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I was looking through the book Expert C Programming again when I came upon their “light relief” section on The International Obfuscated C Code Competition . It’s a contest to write the most obscure code. That the language C has a competition where you write confusing code in it probably says something about the…
There are some topics which, if posted onto a forum or news site, cause programmers to spew out more blather than all the rest put together. Such topics include:
Eve is a new programming language. Maybe. Or, a development environment. More accurately, perhaps, it’s a tool to think. If you have an hour to spare, this is a great video to watch from Chris Granger:
Last Updated Dec 12, 2019: Fixed an off by one error (awk uses 1-based arrays!).
For a language that claims to focus on one right way to handle most situations, string formatting in Python is quite a buffet and it’s getting more diverse by the year. Starting with Python 3.6 we now have three ways to format strings (outside of simple concatinating things or using string.Template ):
BPG not only is way smaller than JPEG but also delivers a better quality. And that's not all! It also supports animations! Goodbye GIFs!
I am still puzzling through the right way to think about some ideas in compression, so let’s take a break from that and talk about generally cleaning up the ...
In the post on matrices in Codea I mentionned that an affine transformation (things like rotation, scaling, translation) ℝ 3 → ℝ 3 could be specified by giving four vectors. In this post I want to examine that a little more closely for the special case of a rotation. That is to say: how can I encode a rotation in ℝ 3…
A very tongue-in-cheek article about why jQuery is good for the web.
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
Introduction There is a common stereotype, that C++ exception handling code will significantly increase binary image size ("up to 100kb")...
Why are macros in Haskell terrible, but macros in Racket great? There are certainly many small problems with GHC’s Template Haskell support, but I would say that there is one fundamental design point which Racket got right and Haskell got wrong: Template Haskell does not sufficiently distinguish between compile-time…
One night in May of 1996 I was bored and wanted to play Tetris very badly... At the time I was an exchange student. I owned a broken laptop which wasn't of much use but I also had access to my host family's 486 desktop computer that came with MsDOS
This is an essay about what it means to teach a kid to program, using Seymor Paperts groundbreaking book Mindstorms as a reference.
Articles about bootstrapping a business in tech and web development by Adam Waselnuk. I’m a first-time founder who is bootstrapping a software business. Follow along as I learn!
Abstract: Allocations and related lack of spatial locality can be DAMN EXPENSIVE Quote: During the times of Ancient Gamers (also known as times of Atari, ZX ...
