pikuma.com

An education platform teaching the fundamentals of #ComputerScience, #RetroProgramming, and #Mathematics.

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2025-04-17 15:35:10

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale: Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees' own words
🔗https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok

2025-04-17 11:58:53

What a great feeling it was when the latest issue arrived via mail! ❤️ My stack of Dr. Dobb's is still in my old flat in Brazil. I'll try to ship them here soon.
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2025-04-16 11:45:35

This is a friendly reminder that you can still take your time and enjoy reading an entire article in two hours instead of the LLM-generated bullet point version in 5 minutes.
It's fine, really.

2025-04-15 09:54:45

"Formulate a hypothesis based on a good drawing; write your proof based on a bad drawing."
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2025-04-14 11:39:17

That's... correct, I guess. 😠
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2025-04-12 13:27:47

Yes, God of cookies... you bet I want to keep purchasing countless new log burners every week until I die. 😠

2025-04-11 21:28:50

Brandon Berisford is currently studying 3D Graphics with us and has decided to record his own explanation of the projection matrix derivation. His explanation even uses a left-handed coordinate system that matches our code (instead of popular OpenGL/DirectX matrix entries we usually find online). 🙂
🔗 https://youtu.be/k_L6edKHKfA?si=Hh4Swz-EzS-jcOEa
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2025-04-08 03:19:20

I know I'm biased, but I'm confident this is one of the best resources out there for beginners to learn about compilers & programming languages. If you never wrote an interpreter before, this is the place to start! 🔥
🔗https://pikuma.com/courses/create-a-programming-language-compiler

2025-04-06 22:40:21

"What Peter says about Vibe Coding tells us more about Peter than about Vibe Coding."

2025-04-03 13:46:31

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@nprofile…w2ej Ok. I'll double the donation to them as well. I'll just have to check how to pay using R$.

2025-04-03 13:05:58

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I've also decided that I'll donate (not the machine) to Cambridge's Computer Museum to balance things out in the universe.

2025-04-03 11:44:39

Someone just gifted me an Apple II. 💛

2025-04-01 22:13:33

How Much Money Authors (Don't) Make:
🔗https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-doesnt-mean-paid/

2025-03-30 07:05:16

Small but mighty!
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2025-03-28 10:48:19

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But what do I know...
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2025-03-27 21:43:52

"Instead of learning how to code, learn how to think, learn how to break down problems, learn how to communicate clearly." - Amjad Masad (CEO @ Replit)
If you cannot use 15 evenings of your time to learn how to code, I don't really trust you to think, break down problems, or communicate clearly.

2025-03-27 09:25:00

I was reading a non-technical book and one of the first chapters was titled "Prolog." It took me a while to snap out of the confusion.

2025-03-26 18:40:13

We make fun of people that call what they do inside Excel as "programming." I mean, I get it... these people can only code if they are running things on a specific app and it only makes sense in that context? Weird.
...proceeds to alt-tab and edit a .css file.

2025-03-26 11:19:01

$ pkill cursor
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2025-03-26 10:59:26

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@nprofile…qq38 There you go

2025-03-26 10:26:47

Weird for our account to be the one mentioning this, but people put too much weight on coding nowadays. There's physics, biology, philosophy, geology, math, chemistry, music, and so (so!) much more out there. It's no joke.

2025-03-22 21:52:43

I love receiving that notification email when a student completes a module! 😍

2025-03-22 18:53:36

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@nprofile…0j4z Ah, that's right. I got confused with Kakadu plums. 😵‍💫

2025-03-22 18:51:23

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@nprofile…0j4z I regret to inform that I did not fact check my meme. 🤣

2025-03-22 14:43:29

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/

2025-03-22 11:16:13

If you're serious about learning and growing, you must go against everything your body is telling you to do and force yourself into embarrassing situations. It hurts and it's a lot harder to do that when you're young and "know everything." Old age helps immensely.

2025-03-22 00:04:26

Ad 1: This medicine provides 100x more Vitamin C than an orange.
Ad 2: Broccoli is a higher source of Vitamin C than oranges.
Ad 3: Kakadu Plum can have up to 3,000 mg of Vitamin C, which is significantly more than oranges.
...I mean, are oranges even *trying* anymore? 😠

2025-03-21 21:27:10

I think we receive more daily spam emails saying stuff like "I've found errors in your website SEO" than actual messages from students. 😠

2025-03-18 22:41:16

Time to go gentle into that good night. 💀😅
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2025-03-17 07:54:44

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@nprofile…rcvf @nprofile…0fu2 After a couple of replies I understood exactly what they wanted. They want to pay a small fraction of the actual price to access all the modules, copy/steal all their content, and then bail out before the next subscription charge happens. 🙃

2025-03-17 03:58:39

If you remember this smell, it's time for a nap.
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2025-03-16 18:50:38

I never thought I'd live to see an email saying someone would rather have a subscription option than a simple one-time payment.
Suspicious.
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2025-03-12 04:59:02

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@nprofile…ankg You'd be surprised.

2025-03-12 04:50:31

Creating, publishing, and making money with games without fully grokking how the code works is nothing new. We have been doing it for ages! 😅

2025-03-10 10:19:18

Our #NES Programming module is the bomb! ❤️
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2025-03-07 21:29:00

We have added a new chapter to our "Compilers & Interpreters" module to discuss CPython's bytecode and disassembler.
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2025-03-06 03:40:08

People used to say "I'm gonna enter the internet tonight for a bit."
...remember being able to *leave* the internet?

2025-03-06 01:53:43

Would you like to write an article and publish at https://pikuma.com/blog ? Simply send us a DM with the topic that you're passionate about and let's make that happen! 🔥

2025-03-03 03:57:29

I have updated the #ImGui chapters of our "C++ 2D Game Engine" module to reflect the changes of how ImGui now implements an SDL backend.
Course: 🔗 https://pikuma.com/courses/cpp-2d-game-engine-development/
Enjoy! 🧉😉
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2025-03-02 03:41:08

When I was a kid the school offered special classes to learn how to use Word & Excel. I remember going home one day and my mom asking me why the VCR was not working. I told her I did not know why and she replied "then what's the point of you taking those computer classes?"
Good times. 😅

2025-02-27 23:18:54

Everyone sharing those 500 links of book PDFs and other educational content in a single thread should first pass a test to prove they have completed the content of those resources themselves.

2025-02-21 16:53:08

Remember the final scenes of some old 90s movies where the hacker exposes a confession video of a dirty politician in all the screens of Times Square and that caused people to rise & rebel? Growing up is realizing that confessions like that are now broadcasted every day and nobody cares. 😅

2025-02-14 20:28:50

Today is 30 years since Delphi was launched, in February 14th of 1995.
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2025-02-12 16:35:18

The number of spam emails I get offering to "redesign my website" and "fix my SEO errors" is really getting to me. Maybe it *IS* that bad and I'm just in denial! 😅

2024-05-02 22:17:12

We finally have our first #PlayStation Programming review! 🙂
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