I was creating a type for an options object of a function, one of the options properties would accept an ID of the item (string based UUID) or a special value, i.e. ‘currentNode’. Initially I would come up with something … Read more
Recently, I was invited to speak at a symposium organized by the Amsterdam Royal Palace Foundation, who, twice a year, brings in experts to discuss some big topic like the COVID pandemic or the future of work. This summer’s meeting … Read more
Recently, a user was asking on IRC why CHICKEN doesn’t give proper line numbers for error call traces in the interpreter. This is indeed rather odd, because the compiler gives numbered traces just fine. After a brief discussion, we figured … Read more
Chill sun solar, a facility in Nevada with a generating capacity of 2.25GW, should produce enough electricity to meet 1.7% of California’s annual demand. The 4.1GW Berwick Bank wind farm, off the east coast of Scotland, will provide more energy … Read more
It’s true. It turns out you can, in fact, add C-style for loops into Python. The way to get there however, was long and painful all the way to the end. Regardless, I’ve learned many things (some of which I … Read more
Table of Contents Note: You can find the source code for this project here: https://github.com/GavinRay97/gcc-invariant-plugin Last month, GCC landed support for Contracts in trunk: If you aren’t a C++ developer, or you are a C++ developer but haven’t followed the … Read more
Yes. For decades, we’ve asked ourselves “Can it run Doom?”. Now we can finally make the ultimate punchline: “Can Doom run it?” I demonstrate that it is possible to run any bounded computation in Doom, minus constraints on level size. … Read more
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When to hold ’em and when to fold ’em: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended The Game Boy Pocket SP Over the summer I dug in deep with Game Boy modding and made this: the … Read more
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