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Literally the only piece of JavaScript on this site is the script that updates the tagline with a random quote.

While I’m here: I’ve just returned from a trip to see a friend in Holland (yes, again!)

As of today, ejv2.cc is part of gettie’s webring!

“Cause of disruption: sorry” - GVB, the public transport provider for Amsterdam

I was in a pub the other day and the barman asked me for a driving licence to order a pint.

Wrote the first entry in the Kerbal Space Program series I was hinting at a few posts ago. https://ejv2.cc/blog/ksp-maths/

Ran into an(other) extremely annoying nvidia bug today.

From the toilet in my local surgery.

Ok so re-packaged everything with a little patch added to the PKGBUILD with a one line fix.

After a spot of nasty debugging, I narrowed the problem down to some JIT generated WASM instructions.

Currently debugging a weird hugo crash caused by enabling the Goldmark passthrough extension yesterday.

Just writing the main blog entry about the workings of this system and script.

“And one day, for no reason at all, he decided to create a knock off Xitter”.

Aaand the script is written!

Projects on the way on the site include: a series on Kerbal Space Program and some of the maths/physics involved; a series on self-learning mathematics (or, more accurately, how I am attempting to do so); some misc stuff on Papers Please stragegies; a rev…

Hello!

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: a free, democratic country… in which you require a paid licence in order to be permitted to own a television set.

Yesterday, I got back from a two day trip to Amsterdam.

It’s summer 2009.

For some time now, I’ve been working on a video project which is sort of a mini-trailer for a TF2 server I play on quite regularly called castaway.tf.

Like all great, wild animals, the humble webblog must occasionally embark upon the mighty journey of a migration.

Hello, world!

I often hear a lot of very flowery definitions of Physics, such as “The Application of the Scientific Method to Natural Law” or “The Investigation of the Laws of the Universe”.

Quite a common adage heard in HVAC schools or electrician training is that “Volts jolt, but current kills”.

In TF2, there was a rumor around a while ago that the Scout could, if given enough increases to his base movement speed, outrun the hitbox used for hitscan and/or projectile collision detection.

Generally speaking, when I write in C or some other language that uses command line flags or POSIX-style interfaces, I try to stay away from spec extensions.

There is a certain fundamental feeling that comes alongside doing physics (particularly theoretical) which is unexpectedly heady and exhilarating - a feeling that you would never expect to experience when doing simple mathematical calculations.

I have been in formal language education for a total of four years now, learning Spanish for Brittish GCSEs, and this has led me to the unfortunate conclusion that language teaching and learning has been fundamentally broken by the modern day.

I have been dealing with spam on my public email address for quite some time now, and it finally got to the peak of my patience with the the following email, sent to my email not so long ago:

Could it ever be possible to create sofware with zero errors?

I should preface this with a half disclaimer: I actually do believe in climate change and think that it is a real problem which needs solving.

When I was younger, I didn’t really communicate at all with the wider programming world.

I recently made my collection of personal tools public on GitHub under the name of EUtils.

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It is very rare in the world of music that you come across something which you believe to be totally perfect.

Reverend Dr.

There is something deeply saddening and disheartening about a bad movie.

The C programming language and the Go programming languages are my all-time favorite tools for programming.

C++ is not exactly known for its elegant syntax or concise expressiveness.

The C Programming Language is my all time favorite programming language.

Apparently, the day I am writing this on is “officially” designated as “Autism Pride Day”.

So, in the year 2021, it appears that the definition of the phrase “Far Right” has been morphed from a person who is on the extreme right wing of politics and who believes in non-mainstream, fringe ideas to anybody who disagrees with or who refuses to cap…

Anybody vaguely familiar with Orwell’s famous novel “1984” will also be familiar to a similar degree with the term “Newspeak”.

Throughout the length of its existence, this arguments has been one of the most commonly repeated talking points (or, really, justifications) of authoritarianism and surveillance that I have ever heard.

Recently, I was made aware of the following cartoon comic strip created by a Twitter user:

It is a pretty special thing to be able to think back on your time with a person and to have no negative memories of them whatsoever come to mind.

Ah, public key cryptography; where would we be without you?

Welcome to the new and remastered version of this site I’ve decided to stray away from making programming tutorials, and instead make posts talking about my thoughts on the programming industry, programming in general and lots of computer-related stuff.

Imagine you have developed a large app in Python that consists of over 1,000 lines of code.