A couple user programs announced, Adam writes more cgi.d docs
Posted 2023-01-30
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Articles- arsd on Mac - solid progress
- September 18, 2023
- arsd 11.1 tagged, cgi.d performance, SerpentOS moves to Rust, trying out reggae
- DConf 2023 roundups
- dconf 2023 coming and arsd 11.1 progress - minigui tweaks, cgi hybrid new default mode on dub
- August 21, 2023
- August 14, 2023
- arsd 11.0 finally tagged
- arsd update - cgi listen to many
- July 24, 2023
- July 17, 2023
- July 10, 2023
- SAoC announced, my thoughts on potential projects
- June 26, 2023
- June 19, 2023
- June 12, 2023
- DConf deadline passes, write up on the -mv switch
- What is all this talk about IVY?
- May 22, 2023
- May 15, 2023
- My rpg finally releasing a demo this month?
- May 1, 2023
- April 24, 2023
- April 17, 2023
- Guis vs Games, why one library is unlikely to do both well
- Linux is better than BSD. Directory watchers and decompressors in arsd.
- Busy working this week
- arsd 11 progress report
- A few more debugging tips - run debugger automatically on linux
- March 6, 2023
- February 27, 2023
- Mike Parker hints D management changes coming, I write about static assert and platform porting
- Guest tip from Webfreak about toString
- Demo on custom sections
- A couple user programs announced, Adam writes more cgi.d docs
- On fullyQualifiedName
- Some thoughts on UI
- Moving toward arsd 11
- January 2, 2023
- More mixin tips to avoid stringof
- new textlayout class, dconf online thoughts, step by step tech progression
- Write barriers might not fix thread registration since you need to scan the stack
- Brief thought: D from Java/.net could be another write barrier benefit
- DIP DIP part 2: the user side
- new dmd, new DIP, beta dub docs, game lib announced. And politics in D
- dconf 2022 online schedule, some arsd.game work, template emission discussion with d index file proposal
- How NO_SCAN makes shorter GC pauses
- Write barriers could work
- simpledisplay custom font stream of thought
- Writing more arsd dox
- D on Arduino
- October 3, 2022
- September 26, 2022 - tip of the week to bypass IFTI
- September 19, 2022
- My thoughts on bitfields and recap of binary literals
- September 5, 2022
- preliminary design discussion of arsd.core event loop
- arsd 10.9 released
- Idea: user-extensible effect attributes
- DConf 2022 thoughts
- DConf in session, some more exception experimentation from me
- musings on pure websites
- static import object tricks
- Thoughts on inferred attributes
- I write on respect in discussions. D Vision document partial draft released.
- Exception idea: third Throwable branch. Probably won't work but written anyway.
- DIP DIP
- June 13, 2022
- June 6, 2022
- DConf 22 announced. arsd 11 not likely needed soon, 10.9 expected in another month
- May 23, 2022
- ImportC's module namespace problem
- Happy birthday, ImportC!
- Developers developers developers developers
- More dub 2.0 idea refinement
- Thoughts on async io
- April 11, 2022
- arsd bug fixes, stack overflow answer about X child windows
- dub 2.0 design discussion
- Tip of the week on justification comments
- March 14, 2022
- March 7, 2022
- February 28, 2022
- February 21, 2022
- dpldocs reindexing
- More rant on names
- Adam's thoughts on naming in code, tip from Steven about ufcs `i`
- Tip of the week: use mixin to hack around order-of-eval problems
- Tip: if code getting complicated, try rethinking the approach
- January 10, 2022
- arsd 10.5 coming this week, new midi code, a FF1 nsf player/editor application
- December 27, 2021
- my thoughts on std.socket design
- arsd work in progress updates and new "do it in D" idioms section
- December 6, 2021
- gdc sync going upstream, arsd 10.4 released, otherwise i was busy.
- working toward arsd 10.4
- DConf Online 2021 livestream
- arsd.webview work, public imports in adrdox changed
- importC released, preview of arsd web, database, gui updates, phobos2 coming, dual context tip of the week
- October 25, 2021
- My webasm updates, gdc in D
- Assorted quick thoughts
- October 4, 2021
- arsd 10.3, dmd -target, druntime.dll
- A potential GC puzzler discovered
- nanovega font improvement from me. from community: DConf Online 2021 announcement, GtkD blog back to work, DCompute update
- Rant: using Firefox is meaningless
- August 30, 2021
- Improving today's error handling
- Thoughts on error handling
- August 9, 2021
- August 2, 2021
- arsd.qrcode introduced and on my wish list: __arguments.
- July 19, 2021
- Drama on the github
- arsd 10.2 with http cookies support
- June 28, 2021
- arsd 10.1, thought on virtual functions, community announces light weight Druntime 0.3 among others
- arsd v10 tagged
- New dmd and ldc releases, ldc with druntime.dll!
- gdc 11 out with a lot of D updates
- May 24, 2021 general update
- Progress continues toward minigui 2.0
- C compiler in dmd? new string type in Phobos? brief update on my minigui overhaul
- Simpledisplay additions, minigui event changes
- April 26, 2021
- arsd 9.5 -- UPDATE: false alarm i forgot to tag it!
- April 12, 2021
- arsd 9.4 tagged, adrdox 2.5 released
- Tip of the week: using C libs from D
- working on gdc on Windows
- tip: use union to manually control struct member destructor
- Rant: people in the past weren't stupid
- Tip on DIY closures
- arsd 9.2
- Did you know about D anonymous classes?
- "Mental friction": my view on why D rox
- String interpolation DIP prototype
- terminal inline syntax highlighting, sdpy fonts improved
- January 18, 2021
- gdb debugging tips
- A little work on sdpy/terminal interop and apng debugging
- New plain tcp fiber socket class (with "how it works" docs), new arsd docs started, new dub subpackages in arsd. Also Turkish newsgroups added to forum.dlang.org
- Little audio player in D
- Thoughts on tutorial writing benefits, D marketing, and some simpledisplay.d improvements.
- arsd 9.0 rollup release, my thoughts on "google it" culture and related practices
- dpldocs.info cross-package search finally released! and more terminal getline enhancements
- I did a dconf livestream!
- New selective mouse input in terminal stack, Xft used in simpledisplay to improve TrueType font support
- simpleaudio now has playOgg, Mp3, Wav with resampling and can access multiple soundcards on Linux, adrdox gets ddoc on function params
- Weekend experiment: declarative GUI in D
- October 26, 2020
- My DConf livestream sneak preview
- Off topic jrpg video game review
- My thoughts on breakage, and I'll be in DConf Online 2020
- cgi.d hybrid server basically working, terminal.d can redirect stdout to a window if requested
- Some talk on cgi.d in benchmarks
- September 14, 2020
- New D update "dwidder" website launched, making-of post here
- white noise app in D
- More modern opengl in simpledisplay, document undocumented on dpldocs.info, tip on default template args
- Xlib taskbar in D
- D Tetris running on Webassembly
- Tetris in D
- Zero-runtime classes
- DConf online in the works for Nov 21-22, image copy/paste coming to sdpy soon
- July 13, 2020
- July 6, 2020
- simpledisplay getting dynamic loads, terminal gui gracefully degrades, i muse on scope raii classes
- Adam's dynamic link transition
- June 15, 2020
- June 8, 2020
- June 1, 2020
- foot pedal and midi fun, some dmd speed enhancements. Forum argues about @safe by default on extern.
- May 18, 2020
- simpleaudio dev work, rasp pi gpio module, static foreach rant, gcc 10's D support upped
- May 4, 2020
- my http more compatible with ssl, script+jsvar can do subclasses of D objects
- i want to make a jrpg, and have eye damage.
- Dustmite post on official blog
- What if I were dictator?
- March 30, 2020
- terminal.d with built-in emulator option releaed
- Online DConf in the works
- Dconf 2020 cancelled, Adam plays with terminal gui integration
- March 2, 2020
- some adrdox/dpldocsinfo updates
- terminal.d gets clipboard functions, ldc 1.20 out.
- DConf keynote speaker announced: Lua architect Roberto Ierusalimschy, Named args DIP discussed
- February 3, 2020
- Adam's terminal suite explained
- Understanding mixin templates, terminal.d improvements
- My attribute-by-default proposal. Also dmd 2.090 came out.
- DConf 2020 announced: June 17-20 in London. @safe by default debated. Adam did: Android, JNI, WebSocket in arsd libs
- tar.xz, --DRT tip, dom bug fixes, more Android and JNI, link to old phobos docs
- LDC 1.19 - Android, AVR. My rant on tests, update on JNI and COM.
- Walter's string interpolation proposal is OK but not great. My Android thing nearing beta release. dub downtime explained.
- Android project update, introduction to arsd.jni
- New pattern about interface contracts
- Adam shares Windows console secrets - DO NOT USE chcp!!
- Adam's rant on benchmarks
- Socket tutorial
- November 4, 2019
- October 28, 2019
- arsd package updates, forum nonsense
- Update on Android also with mtriple appendix
- Adam does iOS "goodbye world"
- September 30, 2019
- D turns 20, Adam rants on software freedom
- Named arg DIPs and my thoughts on code organization
- September 9, 2019
- I wrote about mixin templates vs string mixins on Stack Overflow
- August 26, 2019
- Bug bounty in D again - my hot take, on reusing code, a fun picture, my tentative plan for the next month
- Time invested is worth a lot
- cgi.d's new scheduler, static this tricks
- July 29, 2019
- July 22, 2019
- Solving vs managing problems
- A big week in the arsd repo
- July 1, 2019
- June 24, 2019
- June 17, 2019
- CRTP thoughts, named arguments DIP review, DConf videos now on youtube
- musings on hybrid CT/RT tests, some more progress on new web framework
- a little more webassembly
- May 20, 2019
- Adam's string interpolation proposal
- DMD 2.086 live, GCC 9 with D support formally released, DConf coming soon, links to posts on builder pattern and disallowing implicit conversions with templates, and 2d array op overloads
- template constraint error improvements coming?
- dmd 2.086 beta, dstep 1.0 released, Adam works on memory usage
- obj-c and webassembly report, tips on is expressions linked.
- new ldc, new dmd, dpp on the blog
- D's future discussed in forums
- LDC beta, DConf blog link, Adam introduces gamehelpers.d
- March 18, 2019
- LDC 1.15.0-beta1, responsive design rant
- dmd 2.085.0 released
- Obj-C interop and D without druntime code to copy/paste
- dmd beta, more info coming next time, demo of new web framework initial prototype
- automatic web interface discussion, reflection tips and tricks
- Adam busy with weather and a move, lots of community announcements
- January 28, 2019
- Working on official blog 2018 retro, C++ new wrapped, dmd reading zips?
- dmd obj-c growing, Adam static foreaches an interface to RPC
- dmd 2.084, hope for future, but busy non-D week for me
- IDE tools released, my cgi.d gets new features
- DConf announced, tip, Adam rants: mouse trap
- This Week in D is back!
Qonquest and WildCAD announced on the newsgroup, and Qonquest uses my simpledisplay.d and WildCAD uses X with some custom widgets, so both kinda cool to look at.
Meanwhile, I've been writing some more documentation to cgi.d, updating some old parts and finally doing some overview examples of newer parts.