April 2024
Articles and demos from April 2024.
On address space sizes
We are well into the 64-bit era, and a 64-bit pointer allows for an addressable space of 2^64 bytes, or 16 exabytes.
7 April 2024Making a node module which works both on frontend and backend
If there's some logic which needs to run on both the frontend (JavaScript/HTML) and the backend (Node.js), there are some patterns which let you use the same module in both places.
12 April 2024Counting up to 2^256 unique values using only O(1 byte)
There are occasions when you need to know how many unique entries there are in an array or how many unique values have been seen in a stream, but do not need the exact number.
21 April 2024