Studying db hexdumps
This is a post on dissecting the structure of database files (sqlite3) and seeing how data is stored under the hood
2025-04-16
<p>This post is WIP. Based on my repo <a href="https://github.com/bwaklog/parsley.py">parsley.py</a></p>
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<p>Some info dump while I try to figure out random number generations. No TOC for this page, but here is a <code>tree -L1</code></p>
<pre><code class="language-text">.
├── Algorithms
│ ├── CSPRNG.md
│ └── Random Tree - Linear Congruential Algo.md
└── Random Number Generation.md
2 directories, 3 files
</code></pre>
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<p>Citations for this chunk</p>
<p>- Handling generators based on <a src="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~itf/dbpp/text/node119.html">linear
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Techstack
Here are some things I cant live without on my system.
2024-06-10
<p>I've never had my self working on solely the terminal before. It would be only a few occasions when the GUI alternative was simply frustrating to use. I've since forced myself to try and venture more, and now I simply can't work without them. I have even lost count for the number of times i've used vim motions accidentally.</p>
<p>At first, yes these things were a bit intriguing, but once you leave the learning curve, everything just falls in place. You can find my dotfiles <a href="https://g
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<h1 id="proof-of-concept">Proof of concept</h1>
<p><a href="https://notes.andymatuschak.org/">Andy Matuschak's</a> working notes is the key inspiration for this concept.
We are trying to deviate from the "general idea" of a blog site and focus more on this niche use case.
By integrating this feature, we are letting users to create a space to store there "zettels" and share their short notes as well.</p>
<p>We aren't trying to re-invent the process of making an editor that hel
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<p>There are several amazing SSGs out there, like <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> and
<a href="https://www.11ty.dev/">11ty</a>. Building your own SSG is an amazing learning
experience. It also motivates one to maintain and improve their personal site.</p>
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<p>Presented and written by Adhesh, Anirudh, Aditya and Nathan</p>
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<p>Building personal blogs from the ground up can be a <em>tedious process</em>. Some of us
have had our hands deep in vanilla HTML and CSS, whi
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<p>I recently got the opportunity to take part in the project expo hosted by the club HSP part of PESU ECity campus. As part of this expo, I presented one of my on going projects <a href="http://github.com/bwaklog/xkcd-grab">xkcd-grab</a> in-front of an amazing crowd. So lets get to the actual part of the blog, what this presentation was all about.</p>
<p>This relatively small project is somewhat of a playground for me to explore different searching algorithms and querying techniques. While this
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