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pickledcods
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About pickledcods
Latest showcases: https://rockingship.org https://xyzzy.github.io https://rockingship.github.io
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Comment #42086019
Location: Netherlands, Leiden Remote: Remote, hybrid, on-site, depending on distance Willing to relocate: No Skills: Bare metal, Bootloaders, Cryptography, Embedded, Debugging, Dis…
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Comment #41909342
This entry inspired me to write this javascript implementation to test my high-speed GIF encoder, which I used for animations in the pre-canvas era. It needs keyboard arrows to nav…
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Comment #40865194
Location: Leiden, Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Full-stack, embedded, javascript/c/c++, linux Résumé/CV: On request Email: xyzzy@rockingship.o…
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Comment #40762408
For all you QR enthusiasts! I upgraded the site generator to create even better visual QR codes, it now even can produce a QR in a QR. Enter the gift code "WELCOME" and use it for …
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Comment #40568854
Location: Netherlands, Leiden Remote: Yes, Willing to relocate: Temporary yes, Permanent no Technologies: Linux, Javascript, C/C++, HTML/Canvas, PHP, MySQL, Embedded Résumé/CV: Upo…
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Comment #37204061
Found this: Because it's simply available as an option. National Geographic is licensed and marketed differently in Korea, so it's just sold as a regular brand in normal retail out…
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Comment #37167779
This was my 1996 IOCCC entry, a mastermind solver. Key features are that it is a one-liner (no macros) and everything is coded using for-loops. char*p,*q,*r,s[50000];int i,j,k,l;ma…
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Comment #36759851
Both projects stem from the same root, TXT=EXE. However, both branch in totally different directions. One says "any printable goes" whereas the other says "only the smallest subset…
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Comment #36756918
Yes, like many others. That's why I upped the ante by stating "numeric and lowercase characters only". And with the glyph differences between them also create a "hidden" image. Edi…
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Comment #36756694
This begs for the challenge: How would a program look like if the opcodes it could use exclusively consists of ASCII characters? This has been a niche programming challenge which w…
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Comment #36457233
Counting down with signed ints: for (int i=max-1; i >= 0; --i) Counting down with unsigned ints (also works for signed ints): for (unsigned i=max; i--; )
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Comment #35212228
Splash is an alternative approach to traditional top-left to bottom-right scanline image/frame rendering. It sorts the pixels of a frame in order of significance, and paints them g…
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Comment #30734605
The video contains nasty rhetoric like the male voice actor calling the female voice actor a Bitch.
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Comment #30717167
I would like an app that handles the functioning of my paid product locally without internet access. The product was sold with strings attached that was not mentioned. Loading any …
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Comment #30715997
Have you checked the trackers and data loggers build into that app that directly or indirectly call home when you interact with your lights? I have an aquarium and I use a water qu…
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Comment #30710485
Absolutely this. Minimal setup debugging using gdb in TUI/sourcecode mode, optionally over ssh.
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Comment #30666892
I have a 4k monitor and at first bumped my head into many walls because of the excruciating bad or missing font size/selection support. Tried literally all the desktops and file ma…
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Comment #30654073
I would like to read, but get a page full about checking my browser and that I need to do a CAPTCHA, which won't load because I have disabled javascript as I initially do not trust…
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Comment #30647114
Use it to exercise Advent of Code. Much more fun than leetcode and it has an ending.
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Comment #30634550
So that means Windows-11 pc? And Blizzard being taken over by Microsoft and now developing exclusively for latest Windows.
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Comment #30626886
It would also be nice to load the cropped image into the clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere. And why save as lossy jpeg if the image is uncompressed (like screenshots or PNG)