ocornut

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
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Quick Guide for programmers
Last updated October 2018
Contact: Omar Cornut <XXXXXX

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slimsag

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

seanjensengrey

# source:http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/heights/7052/opcode.txt
From: mark@omnifest.uwm.edu (Mark Hopkins)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: A Summary of the 80486 Opcodes and Instructions

(1) The 80x86 is an Octal Machine
   This is a follow-up and revision of an article posted in alt.lang.asm on
7-5-92 concerning the 80x86 instruction encoding.
 
   The only proper way to understand 80x86 coding is to realize that ALL 80x86

wagenet

glibc Versions

List of oldest supported version of top 10 Linux Distros and their glibc version according to distrowatch.com.

Summary

Out of all versions with published EOLs, 2.12 is the oldest glibc still active, found in CentOS 6.8.

If CentOS 6 and 7 are eliminated, the oldest glibc is 2.23 in Ubuntu and Slackware.

PhirePhly

                          THE ISA AND PC/104 BUS



IBM, IBM/XT, IBM PC, and IBM PC AT are registered trademarks of 
International Business Machines Corporation.

This file is designed to give a basic overview of the bus found in
most IBM clone computers, often referred to as the XT or AT bus. The 
AT version of the bus is upwardly compatible, which means that cards

jasonrudolph

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer