SYSTEM ONLINE // B. RAS

DIGITAL GARDEN

Welcome traveler. This is a nonlinear collection of notes, tools, and systems research.

// SYSTEM LOG

"One who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but they also occasionally get clues as to what the world is and what might be important."

— R. Hamming

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// DIRECTORY →

PROJECTS

A log of my tools, systems, and open-source artifacts.

Click here to explore the full directory of active and archived project implementations, case studies, and source code.

Templates Before Sequences: Why I Wrote dRain in Rust

An online log template miner built as the missing link between trafilo and the capstone's Markov module.

STS: shipped

Streaming from Scratch: Why I Built a Systems Framework

A streaming event-handler framework in C built to solve telemetry constraints, featuring per-bucket sharding and sliding windows.

STS: shipped

MapReduce: building Google's framework from the OSTEP spec

A C implementation of the Google MapReduce framework scaled for a single machine. Partitioning, sorted bucket chains, and thread-local iteration.

STS: shipped
// ARCHIVE →

DISPATCHES

Research logs, essays, and deep dives into system engineering.

Read through the complete archive of technical dispatches, system logs, and research notes.

The Lever Goes Backwards

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TYPE: DISPATCH

When Formulas Freeze

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TYPE: DISPATCH

Entropy to Order: How I Rebuilt My Second Brain in Mordor

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TYPE: DISPATCH

The Mass and the Mirror

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TYPE: DISPATCH