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Ruuuust! *shakes fist*
Our project is to make an Intel 8080 emulator that’ll run Space Invaders, and a big part of it is getting the images the emulator is thinking about to show on screen. We decided to use the SDL2 crate because it can handle the display and the keyboard, and it’s pretty low level which is…
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Working in the cruft mines
So, cruft. The software equivalent of those boxes in the back of the closet that you take with you every time you move, but you never open them or really remember what’s in them, and a few more show up each time, until they form part of the load-bearing infrastructure of your house and you’re…
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The sublime pleasure of drinking from the firehose
IMO: As a tech person, from the newest frontline help desker to the most senior engineering architect, the most important thing to have isn’t certifications or degrees, but a slightly obsessive, maybe even a touch masochistic, fascination with why. Why does this work? Why doesn’t that work? Why are we doing it like that? Why…
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Hello World
It’s been a long time since I’ve done any blogging, but I’m taking the computer science capstone class at Oregon State University and it requires a regular blog so I’m gonna do my best! A bit about me, I’m a site reliability engineer by day, which is software engineering adjacent. I do a lot of…