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2026

Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plansoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026

2025

Gauss–Seidel visually explainedoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2025
Why learn about the golden-section searchoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2025

2024

A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard oforiginal ↗
29 Apr 2024
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)original ↗
20 Mar 2024
Rational interpolationoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024

2023

Either your estimates suck or your job doesoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2023
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?original ↗
28 Jun 2023
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunteroriginal ↗
3 Mar 2023

2022

Why did I write Geometry for programmersoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2022

2021

Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDAoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2021
A picture is worth a thousand tagsoriginal ↗
8 May 2021
[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one?original ↗
23 Apr 2021
[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancyoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plantsoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2021
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sineoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2021
Complex numbers and conformal mappingoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equationsoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2021
[Renovated] Mathematical analysis explained with Python, blood, and TNToriginal ↗
30 Jan 2021
[Renovated] Interactive explanation of marching cubes and dual contouringoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2021
[Renovated] Interactive introduction to iterative algorithmsoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2021
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splinesoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021
Trippy polynomials in arctangent scaleoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2021

2020

Partial order and non-Boolean logicoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2020
Yet another alternative to floating point numbersoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2020
Why is it ok to divide by 0.0?original ↗
22 Aug 2020
[Renovated] Polynomial approximation and interpolationoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2020
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronymoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2020
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to polynomials and splinesoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2020
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?original ↗
17 Jul 2020
Bi-whatever transformationsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infiniteoriginal ↗
9 May 2020
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languagesoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2020
Image darningoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2020
Error codes are not numbers. But they are. Can we exploit that?original ↗
27 Feb 2020
Binary searchoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2020
[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinatesoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2020

2019

Honeycomb texture generatororiginal ↗
27 Dec 2019
Sine and cosineoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2019
[Renovated] Logic programming in C++original ↗
19 Nov 2019
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sortingoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2019
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolationoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2019
[Renovated] Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squaresoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2019
Circles and lines vs. polynomial splinesoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2019
SymPy makes math fun againoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2019
Yet another floating point tutorialoriginal ↗
16 May 2019
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy wayoriginal ↗
11 May 2019
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlightingoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2019
Interactive mnemonics for dot and cross vector productsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2019
Simple image vectorizationoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2019
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anythingoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2019
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithmoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2019
Programmer's introduction to linear equations [republished in Ukrainian]original ↗
5 Jan 2019

2018

Using logical operators for logical operations is goodoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2018
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operatorsoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2018