Nigel Tao

nigeltao.github.io

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2018-12-12 Colorful Text for Everyday Programming
2019-11-10 The XYZ ABC Problem
2019-12-20 Wuffs v0.2.0 is Released
2020-05-08 Mı~Le~Nıε~L: an English Phonetic Alphabet
2020-06-05 Generating Code
2020-06-15 Dumbindent: When 93% of the Time was Spent in Clang-Format
2020-09-01 Jsonptr: Using Wuffs’ Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder
2020-10-07 The Eisel-Lemire ParseNumberF64 Algorithm
2020-11-02 ParseNumberF64 by Simple Decimal Conversion
2021-01-03 Fruit Salad Domino
2021-02-22 JSON With Commas and Comments
2021-04-06 The Fastest, Safest PNG Decoder in the World
2021-06-20 Three Points (Two Opposing) Define an Ellipse
2021-07-20 Custom eBPF Helpers
2021-08-22 Using Go Without Generics
2021-11-21 From JPEG to JFIF via an io.Writer
2021-12-30 Inverting a 3x2 Affine Transformation Matrix
2022-03-28 Premultiplied Alpha
2022-05-11 Zstandard Worked Example Part 1: Concepts
2022-05-12 Zstandard Worked Example Part 2: Structure
2022-05-13 Zstandard Worked Example Part 3: Bitstreams
2022-05-14 Zstandard Worked Example Part 4: Huffman Codes
2022-05-15 Zstandard Worked Example Part 5: Finite State Entropy Codes
2022-05-16 Zstandard Worked Example Part 6: Sequences
2022-05-17 Zstandard Worked Example Part 7: Dictionaries
2022-06-17 Go Fonts v2.010
2022-09-04 Wuffs’ Bzip2 Decoder
2022-09-25 Gamma-Aware Ordered Dithering
2022-12-05 QOIR: a Fast, Simple, Lossless Image File Format based on QOI
2023-01-26 Wuffs v0.3 Released
2023-02-20 C++ Coroutines Part 1: co_yield, co_return and a Prime Sieve
2023-02-21 C++ Coroutines Part 2: co_await and Fizz Buzz
2024-04-10 Rook’s Law - There’s Always a Limit
2024-04-14 XZ/LZMA Worked Example Part 1: Range Coding
2024-04-15 XZ/LZMA Worked Example Part 2: A Complete Toy Range Coder
2024-04-16 XZ/LZMA Worked Example Part 3: Literal-Only LZMA
2024-04-17 XZ/LZMA Worked Example Part 4: Lempel-Ziv, Markov-chain
2024-04-18 XZ/LZMA Worked Example Part 5: XZ
2024-08-11 JPEG Chroma Upsampling
2024-10-06 Go Embedding and Backwards Compatibility
2024-10-07 Blue Noise Braille Art
2025-05-27 These Days (One Night Lonely)
2025-07-19 Producing Uncompressed PNG Files
2025-10-14 Empty Intervals are Valid Intervals
2025-10-18 Mischief (for Harpsichord)

Projects

dumbindent, a C formatter
fuse-archive, FUSE file system for archives and compressed files
iconvg, Icon Vector Graphics
jsonptr, a JSON formatter
qoir, a fast, simple, lossless image file format
sflz4, Single File LZ4
rac, Random Access Compression
taote, The Acutely Opinionated Terminal Emulator
taowm, The Acutely Opinionated Window Manager
wuffs, Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

Contact

E-mail: nigeltao@golang.org

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