** Miscellaneous this and that **
Since my brain injury (which I’ve since learned can be called an“ABI” or“acquired brain injury”) I’ve noticed that I have trouble focusing on programming tasks; I’m able to do what I need to do for work and family but, when it comes time for hobby projects I’m just gloop. Totally oozy.

Because of that I’ve been drawn to do more reading and game playing, but also still wanna code…I’ve found that it is easier to use more“batteries included” kinda languages, namely scheme, over what I’d … ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: episode 8

👋 Oh hai!

I was interviewed on a podcast! ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: A simple mess

This is also something people keep getting wrong about Markdown as originally presented. Markdown isn’t a format. It’s a convenience tool that helps you write some of the boringest and commonest parts of HTML easier, and you can easily drop into more wonky HTML at any time.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes! ⌘ Read more

** Lamination for a lost explorer **
I remember the days when Kicks Condor used to update regularly. I miss those days.

For a while every post seemed to unearth some new, yet weirder corner of the little internet (maybe not yet the smol web).

There are folks doing similar web archeology…I do some of it myself…but no one does it like Kicks was doing it; there was often a feeling of unknown, but ulterior motive behind the curation — bits building towards a cohesive something.

Perhaps … ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: Oatmeal - That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life?

After giving my brain bleed time to heal the neurosurgeon called me back in to hospital; the plan was to reassess, attempt to fix it using the minimally invasive technique that they tried once before, and if that didn’t work, do something a bit more squidgy dir … ⌘ Read more

** That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life? **
A secret pleasure of mine in high school was getting home before my parents and watching 30 - 60 minutes of TV. I technically wasn’t allowed to do it, but I suspect they new I snuck this time whenever I could.

My favorite show to watch in this secreted me-time was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Of all the episodes 3 have stuck with me the longest — the musical one…because of course…and the a pair of episodes;“I Was … ⌘ Read more

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I’m toying with the idea of becoming a full time Mac OS System 7 developer. ⌘ Read more

** My programming language odyssey **
While I wouldn’t say I’m wicked adept at any one language, I’ve dipped my toes into many different languages. Here, I try to roughly recreate my programming language journey.

The web. A marvel, a terror. I started here, more out of ease of access than necessity, but was able to get far enough to make a career out of web dev. I should also add SQL to this list.

[Elm](https://elm-lang … ⌘ Read more

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An unexpected visitor came to the tree in our neighbor’s yard today. ⌘ Read more

In reply to: ~karlen

I was recently introduced to this series by @dozens where blogposts that are at least a year old and feature the phrase“no one will ever read this but” are read allowed…and…it is remarkable. ⌘ Read more

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Birch poly pore. ⌘ Read more

** 2022-02-24 feature/6.0 Android test plan **

Will test the upgrade path from a known state to new version to ensure that settings and app state are maintained during upgrade process.

V. 6.0 of libro.fm android app introduces an entirely new local database. This testing is focused on ensuring that local data remains intact between versions.

This evening I was mostly focused on setting up a successful build of feature/6.0 on my test device or the emulator. So far, no dice. My next … ⌘ Read more

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** What is an addressing mode? **
In a recent post I referenced addressing modes. But what the heck are they!?

The instruction register holds the program instruction that is currently being run.

A fixed number of bits within the instruction register represent the operation, e.g. “op. code” — examples of these instructions include things like add, subtract, load, and store. We can imagine the instruction register like this:

[![ASCII diagram of … ⌘ Read more

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** Notes on 6502 Assembly **
The NES runs a very slightly modified 6502 processor. What follows are some very introductory, and not at all exhaustive notes on 6502 Assembly, or ASM.

If you find this at all interesting, Easy 6502 is a really great introductory primer on 6502 Assembly that lets you get your hands dirty right from a web browser.

Numbers pre … ⌘ Read more

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** Chess Rules **
I love when folks say stuff like“there are only a finite number of states a chessboard can occupy, therefore a computer can play chess.”

To the folks who say such things — I wish you to play chess with my 6 year old.

Be not confined by rules! The only things governing chess in this house here are the laws of physics!

…and even then, not all need apply.

For instance, during a recent game the opposing kings left the board in order to go out on an adventure. They returned later with a large, plastic dragon. The dra … ⌘ Read more

** A quick and dirty intro to the .pbm file format **
I’ve been fiddling with writing programs that draw pictures. I started with PostScript for this, but have since moved to writing programs that output in the .pbm format.

My goal here is to write noise to a .pbm file.

A .pbm file is the lowest common denominator among image file formats.

An example of the format,

”`hljs plaintext
P1

5 5
1 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 0
1 0 1 … ⌘ Read more”`

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Eagle-eyed folks may have noticed that I made a few wee changes to this website.

The biggest, and most noticeable one is that I’ve filtered out all of the like type posts from appearing on the main feed, from rss, and in the archives. There were waaaaay to many, so filtering them out makes the entire website a lot more navigable. They are not gone, though, and I’ll probably keep sharing like type posts, but now they ar … ⌘ Read more

I feel like it took me a bit longer to fully understand how to work in Smalltalk than it did most languages. The IDE is different than anything I’ve used before, and probably anything you’ve seen as well. You’re not going to be opening myscript.st in your favorite text editor, and then run it from the command line as you would a Python program. It takes a little mental adjustment to start with.

That’s not the warning, howe … ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Virtual Pet Jam - itch.io ⌘ Read more

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🙌 Liked: Vlojure ⌘ Read more

** Forth, a tool for cultivating community **
I watch most of the recordings of the Forth2020’s Zoom chats. A topic that comes up from time to time is how to get more folks interested in Forth — especially younger folks. In my weird little corner of the internet I can say that there are certainly young folks interested in Forth!

I wonder if the issue at play is less one of interest, and more one of cross c … ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Mimic — Buried Treasure ⌘ Read more

In reply to: The Whippet 137: Please don’t make me fight a fire ant

It’s named after Texan exterminator Tom Rasberry, but you can call it a Raspberry Crazy Ant if you want and no one will notice I bet.

The Raspberry Crazy Ant, for some reason, loves electronics, so it will come and chew through wires and get electrocuted. When an ant dies, it releases an … ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: NASM Assembly Language Tutorials - asmtutor.com ⌘ Read more

** Star Wars, and a year in review **
I tried to write a“ year in review” kinda post, but it got wicked melodramatic pretty fast. This year has been a slog…it really fucking sucked.

Rather than reflect on it further, I thought I’d write about something vapid that I’ve been thinking a bit about lately instead: Star Wars.

Despite my best efforts, I’ve always loved Star Wars. As a child I spent hundreds of hours pouring over novels, and comics, and books of sch … ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Stampadia, print and play roguelike ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Hempuli’s blog >> Snake nest ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: generative artistry, interactive tutorials ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Lisp in Life - Conway’s Game of Life ⌘ Read more

** Olophont.js **
In Lord of the Rings there are creatures that look like giant elephants. JRR Tolkien named these creatures“olophonts…” simply replacing every vowel in the word elephant with an o. Here is a javascript function to do the same thing.

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<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title">olophont</span>(<span class="hljs-params">string</span>) </span>{
  <span class="hljs-keyword">let</span> replaceVowels = <span class="hljs-string">""</span> ... ⌘ [Read more](https://eli.li/2021/12/20/olophont-js)

** Introducing Guava **
I’ve been fascinated by Forth and concatenative programming for a while now. I can’t remember how I initially stumbled in to it, but once I got going I’ve been unable to stop. I’m a wee bit in love with it.

Wanting to play a bit with implementing my own spin on things and having opinions about tooling, I picked up a little scripting language called [Ripen](https://felix.plesoia … ⌘ Read more

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The watcher returns. Visited at the beginning of the now endless pandemic, we moved house, thinking that the eye wouldn’t follow. Now, years later, the eye has opened. We are seen. Perceived through an endless void. A summoning. ⌘ Read more

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Pick your character! ⌘ Read more

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🙌 Liked: About Forth Haiku ⌘ Read more

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** Operators in C **
Following up my notes on Data Types and Variables in C here are notes on operators in C.

An operator is a symbol that represents a mathematical or logical operation. An operator effects operands.

C provides a number of operators.

Some arithmetic operators include,

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%
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% is the most exciting of the list, it is called modulo and it returns the remainder after division. Of note, modulo c … ⌘ Read more

I got a menu in the mail from a new Chinese food restaurant. Across the front of the menu, beneath the phone number is a note,

“Open Christmas!”

I feel seen. ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data, by Emma Stamm ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: JohnEarnest/Mako: A simple virtual game console ⌘ Read more