Here is a good article about an effort that was made to make Stella, an Atari 2600 emulator, render the screen according the behavior of a CRT rather than an LCD. The differences are clear, and perhaps more interesting to folks who grew up playing games on such consoles :). Whatever this case, this must [...]
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect [...]
Here is a solution to the 2008 ICFP Programming Contest in TeX. (via expandrive blog)
If you had dug in deeper to my post on ypsilon Scheme, you would have found that it was written for use in pinball games. I love pinball. Check out their blog and company. I’m downloading Jinni Zeala right now :).
Slide40 is a program for displaying slide presentations in a style inspired by the personal computers of the late 1970′s. The display mimics a TV screen showing only 40 columns of text in an all-caps font built from big blocky fuzzy pixels. I created it partly as a joke, and partly as a minimalist artistic [...]
On my previous project, we had just a bang-up bunch of guys on the team. Everyone was smart, thoughtful, and worked well together: it was ideal. Since there was no revision control system in place when we arrived for the project, we decided to use Subversion. Since I had championed Subversion, I became both the [...]
Remember the classic UML “sailboat” book Applying UML and Patterns? It has kind of a neat image on the cover of a picture of a sailboat, a uml diagram of a sailboat, along with the words “This is not a sailboat”. (Click on the image to zoom in): Amazon link Never noticed before, but I [...]