dannas
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Comment · 2 months ago
Rui Ueyama has submitted an article to arxiv on his mold linker. Impressive engineering. The codebase, especially the first versions are a great resource for learning about linkers.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's an ImHex WebAssembly build accessible online at: https://web.imhex.werwolv.net/.
Comment · 2 years ago
Here's the photo of different soldering handles: https://x.com/lukego/status/1308366430849716226/photo/1
Comment · 2 years ago
I recommend https://eleshop.eu/jbc-bt-2bqa-soldering-station.html
The handle is so light! Active tips! Heats up in 2 seconds. Goes to standby mode when you put away the handle to save the tips.
There's even a lighter compatible precision handle that you can buy.
Luke Gorrie posted a bunch of Twitter threads where he compare the sizes of soldering handles. Can't find it now but https://github.com/lukego/soldering might lead you to them.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm still using Sourcetrail daily for inspecting C++ codebases. Works great. I paid for the first beta and was very sad that the company was not profitable. It really is a great product.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://dannas.name
Notes on systems programming. Not that many posts but I've reached the HN frontpage on two occasions.
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* Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papers Mind storms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372330
* Views on error handling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23884505
Comment · 3 years ago
Rico Mariani gives his opinions on the future of system programming languages.
His main point is that C++ with EH introduces too much bloat; that the opaque error handling combined with no compiler assisted checking hides bugs; and that you can't write C++ codes from "the books" since it leads to more bugs!
With Rust you can write it like in the books!
"Modern C++ has so many hazards and is so costly that I can't but view it as anything less than a total failure in the systems space. I can't begin to tell you how disappointing this is to me. "
Comment · 4 years ago
=== Cut needless words ===
The article references Covingtons How to Write more Clearly, Think More Clearly [...] Powerpoint presentation [1]. I highly recommend it!
A fun part in that presentation is when Covington, in a series of steps, revises this sentence...
“One of the best things you can do for yourself to improve your writing is to learn how to cut out words that are not necessary.”
..Into this one:
“To improve your writing, cut out unnecessary words.”
OPs article calls for more words to provide context. But by revising you can often cut the length in half.
[1] https://www.covingtoninnovations.com/mc/WriteThinkLearn.pdf
Comment · 4 years ago
As for contributions from the gamedev industry, here's a EuroLLVM 2022 presentation from Orlando Cazalet-Hyams working at Sony: https://www.snsystems.com/technology/tech-blog/improving-deb...
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