Sometimes I perceive reading/writing emails as very inconvenient, but then someone sends me a voice message and I remember how much worse online communication can be.

I'm on an electric Caltrain train. This is not a drill!

Submit your work in progress in systems to SysDW colocated with SOSP 24! You can also submit a research statement and get feedback if you are going on the job market soon.

New Blog Post: "Automation of Systems Experiments with Wickie" kaimast.com/notes/wickie/

I switched back to Windows so I can use a better presentation software, and I got this.

I died a little inside when I learned this: > When developers remove their projects from the PyPI repository, the associated package names immediately become available for registration by any other user. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ JFrog researchers found that >22K packages could be hijacked in

Do I know someone here who works at Gradescope ? I ran into a bug in the autograder and support is MIA.

Sounds like someone messed with the catenary wires or power lines. 😳

"Cat 6" is trending, and I thought people were excited about networking...

What's a good paper/resource to introduce people to SGX or TEEs in general these days? Back in my day, we read Intel's developer guide, but that was no fun.

C++ should really include a "fn" keyword (or similar). Trailing return types with `auto`, e.g., `auto main() -> int`, look confusing.

Climate change seems to have completely disappeared as a primary issue in US politics, according to this NBC poll.

We get to take electrified Caltrain service because our leaders worked across the aisle to get federal funding while Trump was POTUS. Transit projects on the West Coast also create jobs in red and swing states. That's the inroad. It isn’t over for transit 🚂⚡️

#Apple folks: Does it make sense to buy a MacBook in 2024 with only 16GB of RAM?