For the month of July, we did the following:

• Wrote a Hello World in RISC-V ASM [RISCY 60_1, RISCY 60_2]
• Unboxed a HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board [RISCY 61]
  

For the month of August, we did the following:

• Finished section 2.4 of COAD [COAD 18]

For the month of September, we did the following:

• Unboxed caliper, gfx card, & uhk [RISCY 62]
• Worked on plans for building a RISC-V PC [RISCY 63]
• pcalc code cleanup [pcalc 13, pcalc 14]
• Read COAD 2.5 [COAD 19]

It's been a while since the last blog upda

For the month of June, we did the following:

• Finished reading COAD 2.3 [COAD 16]
• Read COAD 2.4 [COAD 17]

Not too much to report on my end for the last couple months other than getting back to COAD. The first major piece of news is that DConf 2018 happened in May and Luís Marques gave a talk arguing against OOP:

I also installed Qubes OS on my laptop. Overall, I am happy with it and am going to continue using it on my laptop for the foreseeable future but I'll detail all the pain points I ran into here for anyone curious. Getting an ISO that matched the checksums took numerous tries, getting it copied onto a flash drive without corruption took multiple tries (might be time for me to invest in a new one...) and getting Qubes to install took numerous tries. Right now I'm just using the Fedora and Whonix vm

For the month of March, we did the following:

• Introduced the Hula programming language [BH Intro]
• Bitwise Homework Day 2 [BH 1, BH 2, BH 3, BH 4, BH 5]
• Bitwise Homework Day 3 [BH 6]

For the month of April, we did the following:

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For the month of January we did the following:

• Read COAD 2.3 [COAD 15]
• Read RISC-V Reader 2.1-2.3 [Reader 3]
• Discussed the Spectre Paper [Spectre Rant]
• Stepped through `xcb_connect` [pcalc 8]
• Learned about MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Authentication & Scatter-Gather I/O [pcalc 9]

For the month of February we did the following:

• Got our PWM interrupts to fire [RISCY 57]
• Found & parsed .Xauthority [pcalc 10, pcalc 11]
• Successfully connected to X11 & picked a Root, Depth, and Visual Type [pcalc 12]

January & February were a bit slower than

For the month of November we did the following:

• Studied GAS .weak, .section, and .align [RISCY 52]
• Implemented va_args, environ, _start, and a build script [pcalc 1, pcalc 2]

For the month of December we did the following:

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For the month of September we did the following:

• Studied the local-interrupts demo [RISCY 47]
• Studied the global-interrupts demo [RISCY 48]
• Worked through COAD 1.13 Exercises 12-15 [COAD 13]

For the month of October we did the following:

• Started writing a PWM speed test [RISCY 49, RISCY 50]
• Studied entry.S [RISCY 51]
• Gave a talk on mental health [PSA]

I've been making slow but steady progress on the x11 backend for pcalc (nothing to show yet), and I've renamed all the book club episodes to the format "Book Club (BOOK) -

For the month of August, we did the following:

• Studied the Dhrystone benchmark code [RISCY 45, RISCY 46]
• Worked through COAD 1.13 Exercises 1-11 [COAD 10, COAD 11, COAD 12]

Bit of a slower month this time but now that COAD Chapter 1 exercises are out of the way I'm excited to get back to doing RISCY BUSINESS episodes :) On a technical side, I've set up a script called jack-matchmaker to automatically handle my audio connections in jack which helps out a lot and should prevent those occasional times when I forget to make a connection in jack. I've also added twitch alerts to my stream - if viewers follow, donate, or host, a gif with text overlay shouting them out will be displayed an

For the month of July, we did the following:

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Hey Everyone! As you might already know, I recently left my job at Aker to pursue full-time streaming. The video above covers all the important details.

I'd like to give you guys a little sneak peek at the first commercial software project I'm working on: nwr_mem.h

nwr_mem.h is an stb-style mit/public domain single header C library that will provide custom (user-space) memory allocator building blocks inspired by Andrei Alexandrescu's std.experimental.allocator work in the D programming language. The library will include things such as:

Allocators

• Region
• Kernighan-Ritchie Allocator
• Bitmapped Block
• Buddy Allocator

• Affix Allocator
• Stats Collector
• Quantizer

• Free Tree
• Free List
• Fallback Allocator
• Bucketizer
• Segregator

Additio

For the month of June, we did the following:

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For the month of May, we did the following:

• Read Sections 1.2-1.6 of COAD on the Book Club [COAD 2, COAD 3, COAD 4]
• Studied PWM and figured out how the left, right, and centre aligned wave-forms work [RISCY 31, RISCY 32, RISCY 33]
• Learned about the UART [RISCY 34]

My schedule has been rather unpredictable with work lately and RISCY BUSINESS has suffered from that as a result, but I'm hoping to get our throughput back to normal in the next month or two.

Stay RISCY everyone!

For the month of April, we did the following:

• Studied GPIO [RISCY 24]
• Studied the OTP [RISCY 25]
• Studied LED inversion via GPIO [RISCY 26]
• Studied Pulse-Width Modulation [RISCY 27, RISCY 28, RISCY 29_1, RISCY 29_2]
• Read Chapter 1.1 of COAD [COAD 1]
• Studied the LED Fade Demo [RISCY 30]

This month we hit the books hard, learning all about driving LEDs via GPIO with PWM. Not only that, but we started a companion series to RISC

For the month of March, we did the following:

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For the month of February, we did the following:

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Before February we did the following:

• Unboxed the HiFive1 [RISCY 1]
• Got the HiFive1 Working [RISCY 2]
• Programmed the HiFive1 [RISCY 3]

On Feb. 3rd, I met my personal goal of finishing my custom features for Milton. RISCY BUSINESS was submitted to Handmade Network for review, and the mods have accepted it! As of today, RISCY BUSINESS is officially a Handmade Network project!

We are currently on a one week hiatus, but all content moving forward is planned to be RISC-V related.

For those of you who haven't been following along, let me recap the RISC-V related news that has happened during the period of show preparation:

SiFive came out with the first ever RISC-V hardware, which is the equivalent of an [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino]Arduino[