Kernel // Networking // Reverse Engineering

Bad coffee, useful notes.

KV3D Engine: rethinking KV cache compression for LLM serving

20 Mar, 2026 • 9 min read

My first real dive into AI.
% in C vs Python: same symbol, different behavior

20 Feb, 2026 • 5 min read

It looks identical. It bites you the same way every time. A note on modulo, remainders, and the one row in the table that breaks your circular buffer.
packrat — building a packet analyzer in Rust because I was annoyed

1 Mar, 2025 • 3 min read

Wireshark is too heavy and tcpdump is too blind. Building something in between, with a TUI and an ASCII rat.
building hookeye — crawling through /proc to catch liars

15 Jun, 2024 • 4 min read

I needed to know if a function had been hooked. One weekend turned into six weeks inside ptrace and the ELF spec.
how an old ELF hooking exercise turned into HookEye

1 May, 2024 • 10 min read

An interview question sent me down a rabbit hole I never fully climbed out of. This is how GOT/PLT redirection stopped feeling like magic and started feeling inevitable.
why is there a zeroing loop before main()?

1 Jul, 2022 • 6 min read

One of my favorite embedded moments — opening a fresh disassembly and the first loop you see isn't yours.