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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-21 at 05:20

BREAKING: All remaining Twitter users pardoned

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-21 at 03:14

I don't like it that "serious" discussions of analog electronics are gatekeeped by demanding that you learn the Laplace transform first.

To do my part, I just updated my filter article with a toy discrete-time model that should be accessible to hobbyists:

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-101-of-analog-signal-filtering

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-21 at 01:02

By the way: the corporate consortium that created VRML in the 1990s - and then turned it into an ISO standard - still inexplicably exists, has numerous directors, and writes progress reports.

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-19 at 15:29

When people talk about wanting to go back to the old internet, this is what they mean.

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-17 at 10:14

Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/investigating-an-evil-rj45-dongle

The original claims have gotten 4M views, so I'm sure it won't be hard to match that reach

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-16 at 02:58

Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/random-object-mavica-mvc-fd73/

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-14 at 21:31

What if the switch from leaded to silver-containing solder in consumer electronics was actually a government ploy to ward off the growing werewolf threat?

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-14 at 17:48

Youngsters find it hard to believe, but before Apple introduced the first cell phone, you had to carry one of these bad boys with you if you wanted to stay in touch with friends

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-13 at 17:54

One of the cool things about JavaScript is that all numbers are floats, so all loop iterators and incremented counters will eventually get stuck

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-13 at 07:13

Another of my early articles with revamped illustrations and revised text: the magic of DC-DC voltage conversion.

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-dc-dc-voltage-conversion

Like the other one, it's stuck in SEO hell, so it's hard to find on your own - check it out while you can!

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-12 at 16:54

How do analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters really work? The science behind it is pretty cool. I substantially reworked an earlier Substack article of mine: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/dacs-and-adcs-or-there-and-back-again/?new=1

This one is stuck in SEO hell, so it's hard to find on your own - check it out while you can!

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-10 at 18:35

Well, not anymore -- not with my patented POWER COMMENT technique!

https://godbolt.org/z/nEqhbhbse

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-10 at 18:34

C pro trick! Let's say you have code like this, and you want to comment out a block of code - let's say, lines 5 to 7 - with some nested comments. A pain, right?

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-10 at 16:46

Getting silly with C, part (void*)2 -- an explanation of some of the dumb code I've been posting recently

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/getting-silly-with-c-part-void2

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-10 at 05:10

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-08 at 19:59

But the most convenient feature of C is line numbering:

https://godbolt.org/z/dfsKGqYGz

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-08 at 19:59

It is also important to understand switch() statements:

https://godbolt.org/z/MqGb63x69

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-08 at 19:59

Of course, no C tutorial is complete without an explanation of basic loops:

  1. https://godbolt.org/z/oshh599M1

  1. https://godbolt.org/z/ff4a9coPY

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-08 at 19:58

From there, we can progress to function definitions and lexical scopes:

https://godbolt.org/z/GevPGhnYc

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Written by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on 2025-01-08 at 19:58

My new C programming book is slowly taking shape. If you want to learn along, let's start with the basics of control flow:

http://godbolt.org/z/3GerY3zEc

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