Beej's Bit Bucket

Wherein we chase down a BASIC retrocomputing question that's bugged me for far too long.

Out of all the things to love and hate with AI, this is what I miss.

Another Rust rabbit hole digging into some RPN calculator code.

Just randomly rabbit-holing down into how traits work in Rust.

A short how-to with just the basics to get going.

Why not to protect your books with DRM.

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Reflections on the new wave of AI.

A historical retrogaming morality tale.

Includes cheesy little online explorer app.

Let's get some games written!

Part 3 in the series: writing the server in NodeJS.

Part 2 in the series: writing the client-side JavaScript.

An overview of WebSockets, with a goal of writing a simple WebSockets-based chat client and server.

An exploration into building an HTTP server in NodeJS, and a look into what a webserver is, anyway.

A little numerical diversion, changing things to other things.

How to make a scrolling pane in HTML/CSS; in particular, how to wrap it all in a jQuery plugin for easy reuse.

An exercise in refactoring code from being closely tied to a page to being less closely tied.

Crank out as many digits of π as you desire!

Featuring goats!

How to use convolution matrices for common image filters.

Learn how it's done, and code your own.

Lookahead AI, just like what powers the WOPR

Use the unholy m4 macro processor with CSS.

Simulate a scratcher or scratch-off in-browser using HTML.

Intro that includes a link to my OpenMP-enabled Mandelbrot set generator.

Very very short getting-started document.

Just like Grandma used to multitask.

Super-Superrrrr... oh forget it.

Generate some waveforms!

It's really not that bad.

Things happen.

Beat your computer at Connect-4.

You can do it with free tools on the command line.

No need to parse that whole DOM—just handle tags as they show up.

For old NNTP froods.