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A few years back, I came across Robert Graham’s wc2 repository on GitHub. wc2 is an implementation of the Unix wc command that is significantly faster than the existing GNU and BSD wc implementations.

Everyone knows the classic print("Hello World") program they might have written when they first started learning programming.

Recently, I’ve gotten hooked on the game Elite Dangerous, a space flight simulation game which contains a 1:1 scale replica of the Milky Way galaxy.

I have an open source project which uses GitHub Releases as its binary distribution platform.

I’ve recently been working on an app which uses Expo, a framework for React Native.

I’ve been learning a lot about low-level programming languages lately, and for a long time there has been one thing that has interested me: SIMD (or ‘single instruction, multiple data’) code.

A small icon on the task bar, which displays the battery level of connected SteelSeries Arctis headphones.

I wanted to reduce the number of dependencies in my Rust project, and I noticed that the rust-i18n crate has a lot of dependencies (a whopping 46 of them).

I recently saw a bunch of videos about simple particle simulations where there are thousands of tiny 2D balls interacting with each other, and it looked very fun!

It’s the time of year to start sending some summer job applications again.

Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP 1.1 server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol.

Making changes to websites is tricky, because even small changes may lead to visual regressions in the page layout.

Recently, the cushions of my old headset, the HyperX Cloud Stinger, were breaking apart pretty bad.

Go package for soft-reloading web server assets

Advent of Code is an annual set of Christmas-themed computer programming challenges that follow an Advent calendar.

Dev Drive is a new type of storage volume in Windows 11 that is specially made for programming workloads.

Have you ever shared a link somewhere and wondered where those little preview images of websites come from?

Valmistuin ylioppilaaksi keväällä 2023.

After Lastpass suffered a massive data breach last year, I began looking for an alternative password manager.

Compared to Javascript, Python and other single threaded languages, Go takes a very different approach to I was having difficulties understanding how concurrent Go programs are supposed to work.

TLDR: # http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil) // bad http.ListenAndServe("localhost:8080", nil) // good If you are using Go with Windows, you might encounter a small annoyance when running a http server.

Shortcuts # Ctrl + Shift + K : Delete current line Alt + Down/Up : Move selected line(s) up/down Alt + Shift + Down/Up : Duplicate selected line(s) up/down Ctrl + D : Select next occurrence of selection (shown below) Ctrl + K + Ctrl + D : Unselect the last

Self host variable fonts from Google Fonts

ATTENTION: there are now several forks of SD that offer web GUI’s and can install on Windows in one click (most notably sd-webgui).

Fly.io is a cloud service that can be used to easily deploy fullstack applications on the web.

X11 doesn’t support monitors with variable refresh rates: When using one 60hz monitor and one 144hz monitor, the shell (Gnome, KDE etc) will run at 60hz on both monitors.

While reading the code of flutter apps, I’ve seen this particular piece of code repeated way too many times: return MaterialApp( theme: ThemeData.dark().copyWith( textTheme: ... ), home: ... ) This is problematic for a couple reasons that become

There are a lot of units to remember in physics.

The app I’m currently building has a feature which displays a custom wallpaper on the home screen.

This is the first post on my website.

A small utility to delete folders easily