TRUST – Coding Rust like it’s 1989
Source Code on GitHub: https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust You never know when something gets picked up on Hacker News. Thank you!
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Scripting macOS Image Playground to Create Game Assets for free, automatically, and locally.
TL;DR https://github.com/wojtczyk/game-art-generator Sample images created in one go by scripting Image Playground. Introduction I like agentic coding. All you need is an idea… and some technical understanding to course-correct, when the agent wanders off. I have never been short on ideas, but rather short on time to implement and execute on every one of those. [ ]
Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
How are Rust, C++, and Python trending on Hacker News in the job market? As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let’s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” and “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?” postings on Hacker News for a few years up [ ]
Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (December 2024)
How are Rust, C++, and Python trending on Hacker News in the job market? As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” and “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?” postings on Hacker News for a few years up [ ]
How is Rust trending on Hacker News job postings compared to C++ and Python?
After working with Rust for a couple of years now, I was wondering how Rust was trending on Hacker News in comparison to C++ and Python. As a proxy measure for programming language trends, I thought it might be informative to analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the monthly Ask HN: Who is [ ]
Is my vision that bad? No, it’s just a bug in Apple’s Calculator.
While programming on my Mac and converting decimal numbers to hex and binary and using Apple s Calculator for it because it is built-in and works decent I thought, I saw some wobbly lines of numbers. My first thought was: my eyes are getting tired. But it looked annoyingly wobbly and there went my [ ]
Intel’s Arc A750 Limited Edition arrived.
I just saw the Arc 7 series GPU at the Intel Innovation conference a couple of weeks ago. Today, I already got one in the mail. 😊 Thanks to the kind Intel team. Looking forward to test how it computes with common frameworks like tensorflow and PyTorch.
Booting Linux manually from GRUB when your disk configuration has changed.
Assuming you have a dual boot system, a desktop with multiple drives. GRUB is setup to dual boot wither into Windows or into your Linux distribution. Now, one day, you change the drive configuration. You add or remove a drive or re-partition a disk. GRUB still comes up, but it fails to boot into your [ ]
SMS Audio Headphones with Heart Rate Monitor
I was going to open up and post a picture of one package a day from the stack on my desk. 🙂 Today s surprise are SMS Audio headphones: attendees of the Intel Developer Forum 14 got these nice smart headphones with heart rate monitor in their christmas mail. Thank you, Intel!
Lidar lite
Earlier in 2014 I backed a kickstarter project and I was very excited, the project made the stretch goal to build lasers into these range finders. Today I opened up the box on my desk, that arrived recently and I am really excited to test out the range finders, their precision, and their usability for [ ]
Intel Software Innovator
Today I feel very excited to be recognized by Intel as a member of the Intel Software Innovator Program. 😀 Throughout 2014 I participated in multiple partner showcases with Intel demonstrating the Cubotix Rover with Intel Perceptual Computing technology. In appreciation of my efforts I received a little welcome package with a certificate of recognition, [ ]
When getting back to your desk feels like…
a second christmas 🙂
How-to allow Mac OS X’s Gatekeeper to run an unsigned application
After I recently reinstalled my MacBook Air with Mac OS X Mavericks, I encountered for the first time Gatekeeper the sandbox, that won t allow to run applications from unverified sources to improve Mac OS X security. However that also excludes the commonly used IDE Eclipse. Problem: Eclipse (or other application) won t launch in Mac [ ]