Jeff Epler

At the current tip of master, 561197116dba5f82f79d6b58e8bb7129e2674571, I get this: ``` $ build font ... ./fontgen.exe Nozzl3 Sans: 434 glyphs fontgen.exe: src/csg2-bool.c:1279: divide_segment_: Assertion `p != e->other->p' failed. Makefile:613: recipe...

On a Ryzen 5700U CPU, Linux 5.10.0, Debian bullseye, and `nosmt` on the kernel commandline, every task is effectively pinned to the CPU mask 0x5555: ``` On-line CPU(s) list: 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14...

For various reasons, I've configured my linux system with `nosmt` on the kernel commandline. ``` $ taskset -p 1 pid 1's current affinity mask: 5555 ``` Because of how Linux...

missed optimization: acos(1-x) -> 2 * asin(sqrt(x/2)) [on 0 <= x < 0.5?]

1

Source: personal investigation in 2014, inspiration from freebsd math library  http://herbie.uwplse.org/demo/8a0cc529ad30320a1d61220a6aefb0d36298cb3c.4ba6b6e49c51088fa31e3dbc4e15bf82b3c31626/graph.html

various ways to read() don't check for valid utf-8

6

Over in https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/issues/6752 a user reported that various ways to read from files didn't actually validate that the content was utf-8. In our case, this leads to a subsequent disconnection...

Run awesome-lint during CI

1

This potentially Closes #35. However, all the outstanding issues should be resolved before merging this PR, so that we don't add CI only to see it be red all the...

Automatically run awesome-lint in CI?

1

Some recent PRs mentioned tidying the markdown code with https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-lint -- is it something that we could/should do automatically during CI, similar to how we do pylint & black?

Provide an official way for tools to enumerate supported bundle versions

2

circup and possibly the vs code extension both encountered problems when we dropped the 6.x bundles. circup in particular hard coded the list of versions. if we provide an official...

consider lowering bootloader current requirement to 100mA

2

I was working with a colleague on a guide to using an ipad text editor with CircuitPython. We ran into trouble when an RP2040 board was plugged in that was...