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As I've mentioned in previous posts I am keenly interested in methods of generating visual representations of data structures, and data movement as algorithms progress. I recently revisited the Idea of generating images of various linked data

S-Expressions are an interesting notation for representing expressions. Taking the form of nested lists prefixed with an operator, they are most recognizable as the syntax of the various Lisp programming languages. Their somewhat alien appearance, and

Like many other software engineers out there, I love XKCD so whenever Randall publishes a comic with something computationally interesting I like to take a stab at it. Friday's comic

Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of working with 'C style' strings aka NULL terminated character arrays. Has at some point stopped and remarked about the terrible choice of implementation when it came to representing string

Regular expressions: those seemingly non-sensical strings of characters that seem to magically take an input string and determine whether it matches a pattern that you have some how supposedly described with the previously mentioned non-sensical string