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.

Your agent's dashboard is green. Your evaluators report an 87% pass rate. Then a customer complaint reveals the system has been confidently fabricating regulatory citations for three weeks. The evaluators weren't broken — they were measuring the wrong things. This field guide exists because the gap between "we have evals" and "our evals actually protect us" is larger than most teams realize.

Device Mapper is the invisible engine behind LVM, LUKS, dm-verity, and thin provisioning — yet most engineers never look under the hood. This illustrated guide gives you the complete picture: from BIO remapping and mapping tables to real-world stacking patterns like LVM-on-LUKS and Android Verified Boot. 8 chapters, all visual, zero fluff.

Learn C programming by building a fully-functional Virtual Machine from scratch. No theoretical fluff, just hands-on coding that takes you from your first "Hello World" to architecting complete system-level software.

This book is about thinking clearly in C. It teaches the mental habits behind safe memory use, careful pointer handling, robust error strategies, effective debugging, and clean interface design. It is written for programmers who want to write C code that remains correct, efficient, and understandable over time.

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from the Software Diagnostics and Observability Institute and the Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, and software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2024 to 14 November 2025.

A hands-on guide to building a complete FAT12 filesystem driver in C — from reading your first sector to running code in QEMU. Write everything yourself, boot sector to cat command.

This training course is a reformatted, improved, modernized, and remastered full-color version of the previous x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations book with additional material.

Go beyond the basics and master the deep technical realities of memory corruption. Learn how modern defenses like ASLR, CFI, and PAC work, then discover the sophisticated ROP, leak, and data-only techniques required to bypass them. This is your essential guide to advanced exploit development and defense evasion.

Start your first online business without inventory, risk, or tech overwhelm. A clear, beginner-friendly guide to dropshipping in 2025—with the help of ChatGPT.

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2023 to 14 April 2024.

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written from 15 August 2021 to 14 April 2023.

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in August 2020 - 14 August 2021.