Bit shifting blew my mind

• chip-8

  3 13 0.0 Rust

  A fully-featured CHIP-8 interpreter (or "emulator") written in Rust (by anthonygedeon)

I used it for my Chip-8 emulator https://github.com/anthonygedeon/chip8

• snowflake

  1 2,839 0.0 Go

  A simple to use Go (golang) package to generate or parse Twitter snowflake IDs (by bwmarrin)

It doesn't come up very often. There is an id generation library I use github.com/bwmarrin/snowflake that makes pretty good use of bit shifting. Each id is split into 3 parts, a timestamp, a node id, and a sequence number. The idea is that each server has a node id. Each node can make 4096 ids every millisecond for about 70 years. It works by doing the following

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• roaring

  5 2,340 7.6 Go

  Roaring bitmaps in Go (golang), used by InfluxDB, Bleve, DataDog

  

Definitely take a look at a roaring bitmap. https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring

• squashfs

  1 24 6.9 Go

  A library to interact with Squashfs archives. Currently only has support for reading, but writing archives will probably come eventually.

Recently had to seriously solidify my knowledge on bitwise operations for my squashfs library. WAIT IT'S BEEN NEARLY A YEAR???? Why is time so weird recently?

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