Notes of a technical nature
30. August 2020
Operating systems and file systems have traditionally been developed hand in hand. They impose mutual constraints on each other. Today we have two major leaders in file system semantics: Windows and POSIX. They are very close to each other when compared to the full set of possibilities. Interesting things happened before POSIX monopolized file system semantics.
29. August 2020
Loko Scheme 0.6.0 is now available from:
20. June 2020
Akku.scm is a language package manager for R6RS and R7RS Scheme. The software that powers the package index has been growing beyond the simple one-liner it was in the beginning and today I’ve finally pushed it to a public repository. I’ve also made preparations for hosting packages as tarballs directly in the archive.
16. May 2020
I recently wrote an article on my company’s blog. The gist of it is that we now have the technology to get real internetworking (that’s a word) on embedded devices.
If you’re making a connected device that runs an RTOS then you should have a look: Real Internet on an RTOS.