tl;dr: Valgrind! As a language, Rust puts memory safety at its heart, in addition to trying to be a more accessible and beginner-friendly route into low level systems development, and for most uses, it lives up to that. The borrow-checker ensures that there are no nasty dangling pointers or badly used variables to cause segfaults,… Continue reading if your rust’s unsafe, and it don’t look good, who ya gonna call?
Category: Software Development
going from tech writer to developer: how i did it
Once, nearly ten years ago, I was a tech writer. It was how I got my start in the IT industry, and since then I’ve worked as a developer and a devops engineer. I think I’ve had quite an interesting journey in the world of technology, and this post is something I’ve kicked around for… Continue reading going from tech writer to developer: how i did it
installing renderdoc on linux: the road to happiness
If like me you enjoy messing around with Vulkan, I’m sure you’ll be familiar with Renderdoc, the awesomest open-source graphics debugger ever. RenderDoc is a vital tool in sorting out most weird graphical errors that you’ll encounter in your graphics development adventures (it sure is for me), however on Linux things are a bit… homespun.… Continue reading installing renderdoc on linux: the road to happiness
and finally, a snow storm broke out in hell today…
So for a large chunk of my life, I didn’t like using Microsoft products. Why? Well, a youth of Visual Basic 6 high school computing assignments for one. VB6 has made more money than God, but on the other hand it epitomised for my everything I disliked about Microsoft: it was slow, locked down to… Continue reading and finally, a snow storm broke out in hell today…
pop goes the computer
To those outside of the Linux world, “Linux” is taken to be like “Windows” or “Mac OS”. To those of us who use it regularly, it’s actually “GNU/Linux” as it’s the combination of the GNU userland with the Linux kernel, and variations on this actually form a whole galaxy of operating systems that share a… Continue reading pop goes the computer
vulkan ubuntu 18.04 upgrade problems: the road to happiness
Maybe I should make “The Road To Happiness” a series or something, but I’ve been having some knotty little problems with getting the Vulkan SDK working since upgrading from my old Ubuntu 16.04 installation to the nice, shiny new Ubuntu 18.04. One of the helpful things that happened was that my Vulkan SDK I downloaded from… Continue reading vulkan ubuntu 18.04 upgrade problems: the road to happiness
lwjgl, maven and the path to happiness
The world of gamedev tutorials and Java is a hazardous one. The internet is full of outdated, broken tutorials that use long-abandoned bindings to OpenGL, engines that use out of date libraries, shit “personal toolkits” that work fine for a particular developer but no-one else and all other kinds of nonsense. How do I know… Continue reading lwjgl, maven and the path to happiness
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