coding

I write a simulator from scratch in Nim and visualize on the web with D3!

Table of Contents What are header files? Cython pure mode Benchmarks Summary In coding there is a trade-off between writing abstract code, and high performant code. This trade-off is often embodied in different languages.

In a previous post, I created the fastest chicken alive! I implemented a chicken in cpp and provided bindings in cython and python. However, our chicken Carl needs some friends. Today, I will implement a friend for Carl, in another morer niche language called nim; and I will show how nim can produce similarly fast chickens that can be called from python.

Wrapping cpp in cython and python

If you know python, you are probably aware of its value. The language is easy to develop in, which allows for quick proto-typing. It is used by many professional companies either as glue to bind compiled languages together, or as a full-stack for their apps.

Setting up mu4e for office 365 with OAUTH2

How the pandemic spread through the Netherlands. Click for pretty animations!

How roschambo can generate fluid-like patterns.

How roschambo can generate to fluid-like pattern.

Fix your matplotlib animations! Some time ago I saw a post on fixing matplotlib colorbars by Joseph Lang. One of the major problems with matplotlib is that it works quite well out of the box, until it doesn’t.