Safia Abdalla

I make open source at @nteractio, make software at @Microsoft, and write books and blogs. Dream big and follow through even bigger.

Redmond, WA Joined on Oct 20, 2017 safia@safia.rocks https://safia.rocks/

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Northwestern University

Work

Software Engineer II at Microsoft

legit

Add licenses to projects at the command line

JavaScript • 559 stars

goops

A CLI tool that automagically adds or recommends the best .gitignore for your project

JavaScript • 425 stars

I tend to be pretty generalist, although these days I'm doing full-stack work in JavaScript/Node.

I'm mostly working on nteract, nteract.io, an open source project in the Jupyter ecosystem.

Feel free to reach out to me if you're looking for an author or speaker. Not looking for work currently.

109 posts published

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Safia Abdalla

Jul 23 '20

You and Me Learn All About HTTP with Safia Abdalla

#codeland #http #https

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Safia Abdalla

Mar 26 '20

Sorting that's smooth like butter

#computerscience #algos

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 26 '20

I really couldn't think of a punny title for this post

#dotnet #csharp #clr

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 25 '20

This blog post has a lot of trash talking

#dotnet #csharp #clr

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 20 '20

Lord of the...runtimes?

#dotnet #clr #csharp #computerscience

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 16 '20

Red assembly, blue assembly, strong assembly, weak assembly

#dotnet #csharp #computerscience

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 15 '20

Hell is other people's DLLs

#dotnet #csharp #computerscience

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 14 '20

That feel when you find a StackOverflow post for the exact question you had

#dotnet #csharp #computerscience

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 13 '20

3 things you won't believe happen when you execute a print statement

#csharp #dotnet #computerscience

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 12 '20

The fun and games begin when the runtime walks in

#csharp #dotnet #computerscience

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Feb 5 '20

The most important sorting algorithm you need to know

#timsort #computerscience #python #javascript

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3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Jan 29 '20

Prime numbers, debriefed

#primenumbers #blogpost

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Jan 22 '20

The fun of filter, according to the ECMAScript spec

#javascript #spec #filter #array

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Jan 15 '20

Random numbers, revealed

#randomnumbers #computerscience

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Jan 8 '20

Everything you needed to know and more about Array.map

#javascript #map #codedeepdives #v8

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Oct 5 '19

How do template literals in JavaScript work under the hood?

#javascript #compilers #ast

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Jan 10 '19

Say this five times fast: strace, ptrace, dtrace, dtruss

#linux #strace #dtrace #macos

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Jan 7 '19

Why the heck is everyone talking about WebAssembly?

#webassembly

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6 min read

Safia Abdalla

Dec 23 '18

Ghost file descriptors take over my machine.

#linux #captainsafiacodes

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Dec 19 '18

It's 10:37PM and my file table just overflowed.

#captainsafiacodes

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Dec 19 '18

What the heck is XDG_DATA_HOME?

#captainsafiacodes

2 min read

Safia Abdalla

Dec 4 '18

Advent of Code Day 3

#adventofcode #python

2 min read

Safia Abdalla

Dec 3 '18

Eh, ship it!

#javascript #node #adventofcode

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Dec 1 '18

Oh gosh, I’m blogging again

#python #writing

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Sep 20 '18

Writing to win friends and influence people

#writing #career

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 18 '18

A purposeful hiatus

#career

2 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 16 '18

Looking into curl: part 2

#curl

6 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 14 '18

Looking at the curl stack trace: part 1

#curl

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 11 '18

Looking at how curl works through stack traces

#curl

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 9 '18

What happens when you run `sudo !!`?

#unix #linux

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 7 '18

Looking at the stack trace for `ls`

#unix #linux

2 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 4 '18

What do `cp` and `mv` do under the hood?

#linux #unix

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

May 2 '18

I finally figured out how Unix redirection works under the hood

#unix #linux

6 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 30 '18

Reveling in redirects: exploring Unix input/output redirection

#unix #linux

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 27 '18

What happens when you run `cp` on the command line?

#unix #linux

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 26 '18

Peeking into `pwd`

#unix #linux

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 24 '18

Unraveling `rm`: what happens when you run it?

#unix #linux

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 21 '18

Digging further into the curl code base

#curl

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 18 '18

Figuring out how `curl` stores configurations

#curl

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 16 '18

Curling up with the `curl` code base

#curl

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 13 '18

Breathing room.

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 11 '18

Sliding into security with scrypt

#scrypt #firebase #security

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 9 '18

Answering “How do I write?”

#writing #blogging

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 6 '18

Doing user interviews while Black

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 4 '18

Back in style: Twitter Bootstrap

#bootstrap #git

3 min read

Safia Abdalla

Apr 2 '18

A blast from the past: Node.JS

#node

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 30 '18

Looking at the first commit of Redux

#redux #javascript

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 28 '18

How does `git add` work under the hood?

#git

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 26 '18

A complete story of what happens when you run `git commit`

#git #c

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 23 '18

Learning more about how commits are represented in Git

#git #c

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 21 '18

36 lessons learned over 3.66 years

#career

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 19 '18

Reading code late at night and realizing that it’s not a good idea

#git #c

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 16 '18

What’s inside the `.git/objects` directory?

#git

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 14 '18

How does Git know if you have uncommitted changes in the working tree? (Part 1)

#git #c

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 12 '18

How does Git store working tree state?

#git #c

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 9 '18

Trying to figure out how git-status works: a saga

#git #c

4 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 7 '18

What’s in a git config?

#git

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 5 '18

Nevertheless, Safia Abdalla Coded

#wecoded

1 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 5 '18

What’s inside the .git directory?

#git

5 min read

Safia Abdalla

Mar 2 '18

Getting into git init

#c #git

7 min read

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