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Programming

4 posts

Improving Inkscape Startup Time

While Inkscape is a great vector editor, its startup performance on Windows is terrible, often taking 5 seconds or more to open an empty window on my computer. Investigating the application startup seemed like …

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Advent of Code Solutions

I enjoy participating in the Advent of Code event every December, which is digital advent calendar challenging you with a two-part programming puzzle every day. In 2019 I aimed for the global leaderboard and …

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Daily Frustrations

I want to work on an assignment for university, that requires LLVM and makes use of their integrated tester (llvm-lit). llvm-lit is written in Python. I have some version of Python 3 installed, so I try to run …

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Hard Bugs

A few years ago I stumbled upon my first hard bug. I was working on my custom C++ 2D game engine and had just added the ability to render to an off-screen image. But it was not working well and most of the time …

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