On The Subject Of Dev
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Polygons with Pythonista Jul 15, 2023I wrote a Pythonista script on my iPhone for my kids to show the internal angles of regular polygons and how adding more sides makes the shape start approximating a circle. In the script, swiping left and right … -
Wrapping Async functions in Promises Jan 15, 2016A lot of core APIs in node.js have two forms for each function - synchronous and asynchronous. The synchronous versions block until the function has completed, while the asynchronous versions do not block - instead … -
Functional Java 8 Nov 12, 2015I’ve been using Java 8 in some anger lately, and have encountered one or two tips that are worth sharing. I’ll start with some notes about lambda expressions and the Stream API that helped me thinking about … -
GL Shaders and Atom Nov 10, 2015Coming from IntelliJ, CLion is my favourite C/C++ IDE. It also has many plugins that extend its functionality beyond C++, and one that I’ve found useful while experimenting with game development is the GLSL plugin … -
Graphing with matplotlib Sep 5, 2015Today I wanted to draw some graphs. I started out using Wolfram Alpha’s excellent plot() functionality but wanted something that I would be able to use offline too. Mathematica & Matlab are beyond my … -
Bootstrapping an HTTP server with Camel + Guice Aug 26, 2015I was tasked with creating a skeleton Java application that ran Camel for a project at work. As documentation was a bit sparse on how to achieve what I wanted, I’ve written this post on how to bootstrap a very … -
Cross platform audio with Portaudio and libsndfile Jun 9, 2015In my recent efforts to make a game I’d reached a point where I had a rudimental 2d platform prototype which included a player character with animation via a sprite sheet, collision detection with the ground and … -
Building Docker Exec (Part 2) Apr 7, 2015Continued from Building Docker Exec Part 1 Some of the programs I wanted to be able to run with my new tools used features that were enabled at compiler level, for example C++11 or C++14 features. I didn’t want … -
Building Docker Exec (Part 1) Apr 7, 2015A while ago I made a start on the Project Euler problems - a set of mathematics-based programming questions - both because I wanted to improve my mathematical thinking and because their clear definition makes them a …
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Simple HTTP Server in Python 3 Jan 22, 2015A while ago, I wrote about how to start a web server in an arbitary folder in Python 2. This can be done with Python 3 as well, but the module name has changed: python3 -m http.server