I have come to realize that I have more ideas for programs than I'll ever have time to write. (This means they're not actually all that significant, on average - see all that's been said on ‘ideas vs. execution’.) But maybe I have the time to scribble a blog post about them, and that's stuff to blog about, if nothing else.
So, a video game idea I ( Read more... )

Death by Turret

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Tron was one of my childhood favorite movies.
Before I watched Tron: Legacy, I reminded myself to not critique it overly harshly compared to the original - after all, there had been the grid bug scene. (Which, if you don’t happen to recall, introduces grid bugs, without any relationship to the rest of the action, which then never appear again.)
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Yesterday I completely rewrote my resource embedding test to cover more cases (especially ones new in HTML5) and be more usable. In the likely event you're not familiar with it, it's a HTML document which embeds many types of resources (images, audio, other HTML, etc.) using all of the possible containers (
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Let's say you have two or more independent Git branches, and you want to make sure the combination of them works correctly, but aren't ready to permanently merge or rebase them together. You can do a merge and discard it (either by resetting afterward or using a temporary branch), but that takes extra commands when you're done with the trial. Here' ( Read more... )

When Larry Wall was designing Perl 6, he started with lots of community proposals, from which he made the following observation: I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.

When I was recently trying to redesign E, I found that this holds true even if only one person is involved in the process. One of the ( Read more... )

Here's another thing I've been doing: designing Portal 2 puzzles.

The Cube Goes in the Other Pit

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I really haven't been posting very much, have I? It's mostly the job occupying most of my “creative energy”, but I've also been doing a little bit of this and that and not ever finishing something to the point of feeling like writing it up.

On the programming-projects front, I'm attempting to extract two reusable libraries from Cubes for the ( Read more... )

stdin, stdout, stderr, stdcpu, stdmem, stdfs

1. 
   Premise: Any attack on a password - whether online (login attempts) or offline (hash cracking) - will be designed so that the more likely a given password is, out of the space of all possible passwords, the less work is required to recover that password (unless a trivial amount of work is required to discover any possible password).
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   From (1), there ( Read more... )