a curated feed of updates to the house

featured I was bored over a weekend, so I decided to write the tiniest programming language I could imagine. it came out looking pretty Lispy, and I’m glad about that! I learned a ton about Lisps in the process of researching it. even though it didn’t end up having macros…

haku - writing a little programming language for fun

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sometimes people call me crazy for saying that bashing JavaScript is senseless and that it’s not as bad of a language as people make it out to be. so I decided to collect my thoughts into a nice little page I can link easily.

JavaScript is not as bad as people make it out to be

why dude why

a friend of mine asked if it makes sense to define your own wrapper class for SDL_Window the way Lazy Foo does it. I told him there’s no reason to do that in modern C++, because std::unique_ptr can do everything for you anyways.

freeing C memory automatically using std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr

_{on another note, I did read a blog post about this once somewhere, but couldn’t be bothered to find it. so there you go! I made a post about this too.}

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it’s updatin’ time! I took some time to clean up old pages and update my about me.
over time I’ve been learning how to write content on the treehouse effectively, and the new about me reflects that.

about me (version 2)

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I recently got a question from my someone telling me they doesn’t understand why *x does not read from the pointer x when on the left-hand side of an assignment. and that made me think,

what’s up with *x not always meaning the same thing in different contexts?

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I’ve been thinking recently how cool it is to be able to single-step into Unreal Engine’s source code and edit it while you’re working with it, and how uncool it is that I can’t do the same thing easily in the Rust world.

after all, aren’t we just dealing with a bunch of code running on the computer? why not let me poke at it?

systems are just a bunch of code

can you can read other people’s code? bonus: dismantling Unreal Engine’s GENERATED_BODY

last night I couldn’t sleep because of type theory. in the process of trying to write down my thoughts, I ended up discovering a class of types which, to my knowledge, no language implements.

OR-types

what the hell do you mean, aren’t sum types exactly that??

I really like Lua, did you know that? but I get kind of tired of explaining why a thousand times to people who don’t know the language, so…

programming languages: Lua

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sidebars! also known as, ”enjoying the main content? how about I distract you from it so that you can’t focus!”
seriously though. I don’t like them.

design: sidebars

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I started a branch on user interface and user experience design, because I was working with mintty at work and had some thoughts about it.

“why does mintty always feel so out of place compared to cmd.exe?”

liquidex’s treehouse: design

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ever wondered how Terraria renders its worlds? or how editors like Tiled manage to make painting tiles so easy?

tairu - an interactive exploration of 2D autotiling techniques

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