2d ago · 16 min read · Have you ever wondered how your laptop runs a 16 GB game when it only has 8 GB of RAM? Or how you can have dozens of browser tabs, a music player, a code editor, and a video call all running simultane
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May 26 · 14 min read · The Illusion Every Program Lives In Open your task manager. Notice that Chrome thinks it owns 4 GB of memory. Spotify thinks it owns 2 GB. Your IDE thinks it owns 8 GB. Add them up and you'll often ex
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May 15 · 4 min read · Every program you run believes a quiet, comfortable lie. It thinks it has a vast, clean stretch of memory all to itself — starting neatly from address zero and stretching out as far as it needs. The s
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May 7 · 8 min read · If you've ever watched two people in a narrow hallway politely stepping left and right in perfect unison, never actually getting past each other — congratulations, you've witnessed a human deadlock. N
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Apr 1 · 5 min read · When we think about operating systems, we usually imagine powerful platforms like Microsoft Windows, macOS, or Linux, designed for laptops, servers, and smartphones, with gigabytes of RAM and multi-co
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Jan 21 · 2 min read · Most people learn Operating Systems from textbooks. I decided to learn it by building a music streaming service from scratch. My goal was simple: Create a system where a Python Server streams raw audio to a C Client in real-time, played entirely insi...
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