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In a counterfactual past, perhaps the term “bug” was never adopted in the 1800s.

Quiz time!

Nothing about keyboards has appeared on this blog, because while I enjoy using nice keyboards (and building them!)

# Debugging is a first resort.

At the theater some years ago, a preview played for Oppenheimer.

Here are my notes from 🦀 RustConf 2023 🦀.

Gaze ye into the rippulous pond unto eternity.

Rust.

Two classes stand out as my favorites from computer science at NCSU: x86 assembly, taught by Dana Lasher, and computer graphics, taught by Stuart Heinrich.

This is the story of <pfe-icon>.

It’s a tale as old as time.

# Summary Command Line Bash is a game that challenges you to type in as many commands as you can in 60 seconds.

My first experience with PiTiVi, eight years ago, was discouraging.

The East Coast Game Conference was a lot of fun!

The Minimic is great.

POPUP SHOWDOWN Close popups as fast as you can!

Open Jam is an open-source themed game jam run by Jared and myself, with a lot of help from opensource.com.

geekSPARK is a showcase of creative use of technology, taking place each year during the SPARKcon art festival.

Play now!

Play now!

I have someone I’d like you to meet.

Fireflies is a WebGL demo in which a friendly flock of fireflies forms shapes for your entertainment.

Play now!

Just a few short days months ago, Kimotion was on display at SPARKcon.

Zorbio is a free multiplayer eat-em-up game that you can play in your browser!

They say good developers are lazy.

Kimotion is a simple framework for creating interactive art exhibits in 2D or 3D and supports both Kinect and Leap Motion for viewer input.

“Finally,” I thought, “an excuse to play with WebGL at work!”

Square Off is a 1v1 airhockey-style game that Jared and I built in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare 35 game jam.

A year ago, I had the joy of working on Digital Motion, an interactive art exhibit for Raleigh’s annual art festival, SPARKcon.

Kimotion is a framework for building reactive art displays.

Check out Ping!

Within the last two days, WebAssembly (wasm) has graced the eyeballs of many JavaScript developers.

In the midst of this beastly summer we’ve just entered, nothing seems farther away than the lung-clenching air of winter.

There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Imagine a solitary blue dot.

A player walks up Fayetteville St in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Pale Blue Pixel is this blog.

I spent a bit of time this weekend building an RGB color cube for ColorPal, using Three.js.

A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine ran into some font issues.

Drop64 is an easy drag-and-drop tool for generating Data URIs from any file.

Ever been here?

ColorPal CLI is a command-line version of ColorPal, my HTML5 color palette generator. # Demo!