Tags → “programming”
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03-May-2023 VueJS app to create TI Extended Basic CALL CHAR stringsI continue to revisit the kinds of things I did as a kid on the TI-99/4a computer through the lens of modern tooling. When I was a kid I used graph paper to create 8×8 grids, then worked backwards from that to create 16 character strings to represent those graphics. Last night and this morning…
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27-Apr-2023 Programming graphics on the TI-99/4aBack in 2019 I wrote about programming in TI-BASIC a little bit. I remembered going from graph paper to hex but the mechanics of drawing to the screen was not something I remembered. I did remember it was pretty tedious. But rewarding! Well, the other day I was inspired to create a chunk of code…
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02-Apr-2023 BarCampLA5 – 15 years later.I learned so much at BarCamps. Dan Kaminsky, rest in peace You can see me in the back in that photo. Red checker shirt and a goatee chin. I enjoyed reading my write-up, seeing what I called out, remembering such a good time. I also liked reading my slides from the talk on YUI I…
- 22-Nov-2022QOTD: Code
The sooner you realize that ALL code is temporary trash destined for the garbage heap of history, the sooner you can start making rational decisions. From Technical Debt is a Choice
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09-May-2022 I can never remember the name of GitPrime which is now Pluralsight FlowI worked for a startup a few years ago and one of the tools that company used to measure developer productivity was GitPrime. The tool tied into the primary code repository in GitHub and made reports on the work done. It measured commits by size and pattern. It was fairly intelligent about attempting to create…
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17-Feb-2022 Hard Drive Cleaning: C++ Programming ’04In 2004 I took a course at City College in C++ Programming. As I wait for my new job to start next week I’ve been doing a bunch of maintenance. I found an old backup hard drive and found a folder called cpp from an old Windows machine I had. I think it was running…
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14-Jan-2022 Drawing with CSS: Cube CatI have seen extraordinary things made with HTML and CSS. I remember in 2003 seeing the CSS Zen Garden (though it was hosted on mezzoblue at the time). Nearly 20 years later and CSS remains an incredible tool, only more extraordinarily powerful with each passing week, each new spec, each new browser release. For several…
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13-Jan-2022 Spielberg’s Films by year of release vs year setThe other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory…
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13-Jan-2022 Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan GoldmeierI attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.
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10-Jan-2022 Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHPOver the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an…
