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I just finished this epic drawing and I want you to look at it!

A low-key adventure!

Over a year later, it's done!

Tools I use to build and maintain this website...

Made a fun little demo tonight while working on Meow5 and wanted to share...

Since I've been neck-deep in ANSI escape sequences while working on my ELF decoder, I thought I'd make this fun little pumpkin.

Hi everybody!

Here's something I've experienced many times in the past, but most notably this week...the power of shell scripts to contain knowledge!

Followup!

Here's a fun one: I got this wild hare to make a simple version of Knuth's Literate Programming in Ruby.

The best time for simple, retro-style computing is NOW.

GitHub = history.

Heck yeah we're doing this!

*RSS Club* Exclusive follow-up and tell-all about the last post.

I've been deliberating it for a month.

I tried an experiment in intentional relaxation.

I've almost certainly forgotten some of my favorite utilities, but at least I've got most of them here.

I started to write the spoken content for my little Forth talk and it just sort of...kept growing.

I have succeeded at plowing through a month's worth of failure to arrive at the next stop on my microcontroller adventures...

After a long hiatus, I'm back on the Zig train.

That last entry felt a bit unhinged, but it truthfully describes the meta-task that has been occupying my head for weeks.

Have I reached peak time fragmentation?

It finally dawned on me that I should write up summaries of the [computer science] papers I read and put them somewhere so the thoughts aren't lost forever.

This was a really great "chapter" for me.

It's alive!

I'm back on track!

*RSS Club* Exclusive FOURTH "nosurf" post.

I wonder what it would be like if we all approached software development with a "build it twice" mentality...

I think it's usually a mistake to try to write a "correct" program from a blank slate...

Simply asking for help was the best thing I've done in a while.

So I basically lost my mind for two weeks and the result is a new JavaScript VDOM library.

A saga nearly a year in the making: Then a new Linux kernel and a new video card make the whole thing trivial...

Installing the Hare programming language on Slackware just got easier thanks to yours truly.

Just some scripts here.

I've installed Slackware 15.0 a lot in the last couple months.

I gave this talk at work today.

It's done at last!

Super happy with this little Vim thingy I've been wanting to make for a long, long time.

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I just finished drawing 78 Tarot cards in 52 days.

First follow-up to The Year of the Microcontroller.

I'll be giving a presentation fairly soon and I needed something simple.

Guess what?

Whoooosh!

Two more OpenBSD chapters complete.

My guided book tour of OpenBSD continues.

Wow!

My Assembly Nights: "Season Two" project now has its very own page and maaaayyybe also a cute logo.

In one of those eerie "out of the blue" coincidences, I found myself thinking this morning about Aaron Swartz.

During Assembly Nights Season One (porting JONESFORTH to NASM), I kept having ideas for other Forth-like things I'd like to try.