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Nigel Tao

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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)

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

E-mail: nigeltao@golang.org

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