Gerph - Live coding stream, Sunday 30th June

Hiya,

After the success of the live coding, the Sunday before last, I shall be doing a follow-up session.

I’ve scheduled this for Sunday the 30th June, starting around 1pm. In case anyone missed the last session, this is a YouTube stream where I share my screen and write stuff for RISC OS live whilst talking about what I’m doing and why.

I’ll be continuing from where I left off. Last time I…

• Ported an ARM/Thumb disassembler to RISC OS.
• Created a command line tool to disassemble files.
• Created a Debugger module that provides the disassembly routines.
• Pushed the sources to GitHub for everyone to see – https://github.com/gerph/darm

The next session will continue with the Debugger module development, and we’ll see where we go.

The stream can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2_lv3h8tg

The GitHub repository can be found here: https://github.com/gerph/darm

Come along and join the chat! And bring pineapple juice – the Choice Of The Coding Generation.

Why am I doing this?

Partly it is for fun, just because it’s interesting and hopefully entertaining.
Partly it’s to be educational to people about how you might do things.
Partly it’s to just learn what works and what it’s like streaming things.

Why a disassembler?

Because the current disassembler is in ARM, and it will be useful to have one that isn’t in ARM – which Just Works.
Because it demonstrated porting a module (and converting C99 code to C89 was incidental).
Because it’s an opportunity to show how to change more modern code to be more RISC OS-y.

And bring pineapple juice

😂 I’ll stick with Tetley, thanks.

Partly it is for fun

The best reason.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to make it. My fibre is ballsed up (apparently there isn’t any lovely glowyness inside) and the company failed to keep their appointment last Saturday.
I made a new appointment next Saturday, unwilling to take a day off work for their incompetence, and made that in the staff break room with my phone on speakerphone. Everybody get to hear my thoughts, and my lack of filter, and that I was definitely not impressed by simply not turning up and failing to do the simple courtesy of apologising. Poor woman on the phone was like “um um umm”.

So, maybe somebody will turn up this time and I can stop propping my bloody phone in the window so it can spend half it’s time trying to work out whether it wants to be on H+ or 4G (and receiving very little of either).

Partly it’s to just learn what works and what it’s like streaming things.

Way ahead of anything I’m capable of. You had how many screens there? Plus the little live camera in the corner for the 🍍.

Last time I…

…did way more than my little ADHD mind is capable of in that time, plus narration, plus reading our comments, plus pineapple juice.

Good luck!

[oh, and if you didn’t watch it last time, give it a try, see how real software gets made 👍]

Thanks to all who came along :-)

An interesting session – a bit more complicated to do, but worked well.

This session was trying to implement the *DumpI and *MemoryI commands in the module. It seemed a lot harder than it probably ought to have been, but I’m happy with the result.

If you missed the session and want to watch, it’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2_lv3h8tg