The (Almost) Definitive 486DX/50 Article (2023)

• https://brassicgamer.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-almost-definitive-486dx50-article.html

Good history of 486 CPU in the context of what a big deal it was. This entire blog is generally good and I read almost every post.

arg.h A POSIX compliant argument parser based on plan9’s arg(3)

• https://github.com/camel-cdr/cauldron/blob/main/cauldron/arg.h

greatest - A C testing library in 1 file

• https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest

SDL2 common mistakes and how to avoid them (2023)

• https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/01/08/

I have made all of these mistakes except one lol. I tried this but didn’t like it. I want to use C99, not “SDL C”.

Lester (2023)

• https://knifegrinder.itch.io/lester

Awesome free metroidvania for Commodore 64. C64 games are usually pretty janky but this is excellent.

Played in RetroArch VICE with a gamepad, mapped additional button to Up for jumping.

Would it really have killed Commodore to put two buttons on the joystick?

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)

• https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

Great reverse engineering and performance profiling!

vim-hardtime

• https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime

Disables repeat on arrows and hjkl to get you to use motions properly

vim-numbertoggle

• https://github.com/jeffkreeftmeijer/vim-numbertoggle

Uses hybrid relative numbers in normal mode, absolute numbers in insert mode. Not sure why absolute numbers are useful in insert mode?

On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages (2023)

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230109-00/?p=107685

I knew these, but hadn’t thought of English words like strategy or island or together.

Using LSP & clangd in Vim (2018)

• https://jonasdevlieghere.com/vim-lsp-clangd/

This was about the most minimal C setup I could find. Then I realised it was even more of a pest to get it working with the kernel, ugh. Back to gtags.

High level mods/patches for console video-games (2023)

• https://krystalgamer.github.io/high-level-game-patches/

Some people are truly next-level.

Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato (2023)

• https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/compiled_and_interpreted_languages_two_ways_of_saying_tomato.html

This reminds me on another (awful) blog post “If you don’t know how compilers work, you don’t know how computers work”. The reddit thread is infinitely better than the original blog. I should probably learn more about compilers.

Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers? (2023)

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329351

Some good responses in here.

Why Use Make (2013)

• https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/

“Makefiles are machine-readable documentation that make your workflow reproducible” and discussion of a reverse-dependency graph rather than a forwards linear sequential recipe.

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies (2022)

• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/

Seems to mostly be a summary of the paper Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur from 1985, good tho.

The Computer Science Book

• https://thecomputersciencebook.com/book/

Things you’ll likely come across as a software developer.

ARM Linux executable mysteriously runs on x86_64 (2016)

• <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37912290/arm-linux-executable-mysteriously-runs-on-x86-64)

WOW! Not only that, there’s a binfmtc which lets you run C programs as scripts.

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here’s what happened (2023)

• https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day

Sounds like a dream place to work at. As the HN comments point out, this only works if the team cares about quality.