Matthew McMillan

Welcome. Please enjoy the blog or explore one of the pages below.

Setting up an excellent terminal experience

Setting up an excellent terminal experience

Setting up an excellent terminal experience Introduction As a developer, a solid terminal setup can help you work much more...

Raising bilingual children

Raising bilingual children I am bilingual in English and Russian. While I lack some vocabulary to discuss advanced topics like...

Coping with Perforce using git-p4

Coping with Perforce using git-p4 Some companies still use Perforce for version control. While Perforce can have some advantages, developers...

Cracking the NYT Mini Crossword's Hash

Cracking the NYT Mini Crossword’s Hash Every day, the New York Times publishes a Mini crossword. It’s quite a lot...

Programming Java

A Look at Hashmaps in Java

A Look at Hashmaps in Java

A Look at Hashmaps in Java Note: these implementation details are correct for OpenJDK8. Most other versions of Java should...

Deploying a Personal Knowledge Base

Deploying a Personal Knowledge Base

This guide will explain how to set up a simple, statically hosted personal knowledge base. We’ll be using MkDocs to...

Some other pages on this site:

Fragmentetris - a modified version of tetris to demonstrate how fragmentation occurs in memory
Competiton Display - a tool to display information at Rubik's Cube competitions, written in React
WCA Analyzer (Deprecated) - a tool to analyze someone's WCA competition results and generate many statistics about them, including pretty graphs. It's written in Java with JavaFX. This tool is no longer maintained
Knowledge Base - a personal wiki with notes on a variety of subjects I want to be able to reference
Games - a collection of fun online flash games, in fullscreen and without ads. Still usable in 2023!

Please note that this isn't a list of my projects- those can be found on LinkedIn