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Old graph paper
I found an old pad of graph paper in my father's desk and was reminded of the days of plotting by hand.
When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China
listen to the audio version of this article: This post is all about WeChat, but it’s also about more than just WeChat. While seemingly just a messaging app, WeChat is actually more of a portal, a platform, and even a mobile operating system depending on how you look at it. Much has been written...
SICP in Clojure
Personal blog of Wojtek Gawroński, a passionate software developer.
G is for Google
Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.
Google Hangouts 4.0: now simpler, faster, more beautiful
We’ve been hard at work on big improvements to make Hangouts faster, simpler, and easier on the eyes.
Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs
After spending most of the past decade without a decent computer, all laptops with GPUs more able at toasting bread than proper gaming, I finally cracked the spare Bitcoin piggy-bank and built my d…
Bringing Intel Xeon to notebook PCs
Intel Search Results Page
Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks
Writeup for my first major machine learning project.
BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies
Eric Merritt, Erlang and distributed systems expert, gives his views on BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems and new technologies In this case, This is not a Monad tutorial interviewed Eric …
Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer
Wow, it’s been a while. Figured passing another milestone is worth at least some sort of update. Looking back at my 1 year milestone has been amusing. My initial thought was that almost all the points brought up 4 years ago would no longer apply. A lot of the insights back then are strangely still quite applicable. So…
Quantity Always Trumps Quality
Nathan Bowers pointed me to this five year old Cool Tools entry on the book Art & Fear. Although I am not at all ready to call software development “art” – perhaps “craft” would be more appropriate, or “engineering” if you’re feeling generous – the parallels between some of the advice offered
Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
Your AWS account is one of the most valuable things you own if you run a business on AWS. If you only own a single AWS accoun...
Matrix Computations on the GPU in Clojure
Clojure Fast Matrix Library - GPU and native CPU
Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
We're announcing a move from doing the majority of our development work internally, to almost exclusively working in public issue trackers on GitLab.com.
Firefox exploit found in the wild
Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded ...
Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner
Monkey the cat hunts for his dinner using an Arduino powered cat feeder.
C++ concepts support merged into GCC trunk
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .