What are you coding?
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I still have this one (Martyn not Martin) covered the fundamentals decently, I've got the RISC OS Programmers Reference Guide somewhere as well but probably in storage now - couldn't find it from a quick dig.
Sadly I've forgotten most of what I know now about ARM programming - I look back at some of the stuff I did and was like "I did that!?!" - OK some techniques are extremely dated now hah.
C# developer, programmed to many languages to list.
Been lead developer / technical architect in the past, highly scalable enterprise software is what I work on. It's all in the core design, get this wrong and the project will suffer. Refactor early as possible, the longer issues are left the more you will suffer later.
Was trained by one of the x concorde software engineers after uni, was taught modular development and the importance of fail safe that has stayed with me.
Remember, software makes computers run slow so only process what is required and release resources immediately. Always attempt to reduce database IO, that's where the slowdowns normally occur. In testing it's one thing to have 10 users logged into your system, the real tests is when many hundreds are logged in, then you'll know how well your architecture is.
Been lead developer / technical architect in the past, highly scalable enterprise software is what I work on. It's all in the core design, get this wrong and the project will suffer. Refactor early as possible, the longer issues are left the more you will suffer later.
Was trained by one of the x concorde software engineers after uni, was taught modular development and the importance of fail safe that has stayed with me.
Remember, software makes computers run slow so only process what is required and release resources immediately. Always attempt to reduce database IO, that's where the slowdowns normally occur. In testing it's one thing to have 10 users logged into your system, the real tests is when many hundreds are logged in, then you'll know how well your architecture is.
I remember Cycloids - my sister was annoyingly good at it - much better than I was. I can't remember if I've played any of his other games or not.
Never been interested in front-end stuff but due to some things at work, I've been dabbling and actually enjoying it. Perhaps I underestimated how much I enjoy a visual output to stuff.
I've got another hackathon coming up in September so I'll just stick with it because at least I'll be able to contribute something lol.
For context: I'm a delivery manager for digital 'stuff' but have always tinkered with coding etc. There is a plan to move me into DevOps But this may involve me having to drop a few grades which is fine because I find that work stimulates my mind much more than current role does.
I've got another hackathon coming up in September so I'll just stick with it because at least I'll be able to contribute something lol.
For context: I'm a delivery manager for digital 'stuff' but have always tinkered with coding etc. There is a plan to move me into DevOps But this may involve me having to drop a few grades which is fine because I find that work stimulates my mind much more than current role does.
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GitHub - leezer3/OpenBVE: OpenBVE- A free train simulator
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I've written a lot of papyrus scripts for Skyrim mods not sure if that counts heh. Currently messing about with Blender
Heh I've still got one for 6502 assembly language for the BBC Micro somewhere or other can still remember most of thatI still have this one (Martyn not Martin) covered the fundamentals decently, I've got the RISC OS Programmers Reference Guide somewhere as well but probably in storage now - couldn't find it from a quick dig.
Sadly I've forgotten most of what I know now about ARM programming - I look back at some of the stuff I did and was like "I did that!?!" - OK some techniques are extremely dated now hah.
Thread revival... 
I've got a couple of projects on the go at the moment. Well, when I can find the time. I just pick them up and hack around a bit, they get left for weeks, months, years... rinse and repeat!
First up is a real time path tracer using C++ and CUDA. No rasterisation, just pure CUDA (ok, just a bit of OpenGL Interop so I have a framebuffer I can write to, then present to the screen).
Secondly, a Frog game.
C++ and migrated to use the latest Unreal Engine.
I've got a couple of projects on the go at the moment. Well, when I can find the time. I just pick them up and hack around a bit, they get left for weeks, months, years... rinse and repeat!
First up is a real time path tracer using C++ and CUDA. No rasterisation, just pure CUDA (ok, just a bit of OpenGL Interop so I have a framebuffer I can write to, then present to the screen).
Secondly, a Frog game.
C++ and migrated to use the latest Unreal Engine.
I've been wanting to build a full-stack web app for a while now and since the UK job market is... well, let's just say I've had some free time, I finally got round to it. And as someone that starts a hundred projects and never finishes one, I can finally say I've launched something.
It's a ridiculous concept where the more you pay, the higher you rank. It's purely for a bit of fun, for people to advertise themselves or their business, and of course, what we all love, internet points!
This was a learning project first and foremost for me, built with: MongoDB, Express, Next.js, Node.js, Tailwind, Stripe
Check it out
https://theinternetrichlist.com
Probably won't solve my financial crisis but I enjoyed the process. Onto the next one!
It's a ridiculous concept where the more you pay, the higher you rank. It's purely for a bit of fun, for people to advertise themselves or their business, and of course, what we all love, internet points!
This was a learning project first and foremost for me, built with: MongoDB, Express, Next.js, Node.js, Tailwind, Stripe
Check it out
https://theinternetrichlist.com
Probably won't solve my financial crisis but I enjoyed the process. Onto the next one!
Just spent the last few days learning python. I have ollama running mistral in a VM for testing writing agents etc.
The python coding is running in a jupyter lab desktop in the VM for analysis of sound - specifically for my fret analysis. Not finished but I have some visualisations setup but I've just twigged I may need to go back to the start.
I'm attempting NOT to simply use a neural network and train it up, but instead use data science in terms of standard algorithms. It pushes you to work through the data more than throwing at a net.
The python coding is running in a jupyter lab desktop in the VM for analysis of sound - specifically for my fret analysis. Not finished but I have some visualisations setup but I've just twigged I may need to go back to the start.
I'm attempting NOT to simply use a neural network and train it up, but instead use data science in terms of standard algorithms. It pushes you to work through the data more than throwing at a net.
Managed to spend another couple of hours on this but really struggling for "free" time right now.
In the day job, I'm banging my head against a wall trying to get around some seemingly deep-rooted WinUI 3 issues on behalf of a client. Wonderful.
In the day job, I'm banging my head against a wall trying to get around some seemingly deep-rooted WinUI 3 issues on behalf of a client. Wonderful.
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Never had an interest in coding until ChatGPT came along. Always had a plethora of python, bash, powershell and bat script that I've stolen and built up over the years.
Last few weeks I've been using Rust to redo any old tool I've made in the past, really enjoying it, especially the Raspberry Pi projects
Love the Warp web servers you can make in Rust, all self contained in one executable.
Last few weeks I've been using Rust to redo any old tool I've made in the past, really enjoying it, especially the Raspberry Pi projects
Love the Warp web servers you can make in Rust, all self contained in one executable.
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Been vaguely attempting to make an iOS Chinese dictionary app. I started a couple of years ago but it’s hard to work on it consistently because I do dev work as my actual job too and I don’t really want to spend too much of my free time also staring at a computer screen.
Never had an interest in coding until ChatGPT came along. Always had a plethora of python, bash, powershell and bat script that I've stolen and built up over the years.
Last few weeks I've been using Rust to redo any old tool I've made in the past, really enjoying it, especially the Raspberry Pi projects
Love the Warp web servers you can make in Rust, all self contained in one executable.
For the longest time I've reflexively hated Rust. A combination of it's ungodly syntax, but mostly the 'rubyesque' nature of the hype around it and the folks involved with it.
Anyway, suffice it to say a couple months back I decided to write a toy trading exchange in it, and ... I kinda fell for it. I've written quite a lot of go, a language i admire but not terribly like or enjoy. But rust just felt nice. I don't have much need to use it day to day but was a little eye opening to build a real product in it. I since wrote some realtime trading apps in it as well and they just work. They do in go too actually, but the microstutters from GC and just the sheer annoyance of error handling in go, I enjoyed writing the rust versions far more.
Funny you should mention that. I've had my eye on Go and Rust as I'm primarily a Python and JavaScript programmer. My first ever programming language was C and programming in Go really reminds me of that. The simplicity is what I like. Having said that I would like to learn Rust as it is one of the "trendy" things at the moment. I'll have a play around with it at some point.