Latest News >> 2008-04-29

UPDATE: There seems to be some interest in Idiopidae too and I’ve been neglecting the Idiopidae project page while working on Vellum. I’ve updated that page with information and updated install procedures, so please check it out again if nothing worked for you.

2008-04-26

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is my first LaTeX text ever and that it’s based on one of my first Python projects and that I wrote what you find below in about 3 days while dorking around on Vellum and Idiopidae. Since I’m both a Python and LaTeX newb please feel free to school me. Better yet, if you think the typesetting sucks, then show me your samples. See if you can beat this one sent to me by Kashif Rasul. I still consider what he’s created as the bar to get over.

2008-04-18

While working on a more complex build I decided to make recursive imports work and clean up the syntax for imports in Vellum

2008-04-15

I worked on Vellum today after waking up from jetlag and Poland. I feel like it’s near ready for actual use by people. I even managed to polish it off with a nice little command line option for dumping the commands a build spec uses including their documentation. Check out this Pastie clip that shows it off.

Alright, I swear people are absolutely fucking crazy. I just crunched my access logs (176k uniques for January so far). I was browsing through looking at things, when I stumbled on this particular search bringing someone to my blog:

"diagrams of different styles of fucking"

Yes, someone typed that into lord google and my page on Ragel State Charts is the first hit and they clicked through.

Who in their right mind would come here to learn how to do a Modified T-square with their girl/boy?

I can just imagine how that went down. There’s some clueless dork planning his special first time with his girl and he’s scared shitless. He reads the title “Ragel State Charts” and, pushing his BC glasses back on his sweating nose, thinks to himself, “Yeth! The ‘ragel thtate chart’ position! Dayamn dude, I bet that’ll make her thquirt out her eye. Thee’ll love me for life if I ragel her all night. That one’ths definitely going in my vathst notebook.”

Imagine my horror when I realized that there could potentially be a gang of zit faced teens trying to figure out how tab-A goes in slot-B without realizing Ragel will not help a young man be a stud.

Ragel is probably the last thing to learn if you want to get laid regularly. Seriously, go put on a douche pair of hipster tight pants to match those thick rimmed glasses and just talk about Marx and Che. You’ll have more ass than Rosanne Bar and Oprah Winfrey in a mud wrestling match.

I’m sure Adrian would be proud.

Right when I type this Paul Jones sings, “I guess you gonna fuck it all up y’all!” I must prevent this. Paul has spoken.

I’ve put a disclaimer at the top of that tip just to make sure nobody confuses Ragel’s big-O efficiency with an efficient big-O maker. I am not about to get sued because some monkey jerker who can’t read looks at the diagrams and throws out a collarbone trying something stupid.

Blog Redux, Uh, Redux, Yeah

Slowly refining and tweaking the blog look and having fun. Tons of people sent me tips for improving the layout, which is much appreciated since my artistry is obviously better spent on the spoken word.

BTW, guys, my rants can’t cure cancer or bring back your dead grandma. Just saying. I think people imagine if I write about the technology that’s taking away their jobs then suddenly flowers will bloom in fields once barren. Not gonna happen.

Anyway, I really love how people hit my blog and then help me make it pretty. But the best is when a guy shot me a screenshot of Dillo displaying my site. Dillo people! You can view the site better in fucking Dillo than you can in IE.

Here’s a screenshot with dillo in the middle.

How, lametastically underwhelming. Makes me cry when I think of all the engineering brain cells being wasted on this loosely crafted bundle of pig shit we call “da interwebz”.

IE WTF

There’s some very weird interaction between nginx and IE that I can’t quite figure out. Randomly some pages from the site will render as a binary stream rather than as the actual content. I believe it’s the gzip encoding getting messed up but I’ve gotta debug it.

The Emails

Only a few more left, hangs out as I answer, and I’ve got a new rant in the works. Stay tuned.