This is a post about my personal life and my mental health and something I want to try to fix things (even though I have no idea if it will work) and see if I can help my burnout recovery. If you’re here for my tech stuff, you can safely skip this one.| Eniko does bad things to code
This is the second in a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. In this edition we’re going to look at the VM’s design for memory management and safety. To start with I’ll remind you of the design goals for this VM as detailed in my last post, with those that apply here in bold: Must be fast The IR must be compatible with standard C Can run in a browser The VM must be easy to implement Not to give away the twist, but when you combine p...| Eniko does bad things to code
This is the third in a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. I’ve talked a lot about Bismuth, mostly on social media, but I don’t think I’ve done a good job at communicating how you go from some code to a program in this VM. In this post I aim to rectify that by walking you through the entire life cycle of a hello world Bismuth program, from the highest level to the lowest.let hello = data_utf8("Hello world!\n");func main() i32 { // ...| Eniko does bad things to code
This is the first post in what will hopefully become a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. This post will touch on some of the design fundamentals and goals, with future posts going into more detail on each. But to explain how I got here I first have to tell you about Bismuth, the kernel.| Eniko does bad things to code
Elon Musk just forced through the new blocking changes on Twitter (also known as X, but I refuse to call it that) where blocking someone means they can still see your posts. That and the news that in November all data will be used to train his shitty AI, Grok, without an opt-out, has caused another exodus from Twitter. As a result my Bluesky account has gone from 2.5k followers to 3k. On the fediverse my Mastodon account just hit 9,900 followers, and I’m hoping I’ll get to that coveted 10...| Eniko does bad things to code
I decided I wanted something a little slicker than a command line for my new blog so I went with Publii. Unfortunately, that made integrating pulling a thread from Mastodon for comments a little bit trickier than I think it would’ve been otherwise. In this post I’ll go through how I wound up doing it.| Eniko does bad things to code
One of my earliest childhood memories, and one of the few positive memories I have of my dad (a malignant narcissist and an alcoholic who drank himself to death) was my father playing Ultima 4. Well, not so much “playing” as mapping out the world. The living room floor would be covered in graph paper that he meticulously filled in with all the tiles in the game. I remember playing Ultima 4, 5, 6, and 7 as a kid. I wasn’t good at playing them, mind you. I spent most of my time in Ultima ...| Eniko does bad things to code
