Zig: December 2017 in Review
Zig: December 2017 in Review I figured since I ask people to donate monthly, I will start giving a monthly progress report to provide accountability. So here's everything that happened in Zig land in...
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.red { color: red; } .green { color: green; } Unsafe Zig is Safer than Unsafe Rust 2018 January 24 Consider the following Rust code: struct Foo { a: i32, b: i32, } fn main() { unsafe { let mut array:...
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Zig: January 2018 in Review
Zig: January 2018 in Review One month (and a few days, sorry I'm late!) has passed since I did the December 2017 writeup, and so it's time for another month-in-review for my esteemed patrons. LLVM 6...
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I Quit My Cushy Job at OkCupid to Live on Donations to Zig
I Quit My Cushy Job at OkCupid to Live on Donations to Zig I am fortunate to be one of those people who started tinkering with code in their teens, and then found themselves in the position where...
View ArticleString Matching based on Compile Time Perfect Hashing in Zig
String Matching based on Compile Time Perfect Hashing in Zig Inspired by cttrie - Compile time TRIE based string matching, I decided to see what this solution would look like in Zig. Here's the API I...
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Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones Operating...
.red { color: red; } .green { color: green; } Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones Operating System Last week, I reached an exciting milestone in my career as a...
View ArticleWhy I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl libc project
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View Article`zig cc`: a Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang
.diff0 { color: #990000; } .diff1 { color: #009900; } `zig cc`: a Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang If you have heard of Zig before, you may know it as a promising new programming language...
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Lemming - PyWeek #12 Game Development Journal
Lemming - PyWeek #12 Game Development Journal PyWeek #12 challenge starts in 2 days, 16 hours, and 11 minutes. And I have 23 hours of homework to do in order to clear the Week of Py for development....
View ArticleJohn Muir Trail from the Perspective of Andrew Kelley
John Muir Trail from the Perspective of Andrew Kelley 198 miles - July 24, 2011 through August 4, 2011 Journal Entries Day 1 - First Day of Hiking Day 2 - Donahue Pass to Some Lake Day 3 - Some Lake to...
View ArticleHow to be Successful at PyWeek
How to be Successful at PyWeek A short series to help you win. Covers these topics: What PyWeek is, and Why You Should Participate Video Games in Python Speed Developing Game Theory - How to Create Fun...
View ArticleRapid Development Email Templates with Node.js
Rapid Development Email Templates with Node.js Contents Sending Automated Emails in Node.js node-email-templates Gotchas Fundamental Flaws Includes VS Template Inheritance Sharing CSS Dummy Context...
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Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go
Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go I have always wanted to write an emulator. I made a half-hearted attempt in college but it never made it to a demo-able state....
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Spot the Fail
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View ArticlePrivate Methods in JavaScript
Private Methods in JavaScript In JavaScript, we don't have private methods right? We must to resort to using this._somePrivateThing() right? Wrong. Before function Cell(x, y) { this.x = x; this.y = y;...
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Pillagers! 7dRTS Game Development Journal
Pillagers! 7dRTS Game Development Journal I have decided to participate in the 7-Day Real Time Strategy Challenge, July 2013 edition. I am working with Michael Weber who will create sound effects,...
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7dRTS Game Reviews
7dRTS Game Reviews We all have limited time. This is a guide to help you decide which 7dRTS games to play, and which you might unfortunately have to skip if you don't have time to play them all. It is...
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I am not a "JavaScript Developer".
I am not a "JavaScript Developer". It seems that the tech world is trying to thrust upon me an identity which I do not hold. GitHub puts "JavaScript" right under my name: Here are snippets from actual...
View ArticleJavaScript Callbacks are Pretty Okay
JavaScript Callbacks are Pretty Okay I've seen a fair amount of callback bashing on Hacker News recently. Among the many proposed solutions, one of them strikes me as particularly clean: "asynchronous...
View ArticleDo Not Use bodyParser with Express.js
Do Not Use bodyParser with Express.js Note: this post has been edited to take into account TJ's diligent work in response to this. I came across this Google+ post mentioning this StackOverflow post in...
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