Over the holidays I implemented a system for reflective materials in Block Game. Here I’ll go over roughly how it works. I originally intended for this post to be a deep dive, but then I realized that the nitty gritty on this one just isn’t that interesting. Or at least, I’m just not that interested in doing a deep dive on it so this one will stay fairly high level. Anyway, it all started when I…
My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To its credit my integrated GPU shows up as 48% faster on UserBenchmark than the GPU in my low end hardware target; a laptop I bought in 2012. (Side note: I’m aware of accusations of inaccuracy…
This is a post about my personal life and my mental health and something I want to try to fix things (even though I have no idea if it will work) and see if I can help my burnout recovery. If you’re here for my tech stuff, you can safely skip this one.
This is the third in a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. I’ve talked a lot about Bismuth, mostly on social media, but I don’t think I’ve done a good job at communicating how you go from some code to a program in this VM. In this post I aim to rectify that by walking you through the entire life cycle of a hello world Bismuth program, from the…
This is the second in a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. In this edition we’re going to look at the VM’s design for memory management and safety. To start with I’ll remind you of the design goals for this VM as detailed in my last post , with those that apply here in bold: Must be fast The IR must be compatible with standard C Can run in a…
This is the first post in what will hopefully become a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. This post will touch on some of the design fundamentals and goals, with future posts going into more detail on each. But to explain how I got here I first have to tell you about Bismuth, the kernel.
Elon Musk just forced through the new blocking changes on Twitter (also known as X, but I refuse to call it that) where blocking someone means they can still see your posts. That and the news that in November all data will be used to train his shitty AI, Grok, without an opt-out, has caused another exodus from Twitter. As a result my Bluesky account has gone from 2.5k followers to 3k. On the…
I decided I wanted something a little slicker than a command line for my new blog so I went with Publii. Unfortunately, that made integrating pulling a thread from Mastodon for comments a little bit trickier than I think it would’ve been otherwise. In this post I’ll go through how I wound up doing it.
One of my earliest childhood memories, and one of the few positive memories I have of my dad (a malignant narcissist and an alcoholic who drank himself to death) was my father playing Ultima 4. Well, not so much “playing” as mapping out the world. The living room floor would be covered in graph paper that he meticulously filled in with all the tiles in the game. I remember playing Ultima 4, 5, 6,…
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