Mondays & Making progress on the browser

Usually I take Mondays off. I don't know what it is about this day, but it just makes me quite anxious. I've written about it a few times before. Today was no different. Woke up the same time as always, that was the only thing that…

No documentation? No problem!

Read a comment on Ziggit that just made my day. One of the things I've been enjoying while learning Zig has been that it's a fairly new language. This has some unusual and unforeseen benefits. Also I've been able to see first hand how…

Zrome, the Zig browser (nerd sniped)

Last month I was building a browser in Go because I came across this book, it is safe to assume that a lot less work was done last month. That would have been okay on its own. It would definitely qualify as getting nerd sniped. After writing all the network…

Zig_familiarity += 5; I love this feeling

I decided to dive deep into Zig on the 26th of October 2024 with an approach I've stumbled across and got inspired by others over the years of learning languages. It is quite simple a process, read the language reference, use the standard library and it's…

Making a headless browser for fun

I've called it grome, outside of a fun exploration it's not very useful. Credit to the Browser Engineering book, I've pre-ordered my copy and can't wait to continue working on the browser when it arrives. The code is pure spaghetti, and I…