December 2009
13 posts
cdecl →
A bi-directional translator from C declaration nonsense to English.
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Twist →
Twist is my attempt at interacting with Twitter through a Unix tool approach. Right now all it does is fetch tweets you haven’t read yet, but I’m planning on expanding that periodically.
XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit →
From the website:XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands. Even though I dislike XML, the lack of similar tools for manipulating JSON on the command line makes this...
Browser Pong →
Play Pong with your browser, not in your browser.
“Recursion may provide no salvation of storage, nor of human souls; somewhere, a...”
– The C Programming Language: 4.10
“Things soon began to get a little crazy. Team members began to affect loud...”
– The Black Team
Compoze, a small embeddable concatenative...
In previous post, I outlined my desire to create a homoiconic concatenative programming language. I’ve gotten to work on it, and it’s called Compoze. It’s still in its infancy, full of bugs, and not very fleshed out, but it’s a start.
My goal for it is to make it an easily embeddable language, suitable for rapid prototyping. You can still check it out though Its project...
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace →
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance...
Dion McGregor →
From 1961 through 1967, Dion McGregor’s roommate recorded him narrating his dreams in full clarity.
WikiReader: Wikipedia Reader and Forth Interpreter →
The WikiReadit is a small handheld device that allows you to read Wikipedia. It also includes a Forth interpreter, that engineers used for rapid prototyping while working on it. It’s also accessible to the end-user.
Jones Forth Tutorial →
The jonesforth.S document is a compiler and tutorial, containing an implementation of a Forth system. An intensely interesting read.
256-Color XTerms in Ubuntu →
I’ve just begun using wmii, and I’m having more fun than I should be. The first thing I did is get my terminal up to par, because I’m weaning myself off gedit and the like and moving to a vim-centric environment. This was a ton of help.