Stories by nickcw

Revisiting Forth after 40 years for Advent of Code 2025

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

TrapC proposal to fix C/C++ memory safety

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions

The Arsenic-in-Rice Scare – 5 years on

Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts

Look at That: Google Has Become a Cable Company

John Carmack on Static code analysis (2018)

X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

NASA bosses admit SLS is unsustainable and unaffordable

Smooth Subsum Search: A heuristic for practical integer factorization

A new data structure for ordered integer maps

Euler Found the First Binary Digit Extraction Formula for π in 1779

Forming the habit of analog journaling – Why digital format did not work for me

Elon Musk set to become number-one influencer on Twitter

Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon

Training a Computer to Listen and Decode Morse Code

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