Matthew McMillan

Cracking the NYT Mini Crossword's Hash

Mar 18, 2024

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

A Look at Hashmaps in Java

Nov 1, 2019

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

Guides

Deploying a Personal Knowledge Base

Aug 28, 2018

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 This tool is no longer maintained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