馃樃 TL;DR Being lazy, I made a tool to run qcow2 images for my convenience. Feel free to use it if you find useful! 馃摉 The back story If you鈥檝e ever typed qemu-system-x86_64 into your terminal, you know the feeling. A creeping dread. A cold sweat. The QEMU headache. It鈥檚 that special migraine reserved for developers who know they鈥檙e about to spend the next ten minutes deciphering their own shell history to remember that one magic flag for networking. ...
Intro June is almost at an end, and I want to I want to share a quick recap of my participation to some conferences. First of all, a big thanks to the organizers who dedicate their energy to these efforts. Milan, June 20, 2025 : Tech Community Day Community Day is a one-day nonprofit event dedicated to Italian tech communities. Its mission is to create a space for sharing, learning and networking open to everyone who works in and is passionate about tech. ...
鈻讹笍 Intro : Let Me Be On the previous post we continued our journey with a more complex scenario, using a mix of gdb and valgrind to trace all the function execution inside a given binary. This time, hold on because we鈥檙e cranking up the complexity. We鈥檒l dive deeper into low-level analysis and explore how to use Intel PIN, a powerful dynamic instrumentation framework for manipulating and inspecting executable code at runtime. (Photo by FURQAN KHURSHID) ...
馃挕 The problem Welcome back, it鈥檚 been quite a long time since my last ramblings on the D Programming Language! This post is born from a necessity. An old project of mine, the D Koans, was using an external library to simplify unit testing, which is more or less the core of the whole project. Unfortunately, the library started giving some deprecation warnings when compiled with recent D versions. Since the D Language already has an internal unit testing framework, I thought it would be nice to remove the single dependency and rely only on the standard library. Initially, with some global search/replace, I managed to convert all the tests to unittest blocks. ...