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The Legendary Fast Inverse Square Root

The Legendary Fast Inverse Square Root

In the 90s, 3D video games were in their infancy, and the ability to render 3D graphics was constrained by hardware. This led programmers…
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NES Emulator - Writing a Disassembler and Memory Viewer

NES Emulator - Writing a Disassembler and Memory Viewer

Describing the implementation of debugger features for a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator.
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A simple circular slider

A simple circular slider

I do web programming for my day job. Recently I needed to create a circular slider, and I find the result rather satisfying.
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Exapunking

Exapunking

Making a game for the TEC Redshift
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A fast iterative process for multiplication in Scheme

A fast iterative process for multiplication in Scheme

I have been studying the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in my free time. The book uses the Scheme programming…
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Shaker Maker: Part II

Shaker Maker: Part II

Animated Playback
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Shaker Maker: Part I

Shaker Maker: Part I

Building a posable figure in JavaScript
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Continuations

Continuations give the programmer a way to control the flow of a program. While the concept itself exists in any programming language…
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Coding Challenge — Rectangle Rotation

Coding Challenge — Rectangle Rotation

Here’s a cool coding challenge I came across last week. When I first encountered it, I was stumped. It took me a few days of thinking about…
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Programming Poetry: Duff’s Device

Programming Poetry: Duff’s Device

Duff’s Device is a really clever implementation of dynamic loop unrolling. Tom Duff wrote the code in 1983 while working at Lucasfilm. Duff…
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Thief: Milkmaid Heist

Thief: Milkmaid Heist

A couple weeks ago, I built a CLI game in Ruby with a friend and peer at Flatiron School, Cole Shapiro, called Thief: Milkmaid Heist. TMH…
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