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Zig's New Async I/O
In celebration of the std.Io introduction patchset landing today , here is the text version of a short, interactive demo I gave at Zigtoberfest 2025 .
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Back in my university days, I started learning how to make music with FL Studio , and made my first foray into Free Software by contributing to LMMS . I am thankful to the OC Remix and ThaSauce communities for mentorship. Here is a small selection of songs that I think turned out pretty fun:
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Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)
Last week, I reached an exciting milestone in my career as a programmer. For the first time in my life, I ran code directly on hardware , with no Operating System sitting between the bare metal and my code.