Christmas Tree

December 13, 2025

I'm experimenting with a way to highlight syntax in code snippets. It's a slog but it mostly does the job right. Some articles will require minor rewrites to support the new formatting system. And if I'm feeling extra frisky, I may add a keyword page with some explanations about each instructions, similarly to the help database bundled with QuickBASIC, and have each keyword link to the proper section of the page. I'm both looking forward to that, and not. At the same time.

Tell your mother I said "hi," she'll understand. I mean everyone understands what "hi" means, right?

Go on, go on, leave me restless!

December 12, 2025

A few weeks ago, I wrote a small function to convert Arabic numerals to Roman numerals. I said I would upload it but never did. I think it was eating at me, cranking my anxiety level all the way past extreme. And now I can't sleep. What did the Romans ever do to you? Well, now you know. By the way, the article is right here. And yes, the title is a reference to the Corrs. Anybody remembers that band? It was pretty bland.

It's edutainment time!

October 25, 2025

Three months later, Mike finally delivers a Tetris clone with a (mostly) new and shiny graphic library. It's in the game section. If anyone is interested: I was watching a Gladitor movie the other day and wrote two nifty functions to convert Arabic to Roman numerals and back. No, I don't usually get inspired to write random functions when I watch movies (or gladiators,) it just wasn't a very good movie. It'll be up after the spooky season.

Speaking of which: don't eat too many razor blades! Ciao ciao.

IF what?

August 6th, 2025

I was in the process of finishing up a Tetris clone when I fell into a rabbithole of text parsing. It was a complete accident: I was there, minding my own business, when I just stumbled on a preposition and fell down the hole. Figuratively. The result? A few figurative bruises and a small article outlining the basics of a simple text adventure game with an equally simple two-element (verb + noun) text parser. It's in the article section. Expect a Tetris clone soon-ish. Bye! BYYYYYYEEE!

More compression stuff

April 10th, 2025

The compression article has been updated again to include the LZ compression scheme, it's an all-purpose algorithm that can be used for text and images, it recognizes patterns and even consecutive runs. It's pretty neat and it's in the article section. I may split the article in the future to make it more digestible, but I'm not sure yet.

And a happy birthday to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)... does it still exist? I don't know. I could look it up and all, but I'm too busy fomenting a puppies-powered intergalactic ship engine or something...

FAX-ME! 3: Fax Me With a Vengeance

March 31st, 2025

Would you like at that? It's April already! Time flies when you're eating flies...