So many questions

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…

Window needs to be reopened with X11

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…

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…