Programming

Quick links

• https://man.archlinux.org/man/m4.1p.en
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta

Next steps

What I eagerly want to do next

• Try my hand at SNOBOL4
• Create a toy compiler with LLVM and GCC
• Adopt all testing produceres described for SQLite, specially setting up AFL++ to fuzz test my code
• Try my hand at cross compilation
• Make my first installer for Windows
• Use PGO with actual improvements
• Code coverage
• Some sort of documentation generation
• Unit tests, integration tests
• Learn what is CI/CD
• Software bill of materials (SBOM) production
• Do a n-split Ragel thing
• Experiments with SO_REUSEPORT
• Figure out code formatting for groff (already done ad nauseum by many people)
• Document and refine my dependency calculation for m4 and pic, and resource management for groff and gamedev
• Investigate ASN.1
• Return to competitive programming

What terrifies me

• Binary compatibility
• Logging
• Accessbility

Problems

• Automatic .gitignore for generated code
• Use m4 or a subset of it as a library for a Web server, it could generate thousands of little buffers and then we use XGH_C(uv_write) to send most of all at once

Flaws in my formation

• Ability to calculate time complexity of an algorithm
• Basic knowledge of concurrency primitives such as mutexes and semaphores

Comsumption

Books I've read

• Effective Java, third edition

Books that I own physically, but that I have not read at all

• Algorithms by CLRS
• Graphics Gems
• Practical Computer Vision Using C

Books that I might read

• The fish book: Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
• Effective C
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma

Lists of books

• Mathematics | /sci/ Wiki | Fandom
• free-programming-books
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Design_Programs

RFCs I've read

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6570
• RFC2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
• RFC3875 The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1
• RFC1436 The Internet Gopher Protocol
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
• RFC3986 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
• RFC4646 Tags for Identifying Languages

RFCs I've not read

• RFC7540 Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
• RFC5246 The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
• RFC8446 The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3

Talks I've watched

I've watched them asychronously. This list is not ordered by watch order

• A Fast Wait-Free Hash Table: I get the gist, but I have not attempted to implement it
• What the heck is the event loop anyway?
• Data-Oriented Design and C++: honestly I didn't fully get it
• Using Types Effectively
• In-Game Economies in Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2

Games

Where to publish

Disorganized link dump

• https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML023/1344.html
• https://github.com/berkeley-abc/abc
• https://mbreen.com/m4.html
• https://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
• https://mbreen.com/breenStatecharts.pdf
• https://github.com/pragma-/Plang/tree/master/doc#uniform-function-call-syntax
• https://github.com/Rhizomatica/uucp
• https://git.skarnet.org/cgit/skalibs/tree/README
• https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-fdholder-daemon.html
• https://www.arp242.net/my-first-vimrc
• https://zem.fi/tmp/c/snippet-linkage.txt
• https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
• https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/summary.htm#dr_476
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-3PfyBhOSOxOTdjYmM1N2ItMmE0ZC00OGE3LTllODUtZDNkMDMzYWU3NDlk/view
• https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/html_node/History.html
• https://www.wholetomato.com/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pigiron/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/pigiron/piggen/
• https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
• https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/service.c
• https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h
• https://github.com/zpl-c/enet
• https://natureofcode.com/
• https://lwn.net/Articles/832121
• https://github.com/vlm/asn1c
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180421175051/https://lanedo.com/filesystem-monitoring-linux-kernel/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260414000308/https://eklitzke.org/unexpected-places-you-can-and-cant-use-null-bytes
• https://embeddedartistry.com/course/heapless/
• https://graphics.pixar.com/library/OrthonormalB/paper.pdf
• https://github.com/git/git/blame/master/banned.h
• http://number-none.com/product/Understanding%20Slerp,%20Then%20Not%20Using%20It/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2016/02/19/normalized-vector-interpolation-tldr/
• https://remysharp.com/2019/09/10/blocks-of-tetris-code
• -fno-semantic-interposition
• http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/articles/business-articles/web-game-sponsorship/
• https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker
• https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1428r0.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCTyu3awI1A
• https://newosxbook.com/articles/MemoryPressure.html
• terraform + ansible
• clangd + LSP
• malloc_zone_pressure_relief
• https://stefansf.de/post/type-based-alias-analysis/
• https://floooh.github.io/2017/02/22/emsc-html.html
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/c/c_api.h
• LVGL
• https://github.com/nicbarker/clay
• ECL and C-Mera
• https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin
• https://defs.ircdocs.horse/info/formatting
• https://defs.ircdocs.horse/
• https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/input-method-spec.html
• https://www.dicas-l.com.br/arquivo/find_+_xargs.php
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_e9vZj7D8
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170830125905/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003
• https://github.com/rose-compiler/rose
• https://jadlevesque.github.io/PPMP-Iceberg/
• https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp00/cse231/dynamopldi.pdf
• http://phodd.net/gnu-bc/
• https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/11/pathmax-simply-isnt.html
• https://nakst.gitlab.io/tutorial/ui-part-1.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090421080714/http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00000.html
• https://shintakezou.blogspot.com/2017/03/length-at-compile-time.html
• Anybody who writes #pragma pack(1) may as well just wear a sign on their forehead that says "I hate RISC"
• Dave Cutler
• https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/index.html
• Signed distance function
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%E2%80%93Noll%E2%80%93Vo_hash_function
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_addressing
• Split-horizon DNS
• https://www.getlazarus.org/pool/vectors/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Home/
• https://github.com/andrewrk/malcheck
• how to c (as of 2016)
• c - "static const" vs "#define" vs "enum" - Stack Overflow
• A beginners' guide away from scanf()
• Quote from Peter van der Linden in book Expert C Programming: "strong typing just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard"
• Linux kernel coding style — The Linux Kernel documentation
• cstyle.ms.pdf
• Development guide#coding_style
• https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/docs/contributing/Style-guide-for-Flutter-repo.md#lazy-programming
• Tools like GNU indent
• SEI CERT C Coding Standard - SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Confluence
• Understanding Strict Aliasing
• Demystifying The Restrict Keyword
• Restricted Pointers in C (Draft 2), X3J11.1 93-006
• Generic Selections
• Static Assertions
• Static array indices in function parameter declarations (C only)
• Bit Twiddling Hacks
• The Lost Art of Structure Packing
• Pthreads on Microsoft Windows
• Slide 1 - NVIDIA.Introduction_to_CUDA_C.1.pdf
• Message Passing Interface (MPI)
• Introduction to Parallel Computing
• POSIX Threads Programming
• OpenMP
• Awesome C
• open source C libraries
• Category:C (programming language) libraries - Wikipedia
• List of single-file C/C++ libraries
• Full List Of Open Source Physics Engines * Blog
• RandyGaul/cute_headers: One-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily used for games
• Hedley
• orangeduck/mpc: A Parser Combinator library for C
• orangeduck/Corange: Pure C Game Engine
• A garbage collector for C and C++
• The Frank Engine | Killed By A Pixel
• libtickit
• libuv | Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
• Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
• raylib
• wmcbrine/PDCurses: PDCurses - a curses library for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model
• A Comparison of the Syntax of C/C++ and Pascal
• links Git repository
• Boost.Preprocessor
• Books - C
• Gaffer On Games
• compat.c · master · OpenConnect VPN projects / OpenConnect · GitLab
• selectable-socketpair/socketpair.c at master · ncm/selectable-socketpair
• Programming resources - InstallGentoo Wiki
• book.pdf
• Books - Brendan Gregg
• jpoirier/picoc: A very small C interpreter
• Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++
• The Ganssle Group
• C subreddit
• AVR Libc Home Page
• Quirks of C
• Pre-defined C/C++ Compiler Macros
• poor man's profiler
• https://github.com/Celtoys/Remotery/
• c99-to-c89
• cake
• SARIF
• like polyfill for C. can't place keyword restrict inside array subscript of function prototype in MSVC
• Generate C code from pic specifications
• put m4 or groff inside C comments and extract as a form of documentation
• beautifier/formatter for Ragel
• The SO_REUSEPORT socket option
• Avoiding unintended connection failures with SO_REUSEPORT
• Bash by Example, Part 1
• Bash by Example, Part 2
• Bash by Example, Part 3
• Awk by Example, Part 1
• Awk by Example, Part 2
• Awk by Example, Part 3
• Sed by Example, Part 1
• Sed by Example, Part 2
• Sed by Example, Part 3
• Workarounds for C11 _Generic
• Coroutines in C
• How to write a Makefile
• https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs403/2003sp/Lecture06/makefile.html
• https://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html
• A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles
• Recursive Make Considered Harmful
• https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/make.html
• https://github.com/pete-gordon/planet-hively/blob/master/makefile
• https://locklessinc.com/articles/makefile_tricks/
• How do you do a canary? what does that mean in programming
• one single error namespace
• monadic error style
• https://errors.haskell.org/index.html
• https://www.cairographics.org/manual/bindings-errors.html
• wrap errors from underlying libraries (mapping trick)
• collecting errors using reflection is banned
• game with mass destruction like Dragon Ball
• mosh in putty
• counterpoint to Unicode parrots
• Buildbot
• A New Way to look at Networking
• Pure Data
• google/re2
• The Linux Documentation Project

Webdevus

• https://dnsviz.net/
• https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/96098168666/important-announcement-regarding-yui
• https://whatsmyname.app/
• https://web.dev/articles/same-origin-policy
• https://cross-origin-isolation.glitch.me/coop
• https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolation/
• https://web.dev/articles/coop-coep
• https://web.dev/articles/why-coop-coep
• https://security.googleblog.com/2009/03/reducing-xss-by-way-of-automatic.html
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Content_categories
• https://www.irongeek.com/homoglyph-attack-generator.php
• https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html
• https://ianjk.com/webassembly-vs-javascript
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260611194553/http://clearsilver.net/
• HTML tidy
• The W3C Markup Validation Service
• A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks
• A Complete Guide to Grid | CSS-Tricks
• Tools for WWW providers

2+2-1=3, quick maths

• Plotador Matemático MAFA

Building, packaging

xGH_LIAL(https://github.com/twisted/towncrier)
• runestubbe/Crinkler: Crinkler is an executable file compressor
• https://www.codegic.com/
• https://tonsky.me/blog/python-build/
• https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/

Version control, legalese, licenses

• https://old.reddit.com/user/VideoGameAttorney/submitted/?sort=top
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_License
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303
• https://notlegaladvice.law/
• Developer Certificate of Origin
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Old_Style
• https://opensource.guide/legal/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigation
• https://spdx.org/licenses/Libtool-exception.html
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9263265
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Ferdinand_Keppler_-_The_Pirate_Publisher_-_Puck_Magazine_-_Restoration_by_Adam_Cuerden.jpg
• https://spdx.dev/use/spdx-tools/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190312190935/http://stlr.org/2018/10/15/the-truth-about-oss-frand-by-all-indications-compatible-models-in-standards-settings/
• https://polyformproject.org/
• https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=libtomcrypt
• Git Pro Book
• Creative Commons
• Good patching practice
• Contributing to Open Source Projects HOWTO

Competitive programming, contests, challenges and puzzles

• ICFP Programming Contest - Wikipedia
• https://www.robopenguins.com/fatal_core_dump/

Computer graphics

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120320184928/http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf
• https://opengl.gpuinfo.org/
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/50264651
• real-time intermediate flow estimation for video frame interpolation
• depth-aware video frame interpolation
• https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/02/05/Every-Possible-Scalability-Limit-Will-Be-Reached/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming/comments/104q9ww/precision_highp_mediump_lowp_in_webglopengl/j36m110/
• virtools/3DVIA web player
• Tracy
• https://developer.nvidia.com/content/alpha-blending-pre-or-not-pre
• https://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/heart.htm
• https://fourcc.org/fccyvrgb.php
• https://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
• https://jcgt.org/read.html
• https://www.getlazarus.org/pool/balls/
• https://www.jmeiners.com/Hugo-Elias-Radiosity/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160511192712/http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/radiosity/radiosity.htm
• https://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/tutorials/
• https://github.com/grimfang4/sdl-gpu
• Fred's ImageMagick Scripts
• mxgmn (Maxim Gumin)
• The Book of Shaders
• Lazy Foo' Productions - OpenGL Tutorials
• Lazy Foo' Productions - Beginning Game Programming v2.0
• CG References & Tutorials

Audio and video

• Topic Index - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
• replay regain, ffmpeg

Optimilaziations

• https://web.archive.org/web/20251217090805/https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo-traces/
• HTCondor
• https://www.llvm.org/docs/HowToBuildWithPGO.html
• Communicating Sequential Processes
• Lock striping
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170707064110/https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/32-openmp-traps-for-c-developers
• https://github.com/google/nsync
• facebookincubator/BOLT: Binary Optimization and Layout Tool
• Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X
• Linux perf Examples
• CellPerformance

Typography, typesetting, document processing

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics
• https://labelary.com/
• https://tkurtbond.github.io/troff/mm-all.pdf
• https://codeberg.org/pjfichet
• https://pjfichet.github.io/utroff/index.html
• https://rfpit.org/persianword/poetry
• Mom -- Definitions and Terms
• comp.text Frequently Asked Questions
• http://tipografos.net/glossario/pdf.html

Rice

• djpohly/dwl: dwm for Wayland
• A Noobs Quest to Understanding dwm [and window managers in general] / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums
• Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? | Hacker News

Unicode (nightmare)

• https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn12/#Software_16
• UTF-8 Everywhere
• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
• https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi

Memory management

• Home — Memory Management Reference 4.0 documentation

Tooling

• Useful use of cat(1)
• Actually using ed | Arabesque
• Grep and Sed Equivalent for XML Command Line Processing - Stack Overflow
• https://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/08/xmlqna0.html
• https://github.com/rofl0r/order-pp
• More tools for searching source code
• vim - Redefine tab as 4 spaces - Stack Overflow

Code generation

• Ragel State Machine Compiler

Testing

• The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned
• Unit Testing C Code - Stack Overflow
• https://fuzzing-project.org/
• csmith, yarpgen
• https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
• https://github.com/csmith-project/creduce

The C programming language

• https://web.archive.org/web/20230415080253/https://ramblings.implicit.net/c/2014/04/20/c-is-not-a-try-it-and-see-language.html
• Array constant expressions (C2y proposal)
• http://unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html
• http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/

Checksums

• https://barrgroup.com/embedded-systems/how-to/additive-checksums
• https://barrgroup.com/Embedded-Systems/How-To/CRC-Math-Theory
• https://barrgroup.com/Embedded-Systems/How-To/CRC-Calculation-C-Code
• https://www.zlib.net/crc_v3.txt

Geometry

• https://dyn4j.org/2010/01/sat/
• https://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/download/ponchio_phd.pdf
• https://github.com/KarypisLab/METIS

Free assets

• https://www.findsounds.com/
• https://www.soundeffectsplus.com/
• https://freesound.org/

Lei Rouanet e Lei do Audiovisual

• http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/l9609.htm
• https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2024/05/06/marco-legal-dos-jogos-eletronicos-entra-em-vigor
• https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq0605200908.htm
• https://institutodea.com/artigo/lei-rouanet-acessibilidade-na-in-no-23-25/
• https://www.rscriativo.rs.gov.br/mystimor-studio
• https://www.rscriativo.rs.gov.br/beta-2-games
• https://www.rscriativo.rs.gov.br/burning-goat-studio
• https://sict.rs.gov.br/edital-gamers-07-2023

Code maintenance (X Macros and friends)

• https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/main/libselinux/src/selinux_config.c#L62-L87
• https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/main/libselinux/src/file_path_suffixes.h
• https://crates.io/crates/xmacro_lib
• https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/js/public/friend/ErrorNumbers.msg
• https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/02/01/x-macros/
• https://wiki.c2.com/?ObjectOrientedAssembler
• https://gist.github.com/linneman/99ff9ff86d7b4c69604b012bfcc4c258
• http://www.50ply.com/blog/2013/04/19/eliminate-parallel-lists-with-higher-order-macros/
• https://github.com/Crell/enum-comparison
• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/enums.html
• https://blog.demofox.org/2013/05/03/macro-lists-for-the-win/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2013/05/07/macro-lists-for-the-win-side-b/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2013/05/11/lists-of-macro-lists/

Object orientation

• http://www.angelikalanger.com/GenericsFAQ/JavaGenericsFAQ.html

Flash

• https://animatearchive.neocities.org/?home

Design patterns

• https://www.gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

Cross

• https://github.com/DarthGandalf/gentoo-overlay/commit/bf3d4ebc635689374e171c3e43d65c2917869339
• https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm#Hardware_Wishlist
• https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting/
• zig cc for cross compilation
• https://github.com/chewi/cross-boss
• vite, webpack

The quest for hot-reloading

• https://www.slembcke.net/blog/HotLoadC/

Debugging

• https://xania.org/202506/how-compiler-explorer-works
• strace/truss
• https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Sample-Session.html

Header optimization

• https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1620/attachments/1228/2520/Linux%20Kernel%20Header%20Optimization.pdf

GUIs

• https://github.com/lc-soft/LCUI

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%27s_theorem_on_arithmetic_progressions
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parikh's_theorem
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_regular_languages
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_context-free_languages

Logging

• https://hardysimpson.github.io/zlog/
• https://telemetry.mozilla.org/

Data structures and algorithms

• Bloom filters
• https://lemire.me/en/publication/arxiv1912/
• https://github.com/P-p-H-d/mlib
• https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2018/papers/08-oltpindexes1/pugh-skiplists-cacm1990.pdf

Security

• https://github.com/advisories

Most likely brainrot (to be checked)

• https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook.pdf
• https://exceptions4c.guillermo.dev/

Operating systems internals

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9970858/what-special-powers-does-ashmem-have

Documentation

• https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
• "doxygen can be at end of file rather than inline for each function etc."

Law

• https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2019-2022/2020/lei/l14063.htm
• https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/mpv/antigas_2001/2200-2.htm
• https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_de_horas_de_trabalho_996
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260730113844/http://www.cryptolaw.org/

Data

• https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry

Investigate

• Cf. logs vs. metrics
• deterministic replay in a game (RNG from seed), timestamps
• mIRC Scripting (mSL)
• Bank Python
• Cancel half-played animations in a combo system of a fighter game
• Carl Hewitt and Actor model
• Paul John Morisson and Flow-based
• links for C11, C23, C99, SUSv4 ("Issue 7" ca. 2008, updated in 2018) plus the just-released SUSv5 ("Issue 8", ca. 2024) and/or SUSv3 ("Issue 6", ca. 2001)

Snippets (maybe unknown)

• gcc -x c /dev/null -dM -E
• gcc -x c /usr/include/limits.h -dM -E
• #define S(x) \n #include S(stdio)
• gdb -tui -ex "tui layout split"
• cc -O1 -g -c a.c objdump --visualize-jumps -S a.o #