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@RobertAKARobin
RobertAKARobin / python.md
Last active July 15, 2026 10:33
Python Is Not A Great Programming Language
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 15, 2026 02:10
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@XVilka
XVilka / TrueColour.md
Last active July 13, 2026 20:43
True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

@kajott
kajott / vaapi_egl_interop_example.c
Last active July 1, 2026 13:48
example code for minimal-overhead hardware-accelerated video decoding and display on Linux using VA-API/EGL interoperability
#if 0 // self-compiling code: chmod +x this file and run it like a script
BINARY=vaapi_egl_interop_example
gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Werror -g -fsanitize=address -o $BINARY $0 \
`pkg-config libavcodec libavformat libavutil libva gl egl libdrm --cflags --libs` \
-lX11 -lva-x11 -lva-drm || exit 1
test "$1" = "--compile-only" && exit 0
exec env ASAN_OPTIONS=fast_unwind_on_malloc=0 ./$BINARY $*
#endif /*
Minimal example application for hardware video decoding on Linux and display
@vasilisvg
vasilisvg / HTML-presentation-tools.md
Created January 14, 2012 13:53
HTML presentation tools

#HTML presentation tools

There are many HTML presentation tools and they are all created for slightly different reasons. Here's an overview. Please let me know if I forgot any.

##CSSS

CSS-based SlideShow System

@trevnorris
trevnorris / perf-flame-graph-notes.md
Last active May 25, 2026 19:26
Quick steps of how to create a flame graph using perf

The prep-script.sh will setup the latest Node and install the latest perf version on your Linux box.

When you want to generate the flame graph, run the following (folder locations taken from install script):

sudo sysctl kernel.kptr_restrict=0
# May also have to do the following:
# (additional reading http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14227/do-i-need-root-admin-permissions-to-run-userspace-perf-tool-perf-events-ar )
sudo sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid=0
@jlong
jlong / uri.js
Created April 20, 2012 13:29
URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"
@nrc
nrc / tools.md
Last active February 24, 2026 02:11
Rust tooling

Rust developer tools - status and strategy

Availability and quality of developer tools are an important factor in the success of a programming language. C/C++ has remained dominant in the systems space in part because of the huge number of tools tailored to these lanaguages. Succesful modern languages have had excellent tool support (Java in particular, Scala, Javascript, etc.). Finally, LLVM has been successful in part because it is much easier to extend than GCC. So far, Rust has done pretty well with developer tools, we have a compiler which produces good quality code in reasonable time, good support for debug symbols which lets us leverage C++/lanaguge agnostic tools such as debuggers, profilers, etc., there are also syntax highlighting, cross-reference, code completion, and documentation tools.

In this document I want to layout what Rust tools exist and where to find them, highlight opportunities for tool developement in the short and long term, and start a discussion about where to focus our time an