Jeff Martin @cuchaz@mastodon.technology

Finally got my single-board-computer working as a USB device!

Now to get the host side working.

And here's a shoutout to the Linux kernel for letting me do almost all of this in user-space!

I could just convert them all to Git and upload to my GitHub (https://github.com/cuchaz), but that sounds like a lot of work for ~20 different repos. I'm far too lazy for that.

If you're reading this and you still actually care about one of these old projects, let me know. If you ask nicely, I'll convert the repo and put it on GitHub for you.

BitBucket is deleting all of my source code repositories because Mercurial lost the dev wars to Git. Meh, it's up to Atlassian I guess. It's a free service after all.

https://bitbucket.org/cuchaz/

This includes a bunch of old projects I don't maintain anymore like Ships Mod, Power Tools, my mod loader system, Enigma, JFXGL.

I've backed up all the source code so it won't be lost forever, but Atlassian's decision means the code won't be available online anymore.

Spot on!

A NVIDIA Engineer In His Spare Time Wrote A Vulkan Driver That Works On Older Raspberry Pi
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RPi-VK-Driver

It’s nice to see some innovation in email for a change!

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1272533521266073601

But would it be too much to ask that we can have a nice email client without sending all our mail to some company first?

Easily rename your Git default branch from ‘master’ to ‘main’.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx

The current state of project Loom in the JDK. Aka, user space threads, aka coroutines.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.html

The Interruptible Programmer:

https://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/

This describes me much more accurately than I’d like to admit.

I just spent the last few days optimizing some CUDA kernels to go super fast.

It's *so much* effort to worry about memory alignments, access patterns, getting the compiler to emit wide load instructions and other special things on the hot path, vector math, math intrinsics, register usage, warp schedulers, etc.

But it's also *super* rewarding to see the huge impact all that stuff has on performance. It feels like all that hard work pays off when your code literally gets 10x faster! =D

Wow, I ran across my first ever c++ compiler crash in the wild today.

Those things are so battle-tested that usually someone else finds all the bugs before you do.

I feel special now.