I recently finished a basic XLSX reader for OCaml and I thought it would be a good time to summarize what’s necessary to make a library like this, since the documentation is complicated and sometimes hard to find.

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I’ve been working on GStreamer a lot recently, and I’m slowly becoming comfortable with debugging problems with gdb. I assume this could be useful for other people, so this is part of a series on debugging GStreamer.

Using gdb to debug crashes

I recently had a problem with …

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I recently finished (in terms of features) a major code project, but I’m not happy with the quality of the code yet. Besides the usual ways code can be buggy, it’s especially easy to crash a program written in C (which can be exploited if the program is available online, as this one probably should be).

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Doing linear algebra homework reminds me why I love NumPy so much. Instead of doing a 2-page homework assignment and then finding out at the end that something is wrong, I can check at every step. For example, to reduce a matrix A to the identity, using only elementary …

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If you read this blog, you might assume it doesn’t update because I have nothing to talk about. The truth is, I have a lot I want to say, but I usually don’t feel like writing when I’m at my computer.

One thing I post a lot of is commentary …

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