Artyom's, blog on programming, art, and research.
Read on the website: Putting procedure names at column 0 is a widespread convention in C codebases. But the exact reasons are not really elaborated anywhere. We just do that. So I decided to make my own summary for why it's a thing.
Read on the website: You can tell I'm an ed fan. Not only do I use it for esoteric challenges or compiler building, it also is my new SSG (Static Site Generator.) So here's how it works:
Read on the website: We're all suffering with attention deficit. So let's finally write like we do.
Read on the website: Text generation was a lot of fun before ChatGPT—it was chaotic and deranged. I written this post using the old text generation techniques. You'll like how absurd it turned out, I promise!
Read on the website: Printf (and the derivatives every language has) are a bane that should only be tolerated when printing floats. Otherwise, I beg you, use string interpolation or structured output.
Read on the website: ed is a stupid simple text editor. sed is a nice streaming text processing tool. Why would one even want to use ed for anything, let alone for text processing if there's sed?
Read on the website: Regex are powerful. To the point you may try to parse HTML or Lisp with it. A doomed enterprise, right? But it's possible, actually.
Read on the website: It's often the case that a functional (Scheme?) codebase needs to plug something into the computation. Here's one way to do that with almost no syntactic overhead.
Read on the website: Get horrified by how pretty I'm making my C code!
Read on the website: Regular expressions seem to be quite coherent, right? This scary (.*[^}(]) symbol soup that only the select few can master. Except that there are at least half a dozen (slightly incompatible) varieties of this soup. Bon Appétit!
Read on the website: Commit messages are the critical thing you stare at often enough. So better make them informational and readable.
Read on the website: My writing is imperfect. "AI" could help. But, you know, I no longer want to hide myself. My terible writing is the only things that differentiates me from the sterile AI slop you find everywhere now.
Read on the website: Wisp is an indentation-sensitive syntax for Scheme. Its semantics are defined in terms of nested parentheses, though. But what if it was defined in other terms?
Read on the website: I'm a happy Disroot custom domain email user now! Here's a small tip that helped me set things up after linking.
Read on the website: The modern web is empowered by dynamic content loading. The modern reading is impoverished by it.
Read on the website: We always told stories. We always will. Though our stories fit into 140 chars now, which is both a blessing and a curse.
Read on the website: Booleans are simple and elegant in Lambda Calculus, but they take some getting used to. This post tries to explain LC booleans to at least myself.
Read on the website: Gemtext is a minimalist markup/hypertext format initially from Gemini network. It's intended to be a lightweight, easy to learn, and accessible language... But at least the latter is not true with the current state of things.
Read on the website: Lisp is an ambiguous category. But Common Lisp isn't, right? It's a restricted self-sufficient language, after all.
Read on the website: Lambda Calculus is extremely elegant, including in how it handles numbers. But this elegance often comes at the cost of understandability. This post goes through examples of arithmetics in Lambda Calculus to understand how they work.
Read on the website: Optimizing Guile Scheme is not always obvious. This post is a collection of takeaways from optimizing a heavily numeric piece of code.
Read on the website: One can go Object-Oriented in C, and do so with decent success. Although it's definitely not quite the popular version of OOP everyone is conditioned to.
Read on the website: There are many things programmers believe about HTML that are not necessarily true. Here're some.
Read on the website: TUI is an ambiguous term, meaning either of 'terminal' or 'text' user interface. The difference is even more pronounced now, with chat interfaces and assistive tech. So let's stop calling TUIs 'text' and call them 'terminal'—by their real name. Reserving 'text' for more appropriate conversational UIs.
Read on the website: I switched to Surf because of habit switch from distracted kitchen sinks to focused app-like web browsing.
Read on the website: Lisp projects might be smaller and neater that other tech. But still, there are emergent patterns in any software. So here's an arbitrary list of design patterns I found in Lisp codebases.
Read on the website: Lambda Calculus is a strong model for computation, but computing examples in it often feels off. In this post, I'm trying to understand how Lambda Calculus evaluation/reduction actually works.
Read on the website: I am a Brainfuck programmer. I made some projects that caused me immence pai... joy. I learned something from these, and you can too!
Read on the website: Lambda Calculus is a fascinating idea, but it's not immediately obvious. In this post, I'm trying to understand and explain the basic terms used in Lambda Calculus.
Read on the website: Pronouns are important. They are part of one's identity, after all. But what if one also identifies as a programmer? Regexes as pronoun listing!
Read on the website: Yes, you can use C preprocessor as a website generator.
Read on the website: C code might be ugly at times. But it can also be pretty! Here are some features and snippets with pretty C code.
Read on the website: C code is scary. It's often hard to read and has lots of footguns. But it can get even uglier than you imagine. Lo and behold!
Read on the website: Living a plaintext-only life is tempting. But the further one goes with plaintext, the more they re-invent Markdown or HTML. Let's just give up and live hypertext life instead.
Read on the website: Internet grew out of a non-commercial academic network with free resources for everyone. Can one get back to this dream of free Internet and build a lifestyle out of it?
Read on the website: This is probably some fanatic with weird AST magic, you say. But if this magic allows one writing with tab-completion, automatic HTML boilerplate, and other goodies—then why not try it? 😉
Read on the website: Security tip: You should use meta-programming abilities of your technology (I mostly mean programming languages there) as much as possible, and you should allow your users to program your program by exposing programming languages to them.
Read on the website: Okay, so you want to have your blog backed by a good blog engine?
This is basically a welcoming note for you, whoever you are! It also serves the purpose of properly aligning XML tags, but hush...