Posts tagged "tech"

My personal one-pager

A short write-up about creating my portfolio website.

Tips on DP + Bitmasking for competitive programming

Bash completion for aliases

Bash completion is a wonderful feature that allows you quickly compose complex shell commands. Add muscle memory to the mix, and one-liners will appear on the screen as if you were typing with 20 f...

Floats in 2023

Floats used to be the way to do the entire layout. Since moving to responsive mobile first design and flexbox people have avoided them. Could they still be actually useful in the current age?

The Optics

The significance of questioning widely-held beliefs and how this can lead to new insights.

Google Apps Script APIs performance

During the last few months, as I was implementing a few scripts on Google’s Apps Script, I needed to answer the question of what is the right place to store data.

WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030

This is a fancified excerpt of Jonathan Norris’ unpopular opinion on Go Time #275. Jonathan is Co-Founder & CTO @ DevCycle where they’re using WebAssembly in very interesting ways. To get the full ...

Introducing The Spatial Cypher Cheat Sheet

A resource for working with geospatial data in Neo4j.

Forums

My experience of using forums in my teens, what changed after I started using reddit and my hopes for internet communities in the future.

Combining Dist Constarints in SystemVerilog

Basic Distribution Constraints In SystemVerilog, almost all constraints are some form of boolean expression. The constraint solver’s job is to satisfy all these boolean expression when choosing ran...

There's still no silver bullet

The late, great Fred Brooks wrote many words about software engineering. You may have heard of Brooks’s Law or read his seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month. Even if you haven’t, you’ve probably he...

Observability with ClickHouse

A "behind the scenes" view into building an observability solution with ClickHouse.

Reduce your stress: Use a Kanban Board

Here's a trick I've been using for several years to organize my work, and reduce my stress.

Sanitize ArXiv RSS feeds

If you like to dip your toes into the latest stats research on ArXiv, one of the best way to track what’s going on is by following the RSS feed. So, naturally, I do this in Emacs/Gnus, and it actua...

Learning before dabbling in applied cryptography

A live document providing learning resources and pointers for those that want to experiment with applied cryptography.

Misusing random oracles for practical purposes

Experimenting with various real-world instantiations of cryptographic random oracles, with applicability from multi-factor encryption, to database record encryption.

Experimenting with multi-factor encryption

Prototyping an encryption tool that allows combining multiple encryption factors, from PIN's, passwords, to X25519 pairs, and beyond.

The Mashup

Life has a way of introducing us to new things, related or not to our professional life.

Sampling from the Wilson score confidence distribution

library(binom) library(HDInterval) If you’ve worked with Binomial data for a project, you might know that there’s about 10 different ways to calculate a confidence interval for the Binomial proport...

Paper Summary: Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms

This is a summary of Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms, a 2006 paper by Hornby et al. As large language models become more and more synonymous with “AI”, it is interesting to se...