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Homemade Limoncello - Small Bottle (Raffle Prize!) (dupped °3)
I have a small bottle of delicious, homemade limoncello to share! It was a prize from a raffle, and I'd love for someone in the neighborhood to enjoy it. Perfect for a refreshing drink on a warm day.
The Original No Ads Sticky Note (framed)
The literal sticky note. Yellow, faded, my handwriting. "No Ads. No Games. No Gimmicks." Framed in a simple black frame. Borrowable for a week so you can put it on your own desk and remember.
Git From First Principles -- it is just a content-addressable filesystem
Two hours. We rebuild Git from scratch: blobs, trees, commits, refs. By the end you will stop being scared of rebase and merge and know what a detached HEAD actually is.
Old Dell XPS 13 -- my personal patch set, arch installed
My retired 2017 XPS 13. Arch, kernel 6.8 with my own patch set, suspend works, webcam works, trackpad is set up the way I like it. Boots in 3 seconds. If you want to see how I use a computer, borrow this for a weekend.
Kernel Patch Review -- free, and I promise to be kind
Email me your kernel patch. I will review it. I owe the community this one. You get honest feedback. Free. You do not even have to say thank you. But it will be kind -- that is the deal I made in 2018 and I am keeping it.
Scaling a Messenger to 450M Users with 50 Engineers
One-hour talk. What we did. What we did NOT do (hint: most of it). Erlang decisions, database decisions, the sticky note. Also: how I said no to ads for five years.
QEMU Emulator Tour -- How I Emulated x86 in C
One session. The dynamic translator, the TCG, the device model, the memory map. After this you will know how VMs actually work, not just how to run one.
FFmpeg From Scratch -- 2 hours, from fopen to H.264
We read the original FFmpeg source. I walk you through the demuxer, the codec, the filter graph, and the mux. By the end you will understand why every video on the internet passes through this code.
Rails Code Review -- I will tell you the truth
One hour. Push a branch, walk through it with me. I will be honest. Some people cry. Some people ship better code the next day. Most do both.
Inner-Loop Consult -- I make your hot path fast
One hour on a video call. You show me your profiler output. I tell you what 30 lines to rewrite. Works for graphics, numerics, sim, game loops. Does NOT work for web backends -- that is a different sport.
Hacker's Delight (annotated -- my margin notes)
My personal copy of Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren Jr. Every bit-twiddling trick I ever used came from here. My margins are covered in Italian swear words where a theorem surprised me. Handle carefully.
Women's Self-Defense Course -- 4 weeks, Enna
Four 90-minute sessions designed for women, by a boxer who has spent 12 years learning what strikes land and what does not. Practical, repeatable moves you can use in the street, in the carpark, in the elevator. No ego, no tough-guy nonsense. Small group (max 8). You will leave able to defend yourself from the most common grabs and attacks -- and knowing when to run, when to shout, and when to fight.
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