Brain Invaders Feb 01, 2008

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Tags: Geeks, Handicraft, Knitting, Retro gaming, Sprites

Considering the climate change hasn’t eliminated winter yet, here’s something to keep your head warm. As a bonus, it won’t deduct from your carefully planned geek look.

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There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom Oct 22, 2007

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Tags: 256B, Assembly, Demoscene, Geeks, Source code

This is the first part of the epic (two-part) series of articles about tiny intros, the next one will be about an actual intro.
I love tiny graphical presentations called “intros” in the demoscene and by tiny I mean 256 bytes tiny. Usually, at this point people mention a paragraph of text is well over 256 [...]

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C masochism, part 1 Sep 15, 2007

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Tags: Geeks, Programming

I like C. I write tools in C that sane people write in Ruby or whatever the trendy script-like loosely typed language of the week is. But this is not about which language to choose. This is about doing stuff in C just because a lot of people think it’s 1.) limited, 2.) hard and [...]

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