Each day at our company, developers are required to document their activities, painstakingly jotting down their daily work and future plans. A monotonous chore that I just really dislike.
So now, there's a scribe for that :
I've been debating for weeks whether or not I was going to write any of this down. I'm a dad with two kids and a house to take care of and a business to run. Adding story-telling like this to my plate is exhausting.
Until yesterday, I had decided to forget about the whole thing, until I received the email that broke the camels back, as it were.
The best way I can describe why I'm writing this email is for the same reason why you might spend two hours dealing with an uncooperative mobile phone carrier to get them to remove that $5 charge on your bill that shouldn't be there. Some combination of the feeling of frustration and injustice that really pushes my proverbial buttons.
In this particular case, the "$5 charge on my phone bill" turned out to be literally hundreds of recurring subscription invoices that Stripe disabled collection for because, apparently, those subscriptions required "location inputs".
Generally speaking, I don't blog much anymore, and the last thing I wa
The target audience for this is people who are beginners at software engineering and using linux. A lot of the information here may be obvious or already known to you. The language involved is C but you do not need to know any C to read this tutorial. I used mg to write this blog post. I used vs code to edit the source code.
This post is also available on gopher://tilde.team:70/0/~river/tweak-free-software
If you use a piece of free software and it's 99% perfect but there's just this one thing it does that annoys the hell out of you.. you can in theory just fix it! Here's a look at what doing that is like. Hopefully it inspires you, or you pick up a could tricks on the way!
| 🟩🟨⬜ Speed Wordle | |
| * scroll down for secret 5-word cheat sheet | |
| * solve any Wordle in less than one minute with these words | |
| * cheat sheet of 5 words that uses 24 / 26 unique English letters! | |
| * comments + questions -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459184 | |
| // | |
| // Lookup Tables for Transvoxel's Modified Marching Cubes | |
| // | |
| // Unlike the original paper (Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm), these tables guarantee | |
| // a closed mesh "whose connected components are continuous and free of holes." | |
| // | |
| // Rotations are prioritised over inversions so that 3 of the 6 cases containing ambiguous faces are never added. 3 extra | |
| // cases are added as a post-process, overriding inverses through custom-build rotations to eliminate the rest. | |
| // | |
| // Uses the exact same co-ordinate system as https://gist.github.com/dwilliamson/c041e3454a713e58baf6e4f8e5fffecd |
This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.
Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:
First we create a workspace for our project: