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My first impressions of Gleam
What I’ve learned in my first few hours using Gleam for a small project.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,218 posts.
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Let's talk about animation quality
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
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How many lines of code is Candy Japan?
Guess how many lines of code you end up with when writing a subscription box site from scratch.
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Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
I have come to the conclusion that Software Engineering is primarily a learning endeavour, the working code is rather a side effect. This quote is actually not mine but I am paraphrasing Alberto Brandolini who is making this very point in Event Storming (he was actually talking about Software Development, but I do not…
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Donut math - How donut.c works
There has been a sudden resurgence of interest in my "donut" code from 2006 , and I've had a couple requests to explain this one. It's been five years now, so it's not exactly fresh in my memory, so I will reconstruct it from scratch, in great detail, and hopefully get approximately the same result.
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Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
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Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)
Despite these hard times, we continue our work saving the world from all manner of cyber-maliciousness. We adapt; we carry on. Meanwhile, I hope my travel notes and photos will bring a little cheeriness to all who view them – because there’s hardly a better way to do that than with the beauty of nature
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Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem
I'm a technologist with a focus in ecommerce, GenAI, and developer productivity. I enjoy building reliable and fast software, and helping others to do the same.
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Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos
Using `mdb` and `pmap` to find the cause of a crash.
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Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
The home of pythonistas
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Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig
Jakub Konka's weblog about programming, game theory, maths, and more.
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The US recording industry is stealing from me
Content copyright © 1995 - 2025 to Bruce Simpson (aka Aardvark), the logo was kindly created for Aardvark Daily by the folks at aardvark.co.uk
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Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
I was thrilled to be selected to design a custom typeface for Wallace & Gromit – Aardman’s most beloved and recognisable characters.
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Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks
How I scaled One Million Checkboxes to handle half a million users
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I Have Created 50 Games in 2014
I have created 50 mini browser games this year. This is it. Click the image to play the game. Games are roughly placed as follows.
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Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs
A few months ago, I shared the article, Understanding Large Language Models: A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed, and the positive feedback was very motivating!
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Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
Learn how to leverage unlabeled data using FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
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Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
I’ve previously blogged about using Pi Zero (and Zero W) devices as USB Gadgets. This allows them to be powered and accessed via one of the micro USB sockets and it shows up as both a CD-Driv…
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
In part 1 of this series, we built a Sudoku solver based on translating Sudoku to SAT and then giving the resulting SAT instance to a SAT solver. We also benchmarked our solver and found out that it, unsurprisingly, loses to the state of the art of Sudoku solvers. Since
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
I am super-excited to announce that the book I've been working on for more than the last year, Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python is finally available! (buy from O'Reilly, use...
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8-Bit Generation Documentary
UPDATE: Please read this later entry for update on this documentary. I’m putting this here to get some attention. There’s a documentary in production, or which was in prod…