Old-School demo effects with Crystal

Nostalgia time! Today I decided to play with Raylib and the Crystal Programming Language. Technically speaking, the “plasma” effect is just a two variables noise function. Some used Perlin Noise, others the Diamond-square algorithm. A more interesting pattern can be obtained with trigonometrical functions, as explained here. The interesting part here is the easyness of graphics programming in a Linux environment with a high level, yet performant and statically typed programming language. ...

May 18, 2023 · Andrea Manzini

Benchmarking a Rust function

Once in a while I like to play with Advent Of Code problems 🎄. Today I decided to tackle an easy one and, since the answer was almost trivial to find, I wanted to go deeper and understand how to measure and improve the performance of the solution. ...

April 2, 2023 · Andrea Manzini

Debugging a problematic build

The Good 😇 Today I decided to submit an openSUSE package update for the nim compiler. It went almost all well but unfortunately I faced a problem: on the i586 platform it fails to build. ...

March 14, 2023 · Andrea Manzini

a SUSE hackweek22 report

On this February I decided to participate with a project to the SUSE Hackweek. ...

February 3, 2023 · Andrea Manzini