Books

The first-ever book aimed at introducing operating system development to absolute beginners. The topics begin with programming in C and programming in assembly, and progress toward practical OS development.The book uses only simple methods, so it covers only a few essential topics in C and assembly programming, making it suitable for beginners.

Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design: Use abstractions like monads and lenses to implement 1970's retro-computing devices like arcade machines and home computers.

This third edition covers Rust 1.85 and the Rust 2024 Edition in full. The new chapters on concurrency, the 2024 edition migration, GPU computing, Go integration, and Linux kernel programming show where the Rust community has moved since the second edition, and where systems programming as a discipline is heading. You might be writing your first Rust function or your hundredth production service, but I hope this book makes the language feel less like a puzzle and more like a tool you are already familiar with. That was the only goal I had when I wrote it.

Most embedded teams say they “avoid OOP” and “stick to C.” But look closely at real C codebases and you’ll find function-pointer tables, opaque handles, and generic device arrays—manual object models built the hard way. Beyond Blinky shows how to embrace that reality consciously, using modern C++ to design firmware that is readable, portable, and owned—without sacrificing performance or control. This book is about moving past the blinking LED mindset and designing embedded systems as living architectures, not scripts. To blinky and beyond—Let's make your IO sing!

The definitive guide to programming on the ESP32.

In this book, you will learn the evolution of Microsoft Surface devices in addition to a comprehensive coverage of the latest devices. The book includes a short coverage about the Surface accessories and a handy Glossary. Microsoft Surface Quickly is designed to help people learn all aspects of Microsoft Surface from within a single umbrella. If you are unaware of Microsoft Surface, you should use this book to understand all things associated with the intuitive device. 

Discover how Java developers can contribute to a sustainable future. Written by Java Champions and community experts, this collaborative guide explores practical approaches to sustainable software engineering, from resource-efficient design to mindful architecture, empowering you to reduce your environmental impact while building better systems.

This book is basically a record of my serious learning journey with Zig. The application at its heart, Zigkit, started as a single print statement and ended as twenty-five cooperating modules handling everything from arithmetic to HTTP. It's small enough to understand completely and complete enough to demonstrate every major systems programming concern. Each section of the book adds one module, introduces one concept, and produces one working program.

Master the technical and soft skills you need to succeed as an IT Help Desk expert — complete with lessons, practice, and real examples.

You have used a cross-compiler. But have you ever built one? This book takes you from first principles to a production-matched, containerised GCC and Clang toolchain — the hands-on deep-dive that the embedded Linux world has been missing.

The history of M.2 SSDs traces back to the need for faster, smaller, and more efficient storage in modern computing. Originally known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), M.2 was introduced around 2012 by the SATA-IO and PCI-SIG groups to replace older interfaces like mSATA and mini-PCIe.

A 1986 text adventure game written inside the Cray I/O Subsystem turns out to be architecturally isomorphic to modern transformer design. This capstone volume uses the playable game and its assembly language source as a case study in constraint-based design, including the bare metal thinking we stopped teaching around 1995.

Stop renting visibility. Start owning the infrastructure. Learn the protocol that delivered 548k hits and 95% Edge efficiency on a 20-year-old "rottame".

Secure boot is what separates a trusted device from a compromised one — but the chain of trust from hardware fuses to a verified OS is rarely explained clearly. This illustrated guide walks you through every layer: root of trust, key provisioning, bootloader handoffs, certificate chains, and real-world attack vectors. 8 chapters, all visual, zero fluff.

If a humanoid robot carries about $28,000 a year in fixed cost, then at $60 contribution per billable hour it breaks even at roughly 467 billable hours per year, or just under 9 hours per week. But if supervision is heavier and contribution drops to $28 per hour, break-even jumps to 1,000 hours per year, or about 19.2 hours per week.