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Recently some colleagues of mine started hacking some OpenGL stuff, which somehow motivated me to also dive into that again. Knowing that I won’t be able to keep me motivated writing a whole game, I thought I’ll tinker a bit with terrain generation – a fairly easy way to do something exciting. Now, my colleagues…

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Pink Floyd Today I learned: A full compile of llvm and…

I got myself a new machine recently, a Thinkpad R400. At first I only wanted to buy a new keyboard and some RAM for my old laptop, but then I saw that I could get a not-completely-obsolete Thinkpad off of ebay for less than 200 €. That’s where my brain came to the conclusion that…

Hi there! Long time no see! I got a bit side-tracked. Well, that’s an understatement. At first, I just wanted to re-haul the site’s design a bit. Then I thought, why not re-haul the back-end, too? I was thinking of a wiki-like system, but with pages consisting of independently editable (and lockable) blocks. Just doing…

Finally! I found something that is wrong with Python! With Python2, that is – Python3 saves itself from being wrong by being stupid. And it’s really wrong, it’s of “absolutely broken” wrongness. On a scale from 0 (right) to 12 (wrong) this would score a straight twenty-seven. It’s about scope in nested functions. Normally, scope…

Today I learned: printf(1) is locale-dependent. Why, oh fucking why?

This is the code for a Mozilla Extension to get its version number out of its own configuration: This is one twitter session id: This is a part of the Wikipedia Page for Jabber: Because XMPP is not yet encoded as Efficient XML Interchange but as a single long XML document, binary data must be…

School can really be a drag, sometimes – especially when I could learn so much more at home. For instance via – you guessed it – playing with Newsqueak. So, today in our series of “nobody is interested, please stop” “Fun with Newsqueak”: Channels. The idea goes back to C.A.R. Hoare’s Communicating Sequential Processes or…

(part 1 is here) I just ported a small testing script included in the source tree from rc (which is Plan9’s command interpreter) to bourne shell. And then I ran it, obviously. The first test to fail was a small snippet called “fio”: This is pretty straight-forward. It includes the fio.h header (probably “file input…

I pushed Rob Pike’s Newsqueak interpreter to my github page. This might seem (and largely is) a senseless thing to do, as it is freely available on Rob’s (old) homepage. And unfortunately it looks a bit like me trying to take credit for his work, which I really do not intend to do – so…