Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon emissions. The Paris […]
Creating a QR Code step by step
This JavaScript demo application visualizes in detailed steps, how a text string is encoded into a QR Code barcode symbol. The content of this page essentially explains and justifies how my QR Code generator library works internally. User input QR Code output Step-by-step process Show/hide each step: 0. Analyze Unicode characters Number of code points […]
Hobby Project: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework
Note:This project is currently a proof of concept and represents the bare minimum viable product (MVP).It is not designed for production use, and there may be bugs, limitations, or incomplete features.Use at your own discretion, and feel free to co Welcome to c-web-modules, a modular and efficient approach to web development in C. Inspired by […]
The World Grid and New Geographies of Cooperation
A projection of the Global Electrical Grid as originally conceived by Buckminster Fuller. “People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges.” Richard Rhodes | Energy: A Human History The world’s transition away from fossil fuels is not only inevitable, but […]
AlphaProof’s Greatest Hits: the coolest bits from the IMO 2024 solutions
Here I’ll try to explain the coolest ideas in each of AlphaProof’s IMO 2024 solutions. AlphaProof produces proofs in Lean, and each Lean proof is composed of a series of tactics. So I’ll pick out the tactics that correspond to these ideas in the proofs for problems 1, 2 and 6 (the three problems that […]
Good Software Development Habits
Good software development habits | Zarar’s blog Home Me Subscribe 05 Sep, 2024 This post is not advice, it’s what’s working for me. It’s easy to pick up bad habits and hard to create good ones. Writing down what’s working for me helps me maintain any good habits I’ve worked hard to develop. Here’s an […]
Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions
Huawei’s in-house development of Magneto-Electric Disk (MED) archive storage technology combines an SSD with a Huawei-developed tape drive to provide warm (nearline) and cold data storage. MED technology was first revealed back in March. We were told that, facing potential disk supply disruption due to US technology export restrictions, Huawei was working on its own […]
Requiring Single Page Applications for Interactive Web Apps is a Myth
Tony Alaribe September 20, 2024 #An Ode to Browser Advancements. I often encounter discussions on Reddit and YCombinator where newer developers seek tech stack advice. Inevitably, someone claims it’s impossible to build a high-quality application without using a single-page application (SPA) framework like React or AngularJS. This strikes me as odd because, even before the […]
Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side
Compare multiple maps side by side. Live demo This project was mostly generated by Claude AI. I wanted to develop a simple tool that I needed for veloplanner.com. I thought about using this opportunity to try out Claude AI for coding a project from scratch. It worked surprisingly well! I was able to explain my […]
Nash equilibria in Ballmer’s binary-search interview game
Yesterday John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question,” and in the Hacker News discussion, among the predictable “interview culture is flawed!!” complaints, there was some discussion of whether binary search was even the right way to solve Ballmer’s puzzle. Here’s a stab at an answer. Ballmer’s puzzle boils down to: I’m […]