The cat compiler.
Hi! I like cats, computers and compilers and I sometimes write blog posts.
I made a silly maths problem 1000x* faster So yeah, I did a thing yay me. A few weeks ago (December 2024) I participated in the international nerd competition “Advent of Code”. If you’re the kind of person who reads my blogs, you have certainly heard of it, if for some reason you haven’t you…
The title might seem a bit nonsensical… and awkwardly long too. You think you know what a string is right? You’ve used them more times than you can count.Perhaps you’re most familiar with JavaScript, and you can define a string, check what’s in it and even pass it into a function or get one out.…
Go is nice. Go is a high level procedural programming language. It’s philosophy is quite compelling to me – keep things simple wherever possible. It’s been a pleasant respite from rust where correctness is everything. I spent a month programming in it, here are my inaugural thoughts. The background This year I participated in an…
This title is clickbait slop, it’s actually quite neat but I have some critiques I’d like to share. Before that, I’ll give you some background. The Some Background The HACK architecture is an invention by Noam Nisan and Shimon Shocken. It is a part of the `Nand2Tetris` course series. It is a CPU specification which is both…
Today, I will unoffically document the Nand2tetris VM language. Let’s back up a bit – a short course I’m currently working on is nand2tetris project 7. It’s a lot of fun, it’s like a tour of the computer software and hardware stack. Don’t worry you don’t need to know anything about it, in this article…
I finally did it! It took blood sweat and tears but it’s here now and I’m chuffed to bits! Please have a look, I’ve got loads of comments and it looks quite clean. https://github.com/largenumberhere/libc2/blob/main/lib2/malloc.c It’s not my first allocator but it is my first real one. I have made a bump allocator before which is…
Let’s start of with the simplest approach and work down from there… Well that’s it folks, time to pack-up shop. I’m joking of course, I think this is pretty solid and the maintainers must think so too because this is the file cargo generates when you ask for a new project. The benefits are enumerable,…
Option is similar to the null of other languages, except it is type safe.You must transform an Option before you can use it.You may see it like this Option<usize> or like this Option<Vec<u32>> or maybe like this std::Option<()>, or some other way – the possibilities are endless. Here’s some examples of how you can use…
The 0th step is to set your expectations carefully. Anyone can learn assembly, but you should be aware of what you’re getting yourself into.
I recently made a simple website where you can answer this exact question. For those who aren’t nose deep into programming, the simple overview is that this is saucify. You should go there to convert your centimetres or inches to sauces. It’s intended as a silly way to count how many sauces tall your cat…