NRK

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0Immediate Mode Option Parser: Small, Simple, Elegant

2025-06-01 • c

The text discusses the implementation of an immediate mode option parser in C, which is smaller and simpler than getopt. It explains the usage and implementation details of the parser, highlighting its small code size and ease of ...

0Detecting if an expression is constant in C

2025-04-21 • c

The text discusses different ways to implement a macro in C that takes an expression as an argument and verifies if it is a constant expression, returning the same value. It explores various methods and their pros and cons, includ...

0Advent of Code 2024 & BQN

2025-01-24 •

The author discusses their experience with the advent of code challenge in 2024 and their journey with the BQN array language. They talk about the challenges they faced, the setup process, and the resources that helped them. They ...

0ChibiHash: Small, Fast 64 bit hash function

2024-11-16 •

The article introduces ChibiHash, a small and fast 64-bit hash function that is portable, unencumbered, and non-cryptographic. It provides benchmarks against other similar hash functions and explains the design overview of the fun...

0nix-compress: fast LZW decoding via unrolled linked list

2024-07-31 •

The article discusses the LZW compression scheme and the author's clone of the ancient compress(1) tool called nix-compress. It focuses on the high level choices made while writing nix-compress, particularly the decompressor using...

0strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense

2024-07-24 •

The article discusses the performance of strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense. It compares the openbsd and glibc implementations of strlcpy and explains the importance of cache misses and dependencies in CPU performance.

0Decoding UTF8 with Parallel Extract

2024-03-23 •

The text discusses the creation of a branchless utf8 decoder utilizing the pext or 'parallel extract' instruction. It explains the process of decoding utf8, the interface, loading the bytes, determining the length, extracting the ...

0Advent of Code 2023: What I've learnt

2024-01-02 •

The author participated in the Advent of Code 2023 event and documented some of the new and interesting things they learned. They discuss the puzzles, the language of choice, and the lessons learned from each day's puzzle. They al...

0A gentle introduction to static analyzers for C

2023-09-16 •

The text provides a gentle introduction to static analyzers for C, focusing on easily accessible tools with zero or near zero setup and a focus on producing the least amount of false-positives. It discusses the importance of compi...

0Hash based trees and tries

2023-09-15 •

The post discusses the implementation and performance of hash-based trees and tries as search data structures. It compares binary hash trees, hash-table of hash trees, and hash array mapped trie, and introduces the concept of simp...

0Implementing and simplifying Treap in C

2023-09-13 •

The text discusses the implementation of a data structure called Treap in C, which is a tree-like structure with fast insertion and lookups. The author explains the basic treap implementation and then simplifies and improves it st...

0Should you set free()-ed pointers to NULL?

2023-07-28 •

The text discusses the practice of setting free-ed pointers to NULL and its effectiveness in catching use-after-free errors. It explains that setting a single pointer to NULL does little to prevent these errors and suggests using ...

0A lock-free single element generic queue

2023-03-22 •

The text discusses the development of a lock-free single element generic queue using C11 atomics and lock-free algorithms. It outlines the issues with a naive version and the process of fixing data race, uninitialized reads, and r...

0X11: Listening for an event with a timeout the right way

2022-11-01 •

The article discusses the need to wait for an event with a timeout when using x11. It explains the common methods people use to achieve this and their downfalls, and then introduces the X Synchronization Extension Protocol as a so...

0libz1: Experience in writing my first library

2022-08-08 •

The author shares their experience in writing their first library, libz1, which is a set of single header libraries. They discuss the challenges of designing and documenting the library, as well as the specific libraries included ...

0isdigit: simple function, multiple implementation

2022-07-08 •

The text discusses the isdigit function and its multiple implementations in C standard library. It compares different versions of the function and analyzes their performance characteristics. The author asserts that they only care ...

0The miserable state of Github's moderation

2022-06-07 •

The article discusses the author's experience of being banned from GitHub without any explanation, and the negative impact it had on the author and other developers. It also highlights the lack of trust in GitHub due to various co...

0I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)

2022-06-03 •

The author discusses the inefficiency of strlcpy(3) and why they are not a fan of it. They explain that strlcpy is inefficient and not a good solution for copying strings. They provide alternative solutions such as memccpy(3), mem...

0C: Stop writing f()

2022-05-07 •

The text explains the difference between f() and f(void) in C, and why it's important to use f(void) to avoid undefined behavior and stack corruption. It also discusses the history of the old style declaration and how to avoid it ...

0Sending git patches with neomutt

2022-04-29 •

The text explains how to send git patches using neomutt, as many projects still use mailing lists for development. It provides a step-by-step guide on generating a patch and sending it via neomutt, with additional tips and tricks....

0Making my site open source

2021-12-02 •

The author discusses the process of making their website open source, including the history, switching to markdown, compiling/building, and website hosting. They also express uncertainty about the future direction of the website.

0Vim: view git commit log without any plugins

2021-09-07 •

The text explains how to view git log interactively inside vim without using any plugins. It provides a shell function to run glo, and explains the remapping of K to view commit diff, opening git log inside a vim terminal buffer, ...