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This blog post is the formal announcement of mplaylist , and audio playlist player using mplayer, with checkpointing. mplaylist is Python s...

This blog post explains how to configure your web browser (Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) to prevent YouTube from redirecting from the ht...

This blog post explains how to remove all files (including their history) from a Git repository, except for files in a whitelist. This can b...

This blog post gives a short executable file size comparison when the same statically linked, i386 ELF executable was compiled with various ...

This blog post announces pts-xstatic, a convenient wrapper tool for compiling and creating portable, statically linked Linux i386 executable...

This blog post explains how to detect integer overflow (and underflow) in C and C++ addition and subtraction, and it also gives example code...

This blog post shows and explains C++ source code implementing in-place set intersection, i.e. removing each element from a set (or another ...

This blog post contains links to the tiniest programs that can extract 7z (7-Zip) archives on Linux and Windows i386. These programs can als...

This blog post presents several techniques to make the binaries resulting from C or C++ compilation smaller with GCC (or Clang). Please note...

This blog post announces pts-clang, a portable LLVM Clang C and C++ compiler release running on Linux i386 and Linux x86_64. pts-clang is a...

This blog post explains how to install Ubuntu Precise (or other Ubuntu versions) to a virtualized KVM guest on a headless Linux server, i.e....

This blog post explains how to add large (>100 MB) data blobs to C and C++ binaries in an efficient way. Short data For short data, cr...

This blog post presents my findings about the compressibility of the Go 1.2 cross-compiler binaries, running on Linux i386 and generating co...

This blog post explains how to make an existing 7-Zip (.7z) archive self-extracting, i.e. how to convert it to an executable which can extra...

This blog post announces pts-line-bisect , a C program and an equivalent Python script and library for doing binary seach in line-sorted t...