Finishing the compiler

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…

Story time: Off by one again

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.…

Service to others

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,…

Reminder to return to the present

Just a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying being in the present. Yet somewhere between then and now I've totally forgotten how to do that. The irony of that last statement is not lost on me. Just like that, out of nowhere I found it again. All…

251: Better is better than perfect

Seems like it takes me a lot longer to get back up after a perceived fall. Mostly the disappointment of weeks of work amounting to nothing. It's a tad dramatic that's all. It has not been used yet, not that it's amounted to nothing.…

250

One sentence at a time over the course of last ten months has led to 250 blog posts. To think that the ten months before that I wrote fourteen. Compound interest has to be one of the most fundamental concepts ever. I only used to think about it in terms…