This is my place to share and document my programming experiments and projects. I am a student, programmer, Linux enthusiast, and tinkerer. I am currently studying in the Masters program computer science at the University of Bremen. You can contact me at: mail [at] brtmr.de Also check out my github profile at: github.com/brtmr
As of today, brtmr.de is part of the letsencrypt.org closed beta. If you inspect the certificate by clicking on the little lock-symbol in the adress bar of your browser, you should see something like this: The process was mostly painless - I just cloned the github repo, as explained in the official documentation: git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt cd letsencrypt Afterwards,…
In this post I want to introduce a program that I wrote in the course of my recently finished Bachelor thesis in Computer Science. It’s called Eden-Tracelab, and it is an application for analyzing trace files generated by programs written in the Eden programming language. The Eden language is a dialect of Haskell, specifically designed to implement parallel programs. If you want to learn more…
The rectangular version of langtons ant has a very interesting property: The ant will, after some time, always build a highway, meaning it will embark on an endlessly repeating pattern that takes it farther and farther away from the origin. I was curious whether it was possible to build a highway with the ant walking on hexagons. The rules described in the post below seemed to generate a symmetric…
Langtons ant is a popular cellular automaton. It is interesting to me because I am often fascinated by the way that complex patterns can form from a set of very simple rules. You can read about it on Wikipedia. or watch the Numberphile video. After watching the Numberphile video I got interested in the possible patterns that might emerge when Langtons Ant is not walking atop a plane made of…