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Networking of a turn-based game
3 years ago, I started developing Swords & Ravens , an open-source online multi-player adaptation of a strategy board game I love, A Game of Thrones: The…
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Yet another E-Ink weather display – but with Rust
I made one of those e-ink weather displays that you see on tech blogs and hacker news sometimes. It can display the current weather, the temperature and precipitation forecast for the rest of the week, and my current and upcoming tasks from Todoist. It's powered by a couple NiMH AA …
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How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails
Implementing search in your Rails app can be vexing. Here's a great pattern to use that combines the best parts of ActiveRecord and Postgres.
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Retrowin32, a Win32 emulator
Small steps towards running my favorite demo again.
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Build a Container Image from Scratch
Build a Container Image from Scratch — Danish Prakash
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Progressive Web Components
Introducing Elena, a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.
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Building reliable agentic AI systems
AI helping pharmaceutical researchers query decades of information buried in PDF reports
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The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations
Using the power of randomness to answer scientific questions.
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Our Vision for Rust and WebAssembly
Stay up to date with events, learning resources, and recent developments in Rust and WebAssembly community.
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Robust Client-Side JavaScript
Why do we need to talk about robust JavaScript and how do we achieve it?
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Using Zig as cross-platform C toolchain
I like to learn at least one new programming language every year - it’s mostly for fun - they are rarely useful for projects that I actually have to ship . This year, I’ve decided to look at Zig. After skimming through the official documentation and finishing the ray tracing in one weekend exercise, I realize that Zig…
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GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD?
Two new language frontends have been added to GCC : Modula-2 and Rust . I think this is great news on both accounts: having a Wirth language in GCC fills my childhood heart with joy (though I do wish GNU Pascal can one day be revived and mainlined, as Pascal was the first non- BASIC language I learned). And Rust…
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How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly
Or why robots are playing DOOM now
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MailCrab
MailCrab is an email test server for development, written entirely in Rust.
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How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm
What is rate limiting? Navigate through the pros and cons of the available algorithms and best practices for how to design scalable rate limiting in Kong API.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems
For quite some time now I’ve been trying to learn about distributed systems, and it’s appropriate to say that once you start digging, there seems to be no end to it, the rabbit hole goes on and on. The literature in distributed systems is quite extensive, with lots of papers coming from different universities, plus…
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Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python
A friend introduced me to the game 24 , a simple game you can play with a deck of playing cards. Over the course of playing the game, I realized that either my friend was really good at this game, or that I wasn't!
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Literate raytracer: a simple implementation of raytracing in Javascript
Raytracing is a relatively simple way to render images of 3D objects. The core is an elegant idea, that one can simulate the real-world behavior of photons of light bouncing off of surfaces and colors accumulating from their paths. It’s not inherently fast, but the simplicity of the core lets it model interesting…
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You can't just assume UTF-8
How to infer character encodings with statistics
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Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
If the short answer leaves you wanting, keep reading. I must admit that this sentence from the Hare announcement may have caused some confusion:
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Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit. I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in. There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
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C was not created as an abstract machine
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are
stlab hosts modern, modular C++ algorithms and data structures.