Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Running Linux installs with a different CPU

Every now and then you might need a Linux distribution for a CPU that you do not have. As an example you might want to run an ARM distro on ...

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

List of achievements for an open source project

- [ ] first commit - [ ] making the code public - [ ] first checkout by someone else - [ ] first user - [ ] first bug report - [ ] firs...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Strange requirements of low level packages

As some of you might know, I'm the main developer of the Meson build system . It is implemented in Python 3 but has strict requirements ...

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The fable of mashed potatoes

Once upon a time in a faraway land in a kingdom much like ours lived a carpenter. Every day he worked for a small company with his fellow ca...

Friday, July 3, 2015

How many is too many?

Trivia question: when you run a random configure scripts, how many processes does it spawn? Before reading further, try to think of the an...

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Simple structure of arrays with C++ templates

One feature that has been getting more popular recently is called the structure of arrays . As an example Jonathan Blow's new Jai progra...

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