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Well, at long last I'm back.

For a couple of years I've been playing around with osdeving at an on-again-off-again level.
In an attempt to stop myself from forgetting everything I've done and restarting from scratch every time I have the time to code I'm now keeping a blog on my progress.

In case you feel like some reading, here it is (wall of text warning):
http://thomasloven.com

Code is available on github
http://github.com/thomasloven

I'm also trying to write a bit about the Z80 computer I'm building. It's actually far further ahead than the two posts I wrote so far implies...

Well done (good articles, important themes)! Good luck!

Edited. Visio or something like it will be useful.

Thanks!

Yeah... I'm still looking for a good way of making the illustrations. I kind of like drawing them by hand actually...

Edit: I actually replaced most figures in old posts now with cleaner and consistent versions.

I've added a couple of posts since last time...
Just now I added one on building newlib under OSX and linking it into your kernel [sic!].

Nothing new on the Z80, though, but it is now reading files off an SD card at boot.

I finally found the time to rewrite my VFS layer and write a few posts about my thoughts.

And a couple more posts.

- Using tar files for initrd.
- Some process management.
- Signaling.
- Printing pretty debug information over serial.

And with that, I caught up with the blogging to the state of my kernel as of the end of january.
I have to say, this blogging thing is really working out for me. I don't think I have many readers, but it makes me think more about my code. It's great!

The next few posts might be about DITo or perhaps some woodworking.

thomasloven wrote:I have to say, this blogging thing is really working out for me. I don't think I have many readers, but it makes me think more about my code. It's great!

I'll bet you'll remember things better in the future because you wrote about them now. I'll also bet you've got a better understanding of things because you were forced to explain them in your own words, as opposed to some other author's.

bwat wrote:I'll bet you'll remember things better in the future because you wrote about them now. I'll also bet you've got a better understanding of things because you were forced to explain them in your own words, as opposed to some other author's.

Exactly. That's why I started the blog, and it actually feels like it's working.
Definitely something I recommend for others. I'd also like to read others' blogs on the subject.

Recent update: Changed the default font on popular demand from #osdev.

thomasloven wrote:Recent update: Changed the default font on popular demand from #osdev.

I don't know whether smth was wrong with font but imho your colors should be more contrast.
Light gray for code snippets on light background - oh, my eyes. Or it's just my browser's problem (see attached screenshot) ?

Nable wrote:

thomasloven wrote:Recent update: Changed the default font on popular demand from #osdev.

I don't know whether smth was wrong with font but imho your colors should be more contrast.
Light gray for code snippets on light background - oh, my eyes. Or it's just my browser's problem (see attached screenshot) ?

Browser? OS?
You probably have javascript turned off or are behind a firewall that blocks jqery.com

The code is supposed to have black background and syntax highlighting.

I'll look into this...

> Browser? OS?
Rather old version of Opera (ok, I see the situation and I think that exact version isn't important).
Firewall doesn't block jquery.com but, yes, it's a known fact that recent versions of jQuery refuse to work in my browser or sometimes lead to 100% cpu load.
Hm, but syntax highlighting works on a lot of other sites, even with rather new jquery version.
Ok, it doesn't seem to be important after all, although providing better fall-back colors for those w/o JS would be very nice.

Why has Blue Coat categorized this site as "Pornography"?

Gigasoft wrote:Why has Blue Coat categorized this site as "Pornography"?

I have no idea whatsoever. According to their website, it's classified as "Personal Website".
That said. My company's proxy also blocked it before, but when I checked again right now it was fine.

Probably a faulty rating somewhere for some reason that has now been automatically fixed.