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I have always been a Windows guy, so this tends to remain my primary desktop environment, even when working on code that ultimate gets run on other platforms. Even though much of my development happens in Visual Studio Code these days (or an agentic fork…

It seems that browser-based simulations using three.js have become a kind of de-facto standard for exploring the capabilities of coding models to quickly "one-shot" prototypes and ideas. Following an idea that i had in the back of my mind for quite a while now --…

Over the years, running PC/Geos has become more and more tricky, especially since running 16-bit DOS applications on Windows has first experienced increasing compatibility problems and then disappeared completely. Emulators such as dosbox have come to the rescue to some extent, but also required extra…

This article attempts to summarize some findings about heap management under 32-bit versions of Windows that I had to learn about the hard way while trying to optimize memory usage of a fairly complex algorithm. While the algorithm was implemented as a portable Python/C hybrid…

Originally published in Handheld Systems, Vol 5.5 Whenever your programs have to deal with existing data formats or commonly used algorithms, you are faced with the choice between »reimplementing the wheel« or trying to use code that other people (or yourself) have written before. The…