Hi, I'm Arash. I'm on a journey through the computing stack, peeking behind the various curtains of abstractions.

Posts

• Learnings from 'The UNIX Time-Sharing System' paper

  Posted on:May 11, 2024

  What I learned from reading The UNIX Time-Sharing System paper.

• Finite automata and regular expressions

  Posted on:June 6, 2023

  A primer on the computer science theory behind regular expressions.

• Rust's immutability and ownership

  Posted on:February 26, 2023

  A closer look at Rust's immutability and ownership rules through Rustlings' move_semantics6 exercise.

• Different prototypes in JavaScript

  Posted on:May 9, 2022

  Look at the difference between `prototype`, ` __proto__`, `[[Prototype]]`, and `Object.getPrototypeOf()`.

• npx versus npm

  Posted on:November 7, 2021

  Finding out what the `npx` command does and how it's different from `npm`.