Learning Tracker (August 2025)

Here are the articles, books, papers, videos, and tools that I’ve been exploring this August.

Articles⏚

• Magic Buddy Allocation
  PagedOut - Internals of a simple memory allocator.

Videos⏚

• In the Kernel Trenches: Mastering Ethernet Drivers on Linux
  Embedded Linux Conference - setting up a basic network driver.

• Finding the Best Block Filesystem for Your Embedded Linux System
  Embedded Linux Conference - comparison of different block filesystems.

• What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler’s Lid
  CppCon - demystifying assembly code and what the compiler is doing.

• The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()
  CppCon - everything that happens in getting from compilation to main().

• Data-Oriented Design and C++
  CppCon - “transformation of data is the only purpose of any program”…