Developers don’t usually divide numbers all the time, but hashmaps often need to compute remainders modulo a prime. Hashmaps are really common, so fast division is useful. For instance, rolling hashes might compute u128 % u64 with a...

Smaller update today just cause I felt like I should write something light as I'm progressing in my building of the site. I've been pretty lucky to start corresponding with someone else who has a really cool site! Won't name them yet...

Ciao and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! You might have already recognized that something looks different this time. Tiny Sparks doesn’t run on Substack anymore and is now self-hosted on WordPress! There are a couple of reasons for this...

As we left the story of my adventure on the West Highland Way, it was 10 pm and I had just set up at the wild camping zone at the Bridge of Orchy having covered 104.3 km of the 154 km trail in 3 days of walking. This meant we now had the...

I've been thinking a lot recently about what it means to do research in fuzzing. Most of what we do is a loose collection of "things we know to generally work pretty well" but without true understanding of why. I do often wonder what...

A video of Panoramax in action. Starting out with a map view which has small orange lines for where images are available. Then going into the actual 360 degree images and moving around. Above: a video showcasing the panoramax viewer,...