Nand2Tetris is a very interesting "learning by doing" free and open-source course that enables one to learn how a computer is designed from the ground up, and also how it is programmed from the very lowest of levels. It is a fantastic course offered in two parts (first building the hardware for the computer, and then the software) and is ... → Continue reading
This is the second in a series of blog posts related to some powerful features of
git I've used over the years. Previously, I wrote about git rebase --onto which
you can read here.
git offers many powerful features, and one such feature I have used
extensively in kernel development is git rebase --interactive. Here is what the man
page ... → Continue reading
On one of my daily trawlings of Hacker News, I came across Julia Evans' blogpost on
confusing git
terminology
that lists git rebase --onto as one such confusing command. I had never used this
--onto flag before and her description didn't really help me visualize the problem
or the solution.
I shrugged and let it go, not thinking much of ... → Continue reading
I recently had to learn Go. I was on a tight timeline of just about 4 or 5 days. I am familiar with learning Rust, and Rust by Example, so I found Go by Example. I found the format wanting for the absolute beginner level I was at, so I found the absolutely beautiful A Tour of Go instead. It ... → Continue reading
I just installed Visual Studio Code (VS Code) on my Arch Linux machine, and one
of the first things I did was to install the vim extension.
I love vim and so I needed its keybindings in VS Code. But it was missing a
couple of features I wanted, so I enabled them.
The shortcut to summon the Settings page ... → Continue reading
add-maintainer.pyI worked on adding a new script to improve the workflow of developers contributing patches to the Linux kernel. Here it is:
[PATCH v2 0/1] Add add-maintainer.py script - Guru Das Srinagesh
Its fate is yet to be decided - it's only at v2 now, and looks like there is already a mature tool named b4 that ... → Continue reading
I've always wanted my own website. Like, forever. Not Wordpress-like, but my own, written from scratch. I figured out that this meant that I would have to use a static site generator. This post is all about how I bought my first domain, chose a hosting provider, set up DNS correctly, generated my website's content, and set up auto-deploy ... → Continue reading