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Ramblings
Writing on coding, nerdery, and whatever else tickles my fancy.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Vanishing Multicast Packets
So this was a particularly awkward issue that occurred recently in our socket handling code. Now we push a lot of data around our network. By a lot I mean…
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What I'd like from Rust 2021
I've been a user of Rust now for 2 years. It was something of a revelation - I was amazed at how well thought out the core of the language is - many classic…
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Zero Cost Abstractions: An Addendum
On Reddit, Icarium-Lifestealer asked me how the disassembly looked if I used -C panic=abort instead of extern "C" . Curious, I tried and came out with the…
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Zero cost abstractions: Rust vs C++
I watched a video of a C++ talk from the always excellent Chandler Carruth yesterday, entitled " There are no Zero Cost Abstractions ". In it, he talks…
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Colour Schemes
Just a short post about a simple web app I've been using a fair bit recently. When I'm building my own websites (or apps), I like them to look at least a…
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Umm javascript is okay... I guess...
People who know me are probably aware I have over years been fairly scathing about JavaScript as a serious programming language. I've been mostly a…
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Learning a new language
Something I haven't really done for a long time - I'm learning a new programming language - D ( www.dlang.org ). I'm very impressed so far - it's got a nice…
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Angular JS - Makes Web Dev fun?
Now I'm a proponent of native software over web, and have been for a long time. My reasons have long been straightforward. 1. The user experience is much…
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When more memory is less
Quick question; when can increasing the size of your data structures lead to less memory being allocated?
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Hello, Wordpress
My first wordpress blog. This is the first thing I've used my website for some several years, and my third blog (I had a brief, but ill fated one on blogger…