Welcome to Code by Zeba Academy.
A technical reference library for document engineering, digital publishing standards, and automated print pipelines.
Here you’ll find production-ready schemas, validator error solutions, and implementation specs for JATS XML, EPUB 3, ONIX 3.0, Pandoc workflows, and prepress standards; built for production editors, prepress operators, and publishing technologists.
Latest Articles
Thoughts, tutorials, and insights.
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Why fork() Doesn’t Duplicate Memory: Copy-on-Write and the Page Table
Read more →: Why fork() Doesn’t Duplicate Memory: Copy-on-Write and the Page Tablefork() relies on Copy-on-Write (COW) by duplicating page table hierarchies while marking physical pages read-only. When child or parent processes write to dense memory states,…
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What std::mem::forget Actually Does to Heap Allocations?
Read more →: What std::mem::forget Actually Does to Heap Allocations?std::mem::forget drops the stack-allocated handle without executing Drop glue, permanently orphaning heap metadata within allocator arenas. It guarantees the absence of Undefined Behavior by design,…
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Architecting an Automated Scholarly Pipeline: JATS XML Parsing Without the Heavy Middleware
Read more →: Architecting an Automated Scholarly Pipeline: JATS XML Parsing Without the Heavy MiddlewareThe nature of modern academic publishing is the intersection of operational engineering, data architectures, and document layout routines. A typical research article goes through many…
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The Architecture of Zero Overhead: Building a Pure Client-Side Front Matter Generator for Publishers
Read more →: The Architecture of Zero Overhead: Building a Pure Client-Side Front Matter Generator for PublishersMost readers pass over the title page, copyright notice, dedication, and publication data on their way to the first page of a book and have…
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Why Does Zig Treat Allocation Failure as Normal?
Read more →: Why Does Zig Treat Allocation Failure as Normal?Modern systems programming languages implicitly encourage a dangerous idea: that memory is either infinite or that running out of it is so bad that it’s…
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Why Linux Programs Fail Even When the System is “Up”
Read more →: Why Linux Programs Fail Even When the System is “Up”“Up” is a term that sounds reassuring but isn’t. The kernel is still alive, as shown by uptime dashboards, green system states, and a working…