Justin Meiners

One fun way to get familiar with bitwise operations is writing a virtual machine, as it involves a lot of masking and shifting bits from instructions to extract relevant pieces (dare I say bits) of information. If anyone is interested in going this route, I recommend LC-3, as it's very straightforward. https://www.jmeiners.com/lc3-vm/

For those reading who may not remember or have played the original FF7, here are links to pre-rendered backgrounds in FF7: https://www.jmeiners.com/pre-rendered-backgrounds/img/ff7.jpg and the image in the article about Meta's library: https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/blogs/2023-july-blog-meta-igl_2…

Archived copy here: https://www.jmeiners.com/sicp-html-original/book.html Justin's GitHub states: "MIT just recently took down the book from their own site (why?!)" Source: https://github.com/justinmeiners/sicp-html-original It looks like MIT Press released a Javascript version of SICP that is for sale: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543231/structure-and-interpretation-of…

I argue that (good) literate programming can make code literature. Your program is told as a sort of story and ought to contain background info, thought processes, and rationale for decisions. Additionally macros can be used to reuse code at build ('tangle') time that your underlying language may not otherwise support. For example if I have some constants i need throughout a python program, I might put it in something like constant.py during normal programming, but if I were literate programming I could have a section called "Program constants" and dive into each one, referencing them with macros throughout the program. You do have to be careful because the macros can make debugging confusing since you are now working with two languages instead of 1. You can also put stuff that is irrelevant to humans out of the way of the most important stuff. Example literate program for writing a virtual machine program (not my work): https://www.jmeiners.com/lc3-vm/