Assorted links for Friday, April 4:
- Quake’s 3-D Engine: The Big Picture
- Reasoning about colors
In July 2020 I went on a color-scheme vision quest. This led to some research on various color spaces and their utility, some investigation into the styling guidelines outlined by the base16 project, and the color utilities that ship within the GNU Emacs text editor. This article will be a whirlwind tour of things you can do to individual colors, and at the end how I put these blocks together.
- Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.
In this article I will demonstrate that while hardware changed dramatically over the past decade, software APIs have not, or at least not enough. Riddled with memory copies, memory allocations, overly optimistic read ahead caching and all sorts of expensive operations, legacy APIs prevent us from making the most of our modern devices.
- How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
[eBPF and io_uring] may look evolutionary, but they are revolutionary in the sense that they will — we bet — completely change the way applications work with and think about the Linux Kernel.
- An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
I thought it would be helpful to write a guide to dev tools outside of Google for the ex-Googler, written with an eye toward pragmatism and practicality. No doubt many ex-Googlers wish they could simply clone the Google internal environment to their new company, but you can’t boil the ocean. Here is my take on where you should start and a general path I think ex-Googlers can take to find the tools that will make them - and their new teams - as productive as possible.