[pkilgore]

Quick suggestion to massively improve your writing for general consumption: strip out the passive voice where not absolutely necessary, e.g., "was decided". Not only is the active voice "I/we decided" generally much more interesting to read, it usually forces you to adopt a sentence structure with fewer words (easier to read). Your writing later in the article is much more engaging as you start to use the active voice.

And thanks for the article, I love reading interesting excursions in low level programming!

[willvk]

Thanks for reading, and thanks for the feedback! That's a good tip on the passive/active voice. I did actually think about standardising that but let it (unfortunately) slide as I thought I would go from my initial thinking to more instructional but that's probably not as effective and engaging to the reader the whole way through. Will remember that tip for my next post! Thanks again!