More hacking on diary-publish.py, the command line web blogger script. Since http://blogs.gnome.org/timj is currently down due to the gnome server move, i added a simple html writer to it that allowes previewing of the marked up diary with an html browser before posting them.
Majorly improved the speed of rectangle shading in Rapicorn, here’s a quick-and-dirty random number generator which is still good enough for dithering:
inline uint32 quick_rand32 (void)
{
static uint32 accu = 2147483563;
accu = 1664525 * accu + 1013904223;
return accu;
}
This has been the major speed-up-knob, other aspects were as confusing […]
Wiki access. When i come across a minor error or easy-to-fill spot on wiki sites like Wikipedia, i often take the time to edit the content appropriately. I can’t be bothered to create an account for such minor edits though. Especially not if i’m unlikely to ever return to the webpage since creating an […]
How’s nature forming interesting patterns such as the surface of sea shells, or simply telling apart the places to grow a head and a leg? The mathematical explanation describes this by the interaction of an activator and an inhibitor which are produced in a concurrent, mutually influenced reaction with varying diffusion properties. Basically, […]
Have been hacking on the command line web blogger today and learned python on the way, so can you read this? Posting works already, q.e.d. However, NewsBruiser is giving me a hard time with not accepting editPost() requests. So in effect, i’ll not be able to update this entry later on which sucks.
Finally reconnecting… since my server died earlier with a reproducible kernel BUG in the resierfs journaling code of a stock 2.6.10 (journal.c:2825). After poking around a bit, i decided to copy everything over (more than 100 Gigs) and move to ext3. Especially since i recently downgraded from 2.6.11.* because i ran into two other […]
Sat down with stefan today to evaluate GarageBand to get some ideas for improvements and neccessary additions in beast. The number and types of loops it offers out of the box (actually we also had Jam Pack 1) is simply thrilling. Cooking up a rich dance music background is a matter of minutes. We […]
Today we’ve been having a visit of Ileana Streinu at our university, where she gave a very interesting talk about intersection-free polygon unfolding in 2D space and related topics. One idea struck me as particularly interesting. A bit oversimplified, it is the reduction of available degrees of freedom in polygon expansion until only one […]
The intltool vs. scheme saga continues. Basically, Kevin Cozens (the gimp script-fu / tiny-fu maintainer) is willing to use proper markup for scheme strings via a (_ ) function, however applying such a change is post tiny-fu-1.0 stuff, so won’t happen too soon.
Back from GUADEC, still a bit tired though. Thanks to all the helpers who made this happen! It was nice to see all those people again and talk to them. Sat down with wim to discuss atomic reference counting issues for GObject. We’ve figured most of the issues, but GClosure is still giving a […]