Yesterday I wrote about the drama that was opening a window in Linux. At least it felt that way to me. It was just pure frustration. Yet as I was writing about the "short cut" I took by using SDL3 to achieve the same end result, something just…
This is 100% skill issue on my end. I'd like to state that upfront. As I'm so used to comfy browsers that, the OS has decided to launch me face forward towards the floor. On Sunday I managed to get a window opened on Linux. An…
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…
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.…
This was a tweet I read about a few weeks ago. It really got me thinking. Not sure what a "cracked dev" means exactly but I'm guessing it's got something do with competence. It's really true as well especially when it comes…
This took me a while today, there were a few hoops I had to jump through. So I'd like to take some notes for my future self or anyone else who might need this. Have a read through the official docs if you haven't done so…
It's been a common theme as I've learning a language that goes to a lower level than the one before. For instance when I learned and started writing Go more often I started to understand things like Memory and Pointers in a lot more depth. It…
For the last month on stream I've been working on an embedded program. The first part of writing a display driver went down pretty smoothly, call it beginners luck or whatever but I was like, this is a lot of fun. Until I stumbled upon the ESP-01S, which…