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posts/process-spawn.md

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+So from various places for various reasons I've learned a bit about how process spawning on Linux works.
+So I thought I'd write it all down to clarify what I know and maybe do some research in the process.
+
+## Scope
+
+This post is focused on what happens when a process wants to make another process.
+It will not cover how shells parse out commands, how init systems work etc.
+
+## Choose Your Syscall(s)
+
+![Two wolves meme with Fork/Exec and Clone](/static/images/two-ways-of-spawning-processes.jpg)
+
+When it comes to spawning a child process on Linux there are two general ways of doing it.
+
+- call `fork` and then call `exec` in the child process
+- call `clone`
+
+Generally speaking you want to use `clone` due to `clone` being more flexible and allowing you to use fewer syscalls to achieve what you want.

projects/BBB-v2.md

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 ## What was learned
 
 1) **anything which is the output of a program should not be checked into the version control system** that output is a build artifact, something which should be generated on/pre startup or something which should be generated on demand.
-2) Barring genuinely hard problems the first unit (probably week) of work on a project should be scoped to whatever the MVP is.
+2) Barring genuinely hard problems the first unit (most of the time a week) of work on a project should be scoped to whatever the MVP is.
 3) If I'm working in a team which I want to get things done and nobody has taken charge by the end of the first unit of work I need to take charge.
 4) If in a team where I'm in charge I should never assume responsiveness (responding to communication and getting work done) from any team member regardless of prior knowledge.
 

projects/comments-backend.md

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 ## What was learned
 
-At the time besides probably realizing that I should've had the service use an SMTP connection instead of some specific API and with hindsight that I should've used sqlite rather than PostgreSQL for that project.
+At the time besides realizing that I should've had the service use an SMTP connection instead of some specific API and with hindsight that I should've used sqlite rather than PostgreSQL for that project.

projects/cpp-raft.md

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 Notably each computer doesn't just change variables willy nilly, instead they keep a log of everything that's happened and using that log figure out what the current state of things is.
 
-In the Bank analogy this log would probably contain things like.
+In the Bank analogy this log would contain things like.
 
 - Person A deposits x dollars
 - Person A withdraws x dollars

projects/cpp-std-shared.md

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 ## What was learned
 
-I won't go into detail but I did not finish everything needed for this assignment.
-The simple lesson which I will undoubtedly need to relearn over and over again is that I shouldn't procrastinate, things can be harder/take longer than expected.
+I shouldn't procrastinate.
+<script>
+//I won't go into detail but I did not finish everything needed for this assignment.
+//The simple lesson which I will undoubtedly need to relearn over and over again is that I shouldn't procrastinate, things can be harder/take longer than expected.</script>

projects/romance.md

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 ## What was learned
 
-This is probably one of the earlier instances of me working on something with a very tight deadline where I found that constraint made me worke more effieciently than I normally do.
+This is one of the earlier instances of me working on something with a very tight deadline where I found that constraint made me worke more effieciently than I normally do.
 This takeaway is something which I don't think I've fully internalized yet but it is something I will occasionally stumble into under the right circumstances.