William Henderson

My experience as a Computer Science supervisor at Cambridge this year.

The greatest adventure of my life.

Looking back at my third and final year studying Computer Science at Cambridge.

Looking back at my second year studying Computer Science at Cambridge.

How, and why, I embedded V8 in Rust to support JavaScript plugins in my static site generator, Stuart.

Exploring how Markov chains can be used to analyse a simple Snakes and Ladders-style board game, and discovering just how much of an advantage the youngest player has.

Discussing the security and privacy implications of the biometric passport.

Looking back over my 12-week internship at Nutanix.

Looking back at my first year studying Computer Science at Cambridge.

Discussing my trip to Switzerland to participate in START Hack 2023.

Discovering how V8's garbage collection works, then looking into its interactions with WebGL.

Discussing my hackathon project Headlights and how it can (supposedly) save humanity.

Discussing the best ways for developers to quickly pick up a new programming language.

Discussing my attempt at building a static site generator, as well as how I migrated this blog to use it.

A deep dive into the development of Equion, a chat platform designed with mathematics in mind.

Discussing how mutexes work and why they are important, then implementing one in a number of ways in Rust.

Discussing what atomic operations are, why they are needed, and implementing them from scratch in Rust.

Migrating my tide times application to Cloudflare Workers from AWS Lambda.

A deep dive into the inner workings of two-factor authentication with the TOTP algorithm, exploring SHA-1, HMAC, HOTP and TOTP.

Dynamically generating embed images using Puppeteer to use in the Open Graph metadata.

Creating a blog with Gatsby, using Markdown for the content, learning about GraphQL to query the data, and adding syntax highlighting with Prism.