: I loved this article about the Commodore 64’s genesis. We thought we were so smart as kids coming up …
: Another YT video showing how expert programmers work: Aaron Hsu shows how he works with APL to …
: Bridging the array programming language conceptual gap Array programming languages are so strange if you’re used to more traditional programming schools …
: Nikita Prokopov uploaded a coding session video where he codes a version of Snake using Clojure and …
: Drawing libraries I have known and... well, not always loved There are two main schools of javascript drawing APIs: those that let you paint shapes onto a canvas …
: I’ve been looking at a lot of generative art libraries. Tyler Hobbs has done some amazing stuff with …
: Matt3o, famed keycaps designer and keyboard maker, has a guide on how to make your own keyboard, …
: Visual noise generation is generally done using Perlin noise, but its creator, Ken Perlin, went on …
: So I’m largely capturing my current set of open web tabs as kottke-style brief links - apologies if …
: I still want to make my own keyboard: split, ortholinear, but with judicious use of 1.5 & bigger …
: I’m not sure “coffee-grinders” is a good name for the request-handling pattern Arne describes, where …
: Harold shows some lovely generative designs using nodes & skija over on Instagram.
: Are you starting to go back to shared working arrangements? I’ve worked remotely for years but if …
: Array Programming Languages I’ve been fascinated by languages like APL, J and BQN, and the succint expression of dense …
: Trying to resurrect my activity here after turtling down through the latest series of lockdowns in …
: Finally got to play with my Meadow IoT kit from Wilderness Labs. This is an implementation of Simon …
: Latest Daybook entry is another Wallace Stephens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
: Next entry to the daybook: Wallace Stephens’s The Idea of Order at Key West. I loved this when I …
: Following the the example of Robert Pinsky’s Singing School, I’ve started my own daybook, writing …
: Teaching my thumbs to type I’m simultaneously trying to get my fingers used to two keyboards: the Keyboardio Model 01, and the …
: My newly built Preonic keyboard from OLKB/Massdrop, with a set of MDA Big Bang 2.0 keycaps on Kailh …
: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea: A Review I found this book so difficult to read. I literally squirm at the slightest hint of anybody doing …
: Animating the Pimoroni Keybow keys The Pimoroni Keybow is a great little 12-key macro-pad kit. I got mine with Kailh Gold clicky keys …
: For programmers, Vim is the minimal but powerful text editor present on every unix system worth …
: If you’re coming from the javascript/React/Redux web app development world, Henrik Joreteg has a …
: Working alone can be very isolating. I’m lucky enough to have access to a desk in an ad agency for …
: What I love about Halloween isn’t the license to wear a costume and say BOO! to strangers and their …
: I own more keyboards than shoes 😨 I’m typing this on a Keychron K1 v3, a tenkeyless (TKL) format keyboard with RGB LED lighting, low …
: It’s been almost 20 years since I last had a blog. Time to get back into it.
: Observe a son of Leinster lurking on Twitter, without conclusion I like browsing Twitter, as long as I don’t get stuck trying to work out what it is, exactly. It’s …