Nand2Tetris - Projects 4 to 5

Project 7 of Nand2Tetris is about translating virtual machine 1 (VM) commands for the Hack computer platform to a series of Hack assembly language (asm) instructions. The main focus of this project is determining the sequence of assembly language instructions corresponding to each VM command, given that the programming model of the computer is...

fzf is a general-purpose fuzzy text matching tool at its core that takes in a list of newline-separated text and allows the user to search for something within those lines and select one or more of the lines by typing just a few character sequences into a search field. It is highly customizable and the maintainer seems to have a ... → Continue...

I wrote a two-pass assembler for the Hack assembly language! This is the sixth and final project of the first half (Hardware) of the Nand2Tetris course. In Project 6, the task is to write an assembler for the Hack assembly language. Unlike the previous projects which could only be written using the custom hardware description language (HDL) used...

I write a lot of notes in Markdown on a daily basis as a sort of personal wiki. Almost all of them contain code snippets - shell commands, mostly. Today I learnt that there is a much better way to directly execute a shell command listed on its own in a single line in vim. Two ways, in fact. The first ... → Continue reading

I created my own shell in Rust using the Codecrafters Build your own shell challenge. As part of my ongoing efforts to learn by doing, I came across the course on LinkedIn and resolved to try it out using Rust, another goal of mine. Here's my experience of completing the challenge, and also my thoughts on the Codecrafters platform as ... →...