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Sam Rose

@samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

That guy who writes visual essays about software at samwho.dev. 🦋 @samwho.dev [bridged from hachyderm.io/@samwho on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

An occasional reminder that symbol.wtf is possibly the single most useful page on the Web.

symbol.wtf

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A dumb website for copying symbols.

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

Some stats about my recent samwho.dev/big-o post: - 5252 lines of TypeScript - 99 commits - Work started on May 10th - 1 third-party dependency (recast, for parsing JavaScript) - 189kb over the wire all-in (images, js, css, html, etc) - 1 domain, no requests made to anything other than […]

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Original post on hachyderm.io

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Soon.

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

Took a lot longer than I thought it would to make this work, but I do like the result. Visualising bubble sort, as part of the Big-O post.

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. e-mail.wtf

e-mail.wtf

Email is Easy

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

I have a new job. I'm incredibly excited and I've been dying to tell you about it, but I didn't wanna just type it into this box. So I'll get you to type it. Into 5 boxes. Enjoy. samwhere.dev

samwhere.dev

samwheredle

Yay, another Wordle clone!

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Working on the hero for my next blog post.

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser. It's very easy and you will score very high. jsdate.wtf

jsdate.wtf

new Date("wtf")

How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

Thanks to the wonderful contribution from @topo, you can now enjoy my Turing Machines post in Spanish. Thank you, Cristián! samwho.dev/turing-machines-spanish

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Cristián_Rojo

Didáctica de las ciencias de la computación, software libre y educación. Cyberciruja. Videojuegos y educación. Música y programación. Amateur Livecoding. Comunicación y educación. Guitarras. ¿Meta en la vida? Educación pública, gratuita, laica y de calidad para Chile.

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Sam Rose @samwho.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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