This is my blog, filled with assorted, mostly technical poetry and prose. See my home page for more information about me. RSS for the entire blog is available, as well is a dedicated RSS feed for just GPU related updates.
Midgard Shaders with the Free NIR Compiler
In my last update on the Panfrost project, I showed an assembler and disassembler pair for Midgard, the shader architecture for Mali Txxx GPUs…
The Word of the Week Is…. Shaders!
About two weeks ago, I published a screenshot of a smoothed triangle rendered with a free software driver on a Mali T760 with binary shaders…
In Physics class, when considering power, the minds of the clever brony might be graced by the question, “How much power did Rainbow Dash produce when performing her famous Sonic Rainboom?”
Let’s do the math…
whistles – Nothing to see here, move along kids…
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh…
I have a secret, so secret that it cannot be whispered without multiple layers of encryption…
It seems to be popular to spill philosophical ramblings onto otherwise technical blogs like this one…
Merry Grav-Mass, everyone…
Young man, keep that file to yourself…
Fără telefoane celulare de acum înainte
Traducere în limba română de Belgin
Refuz să car un telefon celular - pentru prietenii mei nedumeriți din lumea noastră tehno-centrată, urmează de ce…
No más móviles a partir de ahora
Traducción del inglés por Jorge Maldonado
Me niego a llevar un móvil —para mis confusos amigos en nuestra sociedad obsesionada con la tecnología—, aquí explico por qué…
No Cellphones Beyond This Point
I refuse to carry a cellphone – to my puzzled friends in our techno-obsessed society, here’s why…
I enrolled in “Computer Graphics Art”, a Photoshop class at my secondary school…
After a hiatus of several months, this website has been restored, now licensed under a free culture license…
Compromises of Free Software Funding
With software, either the users control the program…..
I was a Wikipedia child…
Libreboot – Open Letter to the Free Software Community
To the free software community:
Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord…
To the Boys Sitting Near Me in Class
You told a kid to kill herself…
One week ago, I came out to the world as a transgender woman in my piece, Life on the Other Side…
My name is Alyssa Anne Rosenzweig…
Over winter break, I successfully modified Kristina Brooks’s free Raspberry Pi firmware, a low-level program for hardware initialisation, which with my contributions is able to bring-up and boot a Linux kernel…
Philosophy from a Declarative World
After years of programming in imperative languages like C and functional languages like Scheme, you have to wonder if there is something better out there…
At the time of writing, my homepage is under one kilobyte gzipped…
Metaprogramming NES emulator with tosh
Over the summer, I wrote an NES emulator in Scratch…
Last weekend, nickolas360 and I participated in GunnHacks 3.0, a high-school hackathon in Palo Alto…
Static code recompilation is a fascinating problem, and largely an unsolved one, because in general it’s impossible – that’s about as hard as you can get…
During World War II, Bletchley Park was the location of the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS), a secret facility ran by the British government to break the encrypted Axis communications (History of Bletchley Park), most famously, the Nazi Enigma cipher (Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party)…
Hello, World! is a phrase uttered by many programmers, at a variety of times in their careers…
Segregated through a wall,
Triggers tears for fears of all…
Transphobic, Abusive Girlfriend – Dysphoria
I am a victim to her, my abuser…