Monthly Archives: April 2010

Chatterböxen updates, part the first

April 30 10

UPDATE: I’ve put the code for my proof-of-concept websocket+sinatra server on my github. As I mature as a person and as a programmer, I keep going back and updating my little projects so that the lessons I’ve learned and the new techniques I’ve picked up are best reflected. The past few days have seen that [...]

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A sleep experiment or, Why I don't go out as much when I'm working.

April 26 10

For my project this past month, I tried something a little different: I tried to readjust my sleep schedule to normal by altering the length of days. Let me back up…. As followers of this blog may know, I have a rare sleep/neurological disorder called Delayed Circadian Rhythm Disorder, and though there’s no treatment there [...]

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A most hilariously bootleg optimization.

April 25 10

I’ve been working on a project with my dear friends at VSA for the past month or so. It’s finally online now, which is awesome. Along the way, I came up with a hilariously obvious bug, then an hilariously bootleg fix, followed by an hilariously bootleg optimization to the fix.

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My mom's famous!

April 11 10

. . . in Google Maps street view. Amazing! Also in Google Earth!

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I simply do not understand C supremacist assholes.

April 11 10

I really don’t. Not really talking about anyone in particular here, but I find the crowd who seems to think you’re a pansy if you don’t code in C, C++, or assembly language to be goddamned annoying. What is with these people? Seriously. I wanna know. There’s nothing particularly superiour about C. I don’t really [...]

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