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As seen in the Daily Mail! I'm the developer of Vidrio, the future of presentation. Also find me on GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Keybase, Product Hunt. Find my old blogs: Wordpress (2010-12), Medium (2013-15).

Favorite posts

Your syntax highlighter is wrong (2014-05-11)
Granddad died today (2017-05-19)
The Three Ts of Time, Thought and Typing: measuring cost on the web (2017-10-26)
I hate telephones (2017-11-08)
The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017-12-02)
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user (2018-04-07)
My parents are Flat-Earthers (2019-01-20)
How Hacker News stays interesting (2019-01-26)
Project C-43: the lost origins of asymmetric crypto (2019-02-16)
The hacker hype cycle (2019-03-23)
The inception bar: a new phishing method (2019-04-27)
Time is running out to catch COVID-19 (2020-03-14)
A probabilistic pub quiz for nerds (2020-04-26)
Smear phishing: a new Android vulnerability (2020-08-06)

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How do JavaScript prototypes work? (2020-11-02)
How do classes work in JavaScript? (2020-11-03)
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What does the dot do in JavaScript? (2020-11-01)
How do JavaScript async iterators work? (2020-10-19)
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Use varyings for texture2D coordinates! (2020-10-21)
Why is my WebGL texture upside-down? (2020-10-22)
The many sizes of a video element (2020-10-23)
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A head in a box with BlazeFace (2020-10-12)
WebRTC group chat hello world (2020-10-13)
The Electron process architecture is the Chromium process architecture (2020-10-14)
How does require work in Electron? (2020-10-15)
Babel JS from the ground up (2020-10-16)
MediaRecorder hello world (2020-10-17)
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How does the Node.js REPL display previews? (2020-10-05)
How to make a floating head (2020-10-06)
How to self-host a TensorFlow.js model (2020-10-07)
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Head tracking with BlazeFace (2020-10-11)
JavaScript live bindings are just concatenation (2020-09-28)
How do ECMAScript modules work in Node.js? (2020-09-29)
What is npm? (2020-09-30)
How to publish an npm package (2020-10-01)
Executables in npm? (2020-10-02)
What are AMD modules? Fetch your sick bag (2020-10-03)
What are UMD modules? One final module system to rule them all (except ES modules which are a different thing) (2020-10-04)
BlazeFace hello world (2020-09-21)
Resizable boxes in pure CSS! (2020-09-22)
Running BodyPix on a video stream (2020-09-23)
Using BodyPix segmentation in a WebGL shader (2020-09-24)
JavaScript modules for grumpy developers from 2005 (2020-09-25)
What are JavaScript source maps? (2020-09-26)
What does the require function do in Node.js? (2020-09-27)
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Step-away background removal (2020-09-20)
Edge detection with Sobel filters (2020-08-31)
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How to implement green screen in WebGL (2020-08-10)
Production-ready green screen in the browser (2020-08-11)
Why does my WebGL alpha-transparency look wrong? (2020-08-12)
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BodyPix hello world (2020-08-16)
What is the order of NSWindow levels? (2020-08-03)
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Smear phishing: a new Android vulnerability (2020-08-06)
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How to implement green screen in the browser (2020-08-09)
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devices(for:) was deprecated in macOS 10.15: Use AVCaptureDeviceDiscoverySession instead (2020-07-31)
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Why is the contentRect of my NSWindow ignored? (2020-07-10)
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How to resolve “the app shows no response upon launch” in App Review (2020-04-24)
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A probabilistic pub quiz for nerds (2020-04-26)
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Simulating epidemics in WebGPU (2020-03-12)
How to record a canvas to video (2020-03-13)
Time is running out to catch COVID-19 (2020-03-14)
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Rule 110 in WebGPU (2020-03-02)
Game of Life in WebGPU (2020-03-03)
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When in doubt, don’t blur it out (2020-02-29)
How to write an ArrayBuffer to a canvas (2020-03-01)
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Simulating epidemics with WebGL (2020-02-23)
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Simulating epidemics (2020-02-15)
Why does this RNA virus look like DNA? (2020-02-16)
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Diffing coronaviruses (2020-02-09)
Towers of Hanoi in Haskell (2020-01-20)
Implementing a queue using two stacks (2020-01-21)
How to sort a stack using one additional stack (2020-01-22)
How to check if a binary tree is balanced (2020-01-23)
Is there a route between these two nodes in this directed graph? (2020-01-24)
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How to partition a linked list (2020-01-13)
How to reverse a linked list (2020-01-14)
How to find the middle of a linked list (2020-01-15)
How to check whether a linked list is a palindrome (2020-01-16)
Implementing a stack using a linked list (2020-01-17)
Implementing a queue using a linked list (2020-01-18)
A stack with minimum element (2020-01-19)
Determine whether one string is a permutation of the other (2020-01-06)
How to percent-encode strings in-place (2020-01-07)
Run-length encoding in C (2020-01-08)
How to rotate a square matrix in-place (2020-01-09)
How to remove duplicates from an unsorted linked list (2020-01-10)
How to find kth last node of a linked list (2020-01-11)
How to delete a node from the middle of a linked list (2020-01-12)
Browsing my genome (2019-12-30)
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How does Glitch refresh my app? (2020-01-01)
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Determine if a string has all unique characters (2020-01-04)
How to reverse a string in C (2020-01-05)
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Les Aventures De Toupac - a pixel art game (2019-12-28)
What are CSS percentages? (2019-12-29)
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What are CSS variables? (2019-12-21)
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Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 9: Foundations (2019-10-07)
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How to name a product with reduplication (2019-10-06)
What is a McCulloch-Pitts neuron? (2019-05-27)
What is simulated annealing? (2019-05-28)
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I can see your local web servers (2019-05-26)
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How to remember stopping distances for the Highway Code (2019-05-15)
What are symbols in JavaScript? (2019-05-16)
What is function* in JavaScript? (2019-05-17)
JavaScript generators are also consumers! (2019-05-18)
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Browser webcam hello world (2019-05-06)
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How do JavaScript iterators work? (2019-05-10)
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Does Redis Pub/Sub work with master-slave replication? (2019-05-04)
How can I add tags to a Jekyll blog? (2019-05-05)
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The inception bar: a new phishing method (2019-04-27)
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Electron hello world (2019-04-19)
Node.js addon hello world (2019-04-20)
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Vélos, vins et vassaux dans la Loire (2019-04-09)
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What is a prediction market? (2019-04-01)
What is matched betting? (2019-04-02)
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Probability notation for odds (2019-03-30)
What is a betting exchange? (2019-03-31)
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The hacker hype cycle (2019-03-23)
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Why can’t I set the font size of a visited link? (2019-03-08)
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Project C-43: the lost origins of asymmetric crypto (2019-02-16)
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How Hacker News stays interesting (2019-01-26)
Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 8: Secrets (2019-01-27)
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My parents are Flat-Earthers (2019-01-20)
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How to run Redis Sentinel (2019-01-08)
How to fix ‘Activating bundler (< 2) failed’ error in your jekyll build (2019-01-09)
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How to make a webserver with netcat (nc) (2018-12-31)
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A cat walk cycle (2018-12-28)
How to draw sprites on an HTML canvas (2018-12-29)
How I start Jekyll blog posts (2018-12-30)
How does a Morris approximate counter work? (2018-12-17)
A history of time in 40,000 pixels (2018-12-18)
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What is document.cookie? (2018-12-22)
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What is the API for Google Ngram Viewer? (2018-11-25)
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How to count at scale at Redis Day London 2018 (2018-11-15)
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Strava route builder API (2018-10-13)
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Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 5: Last mover advantage (2018-09-17)
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Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 6: You are not a lottery ticket (2018-09-19)
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Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 7: Follow the money (2018-09-23)
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Don’t say ‘simply’, at Write the Docs 2018, Prague (2018-09-13)
Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 2: party like it’s 1999 (2018-09-14)
Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 3: All happy companies are different (2018-09-15)
Summary of ‘Zero to One’, Chapter 4: The ideology of competition (2018-09-16)
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How is the Redis sorted set implemented? (2018-04-22)
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The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user (2018-04-07)
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What is HTTP keep-alive? What is HTTP request pipelining? (2018-03-27)
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Rounding up to the next power of two in C (2018-03-30)
What are /dev/stdout and /dev/stdin? What are they useful for? (2018-03-31)
A summary of Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker (2018-04-01)
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A lambda calculus interpreter in Haskell (2018-03-15)
How to create an SSH certificate authority (2018-03-16)
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An interpreter in Haskell (2018-03-06)
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Writing a parser in Haskell (2018-03-09)
Hello world in Linux x86-64 assembly (2018-03-10)
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What does Linux do with a lost TCP connection? (2018-02-27)
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How does network address translation work? (2018-03-02)
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Creating a UDP connection with netcat (2018-03-04)
How to make a system call in C (2018-02-19)
Hello world in C inline assembly (2018-02-20)
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How does swapping stdin and stderr work? (2018-02-22)
Running tcpdump on a TCP connection (2018-02-23)
What are TCP sequence numbers? (2018-02-24)
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What is the routing table in Linux? (2018-02-12)
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Diary writing prompts (2018-02-17)
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Don’t use nscd (2018-02-05)
What is DHCP? (2018-02-06)
How does ping work? (2018-02-07)
Run-length encoding in C (2018-02-08)
How does reverse DNS lookup work? (2018-02-09)
What is a subnet? (2018-02-10)
How does an IP address get translated to a MAC address? (2018-02-11)
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What is tcpdump? (2018-02-01)
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What does getaddrinfo do? (2018-02-03)
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Don’t say “simply”, at Write The Docs London (2018-01-23)
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A hex compiler in C (2018-01-21)
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How to hash multiple values (2018-01-09)
What is a random oracle? (2018-01-10)
Bootstrapping a C compiler (2018-01-11)
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Making a stream cipher (2018-01-01)
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osquery: UNIX as a SQL database (2017-12-11)
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How less works: the terminal’s alternative buffer (2017-12-04)
Nativité 2017: creating a Facebook Messenger bot (2017-12-05)
Linking to external posts from Jekyll (2017-12-06)
Inline quizzes (2017-12-07)
What is modular arithmetic? (2017-12-08)
What is a TTY? (2017-12-09)
What is open addressing? (2017-12-10)
Diff views in GitHub-Flavored Markdown (2017-11-27)
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UNIX free: used does not mean what you think it means (2017-11-29)
What is ASN.1? (2017-11-30)
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The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017-12-02)
An encrypted diary using OpenSSL (2017-12-03)
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Diff views as instructions (2017-11-23)
Adding blog tags (2017-11-24)
DNS resolution procedure (2017-11-25)
Nativité, a pastoral Christmas game (2017-11-26)
What is Swift’s @NSApplicationMain annotation? (2017-11-13)
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How do I release a PHP Composer package? (2017-11-06)
A JavaScript Promises implementation (2017-11-07)
I hate telephones (2017-11-08)
How PHP and Composer find your code (2017-11-09)
Adding a blog header (2017-11-10)
SaaS price models: cost-based pricing vs. value-based pricing (2017-11-11)
Moving pictures (2017-11-12)
Hashing a string with the Web Cryptography API (2017-10-30)
Signing a string with HMAC using the Web Crypto API (2017-10-31)
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Symmetric encryption with the Web Cryptography API (2017-11-02)
Asymmetric encryption with the Web Cryptography API (2017-11-03)
Adding Open Graph meta tags to jameshfisher.com (2017-11-04)
What are promises in JavaScript? (2017-11-05)
Giant Game of Life (2017-10-23)
Web Push API in Firefox (2017-10-24)
Group chat with end-to-end encryption (2017-10-25)
The Three Ts of Time, Thought and Typing: measuring cost on the web (2017-10-26)
Forward secrecy with hash ratchets (2017-10-27)
Guest post by Luís Fonseca: WebGL shading: both diffuse and specular (2017-10-28)
Guest writers (2017-10-29)
WebGL shaders with color (2017-10-16)
Multiple textures in WebGL (2017-10-17)
Generating a normal map in WebGL (2017-10-18)
GLSL varying variables (2017-10-19)
Generated normal-mapped ripples (2017-10-20)
Drawing a cube in WebGL (2017-10-21)
Game of Life implemented with a fragment shader (2017-10-22)
WebGL clipspace point visualization (2017-10-09)
WebGL matrix visualization (2017-10-10)
WebGL Lambertian shading (2017-10-11)
WebGL shading: diffuse vs. specular (2017-10-12)
WebAssembly hello world (2017-10-13)
macOS OpenGL hello world using GLFW (2017-10-14)
One-dimensional Perlin noise (2017-10-15)
WebGL fragment shader (2017-10-02)
WebGL shader uniforms (2017-10-03)
Textures in WebGL shaders (2017-10-04)
WebGL fragment shader animation (2017-10-05)
How to load an image in WebGL (2017-10-06)
Drawing a clock face with WebGL (2017-10-07)
WebGL canvas size vs. CSS size vs. viewport vs. clipspace vs. world space (2017-10-08)
lldb hello world (2017-09-25)
IndexedDB hello world (2017-09-26)
WebGL hello world (2017-09-27)
Where is the Unicode feed icon? (2017-09-28)
Unicode is only for plaintext (2017-09-29)
Drawing a triangle with WebGL (2017-09-30)
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ICFP: Ode on a Random Urn (2017-09-18)
Per-IP rate limiting with iptables external link (2017-09-19) What is the web Push API? (2017-09-19)
Web Notification API onclick (2017-09-20)
How can I encrypt data in the Web Push API? (2017-09-21)
Adding an RSS feed to a Jekyll blog (2017-09-22)
How can I store things on the browser? (2017-09-23)
LocalStorage hello world (2017-09-24)
Service worker hello world (2017-09-11)
new Notification(...) is deprecated (2017-09-12)
What is the web Background Sync API? (2017-09-13)
What is a Web App Manifest? (2017-09-14)
Why are there 21 million bitcoins? (2017-09-15)
Coping with depression (2017-09-16)
Hello world in Rust (2017-09-17)
How to write an essay (2017-09-04)
Worst interview (2017-09-05)
Array vs. dictionary pagination (2017-09-06)
What is the web Notification API? (2017-09-07)
Publication notifications for static sites (2017-09-08)
How could Bitcoin fail? (2017-09-09)
What are service workers? (2017-09-10)
What is an extern function in C? (2017-08-28)
A calendar view for this blog (2017-08-29) Securing my Bitcoin (2017-08-29)
How do I make a full-width iframe with fixed aspect ratio? (2017-08-30)
Post-driven permanent blog pages (2017-08-31)
August review (2017-09-01)
What makes a good blog post title? 5 steps to going VIRAL! (2017-09-02)
Running a Laravel+Pusher workshop at work (2017-09-03)
What is C include? (2017-08-21)
How to inspect Mach-O files (2017-08-22)
Sentence wrap (2017-08-23)
How to make plugins with dlopen (2017-08-24)
What system calls does dlopen use? (2017-08-25)
What is static linking in C? (2017-08-26)
What is extern in C? (2017-08-27)
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Greater-than is redundant (2017-08-15)
How do Reddit thumbnails work? (2017-08-16)
Golang’s realtime garbage collector at GolangUK (2017-08-17)
What is stdatomic in C? (2017-08-18)
Does C have generics? (2017-08-19)
What is an authoritative DNS server? What is a recursive DNS server? (2017-08-20)
This site is now on jameshfisher.com (2017-08-07)
How to move your GitHub pages blog to Netlify (2017-08-08)
What is the rel=canonical tag? (2017-08-09)
How to trace a DNS lookup (2017-08-10)
How do peer-to-peer programs discover each other? (2017-08-11)
How to build a .dmg to distribute MacOS apps (2017-08-12)
How to distribute a MacOS .dmg (2017-08-13)
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How to watch system calls with dtruss (2017-08-01)
How to implement malloc/free (2017-08-02)
How can I do DNS lookup in Go? (2017-08-03)
How to write a DNS server in Go (2017-08-04)
How to let your users sign in with Google, from scratch (2017-08-05)
Instance DNS in multi-tenant services (2017-08-06)
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Notes from Minsk (2017-07-25)
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Are concurrent fwrites atomic? No! (2017-07-29)
How to cut out the CA middleman (2017-07-30)
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Golang’s realtime garbage collector at GoWayFest, Minsk (2017-07-21)
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The Fisher Tree at The Realtime Guild (2017-07-05)
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Pattern jokes via WordNet/NLTK (2017-06-25)
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Long calendar (2017-06-06)
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Defining the sine function as an oscillator (2017-06-04)
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Granddad died today (2017-05-19)
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How to make a Core Image kernel program running on the CLI (2017-05-02)
What is CIColorKernel? (2017-05-03)
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What is the clear program? (2017-05-06)
Don’t trust cat! (2017-05-07)
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How to apply a CIFilter to an image in Swift (2017-04-26)
How to make a custom CIFilter in Swift (2017-04-27)
What are samples in a Core Image kernel? (2017-04-28)
How to write a webcam app in Swift on macOS (2017-04-29)
How to pass multiple inputs to a CIKernel (2017-04-30)
What company information is public? What’s on Companies House? (2017-04-17)
How to write a TCP chat server in 55 lines of Golang (2017-04-18)
How to write an OpenCL ‘hello world’ on macOS (2017-04-19)
How to run Swift from the CLI (2017-04-20)
What is a .app? (2017-04-21)
What is the simplest neural network? One neuron (2017-04-22)
How to write ‘hello world’ in TensorFlow (2017-04-23)
Playing with Stripe (2017-04-10)
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How can I do elliptic curve crypto with OpenSSL? (2017-04-14)
How to create a public-key infrastructure (2017-04-15)
What is a business? What is a company? (2017-04-16)
How to run go tool trace (2017-04-03)
What is the viewport meta tag? How can I display my website on mobile? (2017-04-04)
How do I set a socket to be non-blocking? (2017-04-05)
rxi/vec - a simple C vector library (2017-04-06) What is go tool trace? (2017-04-06)
Multiplexing by looping over nonblocking sockets (2017-04-07)
How to implement a ‘free trial’ for macOS apps (2017-04-08)
Product key server as a service (2017-04-09)
How to use keycastr (2017-03-27)
Varying navbar for mobile and desktop (2017-03-28)
How to prevent autoplay on mobile (2017-03-29)
Replay with sound (2017-03-30)
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Monthly review: 2017-03 (2017-04-01)
What is ‘sequencing markets’? (2017-04-02)
How is MainMenu.xib found in Cocoa? (2017-03-20)
How do I do public-key encryption with openssl? (2017-03-21)
How do I do public-key signatures with openssl? (2017-03-22)
How to get your point across with spaced repetition (2017-03-23)
Your password is the private key. So what is the public key? (2017-03-24)
Study of framer.com promo video (2017-03-25)
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How do I create a message digest using openssl? (2017-03-13)
Don’t say ‘it will take five minutes’ (2017-03-14)
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How to make a Cocoa application without a .xib file (2017-03-17)
What is Swift’s @NSApplicationMain annotation? (2017-03-18)
What is NSApplication? How is it instantiated? What is NSApp? (2017-03-19)
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How do I encrypt text with openssl? (2017-03-09)
Golang’s realtime garbage collector at Not On The High Street Conference (2017-03-10) How do I generate random bytes with openssl? (2017-03-10)
How do I fetch a server’s SSL certificate using openssl? (2017-03-11)
How do I hash a password with openssl? (2017-03-12)
What are the domain and type arguments to the socket system call? (2017-02-27)
How to write a TCP server with the pthread API (2017-02-28)
What is the Apple Store release process? (2017-03-01) Installing and running ebe (2017-03-01) Monthly review: 2017-02 (2017-03-01) Justifying posts (2017-03-01) Redis Pub/Sub under the hood external link (2017-03-01) How do I create the AppIcon for my app? (2017-03-01)
How to submit an app build to iTunes Connect (2017-03-02)
How to add a developer account to XCode (2017-03-03)
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What is lsof? (2017-02-20) How to write an assembly ‘hello world’ on macOS (2017-02-20)
What is a a FIFO, or “named pipe”? What is mkfifo in C? (2017-02-21)
Don’t use the word ‘simply’ (2017-02-22) What is ssize_t in C? (2017-02-22)
How do I print bits in C? (2017-02-23)
What is mode_t in C? (2017-02-24)
Should I go paperless? (2017-02-25) How to write a TCP server using the fork syscall (2017-02-25)
What is UTF-8? (2017-02-26)
French preposition examples (2017-02-13)
UNIX as a SQL database (2017-02-14)
How do I duplicate a file descriptor in C? (2017-02-15) Golang’s realtime garbage collector, at The Realtime Guild (2017-02-15)
How do I close a file descriptor in C? (2017-02-16)
How do I call a program in C, setting up standard pipes? (2017-02-17)
What are setjmp and longjmp in C? (2017-02-18)
How to generate Intel and AT&T assembly with clang (2017-02-19)
How do I use fork in C? (2017-02-06)
How do I call a program from C? (2017-02-07)
How does GeoDNS work? (2017-02-08) How can I wake up earlier? (2017-02-08)
How to wake up earlier (2017-02-09)
What is the happened-before relation? (2017-02-10)
Are processes and messages different? (2017-02-11)
What are Lamport timestamps? (2017-02-12)
Cloning Spaceteam (2017-01-30) How do I read man pages? (2017-01-30)
What system calls does macOS have? (2017-01-31)
Monthly review: 2017-01 (2017-02-01)
How do I access environment variables in C? (2017-02-02)
How do I generate assembly from a C file? (2017-02-03)
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Pointer to middle of allocation, part 1 (2016-12-28)
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What is a “file descriptor”, really? (2016-12-15)
How to write a TCP server with the select syscall (2016-12-16)
What is fdset in C? (2016-12-17)
How to write a TCP server with the kqueue API (2016-12-18)
How do I set the C compiler in a Makefile? (2016-12-05)
What is a ‘binary-safe’ string? (2016-12-06)
What are automatic variables (dollar variables) in a Makefile? (2016-12-07)
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What are ‘macro functions’ in C? (2016-12-09)
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What is realloc in C? (2016-12-01) Does C have booleans? (2016-12-01)
What does const mean in C? (2016-12-02)
What does the restrict keyword mean in C? (2016-12-03)
What is FILE in C? (2016-12-04)
How does a stream cipher work? (2016-11-21)
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How do varargs work in C? (2016-11-23)
How is the stack laid out in C? (2016-11-24) A C typedef convention for complex types (2016-11-24)
Don’t use the word ‘it’ (2016-11-25)
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Bike front derailleur (2016-11-27) What is K&R style function definition in C? (2016-11-27) What does void mean as a function parameter in C? (2016-11-27) What is void in C? (2016-11-27)
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128 byte of CSS is enough (2016-11-15)
Should I get a cleaner? (2016-11-16) A summary of ‘On-the-Fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise in Cooperation’ (2016-11-16) Post every day (2016-11-16) How do I serialize JSON in Swift? (2016-11-16) Learning vim (a short adventure) (2016-11-16)
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What is symmetric cryptography? (2016-11-19)
Should I buy Huel or Joylent? (2016-11-20)
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Make = Puppet external link (2014-08-15)
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A proof that the Halting problem is undecidable, using JavaScript and examples (2013-12-24)
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Do not ask if I had a good holiday (2007-07-27)
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‘A liberal revolution that was blown off course’. Is this an adequate description of what happened in France? (2006-12-11)
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