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“Remembering Steve,” or “20 years of the Happy Mac”
It started with something called an “Apple II” in a darkened room at my elementary school. Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, turtle graphics, writing our first stories and printing them out. HyperCard, hours making flipbooks and puzzling through scripting on my … Continue reading
Factoring the Luhn algorithm
I work a lot in the field of e-commerce, and have written at least two shopping carts. Anyone who has implemented any kind of payment processing probably knows about the Luhn algorithm, which is a simple test that one can … Continue reading
Sorting in Factor
So, mrjbq7′s post with words to find the maximum and minimum of a sequence of tuples got me thinking, and playing, and reading the Factor docs: all good things! I started with his test data: TUPLE: person name age ; … Continue reading
QR codes in Factor
Wow, so Factor is one of the most amazing programming languages that I’ve ever used. And I’ve used a bucketful of them in my checkered past, that’s for sure. But there’s something about using this odd little stack-based “concatenative” language … Continue reading
Reflections on one week out of the home office
In which I discuss the recent move out of my home office, and reflect upon the benefits of the change. Continue reading
Why I won’t be signing up for a Pixily account
I saw an ad in Evernote for Pixily Pixily a “secure document scanning service.”. I clicked, and was disappointed, because they don’t seem to understand security. Rather than the wise thing, which was to walk away, I decided to give … Continue reading
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