http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog messy things Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:49:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For Jenny's Dad's 60th birthday, the whole family took a trip out West! We stayed 7 days, on a tour bus whenever there was sunlight, and in different hotels each night. The bus travelled counter-clockwise around Wyoming and its bordering states, hitting as many destinations as humanly possible: ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2010/07/05/the-west/ Manufactoria is to Конструктор as your Theory of Computation class was to your Digital Logic class. Instead of creating tricky silicon circuits to implement various logical operations, you create tricky state machines to modify and accept or reject sequences of colored dots on a paper tape. And just ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2010/05/22/manufactoria/ ...running top, pressing 1, and seeing this message: Sorry, terminal is not big enough. http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2010/03/17/happiness-is-2/ Heard of Scratch? My nephew Dante introduced me to it. It's a really nice visual programming environment, aimed at kids. You create programs that control the movement of sprites by snapping blocks together. There's an "IDE" (written in Squeak Smalltalk) that you download and install and ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2010/02/17/logo-on-scratch-scratch-on-logo/ Two years ago: Dear Google: Please get like 50 of your PhDs together and have them figure out how to automatically provide subtitles for all your YouTube videos. Love, the Internet. And today: Done! http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2009/11/19/that-was-easy/ This: Made me immediately think of this: http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2009/10/18/how-retro/ I just launched an automated build, and the log file timestamp ends with '1337'. If that's not a good omen for a programmer I don't know what is. http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2009/09/15/portents/ In celebration of upgrading to the very latest and guaranteed secure (at least for the next 5 minutes or so) version of Wordpress, here is a picture of the evilest doll at the Shelburne Museum: http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2009/09/06/upgradation/ We mentioned to Sharena about 5 years ago that maybe we'd bring her to an amusement park in the summer, but we never did and forgot all about it. She didn't! So we finally went this year with her and a bunch of other people from Jenny's family. ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2009/08/25/lake-compounce/ Here are a bunch of stories of really great last minute hacks that were needed to get a game out the door. I have perpetrated my share of these as well. On one project I worked on, we had an upcoming very high profile marketing launch. (how high ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2009/08/20/last-minute-hacks/