A small digital artifact to mark the end of (almost) a decade at Sysdig.

This is a zero-dependency C program. No external assets, no libraries (other than math.h), just a single source file containing a mathematical hallucination of our shared history.

It compiles and runs on macOS and Linux.

1. Clone this repo
2. Run make
3. Watch

There are no image files embedded in this binary. The visualization is generated by a tiny, hard-coded neural network trained to approximate the signed distance function (SDF) of the logo that was best suited for ASCII art rendering. The weights are stored as float arrays, effectively serving as "memory" of the shape.

The text obfuscation uses a simple XOR cipher.

This was inspired by antirez, who demonstrated how to use neural networks to embed small monochrome logos in C code.

To my colleagues at Sysdig: thank you for the mentorship, the friendship and the challenges over the last 10 years. It has been an honor and a pleasure to build with you.

See you in userspace.