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Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered…
As a fun afternoon challenge, I decided to write a C program that looked nothing like C. Not necessarily obfuscated, though there is a competition for that if you are so inclined.
Almost all mathematical questions one could have about Wordle are settled by now. I summarize here what is known so far.
Collected tips from building the Austral compiler.
“Hey, you. Yes you, that function over there. When you’re cleaning up please remember to restore all of my registers. Yes, that one too – what do you think this is, Linux?”That’s the problem I was …
Concise learning resource for beginner to intermediate level Vim users
How far can I get in Advent of Code if I do all the problems in Dreams?
Explore SQLite Internals: How The World's Most Used Database Works by Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer. Deep dive into database internals, systems engineering, and advanced Python.
Last week, Chandler Carruth announced Carbon, a potential C++ replacement they’ve been working on for the past two years. It has the usual cool features you expect from a modern language: useful generics, compile-time interfaces/traits/concepts, modules, etc. – but the thing I’m most excited about is a tiny detail…
The Unix shell is pure wizardry. Why shouldn’t it be as easy to write systems programs in Go as it is in the shell? The script library is the secret spell-book that makes this possible.
I found this interesting print-ad for WordPerfect for UNIX, apparently the best UNIX product of 1992! (Very) Belated congratulations Corel!
Find where WhatsApp chats live in an iPhone backup, decrypt an encrypted iOS backup with Python, and read your messages from ChatStorage.sqlite.
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
This is a series of brief articles aimed at teaching Emacs to computer professionals who are unfamiliar with it. I do not dwell on the basics of the user interface, which can be learned from the built-in tutorial. Instead, each article in this series will distill one very specific command line (CLI) tool or technique…
During one of my assignments, I worked with GitHub Actions pretty much every day. I implemented workflows, created new actions, and helped people migrate their projects from jenkins to actions. As much as I like actions – and I like them a lot – there are some things that caught me off guard. I have collected some of…
Use two consensus building phases to reach safe consensus even when nodes disconnect
My experience trying to learn Zig via Advent of Code.
Phantomderp and I have both recently been very aligned on a particular subject: being extremely angry about C ABIs and trying to fix them . Where we’re not aligned is why we’re mad about them.
Jakub Konka's weblog about programming, game theory, maths, and more.
Using GPU to render vector graphics.
