@notjack.space: UIs with too many buttons confuse and alarm [email protected]: ah, this is the unix [email protected]: no, because I want cross device sync to actually work Do we need simplicity? Recently, I gave a talk titled “Precise, consistent, and reliable … Read more
In Osaka, Lydon found himself changed by the way Japan operates with awareness and consideration for others. “Whether it’s lining up for trains, speaking quietly in public, not littering, separating recycling or saying ‘itadakimasu‘ (“I humbly receive”) before a meal, … Read more
If you’re just looking for the results, below is a custom color picker based on the color space written in Javascript and a sample procedural generation algorithm in Python (Javascript equivalents are in the page source) – feel free to … Read more
I’ve recently been working on a mechatronics project that involves constructing an X-Y cartesian motion system. I opted to use stepper motors to drive each axis, and timing belts and pulleys for translating the rotational torque of the steppers into … Read more
Summary Define a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents so that doing so does not require an external library. Enable many JSON processing tasks to be accomplished with little coding. This is an incubating API. History This … Read more
Thamires Lima, a research professor in chemical engineering at Drexel University, studies the properties of thick, viscous liquids — think honey or molasses, though in a lab you’re more likely to find polypropylene or crude oil. Using a method called … Read more
Table of Contents 3 Feb 2025 26 mins You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ … Read more
japanese verbs are awesome. you can take the dictionary form of a verb (for example, “taberu”, to eat) and turn it into many forms: taberu (“eat”): tabemasu (polite “eat”), tabemashita (polite “did eat”), tabemasen (polite “not eat”), tabemasendeshita (polite “did … Read more
Why Islo snapshots are the missing primitive Three things meta-harness needs from its runtime: Reproducible eval environments — every candidate harness runs against the same setup, otherwise the score is noise. Massive parallelism — testing $N$ candidates $times K$ tasks … Read more
In the last blog post, I explained what sits at the backbone of procedurally generated roads: the data structure, aka the minimum information you need to describe any piece of road infrastructure. The answer to that fundamental question was a … Read more