Some sorta blog
I talked about img-genner’s glitch functions last time. Now you get to see the messier part of the library, as of (january 15th 2022), the part that needs refactoring and reconsideration. For one thing it is enormously picky in terms of types. So much so that much of the code broke regularly with only slightly …
I have been working on the img-genner library(repo here) for quite a long time now, over three years if my memory serves me correctly. It contains a number of different modules, and frankly, it is a bit of a Frankenstein. At first it was about polygon graphics, then it became about pixel ‘glitch’ effects, such …
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Forth is a strange old language. It’s among a relatively small number of concatenative languages that achieved any measure of success. Anyway, this isn’t something we’re going to go into much here because we’re thinking about something nearly tangential to the language itself. How you can make it fast. Stacks are somewhat slow compared to …
Common lisp is a dream. Not always a great dream(such as when using strings), but it’s sufficient and SBCL is a remarkably interesting compiler. One that tells you how you might let it make the code faster, such as adding type hints, etc. More recently, I’ve had the opportunity to work with sb-simd, a library …
So, we’ve been playing rimworld a lot recently. One of the mods we use is called Rim Factory, which is quite nice overall for building automated bases(yes this breaks the game’s economy, what of it?). One of the mechanics it adds is a buildable object called a sprinkler, which, instead of watering your plants(this isn’t …
Once again we find ourselves working in python. This is part of a cycle of programming preferences that we have noticed that we go through. Sometimes we want something low-level like C, sometimes we want something easy like Python, other times we want something a bit different, like Forth, Haskell, Ocaml or Lisp. We don’t …
So, we have heard good things about Zig. These boil down to the following things: Good speed Fast compilation Decent type system Simple Syntax So far, a lot of these things seem to be born out by the experience we’ve had, though, we have some criticism that is probably more along the lines of our …
This is a different tack than we are used to, so excuse our ineptitude when it comes to the “difficult” art of writing tech related non-fiction. We have been getting interviewed for a position in a startup lately, and we actually enjoyed doing a technical interview. This was a surprise to us since in the …
It has been a long time since we had a blog at this domain. Honestly that’s on us. We’re really glad that we’re back, and that wordpress is, in fact, remarkably easy to setup 🙂