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Scene Blocking Language (SBL) is an experimental language for describing the visual content of a scene in a form that a generative AI system can understand and manipulate.

It grew out of The IAKESI Project, where one of the recurring problems with generative image production was not simply creating ...

The IAKESI project is now up and running at https://www.iakesi.online/
You can check out the project there.

For years, I had this idea for a manga I wanted to create. Not being an illustrator (at least, artistic vs technical illustrator) I could never realize this story. A year, or so, ago, I started playing around with ChatGPT's image generator to create a three-panel poster I had conceived. It worked ...

I’ve just released a beta version of a new book I’m working on:
An Introduction to Programming Using Swift.
Because of its size (2,600+ pages) and the fact that the Swift language evolves so rapidly that any printed book would become obsolete almost immediately, I’ve chosen to self-publish this book ...

I’ve just released a beta version of a new book I’m working on:
An Introduction to Programming Using Swift .
Because of its size (2,600+ pages) and the fact that the Swift language evolves so rapidly that any printed book would become obsolete almost immediately, I’ve chosen to self-publish this ...

For the next couple of weeks, The Book of I2C is part of a Humble Bundle. Save $$$!
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Here's a quick correction to Listing5-14 (which appears as Listing5-5-UserStack in the on-line files).
The declaration of the user stack was:


.align 4
smallStk: .fill 256, .-.
endSmallStk:


It really needs to be:

.align 4
smallStk: .space 256, .-. // .fill 256, 1, 0 also works
endSmallStk ...

It's that time of the year again!
No Starch Press is offering some great deals on some great books.
Check out the "Computer Science the Fun Way" Humble Bundle.
Running for three weeks, starting March 3, 2025
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Support files for "The Art of ARM Assembly" are now available at:
https://github.com/randyhyde/artofarm

printf uses the Intel/Windows ABI, where register RCX and RDX (among many others) are volatile and can be overwritten by the code being called. That's why you had to reload these registers -- printf is overwriting their values (true for R8 and R9, too).