3-post sibling to the 1736161886079533186 VK retrospective: same public-
domain release context, Dec 2023. Covers the mmap-ring-buffer error
logger and the multi-session rationale (crash auto-reload + log
preservation, no debugger).
10-post single-author walkthrough of his old Vulkan pipeline: warm-all-pages
startup, auto-relaunch on crash, single-SPIR-V plus spec-constants, Bind-
Everything-Once, SSBO-as-4-types aliasing, GPU-side game logic, hardware-
style fixed resources. High engagement (36 likes, 3778 views). Closes
with the ruthless-anti-complexity thesis.
6-post single-author walkthrough of the fast-path error-check pattern:
volatile store __LINE__ + error code, TEST, conditional forward branch
to a distant Err() call. Companion to the 2063733456144597200 thread
which established the macro system via the conversation with
@winning_tactic.
Path objects with trailing separators (e.g. './media/') intermittently
failed to glob on Windows after download_media.py had just finished
writing the directory. Normalize via rstrip('/\\\\') before Path()
re-wrapping so the CLI is forgiving regardless of OS path quirks.
Repro: gallery-dl ran + immediate render with trailing slash on the
just-created media/ dir -> glob returned nothing -> markdown emitted
no ![Media N] lines. Removing the trailing slash fixed it; this makes
both work.
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