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  • daily report(7/12)

    I have spent today cleaning up comments from previous commits. I have come to the conclusion that the hooks exist for the sake of the plugins who actually maintain their own state, so the configuration_hook stuff will have to go into the irods core library rather than the executable code. That way I can put…

  • Returning to simple-dots-game after a while

    It has been a while since I worked on this game. And after being away for a while, I can’t really see the sources of frustration that I felt before. They were probably residual feelings from the frustration of getting it to a functional state and figuring out the system. But there’s something that was…

  • L-Systems with shapes

    Rendering shapes is a relatively small addition to the L-System code I’ve been implementing over the last few weeks, it consists of a few manual dispatches to drawing code based on the first symbol in a sublist. The immediate alternative is using defgeneric and the common lisp object system, which is probably the correct thing…

  • Small Update

    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…

  • Trying Out Zig

    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…

  • Technical Interview

    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…

  • Welcome Back

    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 🙂