I Spent Three Years to Understand This Tiny Program
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 11 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 1: Cecile · Part 1: The Interpreter
Season 1 · Cecile
The Machine Inside Your Machine
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 8 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 1: Cecile · Part 2: The Bytecode VM
Season 2 · To the Metal
This Time, There's No Interpreter to Hide Behind
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 7 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 1: The Compiler
Why I Didn't Use LLVM
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 7 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 2: LLVM, and the middle I built instead
What the Chip Actually Eats
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 7 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 3: Assembly & the CPU
How a Program Talks to the Outside World
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 5 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 4: Syscalls
How Does gdb Work?
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 5 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 5: The Debugger
Where Does `printf` Actually Come From?
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 6 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 6: Linking
The Last Mile: From a File on Disk to a Living Process
August 29, 2026 · ☕ 7 min readBuilding my own programming language — Season 2: To the Metal · Part 7 (Finale)