A collection of thoughts and experiments that at one point occupied my time,
some still do. These are the things happening in my idle cycles.
Noodling on a different software I've wanted to write at one point
or another I've been considering about how I'd design one specific
kind of application; the manual test case management system.
I got to reading about different methods of calculating Pi and
couldn't resist implementing at least one in J.
A bit disheartening but Mozilla has pushed out a new release for
Firefox on Android and I find myself once again befuddled by the
number of bugs.
A real world use case for an interesting Nginx configuration
presented itself recently. Some notes on proxying multiple non-HTTP
sites and servers on one machine.
A silly interview challenge posed to me recently — implement an
optimal hangman player. I thought it would be fun to try it out in
Emacs Lisp.
I've been testing out alternatives to some of the tools I use most
frequently and collecting my notes. Having finally taken a step back
I've been amazed at how much I've found myself tolerating and how
refreshing it is to use tools that aren't broken.
I only just
finished complaining about
the plotting facilities in J being under-documented and realized
how to accomplish what I was trying to do. Just a few notes so I
don't forget.
After reading julia as
a cli calculator I thought it might be interesting to do a
comparison with J.
Watching Jonathan Blow's
talk Preventing
the Collapse of Civilization today, it is bombastic but
entertaining. He suggests (at the 22:50 mark) documenting all of the
problems you run into using software and I thought that could be an
interesting exercise to try.
The more I pare down this site into the sort of unfussy,
maintainable thing that interests me, the more I come to reconsider
my choices about the design and implementation.
More SQL Prototypes
2020-10-17
Leibniz Formula for π
2020-09-16
More Firefox Bugs, Android
2020-08-27
A Neat Nginx Configuration
2020-08-14
Guessing Hangman
2020-07-22
Tools, Complaints
2020-07-08
J Plotting Notes
2020-06-06
J as a CLI Calculator
2020-06-05
Bugs: Firefox
2020-05-19
Why Bother With Markdown?
2020-05-14