A Simple Hash for Perlin Noise

Some tricks to make a non-secure hash function for procedural terrain generation in games.

https://marcospereira.me/a-simple-hash-for-perlin-noise

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#gamedev #unity #misc

On bytes endianness

This article covers the little/big endian fundamentals and their advantages.

https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/on-endianness

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#lowlevel #learn #network

Please put units in names

There is one code readability trap that is easy to avoid: omitting units.

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2022/03/20/please-put-units-in-names

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#readability #misc

The curse of strong typing

Someone, somewhere made a decision. "From now on", they declared, "all our new stuff must be written in Rust".

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-curse-of-strong-typing

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#rust #learn #misc

How to build undo/redo in a multiplayer environment by Liveblocks

https://liveblocks.io/blog/how-to-build-undo-redo-in-a-multiplayer-environment

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#learn #protocol #misc

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#meme #logic #gates

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

🤨?

https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/

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#python #ai #tf

CVE-2022-23088: Exploiting a Heap Overflow in the FreeBSD Wi-Fi Stack

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/...

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#security #overflow #misc

The Animated Elliptic Curve

Visualize elliptic curve cryptography with animated examples.

https://curves.ulfheim.net/

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#cryptography #ec #learn

Wat :)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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#misc #extra #talk

The Windows malloc() Implementation Is A Trash Fire

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/windows-malloc-implementation-is-a-trash-fire/

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#windows #c #llvm #misc

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#cryptography #meme

How efficient can cat(1) be?

Various methods to create your own cat (with code), and comparisons between said methods.

https://ariadne.space/2022/07/17/how-efficient-can-cat1-be/

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#linux #c #coreutils #misc

The Danger of Naïveté

Can you spot the issue in this simple algorithm?

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-danger-of-naivete

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#algorithm #misc

Crimes with Python's pattern matching

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/

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#python #fun #extra

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#meme #raspberry

Who says C is simple?

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/cil016.html#sec-simplec

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#learn #c #misc

A Regular Expression in 30 Lines of C

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html

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#regex #c #misc

How I added C-style for-loops to Python

Or alternatively: How I made the most cursed Python package of all time.

https://sadh.life/post/cursed-for

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#python #ast #fun #learn

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#meme #ram #extra

Hot code reloading for Python 🔥

https://github.com/breuleux/jurigged

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#python #tools #misc