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If there is a reference implementation, then use it as a check. The post Using an oracle to see where your code is producing the wrong output appeared first on The Old New Thing.... Take me to this post.
May 30, 2025A closer look at the main components of the 35mm site and the core concepts and techniques behind how it was built.... Take me to this post.
May 30, 2025High-roller Matthew D. fears Finance. "This is from our corporate expense system. Will they flag my expenses in the April-December quarter as too high? And do we really need a search function for a list of 12 items?" Tightfisted Adam R. begrudges a trifling sum. "The tipping culture is getting out of hand. After I chose 'Custom Tip' for some takeout, they filled out the default tip with a few extra femtocents. What a rip!" Cool Customer Reinier B. sums this up: "I got som... Take me to this post.
May 30, 2025A self-taught journey from hacking games to crafting immersive WebGL experiences—with passion, persistence, and a hint of luck.... Take me to this post.
May 30, 2025Careless People is a tell-all book that walks through Facebook’s rampant (and criminally?) inept responses to it’s growing role in global policy, from it’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar to the election of Donald J. Trump. The book, written by Facebook’s former director of foreign policy Sarah Wynn-Williams, explains that Zuckerberg initially denied the notion that Facebook could ever impact an election but over time starts to see Facebook and social media as a powerful “Digital Fifth ... Take me to this post.
May 30, 2025A roundup of my notes from May 2025. I also did this last month, the month before, the month before that, and so on… Things I did this month The world is in a lot of trouble right now. Many of us techies are asking: how can I help? I published a list of tech jobs for good, which I hope helps someone find a gig doing a good thing. (I also wrote a simple script to help with the Markdown in that post, which is a lot less interesting.) I explored the cultural legacy of Zelda II: The Adventure of Lin... Take me to this post.
May 30, 2025Sometimes (like in my recent blog post about tech jobs for good), I want to sort a Markdown list. But I can’t use normal tools like Vim’s :sort because the lists have formatting. For example, take this Markdown: - Badgers - **Crocodiles** - [Aardvarks](https://aardvark.example) It should get sorted like this: - [Aardvarks](https://aardvark.example) - Badgers - **Crocodiles** But all the tools I tried will sort this incorrectly because of the Markdown formatting…so I wrote a simple Deno script. R... Take me to this post.
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