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I'm Max Bernstein.

I am a programmer and student at Tufts University. I like to take photos and ride bikes in the hills near my house. This spring and summer, I am studying at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany.

You can email me if you so desire.

I like making things.

That's probably an understatement. Here are some of my favorite projects:

Reason, a compiler front-end and toolchain for OCaml
An automatically distributed programming language (2016) for my networks course, with the final writeup [PDF]
The final project spec [PDF] and reference implementation (2016) and independent project spec [PDF] (2016) for the data structures course I TA
A distributed ray tracer (2015) that I made with friends for a concurrent programming course, with the final writeup [PDF]
A probably bug-ridden C sockets library (2014) that I made for Hacktoberfest, along with the much cleaner C++ sockets library (2015) that I made for the distributed ray tracer
An unexpectedly popular virtual machine (2014) that got some Hacker News attention, along with its newer and much better designed cousin (2016)

Many other class projects, while delightful, cannot be published due to university policy.

I've really enjoyed my classes.

Here are some of my favorites:

Compilers with Sam Guyer, a class about — guess what? — building compilers in ML
Programming Languages with Kathleen Fisher, a class about building, proving, and comparing programming languages
Security CTF with Ming Chow, a half-credit course in which we build a secure device, swap with another school, and then break into theirs
Concurrent Programming with Mark Sheldon, a class all about multithreading and parallel computation
Operating Systems with Alva Couch, a class that does an in-depth study of Linux and common operating systems constructs
Machine Structure & Intel Assembly Programming with Mark Sheldon, in which students spend around 40 hours per week writing obscene quantities of C

I kind of maintain a blog.

~~It's not very interesting just yet.~~ Things are happening.