The Software Life

I like useful algorithms I can implement (at least the basics) in a few hours. Bitmaps are a useful tool for a variety of applications. Bu...

Recently I was looking for a good way to "characterize" the values in a column of a database table, to help Suneido's query op...

A few people have asked about what tools I'm using for AI coding so I figured I'd snapshot what I'm using right now. Given how f...

The good news is Claude (Sonnet 4) found a bug for me. The bad news is that Claude wrote the code that had the bug. It's not all Claud...

gSuneido has had a long standing assertion failure that happened maybe once a month which equates to about once per million user hours. We t...

I'm not a leading edge AI user. I have used Tabnine for the last few years, but mostly as a smarter auto-complete. Handy and time savin...

The overhead of an interpreter depends on the size of the instructions compared to the dispatching. So one of the ways to reduce the overhea...