Archive - The Bytes Beneath

C for JavaScript Developers

This newsletter is for those of you interested in taking a crack at C (or any systems language) from the perspective of a web developer.

May 8 •

March 2024

Tools for memory safety in C: ASan

Believe it or not, they do exist

Mar 5 •

February 2024

Why I care about programming

How-tos are pointless without a why.

Feb 27 •

Hot Reloading in C

How to save 260 hours of your time, every year.

Feb 17 •

The Arena - Custom Memory Allocators in C

Easy, Flexible Memory Management

Feb 9 •

Custom Strings in C

Because <string.h> is horrible.

Feb 2 •

January 2024

Dynamic Arrays in C

The most useful data-structure, in C

Jan 18 •

September 2023

Unity: The Hidden Costs of "Free" 3rd Party Software

The recent pricing structure change by Unity has captured the attention both within and without the video game industry. They are proposing a…

Sep 20, 2023 •

Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time - Programming Lies

Sep 13, 2023 •

Memory management is too hard for you - Programming Lies

From the Ivory Tower, the Street seems too clumsy to juggle ideas.

Sep 7, 2023 •

July 2022

Good things are coming.

Jul 27, 2022 •

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