The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)(blog.pkh.me)

72 points by dosshell 3 years ago | 39 comments

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity(blog.pkh.me)

85 points by ux 1 year ago | 17 comments

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions(blog.pkh.me)

87 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 21 comments

Writing a system call tracer using eBPF(sh4dy.com)

93 points by tim_sw 2 years ago | 2 comments

Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games(blog.pkh.me)

106 points by ux 2 years ago | 39 comments

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications(blog.sao.dev)

45 points by stuartaxelowen 8 months ago | 5 comments

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.

Making any integer with four 2s(eli.thegreenplace.net)

338 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 144 comments

Eli Bendersky's blog post on the puzzle of generating any natural number using exactly four 2s and arbitrary mathematical operations.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

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.

Programming Isn't Special(blog.glyph.im)

219 points by ingve 17 days ago | 236 comments

Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.