An explanation of how Quake, and other games like it, use this revolutionary data structure to stop the player from walking through walls and falling through the ground.

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Guiton Sketch by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons…

Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on April 3, 2023

I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time.

Quicker, but also more convenient

Slint 1.0 Release blog

Google CFO Ruth Porat made references to the year 2008, when Google made similar cuts to respond to the financial crisis.

So this week I landeda fewpatches thatcompletely removed XUL layout from the Firefox codebase.

This is the first of a series of posts about the Preevy proxy service.

Safari 16.4 rolled out last week, and for us it's been a nightmare. We make the browser-based game creation app Construct. Early versions of Safari 16.4 broke opening projects, previewing projects, and all existing content published with Construct, all in…

This post explores one of my favorite hacks in SerenityOS. I don’t recommend doing this in your codebase, but it has worked for us so far. :^)

Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology.

a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation. - curl/trurl

Whether you’re a beginner in vi or wanting to learn advanced vi skills for whatever goal, grab this vi cheat sheet right now and master vi in no time.

From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. This episode was originally published on February 5th, 2022. Enjoy! Anyone who’s been…

Bob Lee, the Chief Product Officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco. He was the former CTO of Square.

Forget programs. The most important productivity tool for programming is your mind. And the next best set of software development tools are ones that take care of you.
It isn’t about Git. Or Docker. Or testing frameworks. These are all useful tools. I use…

Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor in 1978. This processor ended up being hugely influential, setting the path for the x86 architec...

Four decades is a long time to be a programmer. I started in 1981 and retired in 2021. During that time, almost everything changed, and I had to change with it. While my situation may be different than starting today, much of what I learned over time can…

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