A weekend's (re)reading list

28 Jul, 2024

This weekend, I am mostly reading about my typical concerns:

• systems programming
• the lower level lands

and a recent addition: font rendering (as I continue to slowly but surely work on Emerald).

A lot of these are re-reads, looping back after several weeks and hoping that my brain is more prepared to take in the information. Here's all the articles.

Articles

From Matklad

• What is an Invariant?
• Properly Testing Concurrent Data Structures
• How a Zig IDE Could Work

From Scattered Thought

• The shape of data
• Implementing interactive languages!
• Baby's first wasm compiler
• Baby's second wasm compiler
• Notes on compiler IRs

From Maharshi

• Informal approach to attention mechanisms

From swtch

• How To Build a User-Level CPU Profiler
• Minimal Boolean Formulas
• UTF-8: Bits, Bytes, and Benefits
• Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit!

From Colin

• Resources for Building Programming Languages
• Little 'Big Ideas' in Programming Language Design

From David

• C Is Not a Low-level Language -> this is a good example of a re-read, already went through this, the references and related conversions earlier this month

From Dzone

• Too Fast, Too Megamorphic: what influences method call performance in Java?

Entering font rendering lands

• Improving the Font Pipeline
• Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU
• Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
• going through a bunch of resources on A Gentle Introduction to Computer Graphics