GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy, good overview.
A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly (2018), by Remko Tronçon.
blkhash, a block based hash optimized for disk images. Supports sparse files and QCOW file format with compression.
Lisa Source Code: Understanding Clascal, an early OO Pascal dialect used at Apple. More.
Estimating Square Roots in Your Head, using Heron’s method.
Vintage Pachinko: Going Back and Forth Across the Pacific, by Nicole Branagan.
FlappyBirdle, oh no!
A Lettermatic Case Study: Giving characters a typographic voice in Obsidian’s new RPG called Pentiment, by Riley Cran.
The Mystery of the Dune Font, by Florian Hardwig.
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time, by Nate Hopper. The New Yorker on NTP.
Featherweight TeX and Parser Correctness (PDF), by Sebastian Thore Erdweg and Klaus Ostermann. ”[…] it is the case that parsing TeX is impossible in general, but we present evidence that parsers for practical subsets exists.”
It’s a UNIX system! I know this! – A Highly Requested Tournament Report For F2F Toronto, by Elaine Cao. How to save a Magic tournament by live coding.
nopl, “During research for my AMD Geode projects, I found an amazing saga based around a CPU instruction.”