Regular expressions are a fantastic way to describe patterns in text. Thanks to the work of pioneers like Stephen Kleene we know that for any regular expression there is cooresponding finite automaton (FA) and vice versa. This is known as Kleenes Theor
Efficient sorted collections are extremely important. There are many situations where a developer may choose a sorted collection with logarithmic access times over a hashtable with constant access times because the benefit of maintaining the data in so
During my recent move away from wordpress to get CodeBlahger up and running I was faced with a number of technical challenges, not the least of which being how in the world I was going to take several years of posts stored in a MariaDB instanc
Of the 23 design patterns outlined in the GoF book, one I find myself reaching for time and time again is the façade pattern. In fact, I was making use of this design pattern before I even knew that the technique employed was called the
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Making Sense of LALR Parser Construction
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Compiling Set Comprehensions to Bytecode: an exercise in managing abstractions
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Fast Multi-Pattern String Searching with the Aho-Corasick Algorithm
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Capture Groups: Tracking Regular Expression Sub Matches
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Resolving Shift/Reduce Conflicts With Operator Precedence
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Squeezing DFAs with Pair Compression
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Designing Abstract Syntax Trees: Homogenous vs. Heterogenous Node Structures
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LR(0) Closure: From LR Items to LR States
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Calculating Follow Sets of a Context Free Grammar
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Streaming Images from ESP32-CAM for viewing on a CYD-esp32