what are some other tutorials for implementing a toy version of a hard thing in a short amount of time? Like https://implement-dns.wizardzines.com or https://raytracing.github.io
I’m especially interested in the “in a short amount of time” aspect, I think nand2tetris is extremely cool but you definitely can’t do it in 3 days.
If possible I'd love to hear about a project you personally did and how long it took you.
@b0rk For a more personal example, with notes… I read HTTP: The Definitive Guide in a night (yes… I speed read) then the next day wrote a more functionally complete HTTP/1.1 server in pure Python than I was able to find in Python. (Mine did chunked requests and responses, not just responses.)
The protocol bits compile to 191 opcodes.
Hybridises async and threaded execution.
And survives C10K consuming ~11MB of RAM.
https://github.com/marrow-legacy/server.http/blob/develop/marrow/server/http/protocol.py
Benchmark: https://gist.github.com/amcgregor/707936 (13 years ago)
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