits
c++
bpftrace Tips
mm
C++11 Lambda Capture
c++
Gyala Peri
travel
Nyingchi Final 3
travel
Communication
misc
Nyingchi Routes 2
travel
Nyingchi Intro 1
travel
Before Vacation
travel
Into Seastar
networking c++ seastar
Peaking
sport
Quotes
reading
80.4 km
sport
RDMA Networking - Message TX
networking rdma
RDMA Networking - Intro
networking rdma
The Little Great Wall
travel
Own Goal
sport
Fugu
travel
Half Marathon
sport
Strange Latency Issue
sched
Learning by Tracing
storage
Ramblings - 2
family sport travel photography
Ramblings
family
Recovery Heart Rate
sport
Meaning & Truth
reading
Just So So
reading
Meta Defcon
paper reading
Hugo: Ref Not Found
hugo
Causality
sport
RWF_NONBLOCK & EAGAIN (2)
storage
RWF_NONBLOCK & EAGAIN
storage
[zz] All Concurrency Models Suck
c++
Readings 24Q1
reading
Xiao Shi Ji (2)
family
Xiao Shi Ji
family
Running
sport
Hiking: Fish Bone Route
sport travel
Rainy
misc
Hometown
family
Hiking, again!
sport travel
Coffee
family
About Time
passion
CVA?
travel
Debt
family
Lunch & ex-Team
friends
HRV Status
sport
Humanity
friends family
New Year New Theme
hugo
BLKTRACESETUP(2)
storage
A Taste of bpftrace
mm
Klepetan and Malena
reading
What Is a PDU
storage
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
reading
Interpreting Kernel Call Trace
mm

2023

Readings 2023 WW52
reading
SATA Hotplug
storage
SCSI Addressing
storage
Readings 23Q4
reading
A Trip to Suzhou
sport travel
Parallel All the Time
paper ssd storage
SSD 101 Plus
ssd storage
City Walk
family
pwrite() & O_APPEND
c++
Future & Promise
java c++
Address Sanitizer
c++
A Trip to Wuxi
travel
Linux AIO
storage
Readings 23Q3
reading
`O_DIRECT' undeclared
c++
A Little C++
c++
(Old) Seastar and C++17
c++
Tracker Miners and Git LFS
git
DeLL OptiPlex Micro 7010
misc
Surgery
family
Optimized PDF
latex
Garze & Aba
family
A Trip to Suzhou
sport travel
Thinking
reading
Back, again
family
Fell Down
sport

2022

Omicron Recovery
family
Breaking Bad
family sport
Remember
family sport
Under the Roof
family
To Be, or not to be
sport
Running, Again!
sport
Indoor Rowing
sport
What Does s.t. Mean?
algorithm
Heinrich Law
reading
Father and Son (12)
family
org-link-set-parameters
orgmode
Back to Focal
xfce
Firefox PPA for Ubuntu 22.04
xfce
Fcitx Icon Issue
xfce
Work From Home (2)
Windows
PNG and Poppler
latex

2021

Coyote Notes - 3
.Net
Physical Examination
sport
Goodwill
photography
Pony Language
pony
Processes in D State
storage
5 Years
zstack
.Net Core on Linux - 2
.Net
Coyote Notes - 2
.Net
Syscalls by Process
sysadmin
.Net Core on Linux
.Net
Coyote Notes - 1
.Net

2020

MC11 for Rescue
photography
Hanging Out
photography
Nanjing
friends
Big Events
family
Random Bits (3)
zstack
Xfce Again
xfce
MySQL/Mariadb Notes - 1
sysadmin
Firefox
music
Father and Son (11)
family
Kubuntu 20.04
KDE
xfs_growfs
sysadmin
Samsung NX11
photography
Work From Home
Windows
stdout*deferred
java

2019

A Sudden Reboot
family
Half of Heaven
family
Python Inspection
python
ramblings
family sysadmin photography
Current Noise
music
Vacuuming Systemd Journals
sysadmin
Python 'if'
python
UnboundLocalError
python
Shared Bikes
family
A Taste of Beer
family
Auguries of Innocence
reading
Chroot to Rescue!
sysadmin
Father and Son (10)
family
AppImage to Rescue!
KDE
Interpreting Linux OOM Logs (1/2)
mm
A Trip to An-Ji
travel
By Your Side
family
Debugging a Washer
family
I am a Joker
family
25 Days
family

2018

An Unlucky Year
family
All About Time
family
Random Bits (3)
sysadmin
Running Again!
sport
An Accident
startup
Trivial Notes
family
Apple Watch
family
Disney, again.
family
Lost and Found
music
iFixit
misc
Body Exercise
family
Unexpected Experiences
family
A Beautiful Mistake
family
A Trip to Okinawa
travel
Buffering
golang
Being Sick
family
Java Thread States
java
Deadlock in Groovy 2.4.8
groovy java
Meet JVM OOM - cont'd
java
Meet JVM OOM
java
Morning Sky
family
A Trip to Hangzhou
travel
Late Again
startup
Going Home Late at Night
startup
Sigma 35mm f/1.4
family
A stop job is running ...
sysadmin
Bionic Beaver
KDE
White Valentine
family
Fitness
family
Lantern Festival 2018
family
First Impression
family
Year 2018
family
Linux Desktop (2)
KDE
Surface Pro4 - 10 months later
Windows

2017

All of a Sudden
python
Father and Son (9)
family
Second Life
golang
Hunting a Bug (7)
python CherryPy
Pain of OSS
sysadmin
A Little Tired
family
Dark Sleeper
misc
Go Pitfalls (1)
golang
Keyboard Switches
misc
Snakes
misc
Applying for a VISA
family
Stories in the Childhood
family
A Car Accident
friends
First Visit
startup
Combine Pics to PDF
sysadmin
LaTeX Watermarks
latex
DRBD Split-Brain
storage
Miscellaneous (2)
family
Pioneer
misc
Take Mind Off
friends
Readings 17'Q1
reading
Alone
misc
Demo after Staying Late
storage
Miscellaneous
startup
Quorum
algorithm
Second Tour to Japan
family
A Frightening Dream
misc
Jekyll to Hugo
jekyll hugo
Hunting a Bug (6)
java
DRBD Notes (2)
storage
DRBD Notes (1)
storage
Data Cable
misc
What a Programmer Does
reading
A Few Notes
misc
Occam's Razor
zstack
Fonts
orgmode
Father and Son (8)
family
Command-line limits
sysadmin
Hunting a Bug (5)
zstack
org export to latex
orgmode
Habits
orgmode vim
Surface Pro 4
Windows
Without Cellphone
misc
The Way Thinking (1)
reading
2016 Recap
startup
Being Sick
family

2016

Display Chinese in Vim/Emacs
vim misc
PDF Tips
misc
Readings 16'H2
reading
Hui-Hang Road
friends
Monitor File Access in Linux
sysadmin
Modern C++
c++
Dell XPS13 BIOS Issue
misc
Readings 16'Q2
reading
A New Beginning
family
Random Bits (2)
misc
Solve KDE5 Slow Login
kde
Random Bits (1)
startup passion friends
Looking Back
startup
Networking Tips (1)
networking
More Tmux Tips
tmux
KDE Notes
kde
Father and Son (7)
family
git post-receive pitfall
git
Readings 16’Q1
reading
Fun with Tmux
tmux
Father and Son (6)
family
Debugging Go Programs
golang
A Few Tips
golang orgmode vim
Father and Son (5)
startup family
Xfce Tips
xfce
An Emacs Tip
orgmode
LINQPad Table Driver for Azure China
Azure
Benifits of VMs (2)
vm xfce
Benifits of VMs
vm
Linux Desktop
xfce jekyll
Xubuntu on XPS 13
xfce
View Points
startup family
Hunting a Bug (4)
.Net Azure
Debrick my Router
OpenWrt networking
Father and Son (4)
family
Old Dreams
passion
Raising a Son
family
Meet JS
js
vim-go with pathogen
vim golang
Better Call Saul
movie

2015

Hunting a Bug (3)
Azure
Hunting a Bug (2)
Azure
Hunting a Bug
Azure
Father and Son (3)
family
Problem Solved
Unity WebApi
Once Upon A Time
friends
Pitfalls after Pitfalls
.Net Unity
An Incident
family
Shell Programming
git
Old Friend
friends
Father and Son (2)
family
Curiosity
reading
A CertMngr Pitfall
Windows
Log Processing
algorithm
Father and Son (1)
family
Hair Cut
family
Using OpenWrt
networking
orgmode
orgmode
Growing up (2)
family
Growing Up
family
Another OData Pitfall
OData WebApi .Net
Once Upon a Time
friends
Death
family
Being a Father
family
A Bug
.Net
With Friends
friends startup
An Issue with Visual Studio 2012 and Later
DLL
A Show case of LINQ
.Net
A Visit to WuXi
friends
For the Record
housing
OData Pitfalls
OData WebApi
Some Frustration
.Net Unity DLL
A Visit
startup passion