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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 19

Domain coloring: plotting complex functions f(z) in the browser

#javascript #webdev #math #datavis

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Sep 17

Which Video Format Is Actually Smallest? H.264 vs VP9 vs AV1, Measured

#video #webdev #ffmpeg #performance

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 16

Real game AI, not a chatbot: why these opponents don't use an LLM

#ai #algorithms #gamedev #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 16

I put my own "no-upload" tools on a network monitor. Here's what actually left the browser.

#privacy #webdev #javascript #security

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 15

How Long Would It Take to Crack Your Password?

#security #javascript #webdev #datascience

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Sep 14

Do the Top Domains Actually Protect Their Email? SPF, DMARC and MTA-STS, Measured

#webdev #security #devops #dns

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 13

Measuring Chaos in the Browser: a 0.057 Difference, Gone in 7 Seconds

#physics #datascience #javascript #science

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 12

Does thinking twice as long make a Go AI twice as good? I measured it

#gamedev #algorithms #javascript #ai

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 12

I asked ChatGPT and Grok to benchmark my game AI. Then I ran the code.

#ai #llm #algorithms #gamedev

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 11

The North Star isn't the brightest star. It's not even in the top 40.

#data #science #astronomy #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 10

The UN voted to drop the Mercator map. Here's exactly how wrong it was, measured.

#data #geography #maps #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 10

How Much Quality Do You Lose Compressing an Image? We Measured It on 24 Photos

#webdev #performance #images #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 9

Dollar-Cost Averaging vs Lump Sum: What 75 Years of S&P 500 Data Shows

#datascience #finance #investing #statistics

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 8

Why a Tuner and Your Ear Disagree: The 13.7-Cent Compromise

#music #math #javascript #audio

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 7

What the Average Big Five Result Actually Looks Like (n = 19,718)

#datascience #psychology #statistics #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 6

We Ran Our Own Blog Through Our Word Counter: 22.1 Words a Sentence

#writing #productivity #webdev #career

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 5

How Much Grass Seed Do You Actually Need? It Swings 5 by Grass Type

#data #diy #gardening #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 4

Does That "Free Online PDF" Tool Upload Your File? How to Tell.

#privacy #webdev #javascript #productivity

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 4

The Online JSON Formatter Guide: Formatter vs Validator, Privacy, and Four Time-Wasters

#json #webdev #productivity #security

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 3

Free Puzzle Games Online — and the Honest Answer to "Do They Help Your Brain?"

#puzzles #braintraining #webdev #productivity

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 2

Tiled vs naive matrix multiplication: loop order was the bigger win

#performance #cpp #python #computerscience

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Lucian (LKB)

Sep 1

What a Weather Forecast Tool Shows That Your Default App Hides

#weather #webdev #dataviz #productivity

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 31

What Weekday Is Your Birthday, Really? The Calendar Is Quietly Biased

#todayilearned #math #javascript #datascience

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 30

Do the Top 1,000 Sites Actually Use robots.txt, Open Graph and llms.txt?

#seo #webdev #ai #opensource

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 29

Nine puzzle solvers, one browser tab, zero servers: a tour of classic search algorithms

#algorithms #javascript #webdev #computerscience

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 27

Three Hard Problems, One Method: Chaining Small Calculators

#tutorial #math #productivity #beginners

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 22

I pulled a year of NASA & NOAA data into the browser with 3 keyless APIs — here's what it showed

#javascript #webdev #science #dataviz

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 22

I built 12 chaos & physics simulations that run entirely in the browser (no backend, no libraries)

#javascript #canvas #webdev #science

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 19

Watch a Game AI Think: Minimax and Alpha-Beta, in a Browser Tab

#javascript #algorithms #gamedev #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 19

What is one ply of search actually worth? I benchmarked 4 game engines

#algorithms #gamedev #ai #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 16

The World Clock Time-Zone Landscape: what 162 places reveal about time zones

#javascript #webdev #programming #datascience

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 16

Is Friday the 13th really more common? I counted 400 years to find out

#javascript #math #programming #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 7

US sales tax by state: California 7.25%, five states at 0%, average 5.11%

#javascript #datascience #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 7

A cup is not a cup: 9 baking staples, one volume, a 2.66x weight spread

#showdev #javascript #datascience #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 7

The BMI-to-body-fat gap is a constant 22.3 points at every BMI

#showdev #javascript #datascience #health

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 7

OCR and sign a PDF entirely in the browser — no upload, no server

#showdev #javascript #webassembly #pdf

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 7

I tried to beat my own Tic-Tac-Toe AI 1,270 ways. It never lost.

#javascript #algorithms #gamedev #ai

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 6

Three Sudoku solvers, one engine, 34,000 fewer guesses

#algorithms #coding #javascript #opensource

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 3

How an AI actually beats 2048 (expectimax, not an LLM)

#ai #gamedev #javascript #algorithms

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Lucian (LKB)

Aug 1

I built an open, reproducible typing-speed test — and it won't show a number until it earns one

#showdev #cloudflare #javascript #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 30

Six Games, Three Classic Algorithms: Shipping Real Game AI in Vanilla JS

#javascript #gamedev #algorithms #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 30

How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Car? I Ran the Numbers for 10 EVs

#ev #electricvehicles #data #sustainability

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 25

How Random Is a Random Word Generator?

#showdev #javascript #statistics #webdev

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 25

WWF vs Scrabble Scoring — Where the Two Games Diverge

#wordgames #scrabble #data #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 25

How Long Is Golden Hour? We Measured It for 27 Cities

#photography #data #javascript #science

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 25

The ENABLE Lexicon Study — Letter Frequency vs Scrabble Tile Values

#wordgames #scrabble #data #javascript

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 23

How to Find & Learn the Constellations: A Beginner's Guide

#astronomy #science #beginners #tutorial

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 20

Proving It's Actually Unbeatable: How I Benchmark a Game AI Before Publishing a Number

#ai #gamedev #javascript #benchmarking

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Lucian (LKB)

Jul 12

26 Repos in 29 Days With an AI Pipeline: What Actually Broke

#showdev #ai #webdev #productivity

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