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Writing Again

It's 2019 and I just realised that I've not written on this blog for a long while. I feel a little bad about this so I'm picking it back up again. More importantly, I've limited my social media to just Twitter (I've deleted all my Facebook-related accounts) and will be writing more on the blog instead of engaging in other social media sites. If you want to reach me directly, you can also reach me through my keybase.io account for encrypted communication. If you have my phone number, you can also contact me through Signal. Quite a number of things have happened in the past few years and here's a quick update on things that I can share:

  • I've been working on XRay, a function call tracing system now part of the LLVM project. This took a good two and some years of my time at Google.
  • Most recently I've moved to the Chrome Operations Team still here in Google Sydney. I can't give specifics yet of what I'll be working on, so stay tuned.
  • There've been countless vacations and photos I've taken which I'm very eager to share. I found that I like taking pictures of landscapes a lot!
  • We're re-starting an effort to develop an open source networking library for C++, which we're doing over on GitHub.
In the meantime, please enjoy a picture of a black swan. :)


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