Today I learned about the vDSO on the Linux man page: vdso(7) — Linux manual page. It’s a facility for replacing syscalls with normal user-space function calls for things like getting the time of day for better performance.
A quick search for arduino fuses programming turned up a bunch of results:
This evening I fell into a gameboy rabbit hole:
Man I was just browsing some old code and found myself over here: https://www.progclub.org/pcrepo/pccipher/trunk/php/src/pccipher_blowfish_64.php.
I committed that code in 2012, that’s 11 years and 4 months ago. Wow. Seems like yesterday. How time flies!
This in my feed today: Formalizing the proof of PFR in Lean4 using Blueprint: a short tour by Terence Tao. I would like to learn Lean.
Found an old LWN article: Moving interrupts to threads.
Today I discovered SolidusCode on YouTube. Here is some of their stuff:
I had a read of a few Linux Journal articles today. Easy reads that give you a high level view of what’s available:
Ordered on Amazon today:
I’m not sure what to make of the fact that these books are nearly 20 years old… totally out of date, but all that is available? What’s up with that?
Here’s an interesting talk about how we won’t need programmers very soon: Large Language Models and The End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh.
If refers to the following books: