While Inkscape is a great vector editor, its startup performance on Windows is terrible, often taking 5 seconds or more to open an empty window on my computer. Investigating the application startup seemed like a fun project to get familiar…
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Advent of Code Solutions
I enjoy participating in the Advent of Code event every December, which is digital advent calendar challenging you with a two-part programming puzzle every day. In 2019 I aimed for the global leaderboard and finished at rank #51 of the…
Daily Frustrations
I want to work on an assignment for university, that requires LLVM and makes use of their integrated tester (llvm-lit). llvm-lit is written in Python. I have some version of Python 3 installed, so I try to run it using…
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Hard Bugs
A few years ago I stumbled upon my first hard bug. I was working on my custom C++ 2D game engine and had just added the ability to render to an off-screen image. But it was not working well and…
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Member Mover 1.0.0
I released a new Eclipse plugin called Member Mover, which provides shortcuts to reorder Java class members inside a file.
Nassi-Shneiderman Diagram Generator 1.0
A Nassi-Shneiderman diagram is a graphical representation of a computer program. The Nassi-Shneiderman Diagram Generator converts xml descriptions of these diagrams into image files.
Pebble
I watched this interesting numberphile video about ‘Pebbling a Chessboard’ or ‘Freeing the Clones’ and had to program it. Pebbling is an interesting game / problem / experiment which works like this: There are three pebbles or clones in the corner of…
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