Project Ceylon Development Log — September 26, 2026: Remember That Day Off I Was Going to Take?
Remember yesterday when I said I was probably going to take a day or two off?
Debugging
Project Ceylon Development Log — September 24, 2026: 55 Out of 55 Passed. Then We Found the Test Was Wrong.
Yesterday I wrote that "worked once" is no longer one of our engineering states.
Ceylon Development Log — September 19, 2026: The Controller Was Ready. It Still Wouldn’t Run.
Today I submitted Project Ceylon to the Hackaday Retrocomputing Contest.
52, 53, and Other Numbers That Ruin Your Evening
With the scheduler starvation bug fixed, the next client finally ran — and immediately failed for a much dumber reason. Shared logic assumed channel 52. It was actually…
The RNG Bug That Wasn't an RNG Bug
Two SecureRandom client tests were failing. Every instinct said the bug was in the random-number code. It wasn't. It was a busy-spinning restart starving lower-priority…
Well, Hell: The Iris Math Doesn't Work
Pixels appearing on screen is not the same thing as an architecture that scales to real high-resolution video editing. I found that out the hard way, and I was irritated…