Programming
This hands-on article walks through implementing cooperative multitasking fibers from scratch using x86/x64 MASM assembly and C++, explaining every stack manipulation, register preservation rule, and ABI constraint along the way. The result is a fully working fiber scheduler that runs entirely in user space without any OS involvement.
Programming
A product manager rediscovers programming through AI tools and builds Shotgun, a desktop Go app that feeds complete project context to LLMs for dramatically better one-shot code generation compared to Cursor's built-in context handling.
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A defense of object-oriented programming arguing that OOP itself is not the problem -- the real issue is developers misapplying it by following textbook patterns without understanding the underlying engineering principles.
Programming
A deep dive into building a native ARM program that runs on Windows Mobile, MRP, and MRE platforms without recompilation, using ELF format tricks, relocations, and a custom loader to achieve true cross-platform binary compatibility.
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A deep dive into 14 powerful Python features you might not be using yet, from type overloading and generics to metaclasses and structural pattern matching, complete with practical code examples.
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Instead of simply blocking malicious bots, one developer responds to them with specially crafted gzip files that decompress to gigabytes of zeroes, crashing the bot's process. The article explains the technique, provides the shell command and PHP implementation, and honestly addresses its limitations.
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A browser extension called 'zaKilo' that automatically calculates and displays per-kilogram or per-liter prices on Russian grocery delivery websites, exposing common marketing tricks that manipulate consumers.
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The Skimmer seaplane vanished from GTA San Andreas after players updated to Windows 11 24H2, launching characters into space at 10 nonillion meters altitude. The culprit turned out to be an uninitialized variable bug from 2004 that went unnoticed for twenty years because previous Windows versions happened to leave the right stack garbage in place.
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A response to "Write Simple Code" — arguing that what matters most is not simplicity or complexity, but your attitude toward your craft. Drawing on experience in electrical installation work as an analogy for programming, the author makes a case for mastery, aesthetics, and professional pride.
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Young developers love to build complex architectures — but in a typical startup, you could delete half the codebase and nothing important would break. One question cuts through the noise: can I do this simpler without losing time or performance? If yes, then do it simpler.
Programming
A complete walkthrough of visualizing a Schwarzschild black hole using OpenGL and GLSL — from deriving geodesic equations with SymPy to implementing an adaptive Runge-Kutta integrator in a fragment shader.
Programming
On September 20, 2024, at age 19, I became a member of the CPython core development team — the people who can merge pull requests into the CPython repository. Here is how that journey unfolded over roughly two years.