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Simplifying UCL
I’ve been using UCL for several days now in that work tool I mentioned, and I’m wondering if the technical challenge that comes of making a featureful language is crowding out what I set out to do: making a useful command language that is easy to embed. So I’m thinking of making some simplifications. The first is to expand the possible use of pipes. To date, the only thing that can travel through pipes are streams. Continue reading →
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My spilling has bin partickualy bad todai!
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If Alan has a problem, and Brett has a solution, but Brett’s solution is qualified with conditions that can’t be met by Alan, then Alan doesn’t have a solution.
Brett should probably just let go of this fact, rather than criticise Alan for not using his solution because of “conditions”.
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🔗 Hiss!
Seeing @Miraz’s post about the Morepork reminded me of this poem by C. J. Dennis that was read to us as a kid. It was in this beautifully illustrated picture book, with thick borders full of, I guess, the illustrations of the subject’s imagination.
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Imports And The New Model
Well, I dragged Photo Bucket out today to work on it a bit. It’s fallen by the wayside a little, and I’ve been wondering if it’s worth continuing work on it. So many things about it that need to be looked at: the public site looks ugly, as does the admin section; working with more than a single image is a pain; backup and restore needs to be added; etc. Continue reading →
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Watched Takashi Wakasugi’s show Japanese Aussie at the comedy festival last night with a few friends. Was quite good. A style of comedy that I really like.
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Beanie weather’s back, baby! 🌡️
Thought I’d celebrate by updating my avatar on Micro.blog.
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UCL: Procs and Higher-Order Functions
More on UCL yesterday evening. Biggest change is the introduction of user functions, called “procs” (same name used in TCL): proc greet { echo "Hello, world" } greet --> Hello, world Naturally, like most languages, these can accept arguments, which use the same block variable binding as the foreach loop: proc greet { |what| echo "Hello, " $what } greet "moon" --> Hello, moon The name is also optional, and if omitted, will actually make the function anonymous. Continue reading →
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Crashing Hemispheric Views #109: HAZCHEM
Okay, maybe not “crashing”, a.la Hey Dingus. But some thoughts did come to me while listening to Hemispheric Views #109: HAZCHEM that I’d though I share with others. Haircuts I’m sorry but I cannot disagree more. I don’t really want to talk while I’m getting a haircut. I mean I will if they’re striking up a conversation with me, but I’m generally not there to make new friends; just to get my hair cut quickly and go about my day. Continue reading →
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Pro tip: if you’re working with mocks, make sure they’re actually asserting the calls made to them. Otherwise, your buggy code will pass your buggy unit tests with flying colours, and you end up confused when it all falls down during QA verification.
Oh, um… this is all hypothetical, of course. 🤓
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👨💻 On the Coding Bits blog: Changing gRPC Schemas
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UCL: First Embed, and Optional Arguments
Came up with a name: Universal Control Language: UCL. See, you have TCL; but what if instead of being used for tools, it can be more universal? Sounds so much more… universal, am I right? 😀 Yeah, okay. It’s not a great name. But it’ll do for now. Anyway, I’ve started integrating this language with the admin tool I’m using at work. This tool I use is the impetus for this whole endeavour. Continue reading →
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Watched the MKBHD review of the Humane pin (the Streisand effect is real) and I must say, even if it worked perfectly, I’m not sure it’s for me. Something about having to wear it. Kind of conspicuous, no? Not to mention that it’s primarily a voice UI. I don’t even use the voice assistant on my phone.
I mean, credit to them for trying. But… nah, I’ll pass.
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Tool Command Language: Lists, Hashs, and Loops
A bit more on TCL (yes, yes, I’ve gotta change the name) last night. Added both lists and hashes to the language. These can be created using a literal syntax, which looks pretty much looks how I described it a few days ago: set list ["a" "b" "c"] set hash ["a":"1" "b":"2" "c":"3"] I had a bit of trouble working out the grammar for this, I first went with something that looked a little like the following, where the key of an element is optional but the value is mandatory: Continue reading →
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Pocket Cast should start tracking the number of times I tap the 30 seconds back button. It’s usually a good indication that I’m really engrossed in a particular show. That button sure got a lot of action this morning with today’s Stratechery and Dithering.
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On Micro.blog, Scribbles, And Multi-homing
I’ve been ask why I’m using Scribbles given that I’m here on Micro.blog. Honestly I wish I could say I’ve got a great answer. I like both services very much, and I have no plans of abandoning Micro.blog for Scribbles, or visa-versa. But I am planning to use both for writing stuff online, at least for now, and I suppose the best answer I can give is a combination of various emotions and hang-ups I have about what I want to write about, and where it should go. Continue reading →
