Writing & Thinking

Notes & Blog

Technical depth mixed with honest thinking. Notes on what I'm building, ideas I'm turning over, and observations worth writing down — no polish for the sake of it.

All Posts // 3 posts
March 2025
Systems
CGraphicsLow-level
Why I Started Writing a Ray Tracer in C
Most tutorials go straight for C++ or Python. I wanted to feel the memory — no abstractions, just structs, function pointers, and raw math.
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February 2025
Mindset
LearningPhilosophy
Learning by Building: Why I Don't Trust Tutorials Alone
You can follow a tutorial perfectly and still be completely lost when you try to extend it. The blank file is the honest one.
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January 2025
OS / Systems
COSELF
What Happens Before main()
Most programmers think main() is where execution starts. It isn't — by that point the OS has already done a surprising amount of work.
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