Ocassional Notes
23. January 2016
Every programmer has some level of interest in knowing how to write a language. I’ve always wanted to tinker with this level of software development, but even after years of development experience you never really get exposed to this stuff because what’s already there generally just works. On top of that, it’s a somewhat complex process involving several steps with intimidating terminology.
28. November 2015
My old “attach a camera to your RC car” tutorial has been republished into a “1-2-3 Projects” anthology by maker media.
10. November 2015
If you need to only run some tasks on a certain subset of servers in your inventory, first add a role to your inventory file deploy/whatever-environment.rb:
11. October 2015
I was playing around with the esoteric programming language brainfuck. I found that it was pretty time consuming writing out strings of text using only increments and decrements of the data pointer.
So I decided to write a bf string maker in go. Code generation is pretty important in go, so it is fun to generate code for another language using go.
27. September 2015
Watch me discuss how a search engine works.
04. September 2015
I’ve posted a random password generator I’ve written to github. The impetus for this was me accidentally posting one of my passwords in an open chat channel at work. I decided it was time to change my password.
18. July 2015
Here’s a talk I gave at work.