Have tech companies forgotten about their users?
May 10, 2023When did personal computing get this complicated?
Trip Report: NAACL 2022
August 06, 2022Common themes and takeaways from NAACL 2022
Compositional Generalization and Parsimony
July 19, 2022A paper at NAACL 2022 and some further musings
How to attend an in-person conference
July 15, 2022Advice from a first-time in-person conference attendee.
Vaccine certificate incompatibility
December 07, 2021Something still unsolved.
Some of the vaccinated are sliding into lockdown in Finland due to a technical issue
December 03, 2021On the pitfalls of jumping to technical solutions for social problems.
Remote Work
May 08, 2021The verdict, as usual, depends on context
Co-pilot might be helping others infringe copyrights
May 08, 2021But what does that mean in practice?
What I learned at Aalto in 2019
June 20, 2019Knowledge upgrade
Pareto optimization for user interface layouts
November 11, 2018Combinatorial optimization to end all bikeshedding
libanimation for everyone
September 09, 2018Separating math from rendering
Visualising my Summer School math units
April 22, 2018Fancy notes
Getting AWS Lambda and API Gateway to support binary, 2018 edition
March 04, 2018Time moves on, APIs break
Server Rendering in 2018
March 01, 2018How do I do this again?
Serverless React Boilerplate
November 19, 2017Lambda to the rescue!
Exploring faster blurs
October 08, 2017Going sub-quadratic
Explaining Boyer-Moore
September 23, 2017Why grep is so damn fast
A better way to think about Quicksort
September 12, 2017Lessons learned from haskell
Vale Unity
April 06, 2017Reminiscing and an outsider's postmortem
Apt is surprisingly flexible
January 04, 2017Running apt rootless without proot
Improvements to polysquare-travis-container
August 07, 2016Shrinking containers and running them without root
Safety is not our first priority
August 07, 2016A striking difference between Software Engineering and every other Engineering
Naming things
May 30, 2016Deferring a hard problem
Bringing back the old animations
May 27, 2016Port all the things!
Revenge of the blur plugin for compiz
May 14, 2016Making the blur plugin work with the modern OpenGL API
Moving from biicode to conan.io
March 08, 2016A nice package manager for C++
A unit testing framework for CMake
January 25, 2016Based on XUnit
Bash substitution and ssh-keygen
February 28, 2015Unexpected behaviour bites hard sometimes
Performance and cmake_parse_arguments
January 25, 2015An easily misunderstandable API
Buffer your IO on CMake!
November 05, 2014A short performance analysis
Using debuggers in everyday life
October 13, 2014Debuggers are useful for things outside programming, too
HasNoExceptMemFun type trait
July 29, 2014Template metaprogramming to ensure that you're calling a noexcept function
Iterator Invalidation
July 25, 2014A context-manager based idea to prevent an age-old memory problem with vectors
Server Grabs and getting stuck in _XReply
December 18, 2013Some niche X11 API causing problems
Coffee Party
November 10, 2013A follow up to the comment on the other post
Of Tea Parties and Armchairs
October 19, 2013Some additional thoughts on another post
XBMC Wayland merged for next release
October 12, 2013Coming to an HTPC near you
Comment
September 09, 2013This, again?
Sharing the love
July 30, 2013Some votes of thanks
Experiencing the Mir client API
July 27, 2013Some documentation from a third party
XBMC on Mir
July 23, 2013Porting was fairly straightforward
XBMC on Wayland Compositors, take two
July 16, 2013An initial pull request
Let your tests tell you when your code design sucks.
May 30, 2013Testing poorly written code reveals that it is poorly written
Regression Testing for crashes on Google Test
May 18, 2013A suggestion on using "death tests"
On Publishing Private Correspondence
April 02, 2013Reasonable expectations
Thinking about Code Review in Free Software
March 27, 2013Some ideas about guidelines
Delivering Free Software to the Masses
March 06, 2013Finding a balance between community and strategy
Benchmarking some of the new performance changes coming up in compiz
February 12, 2013Theory to practice
Transforming GObject Introspection data with XSLT
February 04, 2013Using GI data to generate code functionally
A note on compiz development and Unity / Ubuntu
January 10, 2013Some quick debunking
Automated testing and Compiz
January 07, 2013Testing the untestable
Understanding the compiz blur plugin: alpha-only-blurring
January 03, 2013Blurring "behind" things
Bringing some of the missing plugins to Modern OpenGL builds
December 26, 2012A tale of porting from fixed function to programmable pipelines
New Old Buffers
December 23, 2012Something smarter than the regular double-buffering
[0] days since a major release happened on this project
December 22, 2012A short congratulations
Experimental PPA with performance improvements
December 13, 2012Repainting tricks to a desktop near you
Maintainers for the unsupported plugins
September 07, 2012A brief call
Delivering Compiz and Unity on the next wave of embedded form factors.
August 22, 2012Moving on from the legacy OpenGL API
Unit Test Autodiscovery with CMake and Google Test
July 05, 2012A trick to get more specificity in your CTest output
Written by Sam Spilsbury an Australian PhD student living in Helsinki.