I would like a job writing Haskell Perhaps someone out there wants to take a chance on a senior programmer with thirty years of experience who wants to make a move into Haskell. I’m between jobs right now, having resigned … Read more
On a scale of “NFT” to “Integer”, Literate Programming usually rates a little below the bottom on the usefulness scale. Unfair! It’s not entirely unearned, but there are some things that “LitProg” (kidding!) is very good for. With restclient, ob-restclient … Read more
27 Feb 2020 In 2018, I wrote an article “Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer” for GPU Zen 2 book, which was published in 2019. In this article I tried to aggregate as much information about Vulkan performance as I could … Read more
After six months of reverse-engineering, the new Arm “Valhall” GPUs (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) are getting free and open source Panfrost drivers. With a new compiler, driver patches, and some kernel hacking, these new GPUs are almost ready for upstream. In 2021, … Read more
By the end of this guide we’ll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib(n) if n This is my second project … Read more
For the past few months, I have been working on a project called CAMLBOY, a Game Boy emulator written in OCaml that runs in the browser. You can try it out on the following demo page: Demo Page I included … Read more
The Art of Lisp & Writing Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin Lisp is the language of loveliness. With it a great programmer can make a beautiful, operating thing, a thing organically created and formed through … Read more
When I see new projects being announced that are implemented in C or C++ I have to admit that I quickly lose interest. I think C and C++ are poor language choices for system software in 2021. Please don’t write … Read more
Written on Sept. 25, 2021, 5:45 p.m. Updated Dec. 1, 2021, 11:36 p.m. Overview Microcontrollers (MCUs) are ubiquitous in modern electronics. These combination hardware/software devices are called embedded devices, and their software is usually programmed in C or C++. Rust … Read more
This tutorial is intended for C beginners who want to do some coding practice, and in the process gain valuable insights regarding low level programming and how (some) Virtual Machines operate under the hood. By the end of the article, … Read more