Tech related links

Papers

• Theory of edge detection (1980)
• The Second-Order Digital Waveguide Oscillator (cheap circles / oscillators !)
  
• Plan 9 From Bell Labs
  
• Journal of Evolution and Technology
• A Performance Study of the Acorn RISC Machine (1990)

• Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Minsky (1972)
  
• Extrapolation, Interpolation, and smoothing of stationary time series by Norbert Wiener (1949)
• L'audionumérique by Curtis Roads (don't know the English title, my reference on digital audio)

• Visualization and walkthrough of the LLM algorithm behind OpenAI ChatGPT. Explore the algorithm down to every add & multiply, seeing the whole process in action.

• Hackaday
  
• Godbolt compiler explorer (high-level code with the generated low-level code side by side)
• Intel intrinsic guide
• Hacker News (IT but not only aggregator, a bit like Slashdot)
• LWN.net (Linux and free software development news)
• Quick introduction to OpenMP with C / GCC (easy multiprocessing with C)
• Color palettes website with many tools and export options
• On fixed point numbers / LUT
• Great GBA dev. stuff with appendixes on vector / matrix math and stuff for low processing power hardware
• The garden of computation delights
• Awesome creative coding
• CPU collection
  

• SIMD instruction list (SSE to AVX512)
  

• Radix sort
• Modulo 3
• More algorithms and tricks by a former democoder who did the Blood Atari ST demo
• Bit Twiddling Hacks
• Bit wizardry
• More bit manipulation stuff
• Small but good PRNG see also this one
• Bitwise Floating-Point Tricks
  

• Graphics cards of the IBM era
  

• Tupper's self-referential formula
• Docker implemented in ~100 lines of Bash (this show how Docker works by leveraging existing tools to build its solution)
• PicoGPT, GPT-2 implementation in few lines
  

• SectorLISP (436 bytes LISP implementation with garbage collection)
• SectorFORTH (< 512 bytes FORTH implementation) also see milliForth
  
• SectorBASIC (< 512 bytes BASIC implementation)
• SectorC (< 512 bytes C implementation)
  

ARM

• Introduction to ARM (programming in ARM assembly language)
• Another introduction to ARM (with nice ARM assembly cheat sheet)
  
• In-depth explanation of ARM immediate value encoding with interactive encoder
• CPUlator ARMv7 / MIPS simulator and online debugger
• ARM Thumb (16-bit) simulator / debugger
  
• Useful ARM documents to download (such as the ARM2 1987 Datasheet)
• ARM Assembly Language Programming (online 1987 ARM book by Pete Cockerell)
• ARM CPU Software Manual Version 1.0 (documentation of the first version of the CPU without MUL instruction)