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mall book about the evolution and meaning of the forth programming language new website area created papers which will house my summaries and opinions about computer science and programming papers first one posted i ve posted chapters 1 4 of my year of the microcontroller made a design for my awesome repo collaborator ziglings maintainer 2023 the shirt updated chklnks rb github com my no dependency ruby website link crawler and checker it needed better error handling is it just me or is the web getting harder to crawl lots of weird redirects and 400 class errors for links that i can otherwise hit with a browser i m guessing it s anti bot anti scraping done march retrov my new javascript vdom library because i couldn t stop myself no regrets feb march slackware pages additions how i set up new computers with slackware linux and slackbuilds org my new submissions done february my forth talk forth the programming language that writes itself these are just slides see above for the article i created from these done january hoo a solo journaling rpg browser game with lots of art made for an itch io game jam website tooling update ratlink used it to make that link just now i finished drawing 78 tarot cards for hoo see above i made an html presentation slide tool today minslides i declare 2023 to be the year of the microcontroller well for me anyway 2022 december i just finished my book guided openbsd blog and tour december made a little page for the eee pc 701 because it needs one november i just self published mr tree goes down as a real physical children s book november meow5 and assembly nights season two is full steam ahead october woah finished nasmjf my nasm port of jonesforth been enjoying slackware 15 0 have started adding more content to my slackware pages joined a mastodon instance mastodon art created a new git gnu stow home computing setup now with check repos script have started needle felting because i don t have enough hobbies just edited my sh3 notes and added a u boat fan page to honor my obsession in the year 2020 sharing wordle results with old school cgi this is what software would be like in a utopia after hemming and hawing about it i m starting a virtual box of cards for this website at last i have written up the my notebook system page with pictures still enjoying assembly nights my nasm jonesforth port started this in 2021 still creating a live reference for htmx with accompanying cgi back end and forest animals 2023 update abandoned 2021 hacking teardown for my kids updated am slowly fleshing out an article on the web now there s a subject made a hardware task multitimer using a raspberry pi pico microcontroller had a little rant about a web design pet peeve started a personal timeline a general history reference for me not about me dave s raspberry pi zero luggable aka the cardboard computer was a fun weekend build decoding i2c data with an oscilloscope for a little microcontroller project this site now has an rss atom feed learning zig and creating learning resources to help myself and others wrote a toy unix shell in zig and wrote an article about it forking is cool very slowly writing a ray tracer a byproduct of which is writing tga files source finally created a css flexbox basics guide got deep into asciidoc because i m invested in it almost everything i write is in adoc files re learning midnight commander and orthodox file managers in general because they re so danged productive windows subsystem for linux wsl kind of changes everything managing a family minecraft server which can be fun 2020 this has been a heck of a year on a global scale on a personal scale productivity on projects has come in fits and spurts pkgblog slackware package blog cpufrequtils get your freq on cpio file archiver with some handy abilities gnu coreutils finally done a colossal review of the entire coreutils package keeb s quest new i m embarking on developing a typing game hoping to make regular updates here notes on silent hunter iii i ve given this simulation game a third real attempt here s how i ve learned to cope with it syncthing i ve been using syncthing for about a year now and it s been a good experience i m starting to collect my notes chklnks rb i wrote a recursive web crawler and link checker in ruby just to make sure the website conversion was successful this website has gotten a complete redo it s still authored as asciidoc but i wrote a new static site generator to publish it my personal wiki setup livin the dream one local wiki running inside a text editor as the single browsable start point for all of my notes and content vviki the vim plugin i wrote to edit the above wiki my note taking system is in a messy transition phase right now but i think it s all heading in the right direction watch this space for a write up that is nine and counting years in the making new static site generator a little ruby wiki to website publishing tool has now replaced hugo i touch upon this in the above personal wiki article but it probably deserves its own page at some point rediscovery of ruby returning to a previous stop on the eternal quest for the one true utility language another shot at learning rust the more i try to avoid it the more convinced i am that rust is doing things correctly i m giving it a go again i have some specific projects i d like to build with it update this is not the hobby language i need right now 2019 i moved across the country and started a new job at the end of 2018 putting an end to what was otherwise a great year for this website now i m back at it mostly with slackware linux content pkgblog bzip2 compression utility pkgblog btrfs progs playing with filesystem snapshots enabling eth1 a network note to self why slackware why i chose it and stick with it mounty cli tui menu based drive mounting mounting usb drives quickly already superseded by the above slackware pkgblog new entries starting with the bin package 2018 my ambitious new project dave s slackware package blog has begun i m getting my hands dirty with every slackware package and writing up my experiences i also explain how and why i m doing this pkgblog my slackware package blog after the switch to hugo i started writing a ton of new content it s been technically up here on ratfactor com the whole time but i was waiting to iron some things out before i linked to them so two months later i m finally exposing the links to the new content configuring alpine brother hl l5100dn and slackware linux dehydrated quickstart dave s visual guide to dwm how i use dwm better hugo asciidoc html generating semantic html5 with hugo asciidoctor web typography and why ratfactor com looks like it does this has been a big year for the website after years of relying on various php template systems of my own devising and a static site generator i wrote in nim and then perl i ve finally converted almost everything to the asciidoc format and am generating the site with hugo there is a ton of new content but a lot of it is in draft form so i haven t linked to it yet it s so close i can almost smell it have finally upgraded my main work as in day job project to mithril 1 1 6 mithril js org there have been some excellent changes from the old 0 2 x api i did have one issue scrolling to the top of the page when changing routes continuing to use ruby as my main scripting language why did i wait this long to learn it probably because i was so tired of the search for the perfect language i now wish i d put ruby higher in the queue to aid my learning i wrote an imperfect simulation of the boardgame monopoly junior monopoly rb bitbucket org stopped hosting mercurial repos have been trying to clear out a huge backlog of software development reading created a chronological index of steve yegge s blog posts yegge dex my employer agreed to release our learning management system project under an open source license i think it s a pretty great piece of software single page application based on mithril js with tags as the core organizational method including boolean operations on tags the api is true rest with browsable json hypermedia see the 2015 heading below for more about that percolate lms github com tags as alternatives to checkboxes is a blog post i wrote about the design of the system 2017 this year is ratfactor com s 20th anniversary learned ruby and re learned nim at the tail end of the year the plan ruby for scripting tasks and nim for applications and larger projects i finally dove into apache and the mystery of the fully qualified domain name the following article started as an answer on stack overflow but morphed into something else as i learned more apache and fully qualified domain names i ve been using slackware linux as my desktop os exclusively for over half a year and loving it one of my favorite recent discoveries has been the dynamic window manager dwm it s actually quite intuitive to use but learning it from the man page was a bit of a hurdle so i ve made this visual guide for it dave s visual guide to dwm after two years my mithril tutorial has been rewritten and i ve added a part 2 dave s guide to mithril part 1 a tutorial from the mines of moria dave s guide to mithril part 2 how i use mithril the mithril articles required the use of a new utility for displaying the source of the examples from script tags so galadriel s mirror was born example of galadriel updated 2023 to version 2 this website finally got an update i m now generating all new content and this page with my txt to html converter called bride of text it s written in perl 5 perl org i also use it for the notes i keep on my desktop computer bride of text bitbucket org stopped hosting mercurial repos 2016 after threatening to do so for years i finally ditched windows for slackware linux slackware com as my main desktop os i have learned a lot and have been living in command line bliss ever since lengthy article or small book tentatively titled dave s guide to slackware pending i m in the note gathering phase i wrote a prototype static website generator called notegoat in php i then wrote its successor bride of text in the nim language nim lang org finally i wrote a new bride of text in perl in 2017 see above notegoat bitbucket org stopped hosting mercurial repos 2015 i got into rest wikipedia org in a big way and ended up creating a pair of projects for the server and client side of a browseable api using json as a hypermedium for hateoas wikipedia org hm json browser client github com hummingjay server github com i also tried out a bunch of personal wikis including pmwiki pmwiki org which i used for at least six months eventually i wrote my own called krumpli before finally coming back to my senses and rediscovering my true love plaintext krumpli bitbucket org stopped hosting mercurial repos surveyed quite a few different javascript frameworks settled on mithril wrote an article with tons of working examples called dave s guide to mithril updated in 2017 see above 2014 i wrote my third or fourth adventure game builder in javascript called hoot it s probably my tenth total text based adventure game building tool i m working on something better but since that s not done check out hoot hoot bitbucket org stopped hosting mercurial repos 2012 i wrote some fairly popular articles on circular slide rule watches mercurial source control and the sumproduct function in ms excel circular slide rule watch tutorial tortoisehg and mercurial s named branches tricking sumproduct in ms excel i continued to learn new programming languages scheme comes to mind in particular but did not create any abitious projects with them created the fancy friends web comic i didn t yet have the stamina to keep up the weekly schedule and so i never gave it a chance to really go anywhere fancy friends 2011 the site got a much needed re write to a php templating system called darts from its predecessor dots both names stood for dave s something something template system darts was unique in that the template itself was an executable script that would transpile using the system first checking for a more recent cached copy into the final page as i write this in 2017 some of the pages on this site are still running darts update 2020 that is no longer true i ve gone full static html generation it is around this time that most of my php and javascript based web tools came to be compound interest calculator loan payoff calculator gear tire ratio calculator dave s fat loss calculator still my most popular page by hits sha 1 hash maker source code columnizer icalendar file decoder viewer utf 8 to 4 digit escape sequence converter find a word puzzle helper l33t speak translator are you l33t enough and also some web based programs to amuse count down to an apocalyptic event in the style of tv s millenium edit the url to make your own booze slogans 2010 after i used digital images to document repairing a yashica tlr camera shutter so i could put it back together i decided to turn them into a how to guide to my surprise it quickly became the most popular thing i d ever posted on the website repairing yashica tlr copal shutters 2008 i learned c initially from stroustrup s tome openlibrary org and branching out from there but i didn t do much of anything with it looking back it is hard to say if this was a colossal waste of effort or if i learned valuable things from it at this point ratfactor com and all of its contents had been completely rewritten at least once every 1 5 years since its inception web technology had been moving very quickly in that first decade 2005 i released betric which was an in browser virtual computer written in php that had a working assembler disassembler and primitive machine code instruction set very educational a description of betric i also created and posted designs for a trebuchet which was somewhat popular for a while i know at least one group of boyscouts made a scaled up trebuchet based on my design which was really cool my trebuchet 2004 though i didn t realize it at the time i had finally achieved one of my childhood goals by writing a primitive 2d game engine in assembly and c my resources were the white book openlibrary org lamothe s black art openlibrary org and lafore s assembly language primer openlibrary org it was incomplete and i never actually made any games so it was hard to see it as the victory it was dos gamedev 2003 around this time i switched my web development from perl to php i released the first version of a php html based text adventure game engine the game files had a c like syntax and had variables conditionals etc i ended up re writing the engine several times space adventure game 2001 i made some interesting toys in java one that converted bmp images to pov ray raytracer files so you could render a 2d bitmap as a field of colored objects representing the pixels of the image and one that converted jpeg images to html tables with each cell of the 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