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The Stupid Stones Problem
I made a silly maths problem 1000x* faster So yeah, I did a thing yay me. A few weeks ago (December 2024) I participated in the international nerd competition “Advent of Code”. If you’re the kind of person who reads my blogs, you have certainly heard of it, if for some reason you haven’t you…
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Nobody Knows What a String Is
The title might seem a bit nonsensical… and awkwardly long too. You think you know what a string is right? You’ve used them more times than you can count.Perhaps you’re most familiar with JavaScript, and you can define a string, check what’s in it and even pass it into a function or get one out.…
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The HACK architecture sucks
This title is clickbait slop, it’s actually quite neat but I have some critiques I’d like to share. Before that, I’ll give you some background. The Some Background The HACK architecture is an invention by Noam Nisan and Shimon Shocken. It is a part of the `Nand2Tetris` course series. It is a CPU specification which is both…
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The Nand2Tetris virtual machine specification
Today, I will unoffically document the Nand2tetris VM language. Let’s back up a bit – a short course I’m currently working on is nand2tetris project 7. It’s a lot of fun, it’s like a tour of the computer software and hardware stack. Don’t worry you don’t need to know anything about it, in this article…
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Rust: Cursed hello world
Let’s start of with the simplest approach and work down from there… Well that’s it folks, time to pack-up shop. I’m joking of course, I think this is pretty solid and the maintainers must think so too because this is the file cargo generates when you ask for a new project. The benefits are enumerable,…
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How to learn assembly
The 0th step is to set your expectations carefully. Anyone can learn assembly, but you should be aware of what you’re getting yourself into.
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But how many sauces is that?
I recently made a simple website where you can answer this exact question. For those who aren’t nose deep into programming, the simple overview is that this is saucify. You should go there to convert your centimetres or inches to sauces. It’s intended as a silly way to count how many sauces tall your cat…
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Stack overflow banned me, what do I do?
skip to examples Stack overflow is notorious for gatekeeping and being hostile. I’ve personally found that discord communities answer my questions much better. Cross-posting questions across discord servers and waiting patiently have gotten me very far. You may want to try another place and make sure you’re aware of the social etiquette of programming communities.…