Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli articles - 42 total
Alternative to H1 for website title
I want to know what to use instead of H1 for the title of my website
2025! What is it good for?
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025. I haven't set goals...
Explain like I'm your junior: why is ?. good?
I have a question. What is a good pattern that can be implemented with `?.`?
Free freecell
I have implemented the solitaire card game Freecell. This is how I did it.
I got 84 followers and a reader isn't 1
I made a post yesterday and gained 84 followers, but my post only registered 7 people as having read it. I don't understand.
One Byte Explainer: Regular Expressions
A discussion about how the type safe label can be applied to different languages.
Use your own neural net to generate images
Use your own neural network to generate images
What is Black Friday?
I'm seeing a Black Friday advert in January.
How constant is const in C?
A short post about why #define ends up being used for constants in C
It's a pointer to a type, not a variable with an asterisk in its name
Some people love to write int *x, when they should be writing int* x. They are wrong and need to stop.
Sleeps until Christmas: awful answers only
Write code to determine the number of sleeps left until Christmas day. Make the code as unpleasant as possible. If you'd prefer to pick a different day to celebrate, that's fine too.
How to handle anything
In this short instalment I show how I have changed the framework from just handling clicks to handling any element event.
How can I get XDT to recognise NLOG section?
I am somewhat stuck trying to get the configuration file to change depending on the build (release vs...
Making a conditional tag
In this installment I explain how I made a conditional element.
Is there a reason to use == over ===?
A discussion about reasons to use == in javascript
Event handlers and frameworks
In this installment I give an example of how to handle event handlers
Reactivity?
A starting point for the reactive framework I'll be building in this series.
Javascript Proxy and Partial Function Application
A worked example of how to implement genralised partial application functions in javascript.
Multiplying numbers when they're strings
An implementation of how to multiply two base 10 numbers together when they're stored as strings, without fully converting to numbers.
Detecting sound via a webcam mic in Linux
A HowTo on detecting sound with python on Linux. It uses arecord and root mean squares.
8 other ways to comment in HTML
I thought there was only one way to comment something in HTML, but the specification is pretty broad on what it turns into comments.
Optimising my sieve
Adding an optimisation to the prime sieve from the last post, increasing the number of primes that can be found.
Finding primes: the Greek way
Using the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find the Nth prime
Two Dates in The Same Week
A snippet of javascript that allows you to check if two dates are within the same week
Crack my code
Help me figure out what I encoded in this message
We need more interview fail posts
The problem with survivorship bias in interview advice.
A silly way to reverse an array
Using polar coordinates to reverse an array
ROT13: awful answers only
Implement a rot13 encoder/decoder, but do so in a suboptimal way.
How do people solve Advent of Code puzzles so quickly?
I really don't understand how you can get the answer in under 5 minutes. My mind is boggled.
Turkey detector: awful answers only
Challenge to write code to detect when someone has achieved three strikes in a row, but badly