I'm fascinated specifically with how Justine must have collected the knowledge to write Cosmopolitan. I know some guys who play around with PEs and virtual memo

I'm fascinated specifically with how Justine must have collected the knowledge to write Cosmopolitan. I know some guys who play around with PEs and virtual memory manually, but I always wonder what sort of interests lead you to discovering this sort of thing. I suspect the combination of interests is a little out there. For instance, with game cheat developers, you tend to first at least have some interest in C++, then understanding memory scanning, then signature scanning, trampolining, and all of a sudden you have the skillset ingredients for authoring some rudimentary cheats. Advanced skills come with driver development, which you then pick up to figure out how to evade anti-cheat technology, etc. But very few developers I know say, oh yeah, I was just interested directly in this sort of thing from the get-go and decided to pick up all of the specific skills to go straight to cheat development. Usually, it's the guys who already have game development experience. What in the world did Justine see before Cosmopolitan? Maybe debugging tech? An interest in creating her own libc and understanding syscalls? Just fascinating.