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an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed

i found some ambiguous wording in the c89(/c90) standard, where gcc and clang disagree on the interpretation. it concerns the behavior of implicit function declarations, which were removed in c99, so this was never disambiguated. [...]

python string literals are kinda funny

pop quiz: which of these lines is valid python, and what's the content of the resulting string? [...]

sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in c

python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

mashups are an underutilized art form

here's what i mean: sometimes two songs just naturally fit together; you don't need to do anything else to make the mashup work. and that's great! but sometimes songs don't quite work together. like, there's clearly potential, but the pieces don't quite connect. [...]

a neat trick i found for reusing physical memory

game genie codes to uncap the level and speed of mixed match in SNES "Tetris & Dr. Mario"

maybe sometimes the black pill is ok (a response to Andrew Kelley)

the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c

i ported hare's match construct to c

today i'd like to show you one of the most cursed things i've ever made. but first, some context: [...]

i've been thinking about null pointers

null is weird. you ever think about null pointers? because i've been thinking about null pointers. [...]

you should make personal versions of songs you like

a bunch of stuff i used to not know about K&R C

PEP 3099 is really funny to me

two case studies of NaN

neither gcc nor clang are compliant with standard c++

The Mystery Dungeon (video)

critical super mario 64 review after 100%ing it for the first time in a few years

(this is far from the first time i've 100%'d the game, but it's been a little bit and i had Thoughts this time) [...]

review of the super mario galaxy movie (no spoilers)

give it a year and i will feel completely differently about this movie, but having just watched it today, i fucking loved it [...]

no one has been able to tell me what the fsf even, like, does

"what no one's thinking" (ajr) review

...it was, underwhelming, ngl. [...]

Way more information than you wanted to know about NES Tetris' playfield