programming

May
30

Things I learned calling shm_open() on a Mac

1 min read
Apr
19

Lessons learned from battling Godot 3 for twelve hours

3 min read
Apr
19

Beware map indexing in C++

1 min read
Dec
07

Eval game rule 10

1 min read
Sep
27

You could have invented PEM encoding

1 min read
Sep
18

Why Nginx needs the SSL certificate with chain, not just the bare certificate

1 min read
Sep
15

How to get the x-axis of an Excel scatter chart programmatically

1 min read
Sep
03

A structure I'm experimenting with for spreadsheet-generating Python code

1 min read
Aug
31

TDD doesn't mean test every function?

1 min read
Aug
30

Too few or too many functions make dreadful code

1 min read
Aug
29

Pandas .memory_usage() underreports usage for string-heavy DFs?

1 min read
Aug
28

Thunks in Python

1 min read
Aug
10

Distinguishing abstract lifetimes from concrete lifetimes in Rust

1 min read
Jul
14

Why people use e-mailing services

3 min read
Jun
25

Going down the branchless FizzBuzz rabbit hole in APL

3 min read
Jun
20

The OpenFHE API in a nutshell

1 min read
Jun
16

Using meta tensors to load models that don't fit in memory

1 min read
May
22

Creating a single continuous passage in Twine

2 min read
May
07

Why are there no programming checklists?

1 min read
May
05

Counting words with Powershell

1 min read
May
04

Tkinter quick reference

1 min read
Apr
28

Things that LSP can do

1 min read
Apr
25

How Logseq handles file name restrictions

1 min read
Mar
31

Reproducible Excel files

1 min read
Mar
09

gsDesign sample sizes

1 min read
Mar
04

Testing Angular components

1 min read
Feb
03

Error handling

2 min read
Jan
20

Species of code

4 min read
Jan
16

A-Frame pattern: Why the app/infrastructure split?

2 min read
Jan
15

Free-standing functions and testing

1 min read
Dec
28

Spoiler text in Ghost

1 min read
Dec
27

What is HMAC good for vs. public key cryptography? (question only)

1 min read
Dec
06

"There must be a better way to do this"

1 min read
Dec
05

Updating an old conda for Manim

2 min read
Nov
23

The (de)serialization problem

1 min read
Nov
16

Subnormal floating point numbers

1 min read
Nov
16

Why floating point numbers don't form a ring

3 min read
Nov
04

Unicode surrogates and exponential growth

3 min read
Nov
02

Social phenomena surrounding software

1 min read
Oct
31

Standard-safe arithmetic shift right in C

2 min read