`Baby Steps in C` is hilarious lol. I'll be buying the print editions going forward. They hooked me right in with that.

• malfist

  today at 9:04 PM

  That article triggered me to send it to my friends. C be crazy.

It reminds me a little bit of a Phrack textfile, but if Phrack had raster image art advertising in it.

• gynvael

  today at 9:01 PM

  What you've described is the printed version of Phrack!

I like page 30: The Subpixel Zoo. It must be hell for text rendering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

• brainwad

  today at 7:41 PM

  Desktop OSes just assume the vertical subtiles (at best with an option between RGB and BGR). TVs and mobile devices don't generally support subpixel rendering at all.

• gynvael

  today at 8:04 PM

  Sorry, we moved this. It's on page 37 now - "Hardware" section works better for this one than "Food for thought".

  https://pagedout.institute/webview.php?issue=9&page=37&artic...

I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.

• Rendello

  today at 6:49 PM

  For those interested, anyone can write a (one-page) article:

  https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php

Fun fact - the computiles piece is an uncredited rediscovery of Wang's work from the 1960's on computable tilings. Specifically, he went as far to show that the halting problem is equivalent to the 'domino problem' - can we tile the plane using a given finite set of dominoes (aka tiles) where we have infinitely many copies of each and the tiling must preserve edge-meet criteria. Every tiling is a computer program, every computer program is a tiling.

• Graziano_M

  today at 7:29 PM

  It’s credited in section 3

Michał Zalewski's article on page 42 is very funny.

• mixedmath

  today at 5:26 PM

  Would someone be interested in explaining what in the world is going on in that article?

  • q3k

    today at 5:56 PM

    What do you mean? It's just simple beginner's examples in C. Should be easy enough to understand, C is famously very simple ('portable assembler' as they say!).

    • FergusArgyll

      today at 9:14 PM

      > In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience with it grows.

      The C Programming Language K&R

  • pillmillipedes

    today at 8:37 PM

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The anime avatar twitter people have finally created something beautiful.

• gynvael

  today at 6:47 PM

  Ahaha thank you for this comment, it's peak internet meme culture. Made my day :D

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