(partly this is laziness -- it looks like it's a lot easier to just do the Vulkan plumbing code for simple compute than to set up the entire old-school rasterization pipeline social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01GQC9SRCE4AQRZ1Y0TS1K4RRQ)

"Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem" (2020) lwn.net/Articles/814587/

hack day set in one of the computer museums that has working old computers -- you're not allowed to bring your laptop or phone, you all have to actually code on the PDP or Apple II or SGI workstation or whatever

"some tests, in fact, showed that 3-year-olds could do it in 10 seconds, and 5-year-olds could do it in 12 seconds, and adults sometimes failed" vimeo.com/36122966#t=928s

i spent like an hour today trying to debug a graphviz syntax error T_T

reading web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/fontcatalog.pdf

programming language where you provide an 'initial guess' return value every time you define a function

i want to post a video of current work but my server doesn't support video yet :')