About:
Make friends, collaborate, and learn. Join us for the first Zig Day in LA.
What to expect:
This is a low-stakes, warm-up zig day. The venue is fairly small with only a single large wooden table in it for 8 people. If there is a lot of interest (holler at me!), I can change the reservation to a larger room at the library (to accommodate 35 people), or switch libraries. We hope to have a monthly zig day LA. Water will be provided and maybe some donuts.
Schedule:
- 10:00 AM - 10:30AM - room / workstation setup / chat
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - discuss projects, form groups, begin zig
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - go to local restaurant for bite to eat
- 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM - continue zig
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM - discuss what you learned, show off
- 4:45 PM - 5::00 PM - clean up
RSVP
To RSVP vote on this Ziggit poll: https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-day-la-0/11023
Defer Report
Attendees
- Jeff Anderson
- Charlie Schoettle
- Logan Langdon
Spotlights
⚡ Charlie Schoettle
Charlie made progress on a Zig library for parsing National Instruments TDMS files. He uses National Instruments DAQs on his college rocketry team, and he has grown frustrated with the performance of the existing python implementation. He shared how using the mmap() syscall on linux can offer performance advantages by reducing I/O operations. mmap maps file contents into the process’ virtual address space, relying on the kernel to only page fault parts of the file into memory that are read. This often avoids reading the entire file off the disk when only small portions are required. Charlie demo’d some performance measurements using poop.
⚡ Logan Langdon
Logan worked on getting Zig back as a supported / example language for the datastar framework, a tool for writing reactive web applications with the backend of your choice (including Zig). Using http.zig, Logan showed some sprites updating in his browser from a zig std.Thread.
⚡ Jeff Anderson
Jeff learned how to use a Raspberry Pi Debug Probe to flash the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller in his Clockwork Pi PicoCalc (without pressing the button and unplugging the cables!). Jeff also learned how to step through a zig program line-by-line in an on-chip debugger, and print text to the uart by overriding the logFn for std.log. Jeff demo’d using the MicroZig library to control the screen over SPI, turning it on and off.
Photos
Cost
| Description | Cost (USD) | Contributed By |
|---|---|---|
| Venue fee | 70.00 | Jeff |
| Donuts / cleaning supplies | 43.00 | Jeff |
| Total | 113.00 | - |
We try to keep the costs low, for a more sustainable event.