GPU text rendering using vectors, with great performance
https://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textures/
https://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textures/
Things nobody told me about being a software engineer:
https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/
https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/
An exploration of the ways naive randomness can be misleading, and how to do it right
https://medium.com/@oldwestaction/randomness-is-hard-e085decbcbb2
https://medium.com/@oldwestaction/randomness-is-hard-e085decbcbb2
Medium
Randomness is hard: learning about the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm & random number generation
This post & its related materials were prepared for a July 26, 2018 lightning talk event co-hosted by Enigma and Women Who Code NYC!
XORcism: A clean, modern tool to crack "rotating xor" ciphers, with a very descriptive README
https://github.com/BenH11235/XORcism
https://github.com/BenH11235/XORcism
GitHub
GitHub - BenH11235/XORcism: Command-line tool that breaks rotating-xor (and similar) ciphertexts
Command-line tool that breaks rotating-xor (and similar) ciphertexts - BenH11235/XORcism
The Graphing Calculator Story
From the time of the original Macintosh, a skunkworks project like no other.
https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
From the time of the original Macintosh, a skunkworks project like no other.
https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
Powered by WebAssembly and emscripten.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scientific-python-stack-to-the-browser/
Powered by WebAssembly and emscripten.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scientific-python-stack-to-the-browser/
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser. We think it’s worthwhile to work on moving the ...
The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card (or, Why is 80 chars the default max line length?)
http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny
http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny
pub.gajendra.net
The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card
Wherein the author discusses (another) accident of history.
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic (talk transcript)
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
Forwarded from Vivian's dev rants.
Making the obvious code fast ~
https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/07/22/making-obvious-fast.html
https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/07/22/making-obvious-fast.html
jackmott.github.io
Making the obvious code fast
Jonathan Blow of “The Witness” fame likes to talk about just typing the obvious code first. Usually it will turnout to be fast enough. If it doesn’t, you c...
How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Container
https://medium.com/@benlaurie_18378/how-to-ruin-a-perfectly-good-container-d33250fca595
https://medium.com/@benlaurie_18378/how-to-ruin-a-perfectly-good-container-d33250fca595
Medium
How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Container
I am not aiming at a general audience. I assume you have some notion of what security is and how it is provided (to the extent it is), in…
What does debugging a program look like? — Julia Evans (2019-06-23)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/06/23/a-few-debugging-resources/
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/06/23/a-few-debugging-resources/
Julia Evans
What does debugging a program look like?
features are faults redux — tedu (2019-02-21)
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/features-are-faults-redux
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/features-are-faults-redux