John Muir Trail from the Perspective of Andrew Kelley
John Muir Trail from the Perspective of Andrew Kelley 198 miles - July 24, 2011 through August 4, 2011 Journal Entries Day 1 - First Day of Hiking Day 2 - Donahue Pass to Some Lake Day 3 - Some Lake to...
View ArticleHow to be Successful at PyWeek
How to be Successful at PyWeek A short series to help you win. Covers these topics: What PyWeek is, and Why You Should Participate Video Games in Python Speed Developing Game Theory - How to Create Fun...
View ArticleRapid Development Email Templates with Node.js
Rapid Development Email Templates with Node.js Contents Sending Automated Emails in Node.js node-email-templates Gotchas Fundamental Flaws Includes VS Template Inheritance Sharing CSS Dummy Context...
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Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go
Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go 2013 June 7 I have always wanted to write an emulator. I made a half-hearted attempt in college but it never made it to a...
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Spot the Fail
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View ArticlePrivate Methods in JavaScript
Private Methods in JavaScript In JavaScript, we don't have private methods right? We must to resort to using this._somePrivateThing() right? Wrong. Before function Cell(x, y) { this.x = x; this.y = y;...
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Pillagers! 7dRTS Game Development Journal
Pillagers! 7dRTS Game Development Journal 22 July 2013 - 29 July 2013 I have decided to participate in the 7-Day Real Time Strategy Challenge, July 2013 edition. I am working with Broken Sounds who...
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Lemming - PyWeek #12 Game Development Journal
Lemming - PyWeek #12 Game Development Journal 02 April 2011 - 09 April 2011 PyWeek #12 challenge starts in 2 days, 16 hours, and 11 minutes. And I have 23 hours of homework to do in order to clear the...
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7dRTS Game Reviews
7dRTS Game Reviews We all have limited time. This is a guide to help you decide which 7dRTS games to play, and which you might unfortunately have to skip if you don't have time to play them all. It is...
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I am not a "JavaScript Developer".
I am not a "JavaScript Developer". It seems that the tech world is trying to thrust upon me an identity which I do not hold. GitHub puts "JavaScript" right under my name: Here are snippets from actual...
View ArticleJavaScript Callbacks are Pretty Okay
JavaScript Callbacks are Pretty Okay I've seen a fair amount of callback bashing on Hacker News recently. Among the many proposed solutions, one of them strikes me as particularly clean: "asynchronous...
View ArticleDo Not Use bodyParser with Express.js
Do Not Use bodyParser with Express.js Note: this post has been edited to take into account TJ's diligent work in response to this. I came across this Google+ post mentioning this StackOverflow post in...
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My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player
My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player 2014 April 22 Over the past few years, I have been slowly but surely building my own music player. It's been a wild ride. The codebase has radically changed...
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Laptop Review - Bonobo Extreme
Bonobo Extreme Review I used to have a Dell Inspiron XPS 13 Developer Edition. It was fine, but I needed something with a better graphics card because I wanted to learn some of the new OpenGL features...
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Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Music Player Server
Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Music Player Server 2014 June 19 A few months ago I published My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player, where I described some of the trials and tribulations that led...
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Introduction to the Zig Programming Language
Introduction to the Zig Programming Language 2016 February 08 (Updated 2017 January 31) The past few months I took a break from working on Genesis Digital Audio Workstation to work, instead, on...
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Troubleshooting a Zig Regression with apitrace
Troubleshooting a Zig Regression with apitrace The past three months I have spent rewriting Zig internals. Previously, the compiler looked like this: Source → Tokenize → Abstract Syntax Tree →...
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Zig Programming Language Blurs the Line Between Compile-Time and Run-Time
Zig Programming Language Blurs the Line Between Compile-Time and Run-Time 2017 January 30 A system programming language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability. Donate $1/month Zig...
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Zig: Already More Knowable Than C
Zig: Already More Knowable Than C 2017 February 13 There is a nifty article created back in 2015 that made its way onto Hacker News today: I Do Not Know C. The author creates a delightful set of...
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A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields
A Better Way to Implement Bit-Fields 2017 February 16 One of the main use cases for the Zig Programming Language is operating system development and embedded development. So, what better way to make...
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