Frederick's Perch

I'm putting up this page for LREC attendees to download the paper I'm presenting at sign-lang@LREC 2026.

In the US, you can get a domain name like `somename.city.state.us` for free.

Direct-inverse alignment is where transitive verb's agent and object NPs are not marked, and instead which NP is the agent is determined by where they fall on a hierarchy.

Learning from the successes and failures of previous SCC pidgin games, the we devised a new set of rules for PidginCraft to help players stay engaged: giving them goals, having synchronous sessions, enforcing world boundaries, and removing starter languag…

I calculated a list of them using the SQL database that drives PokéAPI.

SIGILS allows you to pipe items in modded Minecraft factories using ComputerCraft computers and manage them in the browser.

Grow is an abstract strategy board game I invented that's played on a 15x15 Go board and multicolored stones.

I wrote a quick little Web Component for rendering HamNoSys symbol names into their corresponding HamNoSys characters that you can put on any web page.

The 😤 `Face with Steam From Nose` emoji was originally called the `Face with Look of Triumph` because the face has a different meaning in Japan.

I put WolframAlpha in Minecraft by writing Mathematikka, a Bukkit plugin that queries Mathematica via J/Link to get WolframAlpha results.

You can scan a Minecraft world for diamonds and use GRASS's `v.net.salesman` to plot an efficient route to get all of them.

We can model Minecraft ore veins as graph data structures in ComputerCraft to create a program for veinmining.

We can model Minecraft ore veins as tree data structures in ComputerCraft to create a program for veinmining.