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by petabytes 3y ago
Im currently working on a large scale commercial app in C. You have to be very careful with memory and safety, but overall it's so much better than writing apps in JavaScript, Java, or any other language I can think of.
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by petabytes 3y ago
https://riju.codes/ is similar, and a real gem
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by petabytes 3y ago
My blog is pretty low-effort but sometimes I will post a writeup of one of my projects: https://danielc.dev/blog
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by petabytes 3y ago
I've always had the dream of setting up a remote telescope in my backyard, but light pollution has gotten so bad in my area.
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by petabytes 3y ago
I had a similar situation with programming, I wanted to make a ton of money with a successful game, but I ended up quitting halfway through. I hated it. Eventually I settled on making a niche wifi app, and ended up enjoying most it. Didn&#x
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by petabytes 3y ago
I'm working on some bare metal ARM32 firmware, and I can't find a language that comes close to C. I can get it to generate pretty much any assembly I can think of. Other languages make it a pain to write memory unsafe code.
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by petabytes 3y ago
Main thing that bothers me with electron is RAM usage (300mb I think?). And when I tested a WebView/tauri demo, RAM usage ended up being about the same since it had to load webkit.
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by petabytes 3y ago
My Fujifilm firmware reverse engineering project has been incredibly difficult so far. The codebase isn't that complicated, but reverse engineering the most cryptic and obscure embedded RTOS I've ever seen is next to impossible.
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by petabytes 3y ago
Reminds me of the 256 byte OS I made, which was really just a BrainFuck ripoff with a prompt. Went on to make a huge assembler and "kernel" for it.