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Texture-less Text Rendering

poniesandlight.co.uk

Written on Oct 25 2024, by @tgfrerer. Sometimes, all you want is to quickly print some...
Written on Oct 25 2024, by @tgfrerer. Sometimes, all you want is to quickly print some text into a Renderpass. But traditionally, drawing text requires you first to render all possible glyphs of a font into an atlas, to bind this atlas as a texture, and then to render glyphs one by one by drawing triangles on screen...

c++graphics
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Seeing Like a Programmer (LambdaConf 2024) — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

chriskrycho.com

Assumed audience: People interested in how we can make good software. In more than one sense...
Assumed audience: People interested in how we can make good software. In more than one sense of the phrase “good software”. That means not just software engineers. A bit of context: Today I gave the second of two talks at LambdaConf 2024: exploring what we can do to make our software better… and also what to do to m...

donella meadows james c. scott programming public speaking software development
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
1
Rewrite it in Rails

bearblog.dev

ruby rust
2
GitHub - goblint/cil: C Intermediate Language

github.com

compilers ml
2
ISO/IEC 9899:2024

iso.org

The C23 standard has been published. Comments
1
Porting ioquake3 from SDL2 to SDL3

youtube.com

games science & technology video
1
What is the point of an online conference?

scattered-thoughts.net

databases event
2
Purity is Great for Collaboration

mccd.space

When people talk about the benefits of purity in functional programming, the benefits that are often...
When people talk about the benefits of purity in functional programming, the benefits that are often mentioned are equational reasoning (if the language is lazy), ease of testing, memoization and ease of parallelization. To me, these are all great benefits, but might not be enough to convince a skeptic. What I often...

elm practices
1
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

pragprog.com

Tweet this Pages: 270 Published: October 2024 ISBN: 9798888650639 In Print Explore seven older computer languages...
Tweet this Pages: 270 Published: October 2024 ISBN: 9798888650639 In Print Explore seven older computer languages and discover new and fresh ideas that will change the way you think about programming. These languages were invented before we settled into our current C-style syntax and OO biases, so language designers...

apl forth occam plt programming languages
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Checking linearizability in Go | notes.eatonphil.com

eatonphil.com

You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to...
You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to have to deal with the JVM. Porcupine, used by a number of real-world systems like etcd and TiDB, has you covered! Importantly, neither Jepsen projects nor Porcupine can prove linearizability. They can only help you buil...

distributed go
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Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart – Sophie Alpert

sophiebits.com

practices
2
Hotwire is... boring

reddit.com

ruby
1
Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

mattgreer.dev

Making a new game from scratch for a forgotten Nintendo peripheralI recently finished making Solitaire for...
Making a new game from scratch for a forgotten Nintendo peripheralI recently finished making Solitaire for the Nintendo E-Reader. I managed to fit it onto a single card, and it's a pretty full featured version of the game. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I figured I'd talk a bit about how I made it in what ...

games retrocomputing
2
October project goals update | Rust Blog

rust-lang.org

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 26 project goals, with 3 of...
The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 26 project goals, with 3 of them designed as flagship goals. This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for any particular goal are available in its associated tracking issue on t...

rust
1
Pony: High-Performance, Memory-Safe Actors (with Sean Allen)

youtu.be

people & blogs plt video
1
Nobody cares about decentralization until they do

kyefox.com

distributed tech
2
Racket (@racketlang@functional.cafe)

functional.cafe

lisp
1
Hanging Punctuation in Pandoc – pandoc-hanging-punctuation

jez.io

css lua show
1
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern

decodable.co

Over the last few years, the outbox pattern has become a common solution for implementing data...
Over the last few years, the outbox pattern has become a common solution for implementing data exchange flows between microservices. It allows services to safely and reliably update their own local datastore and at the same time send out notifications to other services via data streaming platforms such as Apache Kaf...

databases distributed
1
Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

trailofbits.com

security
2
A Dream of an Ultimate OS

okmij.org

osdev
1
ASCII control characters in my terminal

jvns.ca

programming unix
2
Hurmet Sample

hurmet.org

math
2