Coding, Software Design, ADHD and General Nerderyhttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/angular-js-makes-web-dev-fun/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/angular-js-makes-web-dev-fun/Now I'm a proponent of native software over web, and have been for a long time. My reasons have long been straightforward. 1. The user experience is much…Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/colour-schemes/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/colour-schemes/Just a short post about a simple web app I've been using a fair bit recently. When I'm building my own websites (or apps), I like them to look at least a…Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/hello-wordpress/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/hello-wordpress/My first wordpress blog. This is the first thing I've used my website for some several years, and my third blog (I had a brief, but ill fated one on blogger…Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/learning-a-new-language/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/learning-a-new-language/Something I haven't really done for a long time - I'm learning a new programming language - D ( www.dlang.org ). I'm very impressed so far - it's got a nice…Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/new-look-site/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/new-look-site/Whole site revamped using AstroSun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/sherlock-holmes-and-the-case-of-the-vanishing-multicast-packets/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/sherlock-holmes-and-the-case-of-the-vanishing-multicast-packets/So this was a particularly awkward issue that occurred recently in our socket handling code. Now we push a lot of data around our network. By a lot I mean…Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/umm-javascript-is-okay-i-guess/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/umm-javascript-is-okay-i-guess/People who know me are probably aware I have over years been fairly scathing about JavaScript as a serious programming language. I've been mostly a…Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/what-id-like-from-rust-2021/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/what-id-like-from-rust-2021/I've been a user of Rust now for 2 years. It was something of a revelation - I was amazed at how well thought out the core of the language is - many classic…Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/when-more-memory-is-less/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/when-more-memory-is-less/Quick question; when can increasing the size of your data structures lead to less memory being allocated?Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/zero-cost-abstractions-an-addendum/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/zero-cost-abstractions-an-addendum/On Reddit, Icarium-Lifestealer asked me how the disassembly looked if I used -C panic=abort instead of extern "C" . Curious, I tried and came out with the…Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/zero-cost-abstractions-rust-vs-c/https://rottedfrog.co.uk/blog/zero-cost-abstractions-rust-vs-c/I watched a video of a C++ talk from the always excellent Chandler Carruth yesterday, entitled " There are no Zero Cost Abstractions ". In it, he talks…Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT