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Zero Heap Allocations at 1.18 GB/s: Deep Dive into ForgeZero 4.0.x

What happens when you migrate a system tool from pure Node.js to Go, strip out the standard GC-heavy paths, and force a file system engine to hit 0 al…

Devlog 1: I tried building an SNES game with the super FX chip

Part identifier This is part 1 of the Making an SNES super FX game series. What did I do It started with me using homebrew to download the cc65 assemb…

Ghost in the Stack (Part 1): Why uninitialized variables remember old data

Have you ever written a C program, run it, and watched it print values you never assigned? At first glance, it feels almost as if old data is haunting…

Designing a Scientific Calculator from scratch in FPGA

ForgeZero v1.0 on Go: the assembly builder that gobbles up folders and doesn't whine

Yo, AlexVoste back again. Not long ago I wrote about my ForgeZero builder written in vanilla Node.js – zero dependencies, pure pain. Well, time flies,…

HDD Firmware Hacking Part 1

Dart Live, a compiler, VM, analyzer and hot reload on the web via Wasm

I managed to get the Dart VM to compile to WebAssembly so that I can compile Dart programs in the browser. Dart ships with a basic ARM interpreter and…

Some basic understanding of function calls

Functions are a very important concept in program design. They can encapsulate relatively independent logic into a simple call, increasing the reusabi…

building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

sectorllm: llama2 inference in < 1500 bytes of x86 assembly

This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code