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This is a tutorial on how to implement a programming language. If you ever wrote an interpreter or a compiler, then there is probably nothing new for you here. But, if you're using regexps to “parse” anything that looks like a programming language, then please read at least the section on parsing . Let's write less…
About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of amazing that over one hundred games decided to use curl! At the time, lots of … Continue reading Inside 22,734 Steam games…
Gentoo’s process for removing packages from the main gentoo package repository is designed to make me aware of it and give me time to react, and I really appreciate that.
Detailed description of an algorithm and a comparison between different languages.
“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? is a new book by Kent Beck. It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them)…
Porting an existing iOS app to Flutter, what it was like and my thoughts on Flutter thus far.
Asynchronous Rust is powerful but has a reputation for being hard to learn. There have been various ideas on how to fix the trickiest aspects, though with my focus being on Tokio 1.0, I had not been able to dedicate much focus to those topics. However, Niko’s async vision effort has recently started the discussion…
A blog about Rust and embedded stuff
A false dichotomy that hides the real request
TLDR; I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust. Right now it supports a smaller subset of the type-system and exists as a fun side-project, but the end goal is a compilation tool we can use to make Typescript compilation go brrrr...
Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.
How we built memchunk - a blazing fast text chunking library using SIMD and memchr for RAG pipelines
Full-text search is a powerful machine learning algorithm, especially relevant for web developers. This article teaches you the basics, from scratch.
I wrote a full featured application in rust, and so can you!
The boolean satisfiability problem (“SAT” for short) is arguably the most famous NP-complete problem in theoretical computer science. According to Wikipedia, it is “the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfies a given Boolean formula ”; or, in simpler terms, if there is at least one…
Salvatore Sanfilippo, aka antirez released a telegram bot library in C recently. While I'm not at all interested in a telegram bot library, I always like to read Salvatore's code, which is uniformly superb.
If you want to make a sound shorter, you can play it faster. Doing this also makes it higher pitch unfortunately. If you want to make a sound longer, you can play it more slowly. This also makes it…
Visualizations and techniques for different maze generation algorithms.
In 2020, I started writing a 3D game engine from scratch in C++. This is a post about how I added skeletal animation to it. Drake is in it, so buckle up.
