algorithmic art
Some of these are really quite lovely. And most (all?) of the source code is available! It’s Jared Tarbell, with Complexification.net.
View ArticleEmacs beginner tips
(All feedback about this gratefully received, beginners or pros. Leave a comment.) Emacs (and its cousin XEmacs) are enormously powerful text editors. Not so great for writing letters to your grandma,...
View ArticleInform 7: Oh wow…
Inform 7, the long-awaited ground-up rewrite of the interactive fiction authoring language, is out in beta release, and it’s… extraordinary. First the bad news: they’ve tied it inextricably into an IDE...
View ArticleInform 7: still cool
On rec.arts.int-fiction today, Brian Slesinsky posted the following snippet: In a hole in the ground lives a hobbit. A nasty, dirty, wet hole contains ends of worms and an oozy smell. A dry, bare,...
View ArticleGeek insomnia
Ok, so having a laptop sometimes isn’t a bonus. Obviously if I go to bed too late, I don’t get enough sleep. But also if I go to bed too early, I end up staring at the ceiling for hours and … don’t get...
View ArticleIF experiment in collaborative dialogue design
Emily Short is trying something very exciting in interactive fiction design: she’s written a conversation system that lets you write in new dialogue. It’s supposed to ask you how that dialogue should...
View ArticleSend me a screenshot
This week at work has taught me an important lesson about making (and asking for) effective bug reports: screenshot screenshot screenshot. Bug reports are tricky because of two enormous gaps between...
View ArticleInferior decorating
It’s another programming post, sorry Mum! Python’s decorator syntax is an extremely lovely piece of incremental language design. It adds just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar to the language, but that...
View ArticleA thing I built
I made a thing. It’s a wee python library that (to quote the docs) “reads defaults for commandline args from a config file. The cute thing is, it figures out what config options to expect based on your...
View ArticleI wrote an algorithm
Last Friday night I put my second Python package on PyPI: parallel-queue. It’s something I wrote for work, but I very happily put in a bunch of free time hours to tidy it up and open-source it, which I...
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