Revisiting growing pains

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…

A decade to get good

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…

Road to 300 in 365

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…

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.…