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High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python
Here’s a followup to last month’s post about Penrose Tiling in Obfuscated Python. The Mandelbrot set is a traditional favorite among authors of obfuscated code. You …
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19802
3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM
One rainy evening I meditated about memory managment in Java and how effectively Java collections utilise memory. I made simple experiment, how much entries can I insert into Java Map with 16 GB of RAM?
19803
19804
How to control the metacognition process of programming?
by Laurence Chen There is a famous quote: Programming is thinking, not typing. After doing this job long enough, sometimes, I feel I am doing too much typing. No matter whether...
19805
The "Soft Maximum" function
The soft maximum approximates the maximum function, and approaches it in the limit, but is easier to work with.
19806
"Maybe later" was a feature
The most valueble code in my repo, is the code I didn't write.
19807
This must already exist
I encounter this feeling frequently. I have a sudden need (or idea) and I realize that such and such a tool or service must already exist. As a software engineer, I’ve learned to not let that feeling pass. Usually, it’s a chance to learn something (because usually it does exist) and sometimes it’s a chance to to build…
19808
Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers
As the story of C’s birth goes hand in hand with the creation of Unix, the first C compiler can be traced back to the early 1970’s.
19809
Parsing bitstreams with Nom
How to use Nom to parse binary protocols at the level of individual bits
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Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack
Over the past year I've been working on a minimal-dependency hobbyist computing stack (everything above the processor) called Mu . The goal is to:
19813
Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors
How Ouster OS1 sensors create 3D HD maps, demonstrated by scanning San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building.
19814
Functional-navigational programming in Clojure with Specter
In February I open-sourced a library called Specter , and in my own work it has become by far my m...
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Rusty Typestates – Starting Out
This post is part of a series, you can see an overview of the whole series in [ rust-typestate-index ].
19817
JVM Performance Comparison for JDK 21
The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) benchmarks with a primary focus on top-tier Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers, such as C2 JIT, and Graal JIT. The benchmarks are structured in three distinct (artificial) categories:
19818
The Birth of Standard Error
Earlier today Stephen Johnson, in a mailing list run by the The Unix Heritage Society , described the birth of the standard error concept: the idea that a program's error output is sent on a channel different from that of its normal output. Over the past forty years, all major operating systems and language libraries…
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Recursion into madness
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
19821
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Nyxt 3.0.0
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Avoiding Worry Driven Development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by worry than it is by a lack of technical skill
19825
Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters such as [== vs ===] and [+=], Google will return results on the meaning of these sequences in programming …
19826
What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)
Simplex Sigillum Veri
19827
Advanced Forth Programming Topics
Explains features that make it easy to program in QED-Forth, including the interactive debugger, floating point mathematics, heap memory manager, arrays and matrices, structures, and the multitasking executive.
19828
Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
19829
F-Secure Anti-Virus: Remote Code Execution via Solid RAR Unpacking
Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities.
19830
Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems
Usually I write about solutions to problems I’ve worked out, but I’ve found myself increasingly becoming interesting in where solutions come from. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Boorstin’s excellent The Discoverers , which I’d strongly recommend.