Susam's Maze

A collection of quick and dirty notes. See also this slow and tidy blog!

(195 posts)

Childhood Computing (24 May 2026)
Don't Roll Your Own ... (23 May 2026)
Five Minutes of Prime Time (16 May 2026)
Commenting Guidelines (14 May 2026)
The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics (11 May 2026)
I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs (09 May 2026)
Wander Console 0.6.0 (08 May 2026)
From RSS to Atom (04 May 2026)
QuickQWERTY 1.2.3 (03 May 2026)
Touch Typing Number Keys (01 May 2026)
Apr '26 Notes (30 Apr 2026)
Multiple URLs in Git Remote (29 Apr 2026)
QuickQWERTY 1.2.2 (28 Apr 2026)
Wander Console 0.5.0 (19 Apr 2026)
Wander Console 0.4.0 (04 Apr 2026)
Mar '26 Notes (30 Mar 2026)
Accessing Fork Commits via Original Repository (28 Mar 2026)
Wander Console 0.3.0 (25 Mar 2026)
Wander Console 0.2.0 (24 Mar 2026)
Wander Console 0.1.0 (18 Mar 2026)
Wander Console (16 Mar 2026)
Git Checkout, Reset and Restore (12 Mar 2026)
HN Skins 0.4.0 (10 Mar 2026)
HN Skins 0.3.0 (07 Mar 2026)
HN Skins 0.2.0 (01 Mar 2026)
HN Skins 0.1.0 (28 Feb 2026)
Feb '26 Notes (27 Feb 2026)
Nerd Quiz #4 (22 Feb 2026)
Deep Blue: Chess vs Programming (15 Feb 2026)
Soju User Delete Hash (14 Feb 2026)
From ZNC to Soju (12 Feb 2026)
Twenty Five Years of Computing (06 Feb 2026)
Jan '26 Notes (29 Jan 2026)
QuickQWERTY 1.2.1 (27 Jan 2026)
Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (20 Jan 2026)
Nested Code Fences in Markdown (19 Jan 2026)
Minimal GitHub Workflow (15 Jan 2026)
Three Inverse Laws of AI (12 Jan 2026)
Writing First, Tooling Second (10 Jan 2026)
A4 Paper Stories (06 Jan 2026)
Circular Recursive Negating Acronyms (05 Jan 2026)
Now (02 Jan 2026)
My Coding Adventures in 2025 (24 Dec 2025)
Nerd Quiz #3 (23 Dec 2025)
Mark V. Shaney Junior 0.2.0 (14 Dec 2025)
Fed 24 Years of My Blog Posts to a Markov Model (13 Dec 2025)
Mark V. Shaney Junior 0.1.0 (12 Dec 2025)
Fizz Buzz in CSS (06 Dec 2025)
CSS Fizz Buzz with Ordered List (05 Dec 2025)
CSS Fizz Buzz (03 Dec 2025)
Triangle-Free Cayley Graph (02 Dec 2025)
Fizz Buzz with Cosines (20 Nov 2025)
Nerd Quiz #2 (18 Nov 2025)
Nerd Quiz #1 (16 Oct 2025)
Nerd Quiz (15 Oct 2025)
QuickQWERTY 1.2.0 (05 Oct 2025)
Reinstated My Guestbook After 20 Years (03 Oct 2025)
QuickQWERTY 1.1.0 (28 Sep 2025)
My Lobsters Interview (12 Sep 2025)
Prime Number Grid Explorer (19 Aug 2025)
Miller-Rabin Speed Test (16 Aug 2025)
Mutually Attacking Knights (11 Aug 2025)
Zigzag Number Spiral (27 Jul 2025)
Million Times Million (03 Jul 2025)
CSS Experiments: overflow-wrap vs word-break (16 Jun 2025)
Product of Additive Inverses (29 May 2025)
Two Ideals of Fields (27 May 2025)
From Finite Integral Domains to Finite Fields (25 May 2025)
ASCII PC (15 Apr 2025)
Elliptical Python Programming (10 Apr 2025)
More Contrast, Please (07 Apr 2025)
Colour Contrast Calculator (06 Apr 2025)
Hacker News Hug of Deaf (05 Apr 2025)
More Purple Links, Please (03 Apr 2025)
PDF Dimmer Bookmarklet (02 Apr 2025)
MathB 1.3.0 (16 Mar 2025)
XOR Map (11 Mar 2025)
Lemma for FTGT (09 Mar 2025)
MathB.in Is Shutting Down (23 Feb 2025)
The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to 'Take Off' (22 Feb 2025)
FXYT 0.5.0 (11 Feb 2025)
CFRS[] 0.3.0 (10 Feb 2025)
FXYT 0.4.0 (09 Feb 2025)
Associations (07 Dec 2024)
Negative Lookahead Assertion (20 Nov 2024)
The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with 0573e7473. (11 Nov 2024)
Algebraic Structures (21 Oct 2024) [draft]
Function (20 Oct 2024)
Equal Length Words (14 Oct 2024)
Guess My RGB 0.3.0 (14 Sep 2024)
Colophon (15 Jun 2024)
Guess My RGB 0.2.0 (15 Apr 2024)
Pretty-Printing JSON Response with HTTP Headers (14 Apr 2024)
Emacs Info Expressions (12 Apr 2024)
Perron's Paradox (10 Apr 2024)
From Web Feed Entry to 186k Hits (07 Apr 2024)
CFRS[] 0.2.0 (06 Apr 2024)
Logarithm Notation (05 Apr 2024)
Guess My RGB 0.1.0 (03 Apr 2024)
Guess My RGB (31 Mar 2024)
FXYT 0.3.0 (29 Mar 2024)
Search User Comment on Jira (20 Feb 2024)
Quicksort with Jenkins for Fun and No Profit (25 Jan 2024)
Elisp in Replacement String (09 Jan 2024)
From Fill Prefix to TRAMP (30 Dec 2023)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 7: Conclusion (29 Dec 2023)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 6: The Practicals of Emacs (28 Dec 2023)
CFRS[] 0.1.0 (25 Dec 2023)
FXYT 0.2.0 (24 Dec 2023)
My Coding Adventures in 2023 (23 Dec 2023)
FXYT 0.1.0 (20 Dec 2023)
FXYT (19 Dec 2023)
CFRS[] (19 Oct 2023)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 5: The Theory of Editing (16 Sep 2023)
Sorting in Emacs (09 Aug 2023)
Thurston's Paean (18 Jul 2023)
Control, Escape and Meta Tricks (16 Jun 2023)
From Lunar Phases to Yank-Pop (02 Apr 2023)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 4: The Theory of Movement (25 Mar 2023)
TextMetrics (01 Feb 2023)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 3: First Steps (07 Jan 2023)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 2: The Way of Emacs (18 Dec 2022)
Notes from Mastering Emacs Meetups (17 Dec 2022)
Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 1: Introduction (16 Dec 2022)
Mastering Emacs Book Club (15 Dec 2022)
ChatGPT Explains Some Jokes (14 Dec 2022)
Computation Club Meeting (12 Dec 2022)
Jokes (11 Dec 2022)
CP437 to Unicode Map (03 Dec 2022)
Privacy Notice (20 Nov 2022)
Commands (18 Nov 2022)
MathB 1.2.0 (16 Oct 2022)
MathB 1.1.0 (30 Sep 2022)
MathB 1.0.0 (20 Sep 2022)
From XON/XOFF to Forward Incremental Search (13 Aug 2022)
MathB.in Turns Ten (25 Mar 2022)
The Curious Case of Duplicate Comments (12 Mar 2022)
Forms (11 Mar 2022)
Paredit Slurp and Barf Mnemonics (28 Feb 2022)
Andromeda Invaders (15 Feb 2022)
Toy Traceroute With Ping (01 Feb 2022)
Against URL-Based Content Rendering (31 Jan 2022)
Web Golden (30 Jan 2022)
Wordle With Grep (22 Jan 2022)
Simplicity of IRC (09 Jan 2022)
No Beam From the Eye (30 Oct 2021)
Final IANT Meeting Today (01 Oct 2021)
Journey to Integer Partitions (18 Sep 2021)
Journey to the Prime Number Theorem (09 Sep 2021)
One Hundred Meetings (20 Aug 2021)
Reading Classic Computation Books (15 Jun 2021)
Euler's Formula (04 Jun 2021)
Joke Sort (26 May 2021)
Algorithms Channel Migrates to Libera Chat (19 May 2021)
May the Forth Be With You (04 May 2021)
My Code from 2020 (27 Dec 2020)
Dark Night Skies (17 Dec 2020)
Of Course "changeme" Is Valid Base64 (24 Oct 2020)
Hacktoberfest Spam (01 Oct 2020)
Unix Timestamp 1600000000 (12 Sep 2020)
Pointers in K&R (05 Sep 2020)
Grothendieck Prime (28 Aug 2020)
Leap Year Test in K&R (29 Feb 2020)
Sticking With MathJax (13 Feb 2020)
Debian Releases and Toy Story (09 Feb 2020)
TeX Live Packages in Debian 10 (17 Aug 2019)
C Standard Terms for Behaviour (31 May 2018)
Building Common Lisp Executables (10 May 2018)
Unix Line Discard (09 Jul 2017)
Random String in Shell (11 Aug 2011)
Magical Chameleons Puzzle (19 Jun 2011)
Calendar Cubes Puzzle (12 Jun 2011)
Missing Digit Puzzle (14 May 2011)
Mathematics Storm (12 May 2011)
Ternary Operator Puzzle (06 Apr 2011)
Polar Bear Puzzle (09 Mar 2011)
Shrinking List Puzzle (17 Feb 2011)
Squaring Numbers That Begin or End With 5 (21 Dec 2010)
Big-Endian on Little-Endian (20 Jun 2010)
Laws of Correction (18 Jun 2010)
Correctly Printing STAFString (04 Jun 2010)
UID Numbering Scheme (24 May 2010)
Coefficient of Variation Function in PostgreSQL (13 May 2010)
Zero Length Regular Expression (03 May 2010)
Minimal Installation of WinHTTP API (14 Apr 2010)
Immediate SourceForge Tracker Notification (13 Apr 2010)
Lucene Java Example (10 Apr 2010)
ResizableDoubleArray contract() and expand() (23 Mar 2010)
Keep Fun in Computing (18 Aug 2009)
Irrational Base (11 Sep 2007)
Very Remote Debugging (03 Sep 2007)
Fork Bunny (11 Jun 2006)
Vim Sudo Write Trick (25 Aug 2005)
C Quine (19 Oct 2003)
WinPopup (10 Dec 2001)