When Google paid websites to promote Firefox
Having grown up in the 2000s, I love discovering that things I presumed were banal back then were, in fact, part of a bigger story.
Today I Learned
2023
ZX Spectrum's CPU couldn't do multiplication
A look into clever multiplication tricks from the 80s.
Some ARM processors to this day can't do division
Some ARM Cortex processors, more specifically the Cortex M0, M0+ and M1 don’t have divide instructions.
2022
Parsing phone numbers is a nightmare
Like HTML, phone numbers are turing complete not meant to be parsed by Regex.
2021
A ray-tracer can be your next weekend project
You can write a ray-tracing renderer in about a weekend.