I finally understand `comptime` in Zig a little bit
Understanding the Zig comptime just a little bit better.…
Writing a Wayland client from scratch in Zig
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…
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…
Font rendering is not as easy as I thought but I'm enjoying it
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,…
Replacing Algolia with Postgres vector search
You can skip to the code example below if you don't like the jibber jabber` Last week I wanted to play around with Postgrestext search capabilities thanks to a Fireship video. So I tried it out on my own product and was astonished to see how quickly you…
Dynamically loading code to control it during runtime
If you'd like to see the code, you can find it here. Handmade Hero is such a treasure trove for programming. I'm only on day 20, but I've already learned and tried out so many new concepts, things I would never be aware of…
Patterns when programming down under
By "down under," I mean as close to the kernel as possible, before you get too excited, it's not really that close, but it's as close as system libraries. I finally got audio to work! Not perfectly, but still functional. Turns out I just…
Sure it's hard but at least give it a try first
If the Handmade Hero series has taught me anything in its first week, it is that it's very much possible to build directly using system libraries if you wanted to. Without having to use other libraries that make it easier for you to use. In the last couple…