fasterthanlime @fasterthanlime@octodon.social

I want to formally apologize for, when someone said "I live for your cat's appearances on camera", replying with "that's not even my best cat".

I was wrong. Both my cats are best cats. I will do better moving forward.

As penance, please accept the following:

Mara posted a fantastic article about Converting u128 values to f64 (unsigned 128-bit integers to 64-bit floating-point numbers), give it a read!

https://blog.m-ou.se/floats/

I couldn't find a tree-sitter grammar for x86 assembly... so I made one! https://github.com/bearcove/tree-sitter-x86asm

It supports Intel syntax only, some NASM idiosyncrasies, and understands objdump output.

It's live on my site, see for example https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-packer/part-3#in-which-we-relax-the-rules-of-the-series-a-tiny-bit

There's 300+ of you supporting the creation of my articles and videos!!

To celebrate, I bestow upon you the top 2 requested features for my website, and two little things I really wanted to do for myself.

You're welcome! I mean, thank you so much!!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/66106104

is there a crate in the tracing cinematic universe that just dumps all the entire span tree on `SIGUSR1` or something?

(something much simpler than tokio-console, that could run in production)

(I tweeted a friend link of this video last week already, that gave access for 48 hours, but now it's truly out for everyone, enjoy!)

Getting good at SNES games through DLL injection

https://fasterthanli.me/videos/getting-good-at-snes

Join me on a casual journey to not have to switch from controller to keyboard when playing SNES games, by injecting some Rust code in Snes9X instead of just using another emulator ✨

Fourth day in a row being on the front page of HN, do I get a plaque or just hate mail

✨ I won free load testing!

My website was DDoS'd this week. Why wasn't my website resilient in the first place? Why didn't Cloudflare's DDoS protection kick in?

All this and some Rust code (I've made some changes) in the full post-mortem:

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-won-free-load-testing

Sustaining multiple DDoS attacks on fasterthanli.me today, apologies for the downtime. I'm having fun handling them though, so there's that!