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Welcome to my personal website. This has been running since 1999, and my writing has gone back and forth a few times. I had a blog with Microsoft for many years, but you'll find newer posts here.

Here are some recent posts.

• That Which Is Not
  Lovely turn of phrase.
• Memory Game
  Fun for your little ones!
• Media Graph Libraries
  Graphs and nodes and audio and video playing in harmony.
• Project Checklists
  A collection of useful checklists for program management.
• Bluey
  Fanboying a bit over very patient dogs.
• Learning ELF
  File formats in theory and a bit of practice.
• WebRTC Stories
  Anecdotes from working with WebRTC through the years.
• In-Memory ISAM Data Structures
  More database concepts for in-memory data.
• Peloton Guides
  A short list of beginner programs for Peloton.
• Here Comes the Sun
  The beginning of the end is near.
• In-Memory Multiversion Data Structures
  More database concepts for in-memory data.
• In-Memory Optimistic Concurrency Control
  Database concepts for in-memory data.
• Hixie's Meeting Philosophy
  Aggressively managing time in checklist form.
• Links for 2023
  Links for 2023
• Sponsorships for 2023
  Who did I sponsor in 2023?
• Closing 2023
  Busy year, fun year, good year.
• Marvel Unlimited
  Years and years of adventures.
• Tracing Summit 2023
  Notes on conference videos.
• Understanding Things
  Order from chaos.
• Tracking Work with Emacs
  Files and text and notes coming together.
• Software History
  Shout out to Abort Retry Fail.
• BuildId on Android
  Looking for symbols in all the right places.
• Porting Blog to MacOS
  From .NET Framework to .NET Core and across platforms!
• Silverlight
  The quick rise and fall of a Flash-like stack.
• Duwamish Code Generation
  Iterations, rules and shortcuts.
• Malloc Flavors
  A story of many, many iterations.

Posts through the years: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

Popular tags: checklist | coding | cpp | debugging | design | dotnet | emacs | fun | management | meditation | perf | philosophy | powershell | python | tutorial | writing | all

Here are some other resources that might be useful.

Wiki

A very small personal wiki with some links and references/resources.

Memory Play

A simple memory game for children, with animal pictures and sounds. Download it here!

Crash Course Viewer

The Crash Course Viewer app allows you to browse the series and episode list in a fast and convenient format and view the videos without having to use a web browser. Download it here.

Go Blog!

This is where you can find out more about my Go Blog! app, which helps you keep your blogs up-to-date across your Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices. Download it here.

Marcelo's Space

This is where most of my long-form personal writing used to take place.

@mlrdev

This is where my shortest writing takes place.