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See Conversions

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:57:00 -0400

I recently¹ stumbled across an interesting C function. The function was quite simple–just a few lines long—so I was sure I understood it. And yet, the function produced unexpected results—and I could not understand why. Debugging this tiny function led me down the dark hole that is implicit type conversions in C. I have reproduced the function in its entirety below (with a 2-line modification to make the output more readable for this post).

Four Years and Beyond

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:15:00 -0500

I originally kicked off this blog around April 2022. It’s now February 2026 and nearly four years (a.k.a one quadrennium¹) have passed. How has this blog progressed?

I published 3 posts (including this one).
I authored 9 draft posts (defined as an unpublished post over 300 words with an average/median word count of ~2000/2300 words).
I sketched out 9 post ideas (defined as an unpublished post with 300 words or less).

If I also count unpublished draft posts, then my average post output over the past four years is 3 posts/year.

Learning Haskell

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:17:00 -0400

TLDR: In this blog post, I list some of the challenges that I faced while learning Haskell. Skip down to Challenges to see my list.

My journey to Haskell dates back to the start of my university days. I first heard about Haskell from an older grad student I worked with. He was an opinionated man with an impressively long beard who rolled his own cigarettes and often took smoke breaks just outside the department building. Haskell was a challenging and mind-bending language, he promised, as a puff of smoke wafted into the air.

Directed Steps

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Ground Rules and Goals

Welcome aboard my new blog srs.fyi! Do mind your step.

The purpose of this blog is two-fold, in order of importance:

to record my musings and learnings;
to share my thoughts with others.

While we’re here, let’s take care of some other housekeeping items:

Scope: the scope of the blog includes anything that catches my interest, though I expect most posts to be technically oriented and related to my academic and professional interests.
Schedule: the blog will have no schedule; I will write things as they come, at their own pace.
Ads: this blog will have no ads or affiliate links (though I may link to things that I like just because I like them).

More broadly and in no particular order, I want my corner of the web to: