Matt McAllister

I did a BFS simulation of this problem and made some neat ASCII animations too

06.01.2026 18:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cammy the Camel I was the only student at my podunk high school taking AP Calculus BC during my senior year. The other students were all in Calc AB. One da...

Cammy the Camel has 2,000 bananas. She lives 1,000 miles from the market and eats 1 banana per mile traveled. She can drop a pile of bananas anywhere and pick them up later. How many bananas can Cammy bring to the market?

Solution and proof here:
mattmcal.blogspot.com/2026/01/camm...

06.01.2026 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Math in the Kitchen Math, physics, graphics, misc programming.

I wrote a more detailed blog post about niche optimization today: mattmcal.blogspot.com/2025/12/dont...

27.12.2025 22:04 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

PSA to Rust programmers: padding bytes don't trigger niche optimization. Add a `bool` at the end off your struct to get it for free.

#rust #rustlang

27.12.2025 22:03 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

It's a new day, and that means a new batch of Verge articles are completely free to read (until tomorow).

First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

16.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 1072    🔁 260    💬 60    📌 16

Where is your upcoming hack list?

15.12.2025 04:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a horrible thing to say. This is TERF ideology.

17.07.2025 01:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Screen capture of bad compositing from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

I read that many people thought Furiosa appeared CGI heavy due to extensive compositing of disparate shots in the final image, so I watched a few minutes to get a closer look. Sure enough, right at the start of the film we have a woman with no shadow.

08.01.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

26.11.2024 08:22 — 👍 6983    🔁 1568    💬 218    📌 356

Between a block and a hard place Early this year, I saw a popular video on TikTok demonstrating a very unusual way of computing the digits of \(\pi\) using basic physics...

Math people! Go read my second blog post, "Between a block and a hard place". It's about a weird but cool TikTok video I saw early this year that was about computing the digits of π by... bouncing blocks against a wall? Click the link read it and see the video.
mattmcal.blogspot.com/2024/09/betw...

05.09.2024 02:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0