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Had a look at my bookshelf to see what I could find that was obscure, maybe these would be interesting: First Contract (Greg Costikyan) - a book about the economics of first contac…

RISC OS is still available for the Raspberry Pi. You get to basic by pressing F12 and typing ‘BASIC’, and it has a built-in ARM assembler already - the manuals are all available on…

I started off with a BBC Micro, followed by an Acorn A3000. My first 'PC' was a 486 card for the RISC PC - now there's an interesting architecture: the machine had two processor sl…

Alan Kay has done a few lectures about exactly this phenomenon: his talk 'Normal Considered Harmful' in particular is worth a look as it pretty much goes straight to the heart of t…

I wrote a parser generator quite a long time ago that I think improves the syntax quite a lot, and which has an interesting approach to generalisation: you can write conditions on …

I've been working a 2D rendering toolkit that increasingly looks to me like it probably deserves a mention on these lists: https://github.com/logicalshift/flo_draw (but I'm not on …

You didn't say which language you're using. If you're interested in Rust, I wrote a crate which deals with a bunch of bezier operations, including boolean path operations: https://…

The main difference between the ARM1 (which was never sold in any quantity) and the ARM2 was the addition of the multiply instruction (and the multiply and accumulate instruction).…

If Rust's your language, I wrote a library that should be pretty good at 2D things: https://github.com/logicalshift/flo_draw - I wrote it while working on another project (FlowBetw…

I've been working on one for a while now that's very slowly coming together: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween if you're interested. I've been building out some backend s…

The official Rust Programming Language book is excellent and was all I really needed to learn the language. I had a small project to work on that I didn't mind rewriting after my f…

I suspect some of my experience is now out of date, as it's now spread out over quite some time. The most recent issue I had to deal with was Chrome: when drawing the canvas at hig…

I’ve been keeping an eye on the various UI libraries when they come up: right now it seems to take me around a month to add a new one so I’m waiting for one to get traction. Someth…

I like to draw, and I suppose my frustrations with other animation packages that I’ve tried were the main inspiration. It’s quite nice to have something that combines two hobbies i…

Well, my main side project is the same as it's been for the last couple of years, an animation/vector editing tool written in Rust: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween It's…

Been working on a piece of 2D animation/vector editing software called FlowBetween for a while now: https://flowbetween.app Seemed like a good way to combine my interest in buildin…

There are a few of those out there. Nanovg seems to be the one that fits your requirements most closely. If you're into Rust, lyon (plus something like gfx-rs) is another choice. I…

So, I decided to teach myself a few years ago. I made notes as I went, and the process of learning a skill like this is really quite interesting. The first piece of advice I’d give…

Hi, you might be interested in a crate I wrote called desync: https://docs.rs/desync/0.3.0/desync/ - it provides a very simple yet expressive API for performing asynchronous operat…

I've been building an animation tool that provides a UI over http ( https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween ) so it has a lot of these problems. For running as a local app, wha…

I wish you luck because the standards are a mess, but the terminal seems to have been ‘good enough’ for quite a long time (which is why all the standard originate in the 1980s). I …

My day job used to involve parsing some fairly ill-formed languages, so I developed this: https://github.com/Logicalshift/TameParse I noticed with the languages I was working on, t…