Lately I've been enjoying writing things from scratch. Writing a Wayland client from scratch has been the most frustrating and rewarding experience of my last two weeks. The number of new things that I've learned was more than worth all the frustrations. It took two weeks…
Although calendars days, dates and years are all fictional they might have an unintended or intended by a chad of a person in the past to allow people to reset, especially if you have lost your way. Did not necessarily loose my way rather forgot who I was or where…
A few weeks ago I embarked on a project to build a debugger in Zig with Zig. Up until this point the only time I've used a debugger was when I was following along with handmade hero and noticed that the debugger did not work on my computer.…
A vision comes to mind. One that fills me with a sense of deep joy. I'm sinking into the depth of a body of water, I can see the light behind me but I turn towards the darkness. It appears less dark as I fall deeper. The deeper…
Lateral movement seems to be the most prominent direction I tend to move in. It's what I enjoy, it might seem as I do tend to seek them out. A couple of days ago I upgraded my OS and noticed something that otherwise would have made no sense…
Coming up with titles and thinking about what to write is the number of cause of most of my failures. Yet anything would do really. There is no promise that it'll be good by given enough days it'll start to resemble something that is getting good.…
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…
It's looks like such a simple thing and I've been taking it for granted. Simply because how it just seems to work anywhere and everywhere. It's like being in awe of a tomato. Until you try to do it yourself. From the ground up,…