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Some time ago I visited a used book fair and came across this awesome piece of 80s scifi-asthetic. a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyX55D-CaiCUjtdVxpPtJoOIVFRMnkxA5ZoZen-FNz0cFe3S0zsI_yF0AbUM2nMsqNgV_ayiHdVphPxJrD-3oP-z2

In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching film with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. First of all you make the entire room properly dark or you can't see anything. This is reg

Warning! Do not try any of this at home! Messing with internals of electrical devices is dangerous and can lead to fires, serious injury and even loss of life. My dad started using a super 8 film camera as early as 1967 (the system was launched in 1965).

I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO specification) to a bunch of conferences. Unfortunately all of them were rejected, so it's blog posting time. A contr

Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened . The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush created his own unclassified submarine to go sightseeing on the Titanic. Ignoring all advice from experts he create

One of the many nice language features in Python are keyword arguments. They make some types of APIs concise and readable. Like so: a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipxolHgFLDFeecuGLIStC9PHsYEy2ORmWmYmGLW3OAR562zUbR5Yl3Rt

In the past I have written many blog posts on implementing various PDF features in CapyPDF . Typically they explain the feature being implemented, how confusing the documentation is, what perverse undocumented quirks one has to work around to get things w

In our previous episode we wrote a merge sort implementation that runs a bit faster than the one in stdlibc++. The question then becomes, could it be made even faster. If you go through the relevant literature one potential improvement is to do a multiway

In an earlier blog post we found out that Pystd's simple sorting algorithm implementations were 5-10% slower than their stdlibc++ counterparts. The obvious follow up nerd snipe is to ask "can we make the Pystd implementation faster than stdlibc++?" For al

At this point in history, AI sociopaths have purchased all the world's RAM in order to run their copyright infringement factories at full blast. Thus the amount of memory in consumer computers and phones seems to be going down. After decades of not having