Week of the 19/07/2021 - #29

Contents

tech

• How Javascript Works
• Kansasfest 2021 highlights
• Other interesting reads

How Javascript Works

This week I read two interesting articles that has a hight level explenation on how V8 works. Here are the links:

• Part I: How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack - Part I “focused on providing an overview of the engine, the runtime and the call stack.”
• Part II: How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code - Part II “This second post will be diving into the internal parts of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine. We’ll also provide a few quick tips on how to write better JavaScript code —best practices our development team at SessionStack follows when building the product.”

Kansasfest 2021 Highlights

• Apple Archives - A lot of archived material with Apple II et. al. resources including the Beagle Bros Archive (https://beagle.applearchives.com)
• Double Hi-Res like you’ve never seen it before - Kris Kennaway - A very thorough talk about double high resolution
• What color was “Apple Beige”? - Not actually from Kansasfest but relevant.
• Maximizing Apple Color Bit by Bit - Lucia Grossberger Morales - Her YouTube talk in Kansasfest 2021
• Lucia Grossberger Morales - Lucia Grossberger Morales did Apple II graphics. Here are some of my favorites:

• Porting a Vector Arcade Game to the Apple II - Steven Hugg - Turns out he ported Asteroids.
• 8bitworkshop: Write 8-bit code in your browser - Steven Hugg showcases this tool used to write / disassemble code in 8 bit plaforms like atari 2600, NES, Atari Vector, Williams, Apple II+ and other old school plaforms.
• A2OSX and the Languages of development - The YouTube talk.
• A2osX Multi-Tasking OS for Apple II - There is a talk about A2OSX updates. “A2osX is an operating, programming and execution environment for the 128K Enhanced Apple //e and Apple //gs series of computers. While layered atop of ProDOS, taking advantage of all ProDOS block devices and MLI calls.”. A2osX Facebook Group.
• Tiny Programs for the Apple II - A talk by Vince ‘deater” Weaver on Apple II Sizecoding
• Computation Structures - There was a talk that mentioned this course which explains in detail how the digital circuits work. You can read about the project here: Hackaday.io: The Spikeputor
• DMAC by Michael Morrison - DMA memory access controller by Michael Morrison. Provide Amiga Custom Chip functionality, Augment built-in hardware

Other interesting reads

• Python behind the scenes #11: how the Python import system works - An article that describes how the import command works in Python.
• Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds - An article that describes the results from this paper: Maxwell’s equations from spacetime geometry and the role of Weyl curvature
• Linux tablets, phones and chromebooks