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01 ·Device Physics·★ MEMBER·12 min read The Physics of NAND Flash — Remembering by Trapping Electrons Why does a memory stick keep your photos with the power off? Starting from one idea — trap electrons on an island of insulator and shift a threshold voltage — this article builds up tunnelling writes, multi-level cells, 3D stacking and wear-out, and ends where you can read an SSD datasheet and a SMART log for yourself. 02 ·OS & Runtime·★ MEMBER·9 min read File Systems from Scratch — What Does "Saved" Actually Guarantee? If the power dies half a second after your editor says "Saved," is the file still there? Starting from a library card catalogue, this builds up blocks, inodes, directories, journaling and fsync from zero — and ends with why databases refuse to trust the file system, and which knobs turn a quiet setting into a production incident.