This is 100% skill issue on my end. I'd like to state that upfront. As I'm so used to comfy browsers that, the OS has decided to launch me face forward towards the floor. On Sunday I managed to get a window opened on Linux. An…
I don't know what it is about programming, the highs are fucking high and the lows are humbling as fuck. Just last weekend I was celebrating after having finished the compiler, feeling quite good about it all. Especially after a couple of months or more that were spent…
At times it's good to look back and see how much you have changed. A decade ago if someone had told me it takes a decade to get good at something or even to learn something, I'd have looked for something else to do, not believed…
In a year that has marked quite the transformation within me and has been more like the very long b-roll for an inspirational movie only I would watch, I'd like to end it well. It started around August or September, but I quite vividly remember on September 14…
You can find the code on Github. Something that I started two months ago was finally completed this morning. I built the whole thing using Zig and Thorsten Ball's Compiler book. I'd highly recommend the book. He does his best to explain things first so that…
Making a single decision is quite simple and takes a lot of the exhaustion out of making one small decision after another. I'm yet to perfect the art, but I have a general idea of these things. I've written about them quite a few times before.…
The last three or four days I've been stuck on this bug in the compiler where my constant indexes were always way off. I ran it through the debugger, tested the compiler and yet it was way off. Turns out I was looking in all the wrong places.…
Ultimately I want my programming skills to produce value to others. I'll admit it's not something I cared about but the more I meditate, the more I want to be of service. It's also provided an extra gear in my drive to get better,…