7 December 2021

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Reed-Solomon bug in Queqiao – Daniel Estévez

Queqiao is the communications relay satellite for the Chang’e 4 Chinese lunar lander mission to the far side of the Moon. It is in a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon Largrange L2 point and provides communications to the lander in Von Kármán crater.

What does the Web3 Demo App by Cloudflare really do?

Recently, I run into the Get started Building Web3 Apps with Cloudflare post. Usually, when I see these web3 / metaverse hypes, I walk away. But when Cloudflare - a big tech that serves (or bring downs) half the internet - starts to build in the domain, I can'…

Vuex Sync Part 1

This is the tale of how I wrote a state syncing framework based on vuex and rollback netcode. It took a few years and isn’t intended to be a “copy and paste” type of thing. I’ll be including code fragments and I’ll eventually post a cleaned up repo with only t…

Loop Fission

Loop fission is a process normally applied by a compiler to loops to make them faster. The idea is to split larger loop bodies which perform several distinct tasks into separate loops, in the hope that the individual loops can be optimised more effectively in …

Building an OpenTable bot

New York City has some of the best restaurants in the world, with some of the most competitive reservations to match. Some of the hottest restaurants are booked out months in advance, and sell out within minutes of opening their reservations. There are a few r…

XAML Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022

See your XAML files update live with Visual Studio's XAML Live Preview! This preview will display your application LIVE in a separate window, so no need swit...

Daniel Skogly's blog | Cloudflare Images has a lot of issues

<p>I’m a huge fan of the various Cloudflare offerings, and have been impressed time after time with the innovations and solutions offered by CF. This writeup therefore pains me, as I usually don’t have anything negative to say about CF, but after some months i…

C# in 100 Seconds

C# or C-Sharp is the programming language behind .NET (dotnet) and the Unity framework. It was created at Microsoft as a C-like object-oriented language and ...

Shift function vs. shift distribution

Let’s say we have two distributions (X) and (Y), and we want to express the “absolute difference” between them. This abstract term co...

Web3? I have my DAOts

The promise of a decentralized and trustless future is forever just that: a promise, and in the future.