I’m the kind of person who thinks about the design and implementation of hash tables. One design which I find particularly cute, and I think deserves a bit more publicity, is Robin Hood open-addressing with linear probing and power-of-two table … Read more
Jacob Vosmaer’s blog 2024-12-31 In this post I will talk about my favourite computer ergonomics hack, a DIY device I call “The Beeper”. Background I built the Beeper almost 8 years ago but I have never written a blog post … Read more
by Declan Chidlow published on Dec 20, 2024 Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol’ CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy … Read more
Bunch of pages on city-data haven’t been updated in a while. It is also not nice to look at. My guess is that they had the first mover advantage and never bothered to make the site better. Statista has a … Read more
There’s a certain simple animation thing that I’ve been using almost since I’ve ever started doing anything related to graphics. I use it for rotating & moving the camera, for moving figures in a turn-based game, for moving UI elements, … Read more
I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime. I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git commit. This commit is … Read more
When was the Dollar highest against the Euro? Here is a small program that calculates it: curl -s https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip | gunzip | sqlite3 ‘:memory:’ ‘.import /dev/stdin stdin’ “select Date from stdin order by USD asc limit 1;” The output: 2000-10-26. … Read more
February 6, 2023 2:18 pm In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties. .stack > * + * { margin-block-start: … Read more
My Favourite Computer, An Old Mac – Muezza.ca [Home] My Favourite Computer, An Old Mac 08-OCT-2022 This Macintosh Classic II wasn’t the best computer of its day, it wasn’t even the best Mac available at the time, but 30 years … Read more
