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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

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

Contact

E-mail: nigeltao@golang.org

I don't know who twitter.com/nigeltao is, but it's not me.

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