Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code(blog.vero.site)

199 points by polyrand 2 years ago | 63 comments

Floats Are Weird(a.exozy.me)

122 points by soopurman 2 years ago | 95 comments

Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors(danielmangum.com)

51 points by hasheddan 6 months ago | 5 comments

Floating points between zero and one(chadnauseam.com)

91 points by ChadNauseam 2 years ago | 59 comments

Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU(asawicki.info)

40 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 15 comments

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017)(lemire.me)

87 points by burntcaramel 3 years ago | 41 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)

102 points by pwg 7 days ago | 33 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.

Programming with Less Than Nothing(joshmoody.org)

407 points by signa11 1 year ago | 138 comments

A blog post by Josh Moody presenting a fictional interview where FizzBuzz is implemented in JavaScript using only S and K combinators.

Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms(blog.pkh.me)

58 points by ibobev 21 days ago | 12 comments

Blog post arguing that float arithmetic should be handled by reacting to results (NaN/inf) rather than the preventive checks used for integer overflow in C and Rust.

Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa(catonmat.net)

332 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 116 comments

A Catonmat blog post explaining how consecutive Fibonacci numbers can approximate conversions between miles and kilometers.

Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)

606 points by signa11 1 month ago | 266 comments

A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.