JS Toy: Interactive animated drawing
A few years ago I made an interactive animated JS toy, based on a drawing my friend made.
zsh word splitting behavior with variable and subshell expansion
zsh’s variable expansion (${name}) never undergoes word splitting, but subshell output ($(cmd)) does unless quoted.
More thoughts on foreign function interfaces
I have been thinking more about using a C library from Java, by using a MIPS binary and virtual machine. It still requires significant effort to manage data and calls between the MIPS guest code and the Java host.
On generating structured data from templates
I find templates to be a poor fit for generating structured data, like HTML. It’s hard to get escaping right; you have to be keenly aware of the context where you’re substituting a value, so you can apply the proper escaping rules (or stack of escaping rules).
Using a C library from Java
Recently I’ve been considering making Java bindings to an open-source C library.
It’s such a pain though.
Uncommon zsh shell techniques, part 1
I’ve been gradually writing more and more zsh-specific shell scripts. Zsh has some techniques that don’t get a lot of attention because they’re not available in bash, which most people are targeting for their scripts… but I have found many of these handy to know, particularly at the command line.
Bluetooth codec scripts for pulseaudio
I made some scripts to help me see what codecs are supported by my Bluetooth audio devices, and select the one I want.
My first 4K monitor, on Windows
I just got a pair of 4K monitors - one for a Mac Mini, and one for Windows.
The Mac is hooked up over HDMI and I use it purely for desktop applications. It works fine.
But on Windows, I’ve encountered a surprising number of issues.
Un-mangling some mangled unicode
Recently I got some data from an external source that I’m to review and correct prior to use. One of the things I’ve been addressing is weird Unicode encoding stuff.
Hurdles to making a multitasking environment on the NES
I’ve been thinking about what would be required to make a multitasking environment/platform on the NES.