This one took me a week combing through docs watching others do it to figure this out. So maybe someone else would find a need for this. Although the API is a bit odd, it's wild to think that this API is from the 1980's and…
On paper it sounded like just the challenge I needed. To follow handmade hero on Linux with Zig. It made no sense for me to follow handmade hero as it was because I know myself too well. If there is a shortcut I'll take it. Using Zig and…
The movies and social media have distorted reality. Or maybe I have distorted expectations from those stories. In all honesty, rebuilding yourself from the ashes of yourself looks as pathetic and unsexy from the outside as it can get. The correction of that expectation has done me great good. In…
I know because the last couple of weeks I've been more distracted than I have been for a long time. I don't even have the excuse of having too much free time. It just comes down to admitting that I'm addicted to dopamine. Something…
Learning is exhilarating. Not something I thought I would ever say because I never enjoyed learning for as long as I can remember. Until I was twenty-seven when I discovered programming. Prior to that, the only time I can imagine enjoying learning was doing Calculus questions when in school. Only…
Something that I've always wanted to know is how you build stuff on the OS. By using API's and primitives that the OS provides. Not on top of a wrapper or abstraction but rather straight through. The end product is great, something I need to focus…
If you have cared at all to follow the Linux drama that I have created for myself the entry from yesterday and the day before should be quite entertaining. At least it has been for me. It's quite funny really now that I think about it. I started…
Yesterday I wrote about the drama that was opening a window in Linux. At least it felt that way to me. It was just pure frustration. Yet as I was writing about the "short cut" I took by using SDL3 to achieve the same end result, something just…