I have been doing a lot of competitive programming problems on Kattis lately. It is my favourite online judge, and I have been enjoying my climb up the Irish scoreboard in an attempt to regain my former glory of first place. In particular, today I was tackling…

This article is also available in Russian, courtesy of Vlad Brown: Погружение в создание Immersion At last. Last December, we finally finished it. This video here is our last production, a 4 minute animation called “Immersion”. To be more precise, it’s a…

From ‘Jingle Bells Batman Smells’ to ‘Real Programmers Write in FORTRAN,’ Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) dives into how we share our collective knowledge and how we pass wisdom to future generations. He advocates for writing software with future generations…

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js CSS often feels like this mysterious, whimsical force governing everything that we see on the web. It can be […]

Learn what Python bytecode is, how Python uses it to execute your code, and how knowing what it does can help you.

Why Developers Choose It – And How You Can Stop Them

This is the second part in a series on WebAssembly and what makes it fast. If you haven’t read the others, we recommend starting from the beginning. JavaScript started out ...

A visual exploration of what The Four Color Theorem can say about software complexity.

Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017

Read the paper:
http://tomwildenhain.com/PowerPointTM/Paper.pdf

Download the TM:
http://tomwildenhain.com/PowerPointTM/PowerPointTM.pptx

Original video (without live background…

My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…