Tag: programming

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• Decimal places in IEEE 754

  June 25th 2026 (week 26 of 2026)

  IEEE 754, the floating-point number standard, has finite precision. The number of decimal places a double-precision IEEE 754 number can represent is 15.

• Clean Room Guildelines of the Wine project

  May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

  Wine is, in my opinion, a very interesting project with unusual set of constraints, pitfalls, and threats. Here are their Clean Roomm Guidelines.

• The Rise and Fall of CORBA

  January 18th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)

  An article about The Rise and Fall of CORBA, by Michi Nenning. The fall was well deserved.

• IPv6 just turned 30

  January 7th 2026 (week 2 of 2026)

  And it still has not taken over the world, according to the Register.

• TSMC logic technology timeline

  January 1st 2026 (week 1 of 2026)

  A well-presented timeline of TSMC's progress.

• Installing OpenBSD on QEMU

  December 17th 2025 (week 51 of 2025)

  Follow the instructions on QEMU's web site.

• builds.sr.ht image maintenance

  December 17th 2025 (week 51 of 2025)

  Documentation is available, and the process itself is not difficult; if you want to update an image you just have to follow instructions.

• Diff-friendly formatting: switch statements

  November 10th 2025 (week 46 of 2025)

  Because reviewing patches should not be made more difficult than it already is.

• Viua VM on OpenBSD 7.8

  October 28th 2025 (week 44 of 2025)

  OpenBSD 7.8 has recently been released, and includes LLVM updated to version 21. This made a port of Viua VM possible.

• Structure and aesthetics

  January 21st 2025 (week 4 of 2025)

  Think about the classic Greek epics eg, Illiad or Odyssey: the stories are impressive, but you can also look at the text itself and find that the hexameter itself has a certain kind of beauty.

• To learn OCaml

  October 15th 2024 (week 42 of 2024)

  It was on my radar for the longest time, and I have finally decided to pull the trigger and do it. I am going to learn OCaml.

• Hylang 1.0.0

  September 23rd 2024 (week 39 of 2024)

  The Hy programming language saw its first stable release yesterday. While not introducing any new semantics, Hy is a great improvement on Python's sometimes atrocious syntax.

• Programming and Alchemy

  August 26th 2024 (week 35 of 2024)

  The main idea in Jung's Psychology and Alchemy is that alchemists used alchemical processes as the means of projecting their inner psychological processes onto matter. Is a similar thing happening to computer programmers?