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...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Multi merge sort, or when optimizations aren't

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In our previous episode we wrote a merge sort implementation that runs a bit faster than the one in stdlibc++. The question then becomes, c...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Sorting performance rabbit hole

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In an earlier blog post we found out that Pystd's simple sorting algorithm implementations were 5-10% slower than their stdlibc++ count...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Everything old is new again: memory optimization

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At this point in history, AI sociopaths have purchased all the world's RAM in order to run their copyright infringement factories at ful...
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...