Use the Force; read the source! This blog is mostly a collection of study notes on ASM, ASP .NET, Blender, BASIC, C/C++, C#, ChucK, Computer Architecture, Computer Literacy, CSS, Digital Logic, Electronics, F#, GIMP, GTK+, Haskel, Java, Julia, JavaScript (ES6+) & JSON, LISP, Nim, OOP, Photoshop, PLAD, Python, Qt, Ruby, Scheme, SQL (MySQL & SQLite), Super Collider, UML, Verilog, VHDL, WASM, XML. If I can learn it and make notes on it, I'll write about it. || Blog images copyright Markus Spiske and Pixabay
11 Mar 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
If you're like me, you procrastinate terribly and leave things to the last minute, then stress out like mad while you rush to get shit done, causing yourself to burn out. If you're like me, you will have tried a number of hacks/tips to stop procrasti...
22 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I've been reading more of Blockchain Basics this week. Despite the Byzantine Generals problem being one of the core problems faced by distributed P2P networks (in terms of integrity), the book mentions it briefly in one sentence before moving on. I f...
28 Jun 2024 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
“Life is never what you want, Unless you plan it from the start. Now, wouldn't that be smart?“ — The Like; Don't Make a Sound I live in chaos and disorder (which I have done for years), never seeming to make any headway or get much of anything do...
7 Jun 2024 2 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
I wanted to like Manjaro, I really did, especially since the I3 WM spin allows me to run both Firefox and GIMP simultaneously on aging hardware without the fan going so hard the rig sounds like it's about to take flight into space. After all, Manjaro...
4 Jun 2024 2 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
A while ago, I wrote a post on Alternative to Google Docs and Google sheets. It posed the question of why, in the twenty-twenties (indeed, in the twenty-first century), anyone is still using Google's so-called "convenient" and "free" (but actually no...
20 May 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Here's a quick list of tips that will hopefully help improve both your studying habits and ability. I've done my best to keep these short in order to aid absorption and retention. A Distraction-Free Quiet Place: Study in a quiet, distraction-free pl...
15 Mar 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
As many long-term readers will know, I am uncomfortable using so-called "free" products from indiscriminate data-collecting Big Tech companies (such as Google, Meta and Microsoft), particularly on the Internet or on my own computers. As much as I'd l...
31 Dec 2023 8 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
Recently, I started watching Harvard's "This is CS 50" (an introductory course to computer science). I prefer the 2018 version to the 2023 version, since the former is a little more detailed and includes some things that explain later concepts and to...
9 Nov 2023 7 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
Hey folks of the P0x! I hope you haven't missed me too much while I've been gone. I've been a busy little beaver this last week, thanks to ongoing problems with Windows making my balls heavy and generally screwing me over. Same old, same old, right?...
28 Oct 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Now that I've managed to resolve the issue of being unable to post discussions (and thus earn USD) on MyLot, I'm going to be heading there, my time in the cryptosphere having come to an unfortunate end. I'm hoping that if you enjoy my particular bran...
