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It's OK to use floating point for money.

Maggie, a security researcher moonlighting as a internet sleuth, uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism.

Hey folks, short blog post this time.

TL;DR: Need to export all the layers of an XCF file to PNGs, but can't find a plugin that works with your version of GNU-IMP?

Back in 2022, I posted a puzzle box to cohost.org that was made entirely using HTML and inline CSS.

This is a piece of historical metafiction written from within my "peridynamica" worldbuilding setting.

I was recently working on porting a shader I wrote to a friend's video framework so it can be used as a visualizer for a music compilation.

Cheap USB Keypad This is a short tutorial for using libevdev to capture all input events from a cheap USB keypad, and then using those events to synthesize new events for a virtual mouse device.

An amulet is a type of poem introduced by Robin Sloan that fulfills the following requirements: It is less than or equal to 64 bytes when expressed in UTF-8.

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/ It seems like most of science reporting are lines verbatim from a lab/org's press release.

I've been wanting to switch to firefox for a long time, but two pain points have always prevented me from doing so.

This is a work of fiction I wrote a long time ago for this cohost post.

Sometimes we want to know the distance from a point to a particular shape or surface.

To create a no-knowledge proof, we first generate a random nonce N = 636c20e9c79353fcf913edb6a9ba41da209ebe60b71be7986d274f5ed0b4a9e8 Then, we take H = SHA-256(N) H = 1fd9ad1ee63ac57424213c3b855ed4a0bbced628f3a9b95ba7e75bd63749835d Then we use this nothin…

Here is a list of some GLSL functions that I find to be very useful when shader live coding.

Samsa wakes up in time to catch their train.

This is a cute little mathematical trick I came up with in my 1st year of undergrad.

In programming it's rare to find a problem that has only one solution.

In the words of Neal Stephenson, the world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.