purplesyringa's blog

In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author.

* If you don’t take whitespace into account.

Four days ago, the Rust Foundation released a new draft of the Rust Language Trademark Policy.

Three months ago, I wrote about why you might want to use panics for error handling.

Demoscene is the art of pushing computers to perform tasks they weren’t designed to handle.

Коллизии в играх обнаруживаются тяжелыми алгоритмами.

I want to provide a smooth experience to my site visitors, so I work on accessibility and ensure it works without JavaScript enabled.

Developers don’t usually divide numbers all the time, but hashmaps often need to compute remainders modulo a prime.

I have recently done some performance work and realized that reading about my experience could be entertaining.

Rust’s approach to error handling comes at a cost.

The sentinel trick underlies a data structure with the following requirements: Read element by index in O(1), Write element by index in O(1), Replace all elements with a given value in O(1).

$ </dev/urandom base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 \ | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 | base64 \ | base64 | head -1 Vm0wd2QyUXlVWGxWV0d4V1YwZDRWMVl3WkRSV…

blazingio cuts corners by design.

ZeroNet is a decentralized network that enables dynamic sites, such as blogs and forums, unlike popular content-addressed storage networks that came later.