Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.

In this post, I want to shed some light on something I’ve been wondering about for a while: How exactly are mipmap levels selected when sampling textures on the GPU? If you already know what mipmapping is, why we use it, and what pixel derivatives (ddx()…

Automating things, even when it doesn't save time, is how you learn the skills to automate the things that will.

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One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software Introduction This story begins with a conversation about new PC parts.
After ignoring the advice from my friend, I bought a new ASUS motherboard for my PC. I was a little concerned about having a BIOS that…

Merkle Trees in the real world

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

In 2019 I played with 8086 Tiny Plus v1.34, developed by Jaybert Software and improved from the original 8086 Tiny…

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I see people make the same mistakes over and over again when learning Rust.
Here are my thoughts (ordered by importance) on how you can ease the learning process.
My goal is to help you save time and frustration.
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An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.

The Go programming language. Contribute to golang/go development by creating an account on GitHub.

Use focused values for conveying information up the view hierarchy based on the currently-focused view.

Hi folks! A few months ago I shared my Swift SDK for Darwin, which allows you to build iOS Swift Packages on Linux, amongst other things. I mentioned that a lot of work still needed to be done, such as handling codesigning, packaging, and bundling. I'm super…

A lightweight, native Windows Todo application built with pure C and the Win32 API. - Efeckc17/simple-todo-c

Blog posts about GNU Guix.