Hobby computing blog http://nullprogram.com en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 22:21:45 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 22:21:45 PDT http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/18/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/18/ Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT I recently added support to Skewer for loading libraries on the fly using Bower’s package infrastructure. Just make sure you’re up to date, then while skewering a page run M-x... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/14/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/14/ Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT The JavaScript function keyword has two meanings depending on how it’s used: as a statement or as an expression. It’s a statement when the keyword appears at the top-level of... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/11/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/11/ Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT Recently I wanted to experiment with dates in a JavaScript web app. The JavaScript Date object is a fairly decent tool for working with dates. Unfortunately, it has some annoyances,... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/01/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/05/01/ Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT My Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) game, Disc RL, was mentioned in a podcast and demonstrated in a YouTube video. Note that the UberHunter, the one who made the YouTube video,... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/04/28/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/04/28/ Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDT There was an interesting Daily Programmer problem posted a couple of weeks ago: write a userspace threading library. I decided to do it in JavaScript, building it on top of... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/04/27/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/04/27/ Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDT Nine years ago I bought my first laptop computer. For the first time I could carry my computer around and do productive things at places beyond my desk. In the... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/04/07/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/04/07/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDT Last weekend I had the itch to play around with a multiple-inheritance prototype-based object system in lisp. It would look a lot like JavaScript’s object system but wanted to try... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/03/28/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/03/28/ Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT One of the problems I needed to solve while writing my 7DRL was serializing the game’s entire state for a future restore. It needed to automatically save the game so... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/03/27/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/03/27/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT Also in preparation for my 7-day roguelike I rewrote the RingWorks fantasy name generator in JavaScript. It’s my third implementation of this generator and this one is also the most... http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/03/25/ http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/03/25/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT In preparation for my 7-day roguelike, I developed a seedable pseudo-random number generator library. Half of it is basically a port of BrianScheme’s PRNG. JavaScript comes with an automatically-seeded global...