lessons

Rebuild the computer from electrons to main(). Transistors, gates, CPU pipeline, cache, virtual memory, interrupts, and memory ordering.

Implement a working shell from scratch. fork, exec, file descriptors, pipes, signals, process groups, and job control.

Master the kernel construct at the heart of every terminal emulator. PTY pairs, termios, line discipline, job control, and window size.

Go from 'I know what malloc is' to designing memory allocators. Page tables, malloc internals, slab allocation, NUMA, and the vLLM KV-cache bridge.

Build the communication primitives Ghostty uses. pthreads, atomics, memory ordering, SPSC queues, thread pools, and false sharing.

VT100 state machine, CSI/OSC/DCS parsing, SGR attributes, kitty keyboard protocol, and building a VT parser from scratch.

GPU architecture, shaders, texture atlases, FreeType font rasterization, HarfBuzz text shaping, and rendering Hello, 世界! with textured quads.

Wire everything together into toyterm — a working terminal emulator. Then read Ghostty source, build it, and ship a PR.

Rebuild the computer from electrons to a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator — then contribute to Ghostty with genuine understanding.

Every platform runs the same control flow. Learn to read the source code.

Leads don't come from CTAs. They come from conversations that made someone think 'this person knows something I need.'

Good code is clear, maintainable, and does one thing well. Good writing is the same thing. Stop writing like a documentation page.

Writing is the product. Distribution is the CI/CD pipeline. You don't deploy code once and expect it to run forever.

How to never run out of things to write about, and the actual plan for your first 30 days.

How to know if any of this is actually working — without becoming a spreadsheet person.

The strategy that turns your actual engineering work into marketing — without feeling like a LinkedIn influencer.

How platforms actually work, how to write things people read, and how to get your ideas in front of humans who care — all explained by someone who thinks like an engineer.

The one Go feature that changes how you design software

Errors aren't exceptions. They're values that implement an interface.

How Go drives serialization with struct field metadata

No frameworks. Just the testing package, tables, and interfaces.

Share memory by communicating, not communicate by sharing memory

When channels aren't the answer — protecting shared state

The parameter that flows through every Go API in cloud-native code

Type parameters, constraints, and when to use them in production Go

Contribute meaningfully to cloud-native / infrastructure open source Go projects (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, containerd).

Neuroscience of Disordered Attention

The ADHD-Energy Paradox

How ADHD Creates and Feeds on Anxiety

The Dopamine Vulnerability

Why Your Brain's Autopilot Can Save You

Body Doubling, Environment Design & More

The ADHD-Depression Pipeline

Why ADHD Brains Eat Differently

Why You Can't "Just Do It"

Fixing the Most Common Symptom Across All Mental Health Conditions

Training Attention — The ADHD Way

Why ADHD Brains Struggle With Connection

Why It's Missed, Misunderstood & Different

Neurodiversity, Superpowers & the Middle Path

Living Well With ADHD

Quick reference for key terms, brain regions, and concepts

31 HealthyGamerGG videos on ADHD by Dr. Alok Kanojia

Understanding the neuroscience. Building the skills. Working with your brain, not against it.

Key insight: ADHD is disordered attention regulation — not a deficit or a character flaw