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declankon Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

There is the lesser-known web server rwasa written in flat assembler: https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/

declankon Build a Compiler in Five Projects

There is also the Python version too and available free. I do like the register allocation/graph colouring chapter.

declankon The Design of a Self-Compiling C Transpiler Targeting POSIX Shell

Worth checking out https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap which starts from a handwritten hex bootloader and later a Scheme interpreter that implements a C compiler that compiles tcc

Full steps on https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...

declankon My Software Bookshelf

Great to see Essentials Of Compilation by Jeremy Siek mentioned. Also has a Python version.

declankon BASIC was not just a programming language

The Amstrad CPC 464 plus is what I grew up with. In the footnote sure it was fast to jump into BASIC but of course loading from cassettes took ages :)

declankon Buying a PC with Dell: My Journey into Hell

Only things I’d ever buy from Dell are some of its monitors, servers and XPS laptops. Most of their stuff is trash for a brand with good reputation.

declankon Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry

Previous discussion on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18450425

declankon IAM whatever you say IAM

An Eminem lyric becomes a tech article headline.

declankon Show HN: Learn Programming Basics in 40 Minutes

Okay nbasic is what the world needs.

I got introduced to BBC Basic on Amstrad examples with graphics as a kid and it got me hooked on programming.

declankon W64devkit – Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 Windows

I don't find the Windows SDK too bad, but I tried React Native for Windows and building each simple app took up 1GB+ of space.

declankon Infinity: open-source search engine

Not sure why this post is getting scathing criticism, but this would be a nice project to fork for a metasearch engine.

declankon Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in 10 Programming Languages

Didn't realise this showcases your MANOOL language until I opened, which looks pretty cool

declankon Emacs 26.3

The improved js-mode in 27.x is definitely worth checking out, especially if you use React/JSX. Had many issues wrestling with indentation in previous setup. https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/blob/master/README.md#react...

declankon Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video]

This is hands down an amazing interpretation (some great voicing in the upper parts in the left hand, and articulation is textbook awesome) and great to see near the top of HN, his channel is worth checking out. This is better than Lugansky and the Rachmaninoff piano rolls.

declankon Racket: John Carmack’s VRScript Samples (2015)

Trying to explore gamedev in Racket myself so cool to see the matrix related stuff in https://github.com/jb55/vrscript-samples/blob/master/vr.rkt

declankon Reducing Latency in KWin

Game developers stick to the rule-of-thumb 16ms (60Hz) update constraint to have updates done before drawing.

Not sure how work can be done on something like KWin without that rule guiding decisions.

declankon Intermediate Vim

I use Emacs/Evil for hobby programming and vi for quick edits on servers. Wish I had this guide years ago. Incredibly helpful. :)

declankon Ask HN: How to learn front-end development as a back-end web developer?

Happy easter :) If you already know some HTML/CSS I recommend https://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/

I often use it as a refresher

declankon Show HN: Themes based on the biggest startups

This is remarkable and awesome. Great job :) It's cool to see open source themes that are beautiful beyond the Sass frameworks out there.

declankon Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships

Reductio ad Hitlerum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law