Javascript flâneur, internet flibbertygibbert
Well well well, it's been quite a while! Nice to see you again. Sorry for the delay... I forgot my blog password, and I had to run some errands, the decade just got away from me. Anyway, the password was qwerty123 so let's get on with it... Today's thing is a terminal-based 90s demo effect [ ]
I gaze across the calm morning ocean as I sip my coffee. The computer takes a while to boot, and watching the ocean is more relaxing than the torrent of kernel messages that (hopefully) say things are loading nominally. I wonder if there will be any deliveries today. It's been a while, and recent weather [ ]
Today I wrote an "eBASIC" code snippet that contained a macro. The macro expansion included another macro that when expanded generated 6502 assembler code - which itself happened to contain a KickAssembler macro: that in turn generated its own 6502 assembler. The result of the entire macro formed part of a BASIC program that POKEd [ ]
Eight minutes ago I had a flashback. The following is my stream-of-consciousness account of those eight minutes. I refuse to google it to see if it's true, or if I imagined the whole thing. The year was… 1992? 1993? I was playing the hit arcade game NBA Jam. A lot. I remember playing NBA Jam [ ]
The following is an account of my embarrassing ignorance on color spaces, gamma correction, and pretty-much everything to do with how a computer outputs things to a monitor. Recently I've been kicking around an idea for probably the greatest retro-video-game game of all time. I'm 40% sure it will be amazing and spawn a whole [ ]
C'mon Mr Speaker, stop re-writing your "distance" function every project... Math.hypot() has been around for ages now! Math.hypot(1,1); // 1.4142135623730951 (So has Math.SQRT2. I also forgot I already remembered and re-forgot that)
Years ago I had a genius idea of making a USB-powered mini shawarma machine that you could have on your desk, and shave off bits of meat during the day. Sometimes I still lay awake at night, wondering if that would have worked.
When I de-bloated my piece of the web, I noted that the largest asset I was serving on my blog was a local version of jQuery - coming in at some 70+ kilobytes - that "I still need to insert into the head of my page for historical reasons: 15 years ago I in-lined lots [ ]
Monads for Babies is the first in a series that teaches computer science to toddlers. It's only available in digital form at the moment (png format, embedded below), so I suggest `right-click - print` so you can read it to the lil' tigers at bed time: Support my Patreon if you'd like to see more.
Hot on the heels of my web colors rant, comes this amazing piece of Emacs Lisp I now have in my init file: (defun web-color () (interactive) (let ((cols '("AliceBlue" "AntiqueWhite" "Aqua" "Aquamarine" "Azure" "Beige" "Bisque" "Black" "BlanchedAlmond" "Blue" "BlueViolet" "Brown" "BurlyWood" "CadetBlue" "Chartreuse" "Chocolate" "Coral" "CornflowerBlue" "Cornsilk" "Crimson" "Cyan" "DarkBlue"…