Tag: Programming

• 02 Jan 2026

  LLM 10x productivity claims VS Amdahl's Law

  Okay, I really didn't want to add yet another post about LLMs and programming to an already tiresome sea of existing di...
• 08 Dec 2024

  Memvalid Back on Render

  Some years ago I was trying to learn some short piece of text or lyrics verbatim, and stumbled upon an article that sug...
• 12 Aug 2024

  RSSGuard without RSS: scraping with CSS selectors

  Despite the modern internet's tendency to centralise towards a small number of big content gateways (Reddit, Twitter, H...
• 01 Apr 2024

  How I started programming

  # 8-bits for an 8 year-old My parents got me a Commodore 64 really late in its lifespan, maybe around 1990. Although t...
• 16 Dec 2023

  Puzzle: Trauma Team bomb defusal #2

  One of my kids has gotten into the old Nintendo Wii game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Team[Trauma Team], part o...
• 05 Aug 2023

  Nim: Outdated nimble.ini

  I was interested today in trying to write a simple GUI program using Nim's [nimx] library. But even with the latest Nim...