100 Languages Speedrun: Bonus Episode 103: Goose
Many things have changed in software development since I wrote this series. Back then, LLMs could barely write Python, now they can write tolerable code in most languages, which is especially helpful
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Break XOR Cipher with Z3
In previous post, I showed how to break Caesar cipher with Z3. This wasn't really all that exciting as Caesar cipher has only 26 possibilities, so it's triival to break with brute force, and you can even just display all possible answers and choose t...
Break Caesar Cipher with Z3
Z3 is usually given a list of hard constraints, and told to solve them, but it can do quite a few more things. Let's use it unconventionally and break Caesar cipher. The Challenge The following plaintext from Wikipedia: In cryptography, a Caesar cip...
Getting Started with Web Speech Synthesis API and Svelte
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Getting Started with ClickHouse
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PyScript: Second Impressions
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Upgrading old Imba 1 apps to run on modern Node
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How to access Kaggle data from command line
The war isn't going anywhere for now, so every couple of days I have to do the following steps to update Russian losses tracker: download zip from Kaggle run update_csv script optionally, verify that data looks right with git diff, as occasionally t...
Reading from Zip archives in Ruby
The war isn't going anywhere for now, so every couple of days I have to do the following steps to update Russian losses tracker: download zip from Kaggle unzip it with unall utility run update_csv script verify that data looks right with git diff, a...