Sunday, August 30, 2026

Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964

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Some time ago I visited a used book fair and came across this awesome piece of 80s scifi-asthetic. This book is a collection of short storie...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Digitizing super 8 film yourself

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In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching film with a real projector has its own charm, it is incon...
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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Fixing a super 8 projector from the 70s

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Warning! Do not try any of this at home! Messing with internals of electrical devices is dangerous and can lead to fires, serious injury and...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Pystd standard library, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

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I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO sp...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

Beware of Star Trek managers, especially when bearing MBAs

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Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened . The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush ...
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Monday, June 8, 2026

Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++

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One of the many nice language features in Python are keyword arguments. They make some types of APIs  concise and readable. Like so: Unfortu...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

CapyPDF is approaching feature sufficiency

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In the past I have written many blog posts on implementing various PDF features in CapyPDF . Typically they explain the feature being implem...