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Nish Tahir

Principal Software Engineer. I write about engineering and fun projects I work on.

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The cost of Heroes on your software team

Over the years, I've seen all sorts of organizational and systemic problems within organizations that actively cause them to work against themselves. These ultimately manifest as missed deadlines and, unmet goals while incurring additional costs. One such issue I see fairly often is the Hero problem. I consider

How to get IDEA to detect openJDKs installed with brew

I recently went through a Homebrew (brew) Open JDK 11 and IntelliJ IDEA installation on a new Macbook Pro. $ brew install openjdk@11 $ brew install intellij-idea-ce However, I noticed that IntelliJ did not auto-detect the Java installation when creating new projects. Selecting the Project SDK dropdown did not give me

Interacting with WebAssembly memory

One of the most interesting features of WebAssembly is its memory model. Despite providing a system that allows for direct access and control of raw bytes, it does this in a way that offers more safety than one would typically expect out of low-level environments like C/C++. WASM memory

Embedded WebAssembly on a D1 Mini with WASM3

With WebAssembly (WASM) emerging outside the browser, several options for embedded WASM have begun to mature. One such platform is WASM3. It positions itself as "The fastest WebAssembly interpreter, and the most universal runtime" with cross-platform support across a range of architectures and operating systems. It's

Making games on WASM4 with Rust

WASM4 is a virtual game console that's very reminiscent of the Pico8 system. It's an idealized system with a display format, sound system, and controller inputs similar to retro gaming consoles without the inconvenience of physical hardware. Games are distributed as self-contained WebAssembly (WASM) modules and

Let's explore code signing with WebAssembly

💡If you're just looking to sign your binaries, I recommend using a tool that has been validated and tested by the community. This blog post aims to cover the process of code signing using WASM as a medium and may not cover every use case. A few I

The WebAssembly Text Format

While WebAssembly's primary distribution format is a binary file, the spec describes a textual representation called the WebAssembly Text Format[1] or WAT for short. While WASM binary files are designed to be as small and compact as possible making them ideal for distribution and transmission over the

How to cache Gradle build dependencies to a local Maven repository

I've occasionally found it helpful to cache a copy of a project's dependencies to a local file system. My most recent use case for this called for a local containerized test build without access to an internal network to fetch internal dependencies. An easy workaround was

A Flutter build failure checklist

I've been working with flutter for a while now and I've run into my share of build problems. These tend to happen most frequently when building production versions of my application or following an upgrade to new flutter versions. I've found it helpful to