"it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views"

在中文有一個類似的現象「低級紅/高級黑」。

A nice textbook on programming language and type theory. I use it as a supplement material of Types and Programming Languages.

With the decadent of AI Dungeon, I'm happy to see the spurt of many alternatives. This post give a list of alternative services:

• cohere: https://cohere.ai/
• AI21: https://www.ai21.com/
• NovelAI: https://novelai.net/

Pick up and play with:

• Holo AI: https://writeholo.com/
• Dreamily: https://dreamily.ai/

Of all the Nix tutorial I read, Nix Pills makes most sense to me. It doesn't just tell you how to do things, but also let you know why.

Tool to generate tcpdump match pattern to match the beginning of TCP payloads.

Good performance tips and suggestion of profiling tools, specialized crates, etc.

A language-learner's tool that shows the translation of a word in context.

An accured list of computing weirdness. Each piece of text is a link that leads to the explanation.

I found it in a recent episode of the Corecursive podcast. https://corecursive.com/quines-polyglot-code/

The series of article that describes why is multiplayer game so difficult to get right and the solutions to it. Smooth multiplayer experience requires designing both the architecture and the game experience in ways that make it feel like playing locally. The series is about the tricks to implement it.

After reading it, I can longer take smooth multiplayer gameplay as granted. Every such game felt like a masterpiece to me.

A terse and informative little book on how to write a ray tracer and a rasterizer. It piqued my interest to write a toy rasterizer for fun as a weekend project.

The site reminds me of the childhood reading of the pop-sci series "100 throusand whys" which once greatly satiated my curiousity and hunger to knowledge.

I glance through several articles and absolutely loved it. Here are some questions for example:

• Do blind people dream in visual images?
• Can a star turn into a planet?
• Why don't metals burn?

The language that the article is written in seems to target young audience and is thus very clear and easy to understand.

The article explains how to design a game loop that runs update on a fixed rate regardless of computer specs. Also how to make the game appear more smooth when rendered.

Y combinator wonderfully-explained!

Joel Burgess on Twitter: "Among Skyrim players, you'll occasionally see this tip: if you see a wild fox, follow it and you'll be led to treasure. Sometime shortly after shipping, we saw this going around online, and an informal investigation started. Who made foxes do this?!"

commonly used features in a side-by-side format

A tool that solves Caesar Cipher automatically. It can solve simple substitution ciphers often found in newspapers.

Amazing typesetting and visuals. How nice would it be if I have access e-books like this when I learn linear algebra.

Concise and to the point

The newtype pattern is known for its "zero-cost" nature. Well this article points out that this is probably not always true.