francisrstokes/githublog
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I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is
11 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 8 stories, 3 comments · first 2022-06-15 · latest 2026-04-13
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…Exp is just the other direction. It's not widely documented in text otherwise, to my knowledge. [0] https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024/5...
comment by AlotOfReading · 2026-04-13 · in All elementary functions from a single binary operator -
…tolerate the accuracy issues. A pretty good writeup on how fast inverse sqrt works was done here: https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024%2... A lot of old-school algorithms like CORDIC went the same way. There's a…
comment by AlotOfReading · 2025-08-23 · in A simple way to generate random points on a sphere -
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I Got an IP Addressstory by todsacerdoti · 2024-11-27 · 9 comments
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I sent an Ethernet packetstory by todsacerdoti · 2024-11-11 · 125 comments
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Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithmstory by atan2 · 2024-06-01 · 72 comments
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Everything I Know About the Fast Inverse Square Root Algorithmstory by todsacerdoti · 2024-05-29 · 2 comments
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I made a PR https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/pull/7
comment by aftbit · 2024-05-11 · in Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head -
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Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my headstory by todsacerdoti · 2024-05-11 · 91 comments
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Building the worlds jankiest serial to USB cable from scavenged partsstory by fstokesman · 2023-03-03 · 33 comments
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Rolling your own crypto: Everything you need to build AES from scratchstory by prostoalex · 2022-07-13 · 89 comments
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Build AES from scratch (and then never use it for anything of consequence)story by fstokesman · 2022-06-15 · 0 comments