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I spent a week creating a new deflate implementation from scratch in C named tugz to provide an Info-ZIP-compatible zip program for w64devkit 2.10.1 (released today).

My blog began as a blosxom (Perl) site running on a VPS.

The past year has been exciting for w64devkit, which like any software distribution is never complete.

Stars!

Readers will be familiar with Mask-Step-Index (MSI) hash tables, a technique for building fast, open-addressed hash tables in a dozen lines of code.

This article was discussed on reddit and on Hacker News.

The new w64devkit release two weeks ago is the first to be code-signed with my identity, verified by Microsoft’s certificate chain.

CMake has a --debugger mode since 3.27 (July 2023), allowing software to manipulate it interactively through the Debugger Adaptor Protocol (DAP), an HTTP-like protocol passing JSON messages.

In February I left my employer after nearly two decades of service.

I came across a recent article on making Linux system calls from a Wine process.

Software above some complexity level tends to sport an extension language, becoming a kind of software platform itself.

Linked lists are a data structure basic building block, with especially flexible allocation behavior.