Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Contents

00:00 What is a full-stack engineer?
00:48 What's a syscall?
03:38 Tracing cat
05:43 Should strace work? Let's think security
07:14 Sponsor (wink wink)
08:21 How is a process created?
10:36 Trace me! Trace meeee
12:10 ptrace 101
13:15 Ok but seriously, what's a syscall?
14:00 We're ready to make an strace-like
15:10 Thanks to my patrons & sponsors
15:50 Surely no one watches this far