Doug's Place

This is just a short note about how I learned that SQLite performance can be improved by using the write-ahead log (WAL) instead of the default rollback journal, and one transaction per test suite instead of one per test case.

Over the past few years, I created Basic Unit Test (BUT), the simplest possible unit-test framework for C code that I could think of.

The C programming language was one of the first programming languages I ever learned (after learning Basic, APL, and Fortran).

Some time in 2016 or 2017, I needed a way to match file paths with glob patterns.

In April 2023, I was laid of from F5, Inc..

My wife and I went to the Paramount Theater in Boston last night to see The Orchard, a variation of Anton Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard, starring Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

I write a lot of notes in Markdown files and use Hugo to display them in a browser.

Big-O, Big-\(\Omega\) (Big-Omega), and Big-\(\Theta\) (Big-Theta) notation are used to describe some aspect of an algorithm (usually the running time or the memory resources it needs) relative to the size of the input data.

The election is over.

If you live in the United States of America, please vote!

In my previous post I talked a little about why and how I started this blog.

Creating a blog is hard.

I am truly saddened by the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

I want a blog where I control the design and layout.

What an ugly, fragile blog.

Imagination is good, but action needs to be taken in the real world.

I saw an amusing Python tutorial.

What do you really need to know to setup a blog on GitHub?