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2025-05-05
On Sunday, 2025-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers. It's estimated this will take about 2 hours from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC.
The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.
Update: the maintenance was finished at 2025-05-11 13:00 UTC. There was a small issue with storage space, hence the 1h delay for fixing it.
Build a HTML5 “Helix Jump” prototype with Three.js and TypeScript – Step 2: adding a bouncing ball with no physics engine
In this second step of my three.js HTML5 Helix Jump prototype, I added a bouncing ball, handled platform collisions and made platforms infinite. As always, you’ll find fully commented TypeScript source code.
What's 1.21 Gigawatts in Watts?
Earlier this year I started dipping my toes into Zig, an imperative, general-purpose, statically typed, compiled system programming language with a focus on performance and simplicity. As part of this journey, I created a lightweight open source utility called whats.
What’s whats?whats is a command-line tool designed for quick, intuitive unit conversions and basic calculations. It lets users phrase their queries naturally and returns concise, relevant answers. For example:
whats 3 meters in feet
The tool is flexible in how it interprets input and it supports various styles, such as whats 3meters in feet, shorthand like whats 3m in ft, or even the minimal whats 3m ft. The aim is...
Making a “Hello World” Program For a Quantum Computer (Part 3)
Let’s Test The Most Popular Quantum Algorithm
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Adding Modest Friction
Over the years of contributing to this site, I have developed a fair sense of the types of posts that tend to gain traction on platforms that, in recent years, have increasingly begun to treat content with a kind of fast food mentality. While I’m grateful when my work reaches a wider audience, I also recognize that the themes I explore often resonate more with a specialized, niche readership.
Occasionally, a piece – usually one that is fundamentally reflective or opinion-driven – becomes the subject of sudden attention, drawing in waves of visitors from aggregators such as Hacker News, Reddit, or Twitter X. These posts tend to attract attention...
I Do Not Recommend Proton Mail
This post is only available through the Onion and I2P sites. Why?
Build a HTML5 “Helix Jump” prototype with Three.js and TypeScript
Build the foundation of a HTML5 "Helix Jump" game using Three.js, TypeScript, and Vite. Learn to create a rotating tower with sliced platforms and manage shadows and lighting, all with fully commented source code to guide you step by step.
Resistance from the tech sector
As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to read the news at all, having become the unfortunate subjects of the news. Fascism is on the rise worldwide and in the United States the news is particularly alarming. The time has arrived to act.
The enemy wants you to be overwhelmed and depressed, to feel like the situation is out of your control. Propaganda is as...