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Update: All needed files for this tutorial can be found in the GitHub repo linked in the bottom of this page. I noticed that a lot of people are creating graphical programs to the Commodore 64 agai…
Using events to design applications is a practice that seems to be around since the late 1980s. We can use events anywhere in the frontend or backend. When a button is pressed, when some data chang…
Many years ago, sometime in the nineties, my family was having dinner at the neighbours', and their son showed me some cool DOS programs on the computer. One of the programs was a demo that drew animated flames on the screen. I was amazed! Asking what language it was written in, I was told it was Pascal.
Nobody wants to deliver late, over-budget software. I don’t know a single software developer who wakes up in the morning and thinks “I’d like to do a rubbish job today. How can I cost my employer more money?” And yet, so many software projects don’t go well. And with every new project, there seems to be more and more…
A blog about Rust and embedded stuff
I wrote a full featured application in rust, and so can you!
This is a simple function that can be called from the command line, just like if it was a regular com...
Discussing a recent academic finding on Java and Scala, from industry's perspective.
Weblog/homepage for a developer/engineer/artist. DIY projects, opinions and code.
The Microsoft Docs at https://docs.microsoft.com are really fantastic lately. ...
An in-depth coverage of parsing terminology an issues, together with an explanation for each one of the major algorithms and when to use them
It’s been about a year since I’ve started using Elixir. Originally, I intended to use the language only for blogging purposes, thinking it could help me better illustrate benefits of Erlang Virtual Machine (EVM). However, I was immediately fascinated with what the language brings to the table, and very quickly…
When an experiment with existing open source technology just cherry-picks results to make it look good
Many times a scientist is choosing a programming language or a software for a specific purpose. For the field of scientific computing, the methods for solving differential equations are one of the important areas. What I would like to do is take the time to compare and contrast between the most popular offerings. This…
This post covers essentially the same material as a 5-minute presentation I gave at RC .
I wrote a todo app. Unlike TodoMVC (where I took the design from) it doesn’t use JavaScript and instead all interactions are driven by CSS.
Using the right tool for the right job
If you enjoy this article, I have published a book explaining the internals of Git through implementation: Building Git .
A blog about programming and modern web development, particularly Node.js and React
