Rick Winfrey - Writings

Imagine you’ve built a text classification system.

Part 5 of 5 in a series on Content-Defined Chunking.

Part 4 of 5 in a series on Content-Defined Chunking.

Part 3 of 5 in a series on Content-Defined Chunking.

Part 2 of 5 in a series on Content-Defined Chunking.

Part 1 of 5 in a series on Content-Defined Chunking.

What started as fun idea, and low-stakes desire to add a subtle wind movement background animation to my homepage, turned into an exploration of JavaScript canvas rendering, noise functions, planar waves, and the surprisingly rich parameter space of moving

A decade at GitHub as a developer rewired how I think about software.

The core concept was simple: take some AI-generated text, iterate over its characters or words, and animate each by fading it from fully transparent to fully opaque in the DOM.

Lately I've wondered what it would be like to try to write some of Ruby's enumerable methods using only lambdas.