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Aug 24, 2026
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Aug 05, 2026
"writes … have write-only caches that are invalidated, and all update bits are sent to memory AT THE END OF A CLAUSE"
Aug 02, 2026
Re-FPGA-land ALUs - I'm firmly distracted by an alternative history of the unexplored left justified extreme fixed point.
Jul 22, 2026
Working through rough draft of assembly for a different idea for a micro macro-forth.
Jul 19, 2026
Probably shouldn't consider this -BUT- apparently writing to ax doesn't change the other 48-bits.
Jul 18, 2026
All {0-6} argument syscall options in 32-bytes.
Jul 17, 2026
Oh, F-it! The urge to drop the C baggage was too strong, using nasm to bootstrap another radical Forth for Linux.
Jul 15, 2026
One advantage of SAR (aka signed '>>') is that the shift-by operand HW uses only the 5|6 LSBs automatically.
Jul 14, 2026
Another round of getting optimized error checking.
Jul 13, 2026
Going all in to only {if,goto} but through better macros,
Jul 13, 2026
I'll mark this down a more code obfustication for most humans, but for me it's another useful shorthand.
Jul 11, 2026
Rethinking Vulkan queue choice.
Jul 09, 2026
So most run Linux from a graphical login, I still prefer to boot into a framebuffer console.
Jul 08, 2026
Oh, my RADV driver says vkGetShaderInfoAMD is available [GPU disassembly dumps].
Jul 06, 2026
Vulkan starts with the ping pong between getting an instance proc addr so one can get vkCreateInstance, then using that to create an instance so one can get the remaining functions.
Jul 04, 2026
Oh no, maybe another Wine bug (error photo)? I'm also getting an "AUDCLNT_E_DEVICE_IN_USE" (0x8889000A) when http://x.com is open (which would imply pipewire owning the audio device).
Jul 04, 2026
*sighs*
Jul 03, 2026
Following the succession (thanks) of re-trying WASAPI using this example which has been pre-minimized and de-C++'ed: https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/5a5b168e61aff4c1eaec0381da62808f#file-win32_wasapi-h - But I'm missing something on how to get the C++ as C linking to function (cross compiling), doesn't easily work out of the box.
Jul 02, 2026
Settings I'm using for snd_pcm_sw_params for ALSA, don't have docs for all of this, seems to work.
Jul 02, 2026
Yuck, starting on WDM/KS audio interface for WIN32, much more painful than ALSA.
Jul 01, 2026
Did manage to get ALSA to function without SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_REFINE and only with SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS.
Jul 01, 2026
Haha damn, I thought I had a great idea, for Wine workarounds, I could just detect Wine (easy), and then make the associated Linux system call from inside Wine using inline asm! [no surprise, it doesn't work]
Jul 01, 2026
Linux by default doesn't allow any increase in scheduling priority.
Jun 30, 2026
Working on the Linux thread priority code.
Jun 29, 2026
ALSA hell month continues: remember it might be "open source" but it is definitely "closed documentation" [those docs are securely trapped in the minds of the authors].
Jun 29, 2026
Eventually figure out enough to get aplay to actually play a wave file, had to find an explicitly stereo wav else it would refuse to just duplicate the mono channels.
Jun 27, 2026
Deterrent to ALSA is just parsing through snd_pcm_open() source.
Jun 26, 2026
Quick summary of why not {pselect, ppoll, epoll_pwait2} style non-TCP IO [it can amplify kernel transitions].
Jun 14, 2026
On Linux I do speculative pinning of CPU memory via mlockall.
Jun 13, 2026
Cross compilation is up.
Jun 13, 2026
Interesting how on this Linux box, scheduling NOPs like nanosleep of 0 and futex waiting on an already set memory location … both take around 60 microseconds, cannot afford to do many of those per millisecond.
Jun 13, 2026
Nanorc done and back to actual programming with the new font.
Jun 10, 2026
So I'm on Linux now, but obviously I cheated, because this is a SteamOS machine (pre-installed).
Jun 07, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes I see!
Jun 03, 2026
Back running 640x480 on my VGA CRTs to prep for workflow that ports down to 480i60 for NTSC.
Jun 02, 2026
For Windows trying to standardize on HIGHEST_PRIORITY_CLASS, mixed with THREAD_PRIORITY_{IDLE,NORMAL,TIME_CRITICAL}.
Jun 02, 2026
It's unfortunate there isn't an easy way to map the page file so that writes don't automagically post to storage, meaning map then turn off flush until a time desired by the programmer.
Jun 01, 2026
Windows thread priority.
May 31, 2026
no-debugger-debug / console / printf-style - prior evolved to one mmapped fixed-width-height log file with an atomic for multi-thread|process messages - but even that seems too complexy ...
May 30, 2026
Renovating CPU clock code.
May 29, 2026
Took perhaps a 5 month vacation from at home programming, but getting back in the grove with 1hr/day.
May 23, 2026
Another memorial weekend thought: for either
Mar 08, 2026
I'll add one conspiracy theory for everyone listening: After STP's source was out there, DLSS4 'transformer' magically gained 'sharpness' but I don't believe it was from the ML model change at all, instead I think they just introduced the same error feedback mechanism in STP ...
Jan 14, 2026
@VPCOMPRESSB Can do that.
Jan 11, 2026
Ok, the Win32 API sure is something, but WOW wayland is awful
Dec 17, 2025
Significant amount of bloat dropped :-) 🎉🥳🎈
Nov 20, 2025
no Tokens and no ASTs.
Nov 17, 2025
I wish everyone would just adopt "reversed with infinite far" projection matrixes so I could only optimize for the fastest and highest precision option, but I'm guessing people haven't all migrated over :(
Nov 17, 2025
People who say "C is modern-day assembly" usually way undershoot it.
Nov 17, 2025
When it comes to pointers, "just use 64 bit integer" is way more intuitive to me.
Nov 10, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes i'm not familiar with your problem.
Oct 13, 2025
Short talk on how I do CPU-side debugging without a debugger using a simple memory mapped file message logging system with lock-free atomic and file-io-free message store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaUSAVcXwEc ...
Oct 10, 2025
Thread about this from @rfleury - https://www.rfleury.com/p/multi-core-by-default - because I used to do that too on the CPU ...
Aug 01, 2025
At least for my next at home project, I think the right answer is a building it from assembly scratch series on video with a public domain release of the 'engine' which will be a live edit toy for hardcore GPU-side PC game dev in certain constraints [which keep it simple]
Jul 31, 2025
Been on the fence on writing shader interfaces in GLSL vs something else that translates to SPIR-V.
Jul 31, 2025
People claim assembly is hard.
Jul 23, 2025
"nobody self includes with defines to reorder C code" ...
Jun 28, 2025
i vibe coded something horrendous and I love it: a python c preprocessor that finds blocks like /* python <arbitrary python code> */ in a .c file, runs the python, and dumps the stdout after the comment, replacing any old block if needed.
Apr 30, 2025
@onatt0 [3] I got side tracked by building a language that could be assembled from on the GPU in SIMD.
Apr 30, 2025
@onatt0 I laugh when people say C is like assembly, they are missing what we actually did in assembly back then, which was all registers and globals and gotos, no stacks.
Apr 30, 2025
holy truthnuke - and people think C is the optimal state of possible runtimes when it's a very limited runtime to have state mixed call/data-stacks
Apr 16, 2025
__/ CS OPTIMIZATION BRAIN DUMPING \__
Mar 28, 2025
Indoor scenes in HypeHype are starting to look acceptable.
Mar 08, 2025
Stupid hardware question: Why does AMD use several counters instead of one u64 bitmask for memory ops?
Feb 14, 2025
Hey, gpu guys like @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes why do rendering guys usually wrap 3d apis at low level in engines, creating some generic mid-low level API?
Feb 04, 2025
__/ "GELATINOUS PIXEL SOUP!" \__
Jan 31, 2025
Comparing matrix to quaternion code:
Jan 29, 2025
PTX is a form of assembly language
Jan 28, 2025
So we (the industry) really ever went back to the MSAA based TAA combinations and applied everything we learned in the past decade ...
Jan 26, 2025
Often overlooked aspect of GPU perf scaling
Jan 22, 2025
Simple napkin analysis of that high-end CRT scalar (monochome one) ...
Jan 09, 2025
Just for Fun: Started to look into "Cardinal Cubic O-MOMS" for resampling, some refs:
Jan 06, 2025
One of the downsides of V_CNDMASK_B32 on AMD is that you burn the SGPRs on the VCC bool, so if you are selecting between constants, those require extra V_MOV_B32 ops.
Jan 04, 2025
For the love of octahedrons: https://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/graphics/research/papers/2008/simdmapping/clarberg_simdmapping08_preprint.pdf
Dec 21, 2024
Hopefully with this last atomic workaround I'm almost done with cleaning and fixing the 'bind-everything-once' style Vulkan engine design.
Dec 18, 2024
@munohikari @SebAaltonen You left out the bit where I also said no graphics pipeline.
Dec 18, 2024
Fixed all our Vulkan bugs:
Dec 16, 2024
@GustavSterbrant So I don't know that SPIR-V vs OpTypeInt 24 question, but if someone didn't write tests for that it's likely never been setup to be pattern matched.
Dec 15, 2024
"Buffer zoo" is more about the silly season of things needed on the Vulkan shader side to do what you actually want which is just get instruction intrinsics.
Dec 15, 2024
The real "buffer zoo" problem with Vulkan is needing to make your HW instruction emulation macros with overcomplete both {offset, and index} inputs so the emulation can choose the correct one based on whatever crap path is required {SSBO, TEXEL_BUFFER, future pointer}
Nov 22, 2024
Sometimes you only want to wave-coherent branch to something extremely rarely.
Nov 20, 2024
[0] Been wanting to do this for a long time, a thread on hard-core shader development.
Nov 19, 2024
Working towards a new bring up of front-buffering on NV via VK.
Nov 16, 2024
[0] What a horrible term 'printf-debugging'
May 04, 2024
@Nerfoxingaround @SebAaltonen It was only later when systems forced C ABI library interfaces with it's stacks and junk that things got messy and only because of the C.
May 03, 2024
Why should one be able to code without autocomplete and without a good IDE? I want to click on a symbol to find where it's defined and click on include file to go there, etc.
Apr 23, 2024
@BelgianRenderer @KostasAAA @Nicolas_Lopez_ Apparently uniformity analysis is hard.
Apr 20, 2024
When using arrays of resources/bindless, it's worth paying attention to index divergence.
Apr 06, 2024
@MartinJIFuller @SebAaltonen On https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@NOTimothyLottes I'm collecting posts with AMD GPU disassembly dumps for a book on everything the shader compiler 'isn't doing'.
Apr 04, 2024
This is how slow code feels like:
Jan 04, 2024
Debug for majority-GPU-side game dev? Run-time recompile and hex viewer.
Dec 19, 2023
Working towards a public-domain release of a cleaned version of my Win32 Vulkan NV+AMD compute graphics platform.
Dec 16, 2023
Inspecting my old VK engines.
Dec 15, 2023
<long thread>
Aug 18, 2023
SPC: CRT shader on the Deck.
Aug 18, 2023
SPC: Last CRT shader was broken.
Aug 07, 2023
CRT emulation on LCDs can be hard.
Aug 06, 2023
1st SPC project: to be based on vintage 640x480 render (VGA style), +fallback to 640x240 for 15 KHz arcade CRTs (PGM-esk), and CRT shader scaling on Deck and OLED/LCD.
Aug 06, 2023
SPC: RDNA2 ASSEMBLER [thread] ...
Aug 03, 2023
SPC: Left off with KEY and GAMEPAD input GPU-accessable.
Aug 03, 2023
SPC: Using 8 deep swap all aliasing same BO (image) fixes Game Mode crash with external display.
Jun 30, 2023
"Nothing Oriented Programming" (NOP).
Jun 20, 2023
How about a mega thread on the mechanics of CPU/GPU communication.
May 03, 2023
Found some of my old blogs: thread looking back an image at a time.
Apr 28, 2023
https://gpuopen.com/learn/rgp-1-15-enhanced-isa-view/ Nice Disasm View :) - However op latency isn't useful.
Apr 25, 2023
Nerds are crazy https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos
Nov 29, 2022
"The road to 16-bit floats GPU is paved with our blood"
Nov 13, 2022
My prefered method of managing application data was the 'self-modifying-binary'
Nov 09, 2022
@olson_dan If only PC vendors with open ISAs.
Nov 08, 2022
Example of "Bind-Everything-Once" Layout Aliasing in Vulkan.
Nov 05, 2022
GPU Programming Tip Line Thread /
Nov 04, 2022
@rianflo Vulkan: ~1500 lines of overhead (including header src, as I don't include) for complete hotrod bind-everything-only-once compute-only gfx engine.
Aug 22, 2026
How to archive a thread
Aug 05, 2026
@Triang3l That clause based arch was interesting in many ways, mem clause articulates the boundary for write combining.
Jul 10, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes I think this is simply available as a KMSDRM option in SDL for essentially zero development effort (if your game is built with SDL).
Jul 09, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes And PREEMPT_RT
Jul 09, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes You can also set nohz so there's no timer interrupts on the isolated cores + set up transparent huge pages (or manually use them)
Jul 06, 2026
@VictorTaelin @Jonathan_Blow hopefully useful data point.
Jul 05, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes Once upon a time Wine didn’t implement a particular cryptography path and game broke when trying to verify file integrity, had to patch it out.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin sure, I read all that
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Quality over quantity.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin I disagree on the consistency is enough to do mathematics, you can very weird stuff to MLTT like Nat iso Nat -> Nat and still be consistent.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin It was easy to read and I think I understood most of it.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Fable is educated c
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin > this is the antidote I found to AI psychosis.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Are languages built on Bend incapable of representing “eval” then? And/or disallowed from looping possibly-infinitely based on an external signal?
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin loved ur rant.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Legend
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin I’m not reading all that but damn hope it works out for ya
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin stupid question alert.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Feels like the precise, symbolic analogue of implementing LLM guard rails that aren't too strict and aren't too lax.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin i didn't expect i'd read all of this, but i did.....can't pretend i understand it, but i'm starting to get the picture.....
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin To someone who doesn’t understand the actual content, AI psychosis and expert use of AI to drive a breakthrough look the same (modulo institutional credentials).
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Don't try to market yourself.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin You gave it a great shot, thanks for an engaging read.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin Bro keep posting like you do.
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin don't you want to be able to copy lambdas though? Or how do you do a lot of the typical FP stuff if you can't pass around and copy functions as you otherwise would?
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin this post is not a rebuttal to a query about ai psychosis regardless of the merits and robust technical details behind it
Jul 05, 2026
@VictorTaelin i have an entire math proofs section in my maths repos
Jul 04, 2026
Wine's IAudioClient::GetDevicePeriod() returns 53333 for minimum (which is 256 samples at 48KHz - really crappy) and 100000 for default (which is 480 samples at 48Khz - even worse), neither which work with EXCLUSIVE mode.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin the real crime is those idiots not knowing who you are or your work.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin What do you mean by arguments to recursion "decreasing"? ...
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Im not going to read all that, I'm happy for you or sorry that happened.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Fable simplemente hizo de placa base pitando para avisar del error, pero la solución elegante y real requería a alguien al volante.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin This is an S tier post! 1.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin i understood 5% but i still enjoyed it
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Thanks
Jul 04, 2026
You speak simply into a mixed space where most people including me are on the "application layer".
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin This is a great post! I can’t pretend that I really get the math, but it’s obvious that you understand what you’re talking about.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I never thought you had AI psychosis, but the fact that others thought so led to this wonderful explanation.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I got interested in Bend for its prosaic capabilities.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I enjoyed reading this post.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin i once implemented a type checker for impredicative MLTT.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I love this shit
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin It's lonely sometimes eh? I'm excited about your stuff and love your posts but I don't know a lot about lambda calculus etc.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin os caras acham que só eles são superinteligentes mas não conseguem enxergar alem da bolha que ele mesmo se coloca entre os '' inteligentes '', que tipo de inteligência é essa ? é a vida de um engenheiro médio que trabalha em um lab de IA em SF kkkkk
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin y-combinators don't have valid types, so you are safe from them in statically typed functional languages.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Impossibility to write *fast* interpreter looks like a hardware architecture or compiler issue, not the language expressive power problem.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin QTT approach for this is very elegant indeed!
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin No, I prefer the previous angry rhetoric pls revert the edit
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Sorry, im not very technical.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin angry one's always get attention on internet
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Don't let them get you down.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Keep posting and I'll keep reading.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin There's an emergent ai psychosis psychosis in which idiots can't understand what you're saying so they cry "AI psychosis." It's a good litmus test for someone's intelligence, imho.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I think this is a super legible, digestible, accessible, and coherent take.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I can't really comprehend what Bend2 will be useful for except helping to make bug free software.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Bro, you dont hafta Grug-post to be popular with the right people.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin The more AI advances, the more we need very high level experts in very very specialzed narrow fields, to check results ! ❤️
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I began following you when I scrolled across an image similar to that above, it is the highly technical stuff you post that I enjoy most.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Texto mt bem escrito, ficou bem mais fácil de entender os seus objetivos
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin sometimes the problem isn't explaining something that's hard for people to grasp, but rather getting people to admit when they don't get it
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin high quality post!
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I'm a big fan of Interaction Combinators and I hope you keep going.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin This is so cool and inspiring (not that I understand all of it; that’s part of what makes it inspiring!).
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin adorei ler esse post.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Do people not study lambda calculus in college or at any other point when looking into programming languages?
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin these guys have no idea what they're talking about.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin If you have a system that provably must terminate, what "interesting" statements are you unable to express? And what can only be stated in restricted form?
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin @tsotchke is another good example this is happening to.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin U the best man, keep it up 💙
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin This is a very naive and ignorant question, but now that you've split Type into two sorts, is there anything that could be represented with both variants? and if so, what would happen if someone selected the wrong one for their use csse
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin *sigh* true brother.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin One question: does bend have an unscoped lambda?
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Taelin I've been following you since the beginning: I think the problem is you need to aggressively position yourself and your program as a painkiller.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin This write up was really well done, thank you for taking the time to write it! Broke down the concepts well
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin > most of you can’t understand my posts
Jul 04, 2026
You’re not allowed to praise Fable, you MUST bag everything on the internet 🤣 And god forbid you do anything genuinely impressive!
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin many such cases
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Loved this long post version of yours.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I presume the issue was in duplication inside 0-contexts?
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Do you allow for non-termination on total functions on codata?
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin I'm curious.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Lemme aske gpt for translating
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin man I love what ur doing, keep going! one of the few good uses of AI!
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Very cool.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin russel antinomy •_•
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin karpathy said he had AI psychosis for a while and everyone knows he's very competent
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin Wow, that's impressive! Best argument on the quality of Fable I have read by far.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin It's not how many likes you get, it's likes from who that matter.
Jul 04, 2026
@VictorTaelin In my language I'm trying to do termination by proxy, I.e.
Jul 02, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes I was just about to say I recall pulling this off before for _reasons_
Jul 01, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes There's a lot of old news around.
Jun 30, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes tinyplay does SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS ioctl (referenced in the article alongside REFINE)
Jun 27, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes It's seemingly incorrect due to it's use for NtWaitForAlertByThreadId.
Jun 13, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes most futex impls i've seen check for that and early return before the syscall, but you likely already knew that
Jun 13, 2026
@axelgneiting The glibc implementation would do that.
Jun 13, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes nanosleep(0) will sleep for the timer slack
Jun 13, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes Seems like people trying to push high frame rates would be perfectly fine with just busy spinning at that point
Jun 13, 2026
Why not do a gradual sleeping? Start with
Jun 11, 2026
'dinit' is out (no C++ for me) - so runit wins by default [also future desire to run busybox, so it's the natural choice]
May 30, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes Very keen to see how the GPU side audio turns out!
May 29, 2026
@NOTimothyLottes this doesn't have to be like this ..
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Apples and oranges comparison here
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph It's KWin
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph I suggest you to stick with GLFW if you’re only doing Vulkan.
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Well.
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph What about x11
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Why? Sdl works great
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph fuck x11
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Oddly enough, with how old the wine project is, Win32 might be the most stable API on Linux.
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Elaborate please, I'm still an X11 user
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph windows.h is like a nightmare but real.
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph And let us say Amen
Jan 12, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Get Xlibre instead.
Jan 11, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Hard to believe I’m still writing games in Win32 25 years later.
Jan 11, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Yep.
Jan 11, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph coincidentally, i made a Vulkan Wayland compute engine yesterday in ~600 LoC.
Jan 11, 2026
yeah.
Jan 11, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph Yea windows makes some interesting choices lol.
Jan 11, 2026
@Dispatch_Graph one thing I appreciate about wayland is that it's just a simple protocol spec so you are not married to any particular API/library but yeah it can be a lot of work to get basic things working
Dec 17, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes question is how much overhead.
Nov 25, 2025
@valigo Interestingly, if you try to write Rust in this way, pointer provenance will cause misoptimizations that break everything.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo Wouldn't this make working with arrays more difficult? Array[1] would have to be Array[sizeof(data)] etc
Nov 18, 2025
It is confusing if you aren't used to it, that is true.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo Pointer arithmetic based on type sizes makes sense when considering aligned load/store memory operations.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo For real I'm parsing through a binary array and trying to say "the next byte is a uint8_t, the next two bytes are a uint16_t" and the most elegant way to do it is mind-numbingly ugly pointer bullshit.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo I had the displeasure of being exposed to Hex-Ray’s decompiler for years so I have gotten used to it, but it is annoying ye…
Nov 17, 2025
@valigo @NOTimothyLottes If this is not Timothy Lottes then who is it?
Nov 17, 2025
@valigo His style goes a bit beyond that, judging by the defines used it’s similar to some form of literate programming but with C preprocessor.
Oct 17, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I watched the video and one thing that was not clear to me is why is half of the file wasted.
Oct 13, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes no floats ever logged? or some "agreement" that it's always multiplied by 100000 or something like that? besides, interesting (low-level) ideas I really like :)
Oct 11, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Pinning works well only if your program is the only one working.
Oct 11, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Do you have a source from which one could learn how to achieve the equivalent flexibility by following this approach? Sometimes on gaming devices you only have a handful of threads to deal with unlike on PCs.
Oct 10, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes That’s what I do.
Aug 08, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes so you're preallocating every type of descriptor to a max count and aliasing them with various qualifiers/attributes? all that in a single memory layout?
Aug 02, 2025
@onatt0 @EskilSteenberg @olson_dan So far the plan is to have the data read/write from the GPU, but still use the CPU to do the SPIR-V generation from said data.
Aug 02, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Really hope you do this! Find your posts so interesting but usually fly over my head.
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes What's the top "something else"? I've been out of the space for a while.
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I'm gonna start pretending I understood everything you said
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes VIDEO LINK NOW
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes It doesn't really matter what language you call Vulkan from, the pain is all in the API...
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I know someone who'd be excited @opdroid1234
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I would watch that.
Aug 01, 2025
elaborate on the "CART"-style memory model?
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Sounds super interesting!
Aug 01, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Looking forward to it, what do I bookmark?
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes SPIR-V.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Assembly isn't hard, it's just platform specific, which makes it tedious.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes It was never hard, just tedious.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I have been writing assembly for almost 40 years.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Unrelated, but I would also love a look at your CRTs and how you use them in everyday stuff.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I'm sure it would be invaluable
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I would, and I think more people would be interested.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Given I've only done ASM on Amiga with Devpac, I guess it's probably a limited take, but I enjoyed it and didn't find it harder than say something like C, mostly because the problems I solved back then were 2D domain and the hardware was pretty simple...
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I've been doing assembly a bit in D with the inline assembler and it's very fun to the point where it's too distracting for me, I don't really get why people are so averse to it generally.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes A lot of people who claim assembly is hard just never did any themselves.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I’m learning assembly in my spare time
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I would definitely watch that 🙂
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I'd love to watch that.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes There are a lot of "watch me write this app in assembly" yt videos
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes would watch though
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes If you're got a blank `canvas` go for it.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I'm still doing assembly as hobby :) ( 68k assembly, x64 assembly is not as fun to write).
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I would enjoy watching that.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes i agree, if one is ok with 'bottom up' thinking.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes definitely interested in anything you put out
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I would so love that!
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I'm staying maybe for Vulkan, depending on how manageable it gets to me.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes i would!
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I just wish the win32 API was better designed.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Very interested!
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes That'd rock!
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I am interested
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Would be very interested in it! Also on your Forth inspired languages and the whole mental approach to simplify problem solving with efficiency in mind.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Is it already april’s fools again?
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Please!
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Assembly isn't hard, it's tedious.
Jul 31, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes
Jul 23, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Where does the restart number come from? I assume this is how many times you exited the code and started again automatically using your batch script?
Apr 16, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Could a shader compiler not do this? i.e.
Apr 16, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I would be interested to see a concrete example of this
Apr 16, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes branching, cache locality, and memory handling are key 🔥
Apr 16, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I'd add:
Mar 28, 2025
@SebAaltonen Any tips or existing solutions on achieving something similar in Unity? (in terms of indoor lighting)
Mar 08, 2025
@SebAaltonen Actually this is a super important question IMO.
Feb 15, 2025
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes I don't disagree...
Feb 15, 2025
Usually the key benefit is two fold, making the code truly cross platform and decoupling user level code from a specific rendering api/backend.
Feb 15, 2025
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes the render pipeline is basically a full piece of software trapped in inside of another software
Feb 15, 2025
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes I have exactly that.
Feb 14, 2025
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen Yeah it's a common problem, thin wrapper interfaces reduced to the worst platform's caps then called at high frequency ...
Feb 14, 2025
@simplex_fx @NOTimothyLottes I briefly discussed this topic in my SIGGRAPH 2022 talk.
Feb 14, 2025
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes Every time I abstract at a higher-level I end up precluding some use-case that I didn't anticipate, perhaps because I'm still learning and lack the whole picture.
Feb 14, 2025
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes You can do whatever you want the API.
Jan 29, 2025
@FFmpeg I know a person with a PhD that might disagree with you
Jan 28, 2025
Just raw spatial scaling in a custom resolve/
Jan 28, 2025
@MichalDrobot My mindset is more tuned towards rendering without minSampleShading and using the temporal component to get the shading resolution up since base frame rate will be high anyway.
Jan 27, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes A visualization of said cold caches on a CS workload from Timothy's GDC 2018 Engine Optimization Hot Lap slides: https://gpuopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gdc_2018_sponsored_engine_optimization_hot_lap.pptx
Jan 26, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes My take is similar, but I also feel that a lot of processing is best done predictively in parallel across multiple future frames, one SIMD lane per future frame
Jan 26, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I thought framegen was just an offspring of mpeg2 motion prediction, at least how it was in TVs for 15 years.
Jan 06, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes Some optimization ideas:
Jan 06, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes I was looking at a very similar problem for hemi-octahedrons recently.
Jan 04, 2025
@NOTimothyLottes It's pretty amazing how good the Hastings approximations still are.
Dec 21, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes Have you tried using the Intel cache controls extension I shared earlier to see if they work on AMD?
Dec 18, 2024
@AgileJebrim @SebAaltonen @munohikari (3.) If you had multiple line stores collecting on a given line with ECC, you'd have the same bottleneck as fire-and-forget atomics.
Dec 18, 2024
@AgileJebrim @NOTimothyLottes @munohikari Yes, but it's going to be MUCH slower.
Dec 16, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes @kechogarcia I'm well aware.
Dec 16, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes @GustavSterbrant Fair enough.
Nov 22, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes Shouldn’t uniform be a scalar?
Nov 20, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes How reliable in your experience in code like that is the compilation to avoid branches?
Nov 17, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes Curious why you memory map the 32 bit counter to the file.
Nov 16, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes So each line is 63 spaces followed by a \n, and those 63 spaces get replaced by printable characters dynamically? I have long dreamed of a text format with a fixed 128 byte line width, and cache line size is gradually switching over from 64 to 128
Nov 16, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes Why the heck do you care about cache lines, if you write to a mmaped file? Of course there's overhead: TLBs aren't free.
Nov 16, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes This is super cool, but why map a file and not just stdout?
May 05, 2024
@SebAaltonen It could be a good idea to start without intellisense.
May 05, 2024
@SebAaltonen It’s about leveraging the tools to be as productive as possible.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen I think people should be able to code without tools, but I'm not going to try to take the tools away.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen There is an argument where people build systems as complex and resource intensive as their tooling will allow.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen I guess this is just another expression of the "if I had to suffer, you should too.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen It’s gatekeeping really.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Honestly a lot of the "framework" and "transpiler" idiocy is what makes you reliant on tooling you don't need.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Sometimes we are limited by our environment, which may limit us to the tools available on the device we are working on.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Its not like you should only code without Support, but its nice to be able to.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Why do they teach arithmetic, we all have calculators
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Not Notepad, but I have done a non-zero amount of programming in source control diff tools that have none of those features.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen People will justify programming C/C++ on Linux.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen If you can’t code TCL using VI through a bash terminal on a remote Unix box with CVS SC, you can’t code.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen I would say, you should code in a way that is readable even in notepad.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen The skill issue is strong with this one
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen I learn to code in C++ back in 2011 and my teacher advised us to work for the moment in Notepad++ just to LEARN,for example,I remember when a function receives a pointer to try to call it placing a lot of '*' or '&' and wait for intellisense not to complain about what i'd written
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen And when there is no tool for something, they develop it.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen You never know when a time machine will transport you back into the early 90s and you have to live there and earn a living as software developer.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen It's about gatekeeping and feeling superior, Sebastian.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen ctags and cscope.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Why one would waste time & do things in more error prone ways, when good tools are available.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Legends use nano or vim as well!
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen :-)
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Using CodeBlocks instead of Visual Studio for some time taught me that we created IntelliSense for a reason.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen I know a lot of “professionals” who can’t code at all without an IDE, even on small projects.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen You should be able to program on paper!
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen Ah yes, high school memories where we all wrote HTML code in Notepad.
May 04, 2024
@SebAaltonen If you wouldn't be able to do your job without an IDE there's a problem
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Who cares? Do what makes you happiest and wealthiest.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I wish visual studio had better code context colorization.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Static/globals/#defines were warm
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen The only good faith reply is if you’re a systems engineer and you have to work on remote servers with no ability to run an IDE/Desktop so you’re stuck with VIM (can’t reverse tunnel/mount)
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Nothing wrong with new tools, it's just that most people get used to them and can never go back.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Same reason some large corps demand that we have specific paths for random shit we all use autocomplete for.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen You should write your code on paper by hand 😤 totally
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Being able to code without assistant is a good thing, maybe?
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Still remember how my technical school assigned a literal psychopath to teach us do databases.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen because high arrogance + low intelligence
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Can't stand IDEs, honestly.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I pretty much agree with you, but I started using nvim recently, and it doesn't have an LSP for the a language that I already know very well (gml) And I did learn stuff forgoing the autocomplete, I feel like my knowledge deepened, if that makes sense.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen To flex on others
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I remember having an argument with one of the staffs of 42 about allowing the usage of debuggers in exams as he was totally against the idea leaving us with printf debugging in a 2h exam session.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen As a kid I thought coding seemed cool and wrote a 30 second program in basic in a text file I renamed to an .exe.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Gate keeping programming and thinking it makes you special is incredibly sad.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen There's a big difference between "being able to" and actually doing it.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen People have a superiority complex for working in the hardest way possible because “that’s how I had to do it”.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen You should be able to code in Notepad just so you can truly relish the joy of not having to.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen MAJOR DISAGREE
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen You shouldn’t have to code this way for serious projects.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen He's a boomer.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I think the point is that you should be able to code well enough that IDE is a tool to help you and make you more efficient, not a tool that allows you to do it at all - you can still do it without an IDE, it's just slow and annoying.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen To assert dominance
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Nothing has more forever-a-junior-level-programmer energy than “You should spend more time and energy looking up API calls and typing console commands instead of using that time to iterate on your design and improve your code” takes
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen That is just another IT-twitter bait, just mute or block him, he is fuckwad.
May 03, 2024
I could write all my code in assembler too.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen chill bro it's an engagement bait
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Yeah if it's available use it.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Old guys trying to act like their depreciating skillset makes them more valuable...
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It’s a showcase of the « I’m stronger than you » syndrome so many programmers have.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen For the first few months of my first web development job I was using notepad++.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I was once interviewed where they asked me to write code and diagram databases in Notepad 🤦‍♂️
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I start to consider to go back to a simple text editor, like when I was using emacs at school, juste because VS is getting worse.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen You shouldn't actually do it.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Some people feel scared to give up lower level tasks to automatization.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen blue check farming engagement
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen The key word is ABLE.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It's a meme from a person who posts nothing but memes on Twitter.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen it's bait.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen it's just coder bravado to show off toy algorithms
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Because when you have to fix something on a customer system then usually notepad/vim/nano is literally the only option you have, that's why.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen "You should be able to code with punch cards directly in binary" same energy
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Debate is not about when you don't want to use notepad, but when you are not able to use it.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen The anti-tooling discourse in programming is quite tiring
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen You should be *able* to, it shows that you understand what you're writing, but you shouldn't *actually* do it because it's ridiculously inefficient
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Tbf intelisense is just a faster way of finding the right code/method to do something instead of finding it online or in a book...
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I started in notepad, now I use vim for all my programming needs
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I had that at an interview once.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I once was in an interview where they handed me a pen and paper and said "write this program"
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Honestly the meme works infinitely better if you sub IntelliSense out for Copilot.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen @SebAaltonen use whatever you want
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen The meme isn't saying you shouldn't use it, it's saying you should be *able* to still program without it.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Because that’s how we learned and you should too 😂
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It's like telling a carpenter "You should be able to do all your work without power tools".
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It makes old people feel cool, because they at some point were forced to code like that
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen "Should be able to" doesn't mean "prefer to." It's just a base line level of fluency that implies more experience and probably more competency.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen You are weak
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I think there is some value in this.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It's not about wanting, it's about being able to.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen No need to do that.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen they just gaslight themselves that their broken vim config is equivalent to a proper IDE
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Simple editors tend to lead to other bad choices to compensate.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen This?
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen The decel mind is perplexing 🤔
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Folks advocating for "notepad" coding is much like a grandfather boasting how he walked to school during a blizzard.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen To prove twitter they're good coders
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen i sort of agree, but i'm so often forced to code with no functional IDE when teaching students (cos they haven't set up correctly) that i can say it's a helpful skill to keep.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It's obvious engagement farming / rage bait.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen It's a desire to appear extraordinarily competent without having worked enough for it.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Because I don’t want the distractions, I don’t want my hand held, I just want to type, typos and all.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen I would agree with the original poster.
May 03, 2024
@SebAaltonen Hell, I used notepad++ for my shitty terraria mods and the TML discord act like I sacrificed them all to Satan lmfao
Jan 05, 2024
@NOTimothyLottes It's what debuggers should be.
Dec 17, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Yep put the whole game logic in a game.glsl compute shader.
Dec 17, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes two point six seconds?!! D3D12CreateDevice() on my machine is ~300ms..
Dec 15, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes They design one API for each separate use case instead of making general purpose flexible SIMD hardware and API for the developers to implement what ever algorithm they need.
Aug 18, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes i am not quite sure what do you mean by subpixel scan? do you override the normal (refresh) scanout process?
Aug 18, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes How many passes do you need to produce this result?
Aug 10, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Very interesting "crosstalk from voltage inversion" artifact.
Jul 09, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes https://github.com/wyattscarpenter/wu
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes @Jonathan_Blow i designed a language Beads, which uses a graph DB, has no memory allocation, super modular, approaches this minimalism as close as humanly possible, but billable hour / job security seeking programmers refuse to try it
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Many games used to be like that, at least the ones without dynamic content, mods, etc...
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes I was calling it "disoriented programming" just the other day.
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes NOP is ideal.
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Can teach it in abstinence-only programming classes!
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Looks like a koala
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Best software is absense of it:
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes c++ to √c
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Folks, they're calling it "computer oriented programming".
Jul 01, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes
Jun 30, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Would be nice to talk a full presentation about this topic, but people want me to show cool tech and pretty pixels instead.
Jun 30, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Once in a while people need to be reminded to stop the bloat, understand the machine guts and be self aware about productive process
Jun 30, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes I like this, given I never write code any more.
Jun 30, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes $4e71
Jun 20, 2023
Or for an APU, a way to have the storage device write direct to DRAM in pages setup for use on the GPU, because anything the CPU writes that the GPU reads is stuck on the strangled snooping bus or the strangled WC buffer limit on store.
Jun 20, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Great thread!
Jun 20, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes On Linux, NVIDIA has a very good UVM.
May 06, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Thanks for digging those up! Great stuff, very inspiring.
May 04, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes This is when I learned about your work and found it incredible.
May 03, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Great to see these return.
May 03, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes I remember watching all of these blog entries fondly ❤
May 03, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Is the blog still up somewhere?
May 03, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes Did you write an engine called Atom? Talked about it on the http://OpenGL.org forum?
May 03, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes I remember all those fondly.
May 03, 2023
@NOTimothyLottes My former thesis advisor was a big proponent of forth.
Apr 27, 2023
@kenpex The "What if we're in an apocalypse?" part is very 'whatever' to me, but in general I find this and similar projects really cool!
Apr 26, 2023
@kenpex I was curious about what it would take to recreate today’s tech “from scratch” if a giant EMP went off.
Apr 26, 2023
@kenpex This is actually a fantastic project though.
Apr 26, 2023
@kenpex Some people have too much time for hobby projects.
Apr 26, 2023
@kenpex I find the context hilarious, but Forth as asm-level-yet-very-usable-mini-OS has been done, as the boot firmware for OLPC (http://laptop.org) for many years.
Apr 25, 2023
@kenpex [Asimov vibes intensify]
Apr 25, 2023
@kenpex Indeed.

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