Mort's Ramblings

Date: 2026-07-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00017-sqlite-editions.md SQLite is an amazing database engine.

Date: 2025-01-26 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00016-wayland-input-latency.md Yesterday, I read this blog post: Wayland Cursor Lag: Just give me a break already..., where a Linux user discusses their frustration with

Date: 2023-01-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00015-fast-interpreters.md In this post, I hope to explore how interpreters are often implemented, what a "virtual machine" means in this context, and how to make them…

Date: 2022-07-23 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00014-tar.md (If you're here from Google and just need help with tar being slow: If you trust the tar archive, extract with -P to make tar fast.)

Date: 2020-08-03 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00013-fast-cpp-embeds.md Tool: https://github.com/mortie/strliteral It's really common to want to embed some static data into a binary.

Date: 2020-01-27 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00012-clang-compiler-hacking.md I happen to think that the current lambda syntax for C++ is kind of verbose.

Date: 2018-07-26 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00011-c-compiler-quirks.md In a previous blog post, I wrote about some weird features of C, the C preprocessor, and GNU extensions to C that I used in my testing librar…

Date: 2018-01-25 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00010-obscure-c-features.md I have been working on Snow, a unit testing library for C.

Date: 2015-12-18 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00009-replacing-apple-tv.md For a long time now, I and my family have used an Apple TV as our media PC.

Date: 2015-10-08 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00008-housecat.md This website has gone through several content management systems throughout the times.

I have relatively recently started switching all my online account over to using a password system where all my passwords are over 20 characters, and the password is different for each and every account.

I and some friends were hanging out in a Google Docs-document earlier, and made our own "types of programmers"-list.

Hi!

CSS.

Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has grown out of proportions.

As some of you may know, I'm a fan of JavaScript.

Okay, that title is a bit of a brain twister.

Someone called Xeomorpher made a thread on the Open Redstone Engineers forum (more about ORE some here), asking what people's worst pieces of code were.