This one took me a week combing through docs watching others do it to figure this out. So maybe someone else would find a need for this. Although the API is a bit odd, it's wild to think that this API is from the 1980's and…
On paper it sounded like just the challenge I needed. To follow handmade hero on Linux with Zig. It made no sense for me to follow handmade hero as it was because I know myself too well. If there is a shortcut I'll take it. Using Zig and…
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…
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…