This is a story nightmare about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, we now build the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does. … Read more
Note: As part of our Preparedness Framework, we are investing in the development of improved evaluation methods for AI-enabled safety risks. We believe that these efforts would benefit from broader input, and that methods-sharing could also be of value to … Read more
Jan 13, 2024 QMK ADB Mac Keyboard Atmega32u4 Pro Micro Electronics About a year ago I started a new job as a Staff Engineer with a larger FinTech. Plenty of upside, and I’m enjoying myself a lot, but the downside … Read more
So, the major takeaway here is that increasing the MHz value of the core GPU clock gives you a noticeable performance boost, but it needs to be supported by increasing power/voltage values to maintain stability. Please be careful when overlocking … Read more
So far in this series, we have introduced the range of Alveo cards and created our first application, based on the standard card management solution. In this blog we are going to install the software drivers on our Linux machine … Read more
In software development, queueing systems are important for reliability, and they’re hard to build. There’s lots of debate around how to build a queueing system — with Postgres and SKIP LOCKED always cropping up. We’ve spent a long time researching … Read more
#include #define CLOCK_PIN 14 #define LATCH_PIN 15 #define DATA_PIN 16 #define SNES_BUTTON_B 0 #define SNES_BUTTON_Y 1 #define SNES_BUTTON_SELECT 2 #define SNES_BUTTON_START 3 #define SNES_BUTTON_UP 4 #define SNES_BUTTON_DOWN 5 #define SNES_BUTTON_LEFT 6 #define SNES_BUTTON_RIGHT 7 #define SNES_BUTTON_A 8 #define SNES_BUTTON_X 9 … Read more
I’ve had my days with Siri and Google Assistant. While they have the ability to control your devices, they cannot be customized and inherently rely on cloud services. In hopes of learning something new and having something cool I could … Read more
This is the Part 2 of a series. Feel free to read the prequel for more context: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically Building a good VM for a dynamic language takes a ton of engineering. The best-performing VMs (e.g., … Read more
For Christmas, I gave my parents this e-ink picture frame (built from an old e-reader) that cycles through photos from a shared iCloud photo album: It’s a re-worked version of a gift that I gave to my girlfriend in October, … Read more