I was on MDN when I noticed that Chrome’s V8 (at least) was little-endian, meaning that a hexadecimal number you’d write as 0xCAFEBABE is actually stored as BE BA FE CA if you read the bytes off memory. It made me wonder how you could most easily determine if your system is little or big […]
GNU/bc is a command-line calculator for linux. It does variables [a-z0-9_]+ and +-*/^ and basic math, all through the terminal, and while it’s somewhat useful by default, it can be made to be a lot better. Reading man bc, you see that the program reads an environmental variable, BC_ENV_ARGS, which refers to a list of […]
So, I’m sitting in the back of Brewed Awakening right now in the midst of café-goers, some of which I know must be sniffing packets from the several overlapping open wifi networks around this dense part of campus. The spread of free wifi access points is an excellent direction for humanity, but it comes with […]
Update I’ve updated the code and text of this post to reflect the latest version of the code. For one of the projects I’ve been working on recently, I needed huge amounts of filler text (we’re talking about a megabyte) for lorem ipsum placeholder copy. Copy is the journalistic term for plain ol’ text in […]
Update I don’t use the plugin mentioned in this post anymore. On this blog, I use the Crayon syntax highlighter for WordPress to render all the code snippets, since this is a programming blog after all. Crayon is one of the more popular highlighting plugins, as clearly demonstrated by the sad condition of its support […]