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Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

291 points by speckx 5 months ago | 99 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

177 points by sogen 1 year ago | 38 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Policy of Transience

Policy of Transience (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

35 points by pekim 1 year ago | 7 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)

Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

63 points by HeliumHydride 1 year ago | 11 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Iconography of the PuTTY tools

Iconography of the PuTTY tools (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

367 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 95 comments

Simon Tatham's blog post on the history and evolution of the PuTTY tools' icons, from hand-drawn designs through scripted rendering to an SVG revamp.

putty icon-design svg ssh

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Separation of Concerns in a Bug Tracker (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

15 points by Smaug123 1 year ago | 3 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Git without a forge

Git without a forge (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

300 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 128 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: XOR

XOR (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

541 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 91 comments

Simon Tatham's long-form essay explaining the XOR operation in boolean logic and on integers, its properties, and applications such as cryptography, graphics, and swaps.

xor bitwise-operations boolean-logic cryptography

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong

Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

207 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 43 comments

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Code review antipatterns (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

92 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 81 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: The Infinity Machine

The Infinity Machine (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

62 points by Smaug123 2 years ago | 34 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Beyond the wall: Working with aperiodic tilings using finite-state transducers

Beyond the wall: Working with aperiodic tilings using finite-state transducers (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

47 points by robinhouston 2 years ago | 4 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Counted B-Trees (2017)

Counted B-Trees (2017)(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

90 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 30 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Coroutines in C (2000)

Coroutines in C (2000)(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

278 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 84 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Philosophy of Coroutines

Philosophy of Coroutines (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

152 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 49 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Workarounds for C11 _Generic()

Workarounds for C11 _Generic()(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

58 points by fanf2 3 years ago | 23 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Combinatorial coordinates for the aperiodic Spectre tiling

Combinatorial coordinates for the aperiodic Spectre tiling (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

31 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 3 comments

Screenshot of chiark.greenend.org.uk: Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings

Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

171 points by fanf2 3 years ago | 31 comments