One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It’s a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both.
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Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
An absurd and very fun technical deep dive into getting Mac OS X 10.0 running natively on a Nintendo Wii. It covers the hardware investigation, boot process, kernel patching, and driver work needed to pull Read more…