I like to blog about the art of writing secure, resilient, readable, writable system software. I like to find the patterns that make software pleasant to work with, and the anti-patterns that make it treacherous to maintain and operate.

Source diving is a term borrowed from players and hackers of the rogue-like video game NetHack to describe a method of examining the source code of a system. To source dive is not merely to read through code; it is a deliberate and judicious undertaking. It requires code written deliberately and judiciously.

Thank you for attending my talk, “Executing your unemployment incident response plan.” Slides will be posted eventually. Here are some resources I mentioned.

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First post!

Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m just getting things cranking around here, but let me explain to you who I am and what I’m up to.

I’m Mike Doyle and Maror Security is my consultancy. When I entered the computer science program at The Georgia Institute of Technology, I wanted to be a hotshot systems programmer. Back then, almost nobody was getting paid to hack the linux kernel, so I didn’t know how I was going to make this happen, but I had spunk.