Introduction

Introduction

This is the introductory episode of 0xkiire — a low-level systems programming podcast and blog hosted at [0xkiire.com [http://0xkiire.com]](https://0xkiire.com [https://0xkiire.com]). The episode establishes: - Who this is for — engineers, students, and hobbyists who are comfortable with C, assembly, or systems-level thinking, or who want to become comfortable with it - What the show covers — kernel internals, memory management, the allocator stack (slab, buddy, jemalloc), compilers and the IR pipeline, x86_64 assembly, debugging with gdb/perf/strace, and the decisions behind operating system design - How it connects to the blog — every episode has a companion post at 0xkiire.com [http://0xkiire.com] with code, diagrams, and further reading - The philosophy — abstractions are useful but hiding. This show tears them open.