In addition to the various computer-ey things that I do, I also like to play boardgames with my friends sometimes. One such game that I like to play is Machi Koro. Machi Koro will be the topic of today’s post so if you’ve never played it, you may want to watch a lets-play of it or something before continuing.

A voronoi diagram is a way of dividing up a space into a set of regions (which we call cells) given a set of input points (which we call sites), such that each cell contains exactly 1 site, and the points inside the cell are exactly those whose nearest site is the one inside that cell.

When discussing network connection quality, terms such as latency (or ping) and bandwidth are thrown around like its nobody’s business. They do not tell the whole story however (as I discovered while working on my experimental video-conferencing program, Veek), and miss out on one property that is crucial for real-time data transmission: Jitter.

Building C/C++ projects is clearly a non-trivial problem given the many, many, different options available for helping you do that. CMake is one of the more popular systems, and one that I’ve been meaning to look at for a while so if you’re wondering what a CMakeList is and want a basic introduction, then read on!

Hash tables: everybody’s favourite way of avoiding the need to search through a list of items. But what goes on inside one? How do we achieve amortized constant time access and insertion and deletion? Well I’m so glad you asked…

Around 3 months ago I started a project to build an infinite runner in my spare time, which I titled “JAIR” (or “Just Another Infinite Runner”), purely for lack of a better idea. Yesterday I finished working on it and so I’ve put up a project page for it here and I thought I’d just write up some notes about how those 3 months went.