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Author: erty

  • Cabal Package Installation Woes

    tl;dr: Nuke ~/.ghc and then run cabal install –lib (every lib you need) Edit: Since writing this post, there’s been some movement on the cabal bug, and it seems like there’s soon going to be a fix! I’m trying to write a simple webserver based on Warp, but I ran into an issue with a…

  • Two New JS Comics: Async/Defer and Task Runners

    I added two new JS Comics today: Async and Defer Task Runners

  • Expanding the !!Con Aesthetic

    TL;DR: There’s a cool new project to put on plays about computing. In addition to traditional talks, we’re inviting people to submit more artistic 10-minute plays or other “non-talks” to !!Con as well as The Art of Python. Sumana Harihareswara and I had lunch sometime late last year and talked for a while about her…

  • Radish Cache

    After coming across a (now deleted) answer on StackOverflow, I took some time to find instances of “redis” (a popular caching program) misspelled as “radish”. I think autocorrect is likely the culprit. I’m posting these here because I think that this is a wonderfully innocent error and not to shame the people involved. Imagining someone…

  • The !!Con Talk Anonymization and Selection Process

    Another conference organizer recently asked the !!Con team what our anonymization process was, and we realized that we didn’t have a good source for them. While we tout our anonymization as a major component of our quest to eliminate implicit bias during the talk selection process, we haven’t written what our anonymization and talk selection…

  • a e s t h e t i c đŸ’« g e n e r a t o r

    Update: the a e s t h e t i c g e n e r a t o r is now online.   Ryan McVerry, Per-Andre Stromhaug, and I got together this weekend to do a mini-hackathon. We’d been inspired by a Chicago-based artist on Tumblr named Galactic Castle. Specifically, this image: Our goal, was…

  • We Built an Arcade Cabinet in a Weekend!

    We built an arcade cabinet! In 72 hours! The team: Project Lead ERTY SEIDOHL Software Engineers RYAN MCVERRY MAX FELDKAMP Hardware Engineer BEN GOODING Music and Sound EVAN CONWAY Cabinet Construction ERIC VAN DER HEIDE MATT GOLON Cabinet Art HALEY WHITE-BALLOWE Finished image first 🙂 We had the idea to build an arcade cabinet several…

  • Dictionaries and Word Lists for Programmers

    I love to play with words, and I especially love to play with words programatically. I’ve written three small apps (so far) which use some form of a dictionary to create readable, humorous text: English to Shibe Translator Song Lyrics Twister Deity Generator I’ve had some people ask, so here are some great resources that…

  • Project Idea: “Lanky” PHP Middleware Language

    I keep not writing weekend web apps because I know that my projects generally follow this trajectory: 1. Build a database 2. Build some thin PHP middleware to expose an API to that database 3. Build a slick react/angular/whatever frontend 4. Realize a bunch of things I’m missing in my API and add them, lamenting the entire time…

  • Notes from PAX Prime 2015

    I attended PAX Prime 2015 this past weekend with a friend, and ended up going to two talks. Ask a Dungeon Master So You Want to be a Game Writer Ask a Dungeon Master Chris Perkins Dungeon Masters are unique. Gary Gygax Had the players declare a “caller”, who was the only person to talk to…