Nick Melms

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Finished Chapter 8 of Nand2Tetris. Added branching, functions, and function calls to the VM.

Really over this section. Nothing makes you appreciate high-level languages like translating everything to assembly.✌️

I mean, it's cool but not responsive at all. Shouldn't have to scroll horizontal the view your whole site

GitHub - nmelms/nand2tetris-vm Contribute to nmelms/nand2tetris-vm development by creating an account on GitHub.

VM ✅

Was actually able to wrap this up faster than the Assembler. Annoying bug was handling multiple calls to the same type of label. Easy solution, but didn't immediately think about this case.

github.com/nmelms/nand2...

#nand2Tetris #Rust

Lol for real... "Hang on, no way that worked"

Yeah, Rust can be annoying when it's constantly yelling at you... but that feeling when your code compiles and works as expected the first time 🤌

Touched some grass

Finally got my vm to pass the first basic test in Nand2tetris. Goes without saying but translating to assembly is super tedious 😅

github.com/nmelms/nand2...

#Build-In-Public #Rust #nand2tetris

Haha tbh i haven't tried it out yet but it looks super promising!

I'm also learning Rust so maybe I'll submit a PR one of these days.

Just found out about Harper.

Open source Grammarly written in Rust.

github.com/Automattic/h...

In JavaScript arrays are objects, and objects are passed by reference! This means that a reference to the memory location is passed instead of the actual value. Changes made to one variable can affect another if they point to the same object.

#JavaScript #webdev #fundamentals

Shit, arrays are objects.

#javascript

Digging into higher-order functions a bit more. Starting to see how much I skipped over when I first learned these. There's a lot more to them than just using map and filter.

#JavaScript #WebDev

Honestly, I'd just lower the font size so the largest word fits on the screen size you want. Not much else you can do besides breaking the word, which I probably wouldn't do.

Never realized the callback in higher-order functions like .map, .reduce, and .filter that contain additional parameters such as the index and the original array.

For example, if you wanted to only add up even indices, you could do something like this:

#JavaScript

Using a GIT GUI tool. I thought I was cool doing everything in the CLI. The senior Dev I work with uses GitKraken. I checked it out and now I use it for everything except creating and checking out branches.

Need a dynamic grid of elements with only internal borders? Check out this CSS trick using pseudo elements instead of borders. It's flexible and pretty easy.

blog.nickmelms.dev/blogs/css-bo...

Nice! Ya had me at Palace :)