eightbitraptor[wiki]

What is this?

This is a wiki. It’s my knowledge management system - a place to write down the notes and scraps of information that I need to keep while working on new things. It’s built and published using Foam, an open source knowledge management system built on VSCode.

This wiki is alive, only minimally curated and updated frequently. There will be typos, mistakes, and areas that are incomplete.

Who am I

My name is Matt. I go by eightbitraptor almost everywhere on the internet. You can read more about me, and also longer articles that I write on my primary site/blog.

Dev Notes

• [C-development] - Things I’ve learned about writing C, as well as workflows and tooling that help me write and debug code in reasonably large codebases.
• [CRuby-development] - Notes on the structure and implementaton of Matz Ruby Interpreter, the canonical implementation of the Ruby programming language
• [Allocation-tracking] - Some ways to track memory allocations
• [MMTk] - Notes about the Memory Management Toolkit and it’s Ruby binding (these are very raw and probably not useful)
• [garbage-collection] - A hub for notes about GC in a more general sense. Ruby specific GC stuff is likely in [cruby-development].
• [glossary] - I run into terms all the time that I don’t know what they mean. Here’s where I’m going to collect a few of them and try and keep track.

Other tech stuff

• [vim-tags-and-navigation] - Navigating a codebase in Vim
• [vim-buffer-management] - How I edit multiple files in vim (without tabs because I hate the UI)
• [Mathematical-notation] - I always get stuck with notation, here’s a glossary of stuff I’ve run into

Language learning

• [japanese]

Books

• [The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook] - The art of automatic memory management (Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss)
• [Types-and-Programming-Languages] (Benjamin C. Pearce)