I find and report a regression in Mesa, the main 3D graphics library on Linux, and show off some really cool tools I used in the process.

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Compare single board computers with comprehensive benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data. Find the perfect SBC for your project.

Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it.


The Beginning: A Curious Experiment

It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart…

What's the absolute minimum you can compress data to? - Entropy conjures up visions of chemistry and physics, but how does it apply to binary codes and computer science? Professor David Brailsford continues his discussion of compression.

Addendum: the formula…

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A gentle introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synthesiser ROMs using the Ghidra disassembler.

I used to write more

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I see that https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230012154 classifies the Mars Pathfinder disaster as a coding/logic problem.

A deep dive into *Arctan Straining* in Super Mario 64, a method for performing perfect jumps from A to B in the shortest possible time allowed by the game's code. Discovered by the Tool Assisted Speedrun and A Button Challenge community a few years ago, it…

Extism is the open source, universal plug-in system. Extend all the software everywhere! Powered by WebAssembly.

Polyhedral optimization is a tool used in compilers for optimizing loop nests. While the major compilers that use this implement polyhedral optimizations from scratch,1 there is a generally-applicable open source C library called the Integer Set Library (ISL)…

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Clang optimizations. Machine code models. Relocations!

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News post: Gleam v1.13.0 released

The same way IANA and Python do.