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Crit-bit trees edit / delete

A simplified version of the PATRICIA trie; allows the operations of a hash plus lexicographic lookup, with potentially better efficiency (although I guess you need to be careful about locality).

by ats ... to associative data-structures djb hash tree ... on 17 December 2016

Searching using A* (A-Star) edit / delete

by ats ... to algorithms astar cmp201 pathfinding ... on 17 December 2016

SAILDART Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab DART Archive edit / delete

"This is an archive of the first Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory derived from its final backup tapes." Run SAIL and various applications in a browser.

by ats ... to ai dec history pdp10 retrocomputing sail stanford ... on 14 December 2016

Visualizing MBTA Data edit / delete

Neat live visualisations, both of train locations and journey statistics.

by ats ... to boston rail subway visualisation ... on 12 December 2016

New GIMP Save/Export plug-in: Saver (Shallow Thoughts) edit / delete

If people are making plugins to replace the Save dialogue in your application, that suggests your design was probably fundamentally broken to start with.

by ats ... to design gimp ui ... on 10 December 2016

PortablE edit / delete

An E compiler implemented as a translator to C++. This extends the language a bit too (in particular, adding a better type system).

by ats ... to amiga c++ compiler e language-design ... on 10 December 2016

The RtAudio Home Page edit / delete

"RtAudio is a set of C++ classes that provide a common API (Application Programming Interface) for realtime audio input/output". This would suit Potamus pretty well.

by ats ... to alsa audio jack library programming software to-package ... on 10 December 2016

SSH for Fun and Profit edit / delete

Writing an SSH client from scratch.

by ats ... to cryptography python ssh ... on 06 December 2016

Cling | ROOT a Data analysis Framework edit / delete

"Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter, built on the top of LLVM and Clang libraries."

by ats ... to c++ clang interpreter llvm ... on 06 December 2016

Mid-2016 Tor bug retrospective, with lessons for future coding | The Tor Blog edit / delete

"I recently did an informal review of our major bugs from the last few years. ... My goals were to see if we're right in our understanding of what causes bugs in Tor, and what approaches to avoid bugs and limit their impact would be most effective."

by ats ... to bug security software-engineering tor ... on 06 December 2016