social.noyu.me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRltNxBvMDg

current status: relieved that [@(NAN) isEqualTo: @(NAN)] == YES

the emotional rollercoaster of

😨 oh god how the hell do you implement va_list
😌 ah it’s just a void * pointing to the stack
😱 but the first few args can be passed in registers
😮 oh, the callee can just push them to the stack
🤯 …and the arguments end up in the right order if you do!

Pizzicato Strings is the most MIDI instrument

you know what? fuck you

unarpeggiates your Prelude

https://hikari.noyu.me/etc/2022-12-28-unarpeggiated-prelude.mp4

ME: if objc_msgSendSuper is so good why isn’t there an objc_msgSendSuper2 😏
APPLE: you’re never gonna believe this

FSF may do a lot of harm to the open-source movement at times, but their insistence on copylefting everything lets me legally extract certain critical binaries from otherwise-proprietary systems and avoid ungodly amounts of effort, so, it’s impossible to say if they’re bad or not

god i love music from the era where game soundtracks had to be sampled that leans into the sampling. who says notes have to have a gradual attack and decay? who says sampled instruments have to even remotely sound like the things they’re sampled from?

what’s the difference between globalisation and internationalisation? that’s simple. globalisation is a word that terrifies fascists, whereas internationalisation is a word that terrifies programmers

I don’t know why people complain about x86 having too few registers. it has 2³⁰ of them,