A eulogy for Vim

Vim is important to me. I’m using it to write the words you’re reading right now. In fact, almost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I’ve written, emails I’ve sent, and more, almost all of it has passed through Vim.

My relationship with the software is intimate, almost as if it were an extra limb. I don’t think about what I’m doing when I use it. All of Vim’s modes and keybindings are deeply ingrained in my muscle memory. Using it just feels like my thoughts flowing from my...

Hold on to Your Hardware: BadRAM

We’re living in unprecedented times, once again, in which holding on to our existing hardware has become more important than ever before. With prices for solid state drives and especially RAM going through the roof, it can be at the very least frustrating to have a computer malfunction due to faulty memory. In this post, I’d like to show how to check a system’s memory for defects and how to work around those defects to prolong a system’s life without needing to replace the RAM module(s), or worse the whole mainboard, right away.

Note: This guide is intended for Linux users, specifically systems with GRUB that do not use...

If You Have This Lamp - Don’t Use It

A History of “Blacklight” Lamps (Part 1)

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Видеорежимы в восьмибитных компьютерах. Coolsystem — Часть 2

В данной статье кратко рассмотрены видеоконтроллеры для следующих ретро-компьютеров: ZX Spectrum, Вектор 06Ц, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, Микроша, Радио-86РК, БК-0010, Агат (модели 7 и 9) и Апогей БК-01Ц.

Поскольку мой будущий самодельный компьютер их косвенно поддерживает, необходимо собрать информацию в одном месте.

Five Fun Experiments With a Fluorescent Lamp

Quantum Physics On Your Desk

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Build a highly customizable mobile friendly HTML5 level selection screen controllable by tap, swipe and mouse wheel, written in TypeScript and powered by Phaser

A clean, fully paginated level selection system built in Phaser 4 with TypeScript, featuring horizontal drag, direction-aware snap, mouse wheel navigation and event-driven thumbnails. The UI components are fully decoupled from scene logic and designed with clear state separation. Complete source code available for download, ready to use and extend.

Simulating rotating gravity and perimeter based movement like in “Be Brave, Barb” game with Phaser, without any physics engine

HTML5 platformer engine inspired by Be Brave, Barb, built without physics. Hero walks along a dynamically generated perimeter, switches between four gravity directions, and reattaches to surfaces using continuous collision detection. Everything is driven by pure geometry, vector math, and segment intersection.

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

Budget Spectroscopy With Python, OpenCV, and Matplotlib

Fun Experiments With Python and a USB Spectrometer

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From Dense Grids to Clean Perimeters: Extracting Shapes with Greedy Geometry – Tiled and JavaScript example

A dense grid hides simple shapes. This example uses a greedy algorithm to extract the true external perimeter from binary grid data, removing all internal edges and collapsing hundreds of cells into a clean geometric outline. Everything that follows, such as rendering, collision and movement, becomes simpler once the grid turns into a shape.