Big Endian won't tell you this but you don't actually need to chose between big- and little-endian, you can just select no endianness!
Endinaness was invented by Big Endian to sell more big-endian
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TheZoq2
@thezoq2@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Developing http://spade-lang.org, https://surfer-project.org/ and other fun stuff in Rust. PhD from Linköping university, now working as a post doc at Hochschule München
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"We’re evolving our strategy to optimize for the future state of software engineering:
Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair. Humans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem, the tradeoffs that require taste."
Holy shit, I really really really need to get over to codeberg ASAP
https://fransskarman.com/im_not_using_ai.html
All of my colleagues are using AI while I'm not. It feels like I'm missing out so I decided to sit down and write down my thoughts on why I'm so resistant to it.
In the end, I'm very happy with what I wrote so I put it on my blog
This is really nice to see. I always wanted the translation features in Surfer to be used by more HDLs. For a while that was blocked by it not supporting true plugins, but that was fixed a while back.
The plugin seems really impressive, it goes quite far beyond what my own Spade integration does in that it allows user defined customization. Maybe I'll have to steal that 😉
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Also extremely cool that this is a Europe-made #fpga with fully open source tools as the official vendor tools
Spade 0.18.0 is now released 🎉 It comes with a bunch of improvements to the standard library, and with `spadedoc` which can generate HTML documentation for Spade projects.
You can se the `core` and `std` documentation online at https://docs.spade-lang.org/std/ and https://docs.spade-lang.org/core/. Or run `swim doc` to generate documentation for your own project and all its dependencies
Release blog post: https://blog.spade-lang.org/v0-18-0/
Thanks @lixou@hachyderm.io for writing spadedoc!
We now have working #tinytapeout templates for Spade!
For IHP: https://github.com/spade-lang/ttihp-spade-template
For Sky130: https://github.com/spade-lang/ttsky-spade-template
The IHP shuttle closing in 5 days is full, But! if you are a Swiss resident you can still get on there and get the chip manufactured for free 🇨🇭
This also came with the nice benefit of me finally making swim download the compiler binaries instead of rebuilding for every project, so initial builds of other Spade projects are much faster
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Oh, and if your company is scared of the visa sponsorship _transfer_ process, she wants me to point out that it is a relatively easy process but to most people it's an unknown they don't wanna take a risk on.
The chance of rejection is very low. You hire an immigration lawyer, provide some documents and they handle the rest. The lawyer costs a bit of money, but the process is painless, and that cost is low compared to getting an amazing new software developer!
I have a few hours to spend in Hamburg this evening, any recommendations for things to see?
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Now with a RISC-V core driving the blinking
https://codeberg.org/thezoq2/spade-v-gatemate
Gee, thanks gitlab! I'm so glad I can't use an API library that is slightly out of date because you at some point had a *skype* field in your user data, and somehow that user data is included in a request for merge request status...
As part of that Advent of FPGA challenge, I won a Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (https://www.amd.com/en/products/system-on-modules/kria/k26/kv260-vision-starter-kit.html)
However, I hate Vivado with a passion, have plenty of FPGA dev boards already, and this one isn't supported by the open source flows yet, so I have very little motivation to use it.
So, if anyone is interested I'd be happy to sell it for a pretty discounted price :)
Located in Munich, happy to ship to wherever in Europe
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Yes, I guess they saw what github is having and thought "oh that looks like fun, let's jump in" :D
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@nikhil@mastodon.acm.org seems like your wish is full-filled :) Presented at latch-up today https://github.com/jahagirdar/bluespec-surfer-plugin
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My several year old bus implementation was awful here, so I had to rewrite it.
This is much nicer 
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Still pretty pleased with the code on the user side.
On the implementation side, it is a bit more cursed but still nice https://codeberg.org/TheZoq2/uwui/src/branch/main/src/tiles.spade#L35
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Bonus points to another part of this site not working with KeepasDX with the error "Refusing to enter password in an untrusted iframe"
Really makes me excited about my new internet service provider...
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OH: Part 2
We need the android-related crate for the web version
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Jemalloc seems to help, now I just hope that's built statically so I won't run into issues on user systems
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@CanLehmann
It would be pretty easy to add an arbiter, the layout blocks can tell a module if it is enabled for the current pixel or not. However, if different text block end up in different pipeline stages, things become problematic 🤔
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@alter_kaker@hachyderm.io She didn't know about that, but found this https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/work-canada/special-instructions/h1b.html which appears to be closed. Is that what you're referring to or is it another new system?
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@janamarie@mystical.garden That's such a cool look. I should really look into doing this to my old Nikon DSLR 🤔
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Also wild how there is a single hot loop in the Spade compiler that explodes with the musl allocator. Otherwise i'd have noticed this 30 second runtime much sooner
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@ivor Thank you! Most of the credit for the policy goes to the Servo project which I based it on
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@MrMR For example, I realized that "oh right, bitmaps need pipelining because memory access". Changing the whole renderer to be pipelined was a matter of changing a few definitions and putting reg in places, rather than having to re-name every variable
Going to stream some Spade development for the first time in months https://www.twitch.tv/thezoq2/
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@G33KatWork @bunnie
Unfortunately I think this core is a little bit too basic for your needs. It doesn't support any fancy buses buses or anything, just single cycle memory access.
At some point I'd love to flesh it out more though
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@lebout2canap @typst This is because if you have a tool that relies on editing the output of the tool, but later realize you need to re-run it, you will have a massive problem trying to backport the changes you made before
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@bodzioney Yep, two of them. I do touch on the breakage risks quite a bit in the presentation if you didn't watch it yet
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3793550 and https://kevinlaeufer.com/pdfs/surfer_cav2025.pdf
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@bodzioney perhaps this is of interest https://codeberg.org/thezoq2/ttt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nH8epm7jpY
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@pixelcluster Oh hell yeah! This problem has been plaguing me for a while, nice to see a potential solution!