There is a beatiful web page: Monogatari drops, and it’s a rare example of an acceptable use of page scroll for artistic purposes.

The page is great, I like the concept, I like the art, I like monogatari series.

But there is a problem: the page is slow. And we’re going to fix it.

An optimized and fixed version of the page is available over here, and more details on the optimization process are available in the rest of this post.

When I saw oscilloscope music demos, they amazed and inspired me.

Observing a clever use of interaction between sound and an electron beam is a unique experience.

Some awesome oscilloscope music videos: Youscope, Oscillofun and Khrậng.

However, I could not find any beautiful oscilloscope emulators. Lines produced by most emulators barely look like real oscilloscope lines at all.

Because of that I made a cool WebGL demo — woscope, which is a XY mode oscilloscope emulator.

In this post you can learn how to draw these lines in WebGL.

In this post, I’d like to talk about the most expensive programming anti-pattern I know:

Manipulating structured data formats using string functions.

I will be referring to it as “printf anti-pattern”.

m1el: “You cannot abstract security”

m1el: “Security is not an interface”

aitderceto: “Security cannot be instantiated”

aitderceto: I’d like one security, please

m1el: OOP is not a good tool to describe security

Usually, I don’t react strongly to articles that contain bullshit. But when I stumbled on an article that contained three false statements in the very first sentence, I simply could not leave it be.

The first sentence of the article is:

Program obfuscation is a breakthrough and trending field of cryptography.

– valerini

My post touches a lot of topics, and I’m not an expert in any of those.

Strong opinion inside.