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Devlog - 2025

About this Devlog

Here you will find shortform posts with notices about work i’m completing or simple announcements.

August 31, 2025

Site Updates

I’m working on moving my site to zine. This is a work in progress as I have to convert the old Markdown to SuperMarkdown. Pages will slowly be restored and added in.

August 16, 2025

Zig for the uninitiated: Comptime

I originally made one video for this, but while editing, thought it would be better to split it into two:

June 19, 2025

Zig for the uninitiated: Strings

April 21, 2025

Zig for the uninitiated: Arena Allocator

February 09, 2025

Zig for the uninitiated: General Purpose Allocator

I want to note that, almost as soon as I made this video public, I discovered that the GeneralPurposeAllocator had been deprecated. It has now been renamed the DebugAllocator.

February 01, 2025

Zig for the uninitiated: Allocation is not initialization

I’m having a lot of fun with these videos. Here is a video going over the difference between void, undefined, and null in zig, as well as the difference between allocation and initialization.

I do want to note that what I talk about in this video may become outdated in the future, depending on the progress of this ticket.