👨💻 New post! A detailed review of PC computing on ARM with a Snapdragon X based laptop (Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x). Covering the hardware itself, battery life, performance, development, virtualisation & WSL, running other operating systems, and more.
wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/yoga-…
ALT Photo of Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Snapdragon laptop open on a desk with a mug and a pair of glasses to its right.
"we had to break apart a model we have been working on for fifteen, sixteen years", each new device involves tremendous engineering effort and investment, the core technology fee is our means of answering the question how do we get a reasonable compensation for this.
I've finally decided to join GitHub Sponsors. Any contribution would be most welcome, even if it is just a one-time "thanks" for past work. :-) github.com/sponsors/BurntSus…
🐍 Living among snakes in Queensland, Australia 💹
didoesdigital.com/snakes/
Stoked to share this visualisation I made of my snake encounters!
Share the slither and remember, play it safe, don't get bit!
While checking performance is important, better type checking is the main focus for Ezno. On this simple script, Ezno catches three issues not caught by TSC
Whenever a new tool written in Rust comes out, everyone wants to know how it performs. Now it is out, I have some statistics. It includes STC, another really fast TypeScript checker! See the full benchmark here: github.com/kaleidawave/bench…
Now Ezno's checker is open source I thought it was time for new post. It includes a deep dive into some of the current logic if you are interested in contributing!
kaleidawave.github.io/posts/…
If you use TypeScript, are interested in Ezno or have any ideas for improving type checking in JavaScript tools, then I have just made a survey to gather opinions over a few questions. thx 🙏
ezno-survey.pages.dev
With some luck and perseverance I managed to get Rust code compiling for classic Mac OS. I built bindings to Open Transport and then made a little weather app as a demo: Ferris Weather. Check out the post for all the details: wezm.net/v2/posts/2023/rust-…
ALT Screenshot of the Ferris Weather application showing an alert with the temperature in Brisbane.
I built a Rust crate to parse MacBinary and resource fork data. As a testbed I created a webpage that uses the crate compiled to WebAssembly to show the data contained within a file you select and allows you to download individual parts, all client-side.
7bit.org/macbinary/
I found it hard to work out how use the DeRez tool when building my temperature converter for classic Mac OS so I wrote up the details so there's something for the next person to find.
wezm.net/v2/posts/2023/derez…
In my ongoing quest to run modern programming languages on classic Mac OS today I wrote a temperature converter in C Nim. C is dealing with the toolbox functions and Nim parsing, converting, and formatting the temperatures. Code: github.com/wezm/classic-mac-…
New post! I documented my weekend efforts to run Rust on classic Mac OS in case it's useful to others or if anyone has ideas of additional things to try.
wezm.net/v2/posts/2023/rust-…
New video! I’ve published the second and final part of my #Rust URL shortener project. I make it a bit more efficient, add some compile time validations, and finally deploy it to #Deno Deploy on its own domain.
youtu.be/bQnab_6K1ok
New video: Building a URL shortener in #Rust that can be deployed to #Deno Deploy.
I tried to capture the actual coding process but also tried to edit it so it’s not too slow. youtu.be/d-tsfUVg4II