by Geoffrey Broadwell In parts 1 and 2 of these blog posts, I roughed out a simple ping chart program and then began to refactor and add features to improve the overall experience. It’s functional, but there’s a lot to improve upon — it doesn’t use the screen real estate particularly well, there are someContinue reading “Day 13 – Networks Roasting on an Open Fire, Part 3: Feeling Warm and Looking Cool”
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Day 12 – Perspectives on RakuDoc Version 2
Just in time for Christmas This project started with the modest aim of documenting parts of Rakudoc V1 (what used to be called POD6 that had been specified, but not included in the original documentation. Except … some parts of the specification had not been implemented in the Pod::To::HTML renderer. And some parts were outdated. So aContinue reading “Day 12 – Perspectives on RakuDoc Version 2”
Day 11 – Networks Roasting on an Open Fire, Part 2: Axes to Grind
by Geoffrey Broadwell In part 1 of these blog posts, I roughed out a simple ping chart program that produced output like this as it ran: This is over-minimalist; a user couldn’t even tell the scale of the latency measurements. It’s not at all obvious whether this is a fast or slow connection, and whetherContinue reading “Day 11 – Networks Roasting on an Open Fire, Part 2: Axes to Grind”
Day 10 – The Magic Of Q
Santa continued their dabbling in the Raku Programming Language, but got confused by single quotes, double quotes, and all the things that start with q/. So they decided to have Lizzybel do an exposé about the mechanisms behind quoting. But I already did that 9 years ago! Lizzybel exclaimed! Well, I certainly don’t remember that,Continue reading “Day 10 – The Magic Of Q”
Day 9 – Networks Roasting on an Open Fire, Part 1: Whipuptitude
by Geoffrey Broadwell My home Internet connection is less than ideal. On the good days it’s fine I suppose, but on the bad days — and there are a lot of them — well, my ISP seems to be doing its darnedest to be earning coal in its collective stockings. Meanwhile I hear shouts across theContinue reading “Day 9 – Networks Roasting on an Open Fire, Part 1: Whipuptitude”
Day 8 – Make it Snow 2.0: The Snowfall Strikes Back
Introduction Seven years ago I wrote a blog post on the previous incarnation of this advent calendar that demonstrated a new library I had written, called Terminal::Print, by making a (very primitive) snowfall simulator. However, I was never entirely pleased with the outcome, especially after I saw this video about an implementation in APL thatContinue reading “Day 8 – Make it Snow 2.0: The Snowfall Strikes Back”
Day 7 – The Magic Of $/
Santa was dabbling a bit with regexes in the Raku Programming Language, just to satisfy their curiosity. Trying to find out how many children have a first name that starts with a vowel. That seemed like a nice little project! Since the Big Database Server at the North Pole was already heating up a lot,Continue reading “Day 7 – The Magic Of $/”
Day 6 – The Future Of POD6
by Kay Rhodes Some people believe that “code should be self documenting”. They believe that we don’t need inline docs because you can just look at the code and see what it’s doing. The reality is that everyone’s brain works differently. Everyone processes new information differently. My brain’s extra divergent. I have a working memoryContinue reading “Day 6 – The Future Of POD6”
Day 5 – The Elves go back to Grammar School
It was Christmas Day in the workhouse the snow was raining fast a barefooted man with clogs on came slowly running past anon ‘Twas the month before Christmas when a barefooted Elf with clogs on realised that they needed to load around 1_000_000_000 addresses into Santa’s Google maps importer so that he could optimise hisContinue reading “Day 5 – The Elves go back to Grammar School”
Day 4 – Embedding a stack-based programming language in Raku
When @lizmat asked me to write a post for the Raku advent calendar I was initially a bit at a loss. I have spent most of the year not writing Raku but working on my own language Funktal, a postfix functional language that compiles to Uxntal, the stack-based assembly language for the tiny Uxn virtual machine. But as Raku is nothingContinue reading “Day 4 – Embedding a stack-based programming language in Raku”
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