Notes for May 3-10

This was a weird week, both because I keep waking up at 5AM with my sinuses clogged, and because I feel like I’m losing momentum. Feeling almost permanently cotton-headed, sleepy due to sheer exhaustion or because of antihistamines certainly has something to do with it, but I am not exactly enthusiastic this weekend.

I spent the latter part of the week hacking away at go-ds4 and go-pherence, which was interesting to me not just because I am still trying to get Vulkan to work for inference on a couple of SBCs, but also because, all of a sudden, a bunch of my stuff converged into SIMD and Go assembly–including, of all things, an H.264 decoder I plan to add to go-rdp.

This meant going all in on model internal again, which is something I’ve neglected for a while and that I would otherwise find fascinating were it not for my general state of tiredness.

My Little Clojure

go-joker went from “forked and interesting” to “actually competitive with Python” in about two days of focused work. Again, there is a weird serendipity and convergence across most of my other projects (like the JITs I’ve been hacking on in macemu-jit and previous-jit), but this time I took out CLR via C# and had Codex build tiered IR bytecode interpreter that can in turn do WASM compilation via wazero for pure numeric loops, and doesn’t have a GIL (thanks to Goroutines).

I should really write about that, when I feel better.

As part of an ongoing experiment to see just how far I can go without the Android SDK installed, I kept nudging my Android RDP server along, and am generally very happy with all the automated testing scaffolding I built around that, because I’ve extended it to vibes and piclaw with great success.

I think piclaw is pretty much done by now. I backported kitty graphics support in the terminal (the ghostty-web ecosystem is pretty amazing on its own), and of course I use it constantly (I am actually typing this draft in it), and I will be doing some fixes and at least one UX release, but I need to go back and fix my Synology, redeploy a bunch of things in my homelab, and prep for more electronics projects.

But first, I’m going to take a nap, because I did wake up at 4AM again, crafted a dead stupid add-on and badly need to rest.