An Engineer's musings
Notes on building software — languages, tooling, and how things work under the hood, with the occasional tangent. Kotlin and the JVM show up often, but each post is really just a careful look at an idea worth understanding.
Latest posts
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I Stopped My 2019 Intel MacBook Pro From Bleeding Battery Overnight — Here's What Actually Worked An Intel Mac draining ~28% overnight wasn't the failing battery — it was one Continuity feature holding the CPU awake. The one-toggle fix, with measured results. -
Diagnosing a Sluggish Intel Mac: A Field Manual Eight terminal commands that tell you why an Intel Mac feels slow — swap, memory pressure, runaway CPU, rogue VMs, and sleep blockers — and how to read each one. -
Coroutines Workbook Nine short exercises on Kotlin coroutines — suspend functions, suspension points, launch, async and await, coroutineScope, structured concurrency, and dispatchers. -
Coroutines: Asynchronous Code That Reads Like It Isn't An introduction to Kotlin coroutines — suspend functions, why they read sequentially, structured concurrency with async and await, and what suspension actually does. -
Operator Overloading Workbook Ten short exercises on Kotlin operator overloading — plus, get and set, invoke, contains, compareTo, compound assignment, unaryMinus, and making a type iterable.