7.1. Input/output using streams Modern programs should use TStream class and its many descendants to do input / output. It has many useful descendants, like TFileStream, TMemoryStream, TStringStream. {$ifdef FPC} {$mode objfpc}{$H+}{$J-} {$endif} {$ifdef MSWINDOWS} {$apptype CONSOLE} {$endif} uses SysUtils, … Read more
In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions ― or Dungeons, or Domains, or so many other options that they’re often called MU* ― … Read more
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents 11 July, 2026 in advertising | Tags: AI, Allen Knutson, applets, Gilbreath’s conjecture | by Terence Tao I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back … Read more
A bright, colorful modern office design. (© Dariusz Jarzabek – stock.adobe.com) Striped Floors and Flickering LEDs Can Overload the Human Mind, Leaving Some With Headaches or Nausea In a Nutshell Study authors propose that the brain may use more energy … Read more
A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics G# brings Go-, Kotlin-, and Swift-style ergonomics — packages, func, data class, nullable handling with if let, structured concurrency with scope — to the .NET runtime. Source compiles directly to managed … Read more
Machine learning systems sit at the heart of modern AI workloads. In these systems, performance often comes down to the quality of a small number of GPU kernels. Attention kernels, LLM prefill and decode kernels, low-precision block-scaled GEMMs, fused MoE … Read more
But the overall difference between parents and non-parents after the post-partum period is not nearly as big as you might believe. On average, the German study, which looked at nearly 40,000 people in total, found that parents who had at … Read more
A modern take on the Rockbox open source audio player, extended with Rust and Zig. Rockbox Zig exposes the full Rockbox audio engine — gapless playback, DSP, 20+ codecs, tag database — through gRPC, GraphQL, HTTP, and MPD APIs, and … Read more
The mythical, it’s text, so it’s accessible There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a terminal, it is inherently accessible. The logic assumes that because there are no graphics, no complex DOM, and no … Read more
Saints Row: The Third Remastered – my first shipped title. Steelport is a dense open-world city, but the game also has tight indoor corridors, jets, cars, and parachute sequences. Getting culling right across all of that was a real challenge. … Read more