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Inspirational adult improvers : chess

A list of chess masters who didn't get great at chess until they were adults.
Tue 05 Jan 2021 09:27:32 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/krbmqw/inspirational_adult_improvers/

chess
CodeReviewComments · golang/go Wiki

Some helpful advice for writing Go.
Sat 02 Jan 2021 09:03:20 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#synchronous-functions

golang programming
<Now Go Bang!> BASIC (Re)Numbering - with Commodore

A JavaScript program to renumber Commodore BASIC programs (including jump targets)
Mon 23 Nov 2020 09:16:54 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2020/commodore-basic-renumber

basic c64 programming
How to Play Commodore 64 Games Online for Free

You can play any of the Commodore 64 games in the Internet Archive directly in your browser using their Vice-based emulator! The only annoying thing is that you have to configure a joystick in port 1 for most games before you start playing.
Sat 21 Nov 2020 06:51:56 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://lifehacker.com/how-to-play-commodore-64-games-online-for-free-1829660762

c64
ZZT in Go (using a Pascal-to-Go converter)

Ben Hoyt on [semi-]automatically converting a Pascal game to Go.
Wed 18 Nov 2020 10:59:17 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://benhoyt.com/writings/zzt-in-go/

golang pascal programming
GoAWK, an AWK interpreter written in Go

Ben Hoyt's great write up of an AWK interpreter he wrote in Go, including an overview of the lexer, parser, interpreter, unit tests, and profiling for performance improvements.
Wed 18 Nov 2020 10:26:43 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/

golang programming
Repl.it - Home

A rather full-featured REPL environment slash IDE for many programming languages.
Wed 28 Oct 2020 09:07:32 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://repl.it/

programming
Home - glot.io

Calls itself "an open source pastebin with runnable snippets and API". It's a nice and useful REPL environment for many langauges. More simple than repl.it
Wed 28 Oct 2020 09:06:43 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://glot.io/

programming
Boat Designs made from Coroplast and corrugated plastic sheets

"Several designers have played with Corrugated plastics and made some usable boats. Using this type of boatbuilding method results in ultra light boats that are easily folded and transported. Here are a few."
Fri 23 Oct 2020 02:13:58 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.christinedemerchant.com/boat-styles-coroplast.html

coroplast make
They're Made out of Meat

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
Sat 10 Oct 2020 01:45:28 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats - YouTube

A nice 20-minute video on Penrose tiling
Fri 02 Oct 2020 06:06:58 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34

math video
xi-editor retrospective | Raph Levien’s blog

Raph Levien's postmortem on his attempt at an high-performance, asynchronous text editor.
Fri 18 Sep 2020 08:33:29 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html

programming
What's up with these 3-cent microcontrollers? - Jay Carlson

Jay Carlson's excellent write up of the very inexpensive Padauk microcontroller's.
Sat 12 Sep 2020 09:31:12 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://jaycarlson.net/2019/09/06/whats-up-with-these-3-cent-microcontrollers/

electronics
The Secret Ska History of That Weird Levitating Businessman Emoji

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Fri 11 Sep 2020 07:49:08 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/secret-ska-history-man-business-suit-levitating-emoji-442192.html

emoji fonts
CSS: em, px, pt, cm, in…

An overview of CSS units and when to use each.
Tue 01 Sep 2020 11:34:40 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html

css web
How Flash games shaped the video game industry

Flash games are a very important part of game dev history. But despite millions of games available on thousands of websites, I only ever played or will ever play tower defense games.
Thu 23 Jul 2020 10:22:35 AM MDT - permalink -

- - http://www.flashgamehistory.com/

games
Elo Win Probability Calculator

A very useful calculator for determining win/draw/loss probabilities for two players given their ratings.
Wed 15 Jul 2020 02:52:53 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://wismuth.com/elo/calculator.html

chess math
How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study

This is a clear article which argues that the most effective way to train VO2 max is low intensity, high volume training.
Tue 09 Jun 2020 10:10:38 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://simplifaster.com/articles/how-trainable-is-vo2-max/

running
Microtype - Thesis in LaTeX

An overview of microtypography via the Microtype LaTeX package.

I'm not convinced all of the microtyped examples look any better than the naive spacing...
Thu 28 May 2020 05:19:31 PM MDT - permalink -

- - http://www.khirevich.com/latex/microtype/

latex typography
Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes

Nice intro to writing basic terminal user interfaces with ANSI escape codes.
Thu 28 May 2020 05:17:52 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html

programming

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