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Safia Abdalla

Safia makes open source on nteract.io, writes a lot, and co-hosts BookBytesFM and JSPartyFM.

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email
safia@safia.rocks
work
Software Engineer at Microsoft
location
Chicago, IL
education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Northwestern University
joined
Oct 20, 2017

skills/languages

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

projects and hacks

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

available for

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

93 Posts Published
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Say this five times fast: strace, ptrace, dtrace, dtruss

Safia Abdalla・Jan 10

#linux #strace #dtrace #macos
chat1
Reactions 54
4 min read

Recent Comments

re: Why the heck is everyone talking about WebAssembly? Jan 7
I see. Do you know which parts of your codebase you'd compi...
re: Why the heck is everyone talking about WebAssembly? Jan 7
Yeah. This was one of the things that impressed me too. Mul...
re: It's 10:37PM and my file table just overflowed. Dec 19 '18
Oh gosh. I can’t even imagine having to deal with this in p...
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Why the heck is everyone talking about WebAssembly?

Safia Abdalla・Jan 7

#webassembly
chat28
Reactions 139
6 min read
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Ghost file descriptors take over my machine.

Safia Abdalla・Dec 23 '18

#linux #captainsafiacodes
chat1
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3 min read
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It's 10:37PM and my file table just overflowed.

Safia Abdalla・Dec 19 '18

#captainsafiacodes
chat5
Reactions 17
3 min read
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What the heck is XDG_DATA_HOME?

Safia Abdalla・Dec 19 '18

#captainsafiacodes
Reactions 5
2 min read
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