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Using Deno as my game engine
Software, games, and the occasional startup.
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Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application
A series of patterns for building an AI co-pilot application.
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C++ for Games: Performance, Allocations and Data Locality
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 ...
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The case of the mysterious --help directory (2020)
For quite some time—as my research will show, March 2016—, I have been annoyed by a directory named --help showing up in my home directory (and sometimes in others).
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A Complete Guide to Rails Caching
Caching in a Rails app is a little bit like that one friend you sometimes have around for dinner, but should really have around more often.
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Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)
A concrete use-case of Firecracker with code snippets
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Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker
In the previous post , we watched the compiler transform optimized SSA into machine code bytes and package them into object files. Each .o file contains the compiled code for one package—complete with machine instructions, symbol definitions, and relocations marking addresses that need fixing. But your program isn’t…
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Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU
I trained a BERT model (Devlin et al, 2019) from scratch on my desktop PC (which has a Nvidia 3060 Ti 8GB GPU). The model architecture, tokenizer, and trainer all came from Hugging Face libraries, and my contribution was mainly setting up the code, setting up the data (~20GB uncompressed text), and leaving my computer…
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A ChatGPT Emacs Shell
UPDATE: has evolved a bit and is now on MELPA. I had been meaning to give ChatGPT a good try, preferably from Emacs. As an eshell fan, ChatGPT seemed ...
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Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (2009)
Like many programmers, I’m always on the lookout for the perfect programming book. Over the years I have tried to enumerate a few key examples , however after reading them all I am still left wanting. However, I recently came across a couple interesting blog posts [^motivation] that motivated me that the only way to…
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Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
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Go 1.3 Linker Improvements
Go obtains much of its compilation speed from the Plan 9 compiler, of which it is a direct descendant. The Plan 9 toolchain deferred much of the work traditionally performed by a compiler to the linking stage and its performance was summarised in section 8 of this paper
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Making a low level Linux debugger, part 3: our first program
This continues a series where we make a debugger and live editor for (re)creating assembly and C programs.
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Distributed Systems in Haskell
I recently completed UT Austin's Distributed Computing class, taught by Lorenzo Alvisi. My project partner Pato and I decided to give it a go in Haskell, and ended up using Haskell for all project assignments (Chandy-Lamport, Paxos, and Bayou).
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Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
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