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Last updated 3 months ago
Nitpicking the shell history scene in ‘Tron: Legacy’
3 months ago
A detailed look at a still from a 16-year-old film, which I...
Aperiodic Tilings V: the Refinable Frontier
12 months ago
A sequel to my previous posts on finite-state transducers for aperiodic tilings...
Brute-forcing Langley’s geometry problem with field extensions
about 1 year ago
An application of algebraic extensions of the rationals: cheating (arguably) at elementary...
In which I have Opinions about parsing and grammars
about 1 year ago
A collection of semi-connected rants about context-free grammars, parser generators, and the...
Policy of transience
over 1 year ago
A description of some of my personal computing habits, focusing on avoiding...
Iconography of the PuTTY tools
over 1 year ago
A PuTTY user asked about the history of its logo and icon...
Post-quantum public-key encryption: what’s it all about?
over 1 year ago
An explanation of some post-quantum public-key cryptosystems, simplified to the level of...
Separation of concerns in a bug tracker
almost 2 years ago
A design thought about how bug trackers could use a more accurate...
Porting PuTTY to Windows on Arm
over 7 years ago
What I had to do to make PuTTY compile for Windows on...
Writing a solver for Net
over 7 years ago
A description of the automated solver in my puzzle game Net. Written...