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Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me

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rtld-audit and LD_AUDIT I recently had the desire to trace a process - the reason and context aren’t important, but my colleague pointed me at rtld-audit, which is (I quote) an “auditing API for the dynamic linker.” What this means in practice is... Read more

Open Source Halloween Now that we’ve officially entered Fall, I think it’s fair to be thinking about pumpkins, scary stories, and my favorite holiday… Halloween! Sure, I don’t go trick or treating anymore, and I definitely don’t eat any candy, but there is... Read more

Uptodate I recently had an itch to scratch - and that itch was writing a library in Go. We don’t use Go much for my work, so I figured out a compelling reason to start a new personal project - a... Read more

LaTex To Jekyll I recently wrote a massive paper. It might be some rare disease that I have, but I’m able to produce texty content at a fairly rapid pace that covers many ideas. In most cases this is a good thing, because... Read more