Using XRender with X11 to render antialiased fonts

The last week have been spent trying to figure out how to make XRender work with X11. It took a week because I have skill issues and there is pretty much no example out there on how to do this. There are plenty of examples of printing strings but to…

Building a debugger?

You know how they say, "solve your own problems". When asked what should I build? Or something along those lines. Well I finally have a problem that I'd like to solve myself. I might also have some tools to be able to build it. Since I&…

Withdrawal symptoms of using A.I

It's been less than a week since I decided I'm not going to use A.I in my day to day. It's a lot harder than I thought it would become. Unbeknown to me I've been growing a dependency on this amazing…

Looped live code editing

Sounds like a complex freak of nature stuff or at least it did to me when I fist saw the title in HandmadeHero. I can't say this enough, if you have never watched the series and you are a programmer, I urge to give it a try, you&…