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2023
Dice Rolling Notation: Now With Recursion!
Dice notation is actually pretty straightforward. It’s not
trivial
to implement, but if you’re already comfortable with string processing it’s the kind of thing you can do in an afternoon. When I tried to add recursion to the notation, though, I needed to break out so much heavier machinery…
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Published
2023-03-18
2022
Making Clocks out of JavaScript
Back when I was in high school I had a Cadence Timescale watch, which, despite my parent’s skepticism at the prospect of purchasing a timepiece from a no-name company with a sketchy website, they let me buy using their credit card…
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Published
2022-12-28
Lear: A Shakespearian Command Line Utility
I love quirky command line utilities. Sometimes the “animal brain of Unix” will happily provide its own weirdness—the
two-letter gang
(ed, dc, et al.) is always a safe bet for doing something other than what you expect—but it’s community-driven space where things really get wild…
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Published
2022-06-26