Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia.

Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. Tim Peters created Timsort…

Micron Computers was an attempt by the maker of computer memory chips to market PCs from 1995 to 2008. Here's what happened to them.

I think GraphQL is quickly moving to one of my least favorite technologies. Building an efficient query system for the server is almost writing a database and as a user it has a lot of rough edges. Good idea but man is it complex.

It sounds made up.  In the wilderness of British Columbia, a two hour drive from any town with cell reception, sits a ghost town. Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50…

Ten years ago I was making my first games. They were pretty terrible but I didn't know any better. I published a couple on kongregate and moved...

Ambition As An Anxiety disorder

Not a single body has been unearthed. But Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in The New York Times.

The simplest way to serve AI/ML models in production - basetenlabs/truss

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its…

I’ve recently been trying to learn Rust for use in embedded projects.
One of the things that I sometimes return to when learning a new language where it’s hard to immediately dive in is Project Euler.
Whenever I do this type of problem, though, I wind up…

What is Winamp? Why is Winamp? How is Winamp? All these burning questions and issues discussed within.

At the Linux Plumbers Conference on Thursday, Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok demonstrated an Eee [...]

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights…