Thursday, March 19, 2026

Simple sort implementations vs production quality ones

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One of the most optimized algorithms in any standard library is sorting. It is used everywhere  so it must be fast. Thousands upon thousands...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Discovering a new class of primes fur the fun of it

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There are a lot of prime classes, such as left truncating primes, twin primes, mersenne primes, palindromic primes, emirp primes and so on. ...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

What's cooking with Pystd, the experimental C++ standard library?

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Pystd is an experiment on what a C++ standard library without any backwards compatibility requirements would look like. Its design goals ar...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

C and C++ dependencies, don't dream it, be it!

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Bill Hoffman, the original creator of the CMake language held a presentation at CppCon . At approximately 49 minutes in he starts talking ab...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

How to get banned from Facebook in one simple step

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I, too, have (or as you can probably guess from the title of this post, had) a Facebook account. I only ever used it for two purposes. Findi...
Friday, January 9, 2026

AI and money

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If you ask people why they are using AI (or want other people to use it) you get a ton of different answers. Typically none of them contain ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Converting Chapterizer from Cairo + Pango to CapyPDF

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Chapterizer (not a great name, I know) is a tool I wrote to generate books. Originally used Cairo and Pango to generate PDF files. It works...