My weird hobby lately is just wandering around Street View and zooming in on random stuff. Houses, wires, trees, whatever. lol. Today I found a 350Z in Tokyo. It’s just sitting there on the side of this narrow street, and … Read more
home blogs about THE WEIRD CONCEPT OF ‘BRANCHLESS PROGRAMMING’ 2025-07-08 01:37 • 19+ min read • #c #branchless DISCLAIMERS If you came for readable code, sorry, branchless programming is basically code golf with caffeine. Code examples are going to be … Read more
I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple … Read more
Rust has a very powerful type system, but as a result it has some quirks, some would say cursed expressions. There’s a test file, weird-expr.rs, in the rust repository that tests for some of these and makes sure there consistent … Read more
Released in 2010 and bundled with the Xbox 360, the Kinect looked like the future – for a brief moment, at least. A camera that could detect your gestures and replicate them on-screen in a game, the Kinect allowed players … Read more
Oct 31st, 2024 @ justine’s web page I just learned 42 programming languages this month to build a new syntax highlighter for llamafile. I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in programming languages right now. Now that it’s halloween, … Read more
How to Make People Feel Awkward at Work: Without Getting Reported to HR by Andrew Worden is the ultimate guide for anyone who enjoys a little workplace mischief without crossing the line. This book serves up subtle, hilarious tactics to … Read more
Context I was writing documentation for my proc-macro crate that generates builders for functions and structs called bon. I made the following simple example of code to compare bon with the other alternative crate buildstructor. rust #[derive(buildstructor::Builder)] struct User { … Read more
A few weeks ago, a lot of people on academic X quickly forgot about their support for “Women in STEM” and got angry at, of all people, Katalin Karikó, the co-inventor of the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines and … Read more
Article body copy Our boat noses into the craggy, primordial shore of Hecate Island. The first two off the deck have their hand lenses out before the rest of us touch land. They are Randal Mindell and Dan Tucker, both … Read more