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Screenshot of huonw.github.io: Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO

Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO (huonw.github.io)

84 points by mmastrac 2 years ago | 88 comments

Screenshot of huonw.github.io: 10 > 64, in QR Codes

10 > 64, in QR Codes (huonw.github.io)

318 points by yvan 2 years ago | 70 comments

Blog post by Huon Wilson explaining why decimal-encoded data stores more efficiently than base64 in QR codes thanks to the QR Numeric mode.

qr-codes base64 data-encoding decimal-encoding

Screenshot of huonw.github.io: QR error correction helps and hinders scanning (2021)

QR error correction helps and hinders scanning (2021)(huonw.github.io)

75 points by lucb1e 2 years ago | 40 comments