https://forrestcook.net/tags/github/ Recent content in Github on forrestcook.net Hugo en Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 https://forrestcook.net/posts/varint/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 https://forrestcook.net/posts/varint/ <p>While working through the potato chat BLOBs, I was introduced to the varint concept. Effectively, a varint is a flexible way to communicate positive integers through one or more byte of data, dynamically.</p> <p>Instead of an application always requiring an integer use <em>one</em> byte of data to convey a number (and thus being limited from 0-255), or the application always requiring some larger number of bytes to convey a larger span of integers, a varint can be used.</p> https://forrestcook.net/posts/potato_chat_pt_2/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 https://forrestcook.net/posts/potato_chat_pt_2/ <h3 id="update---08222025">Update - 08/22/2025:</h3> <p>Christian Peter has continued this research into areas I have not addressed - his post is worth a read and the coming LEAPP parser is exciting news! Check out his writeup here: <a href="http://cp-df.com/en/blog/potato.html">http://cp-df.com/en/blog/potato.html</a></p> <hr> <p>In the last post I brought up some behaviors that I was able to test and observe within the potato chat application. While I am not done testing the application&rsquo;s behaviors (there are many&hellip; so many), I have also been attempting to process the various databases and logs to make some meaningful headway into documenting user activity through the app. The two main databases I have been working with are:</p>