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
18 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
As some of you may know, I have been putting in time and effort, on and off, to create, edit and upload video content to YouTube for a vlog. Recently, a potential business client/employer asked me to make a short (approximately two minute) recording...
14 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Hey folks, I bring you a revelation from my struggles to find (and keep) gainful employment, just in case you didn't already know: In business, being direct/straight-talking and honest is something you want to avoid. Why's that? Well, having boundari...
9 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
As my regular readers will know, I've been having some trouble with minting and sharing NFT versions of my digital artwork (in both audio and visual form). I decided that I would go the traditional/Web2 route of publishing it (through BMC and Patreon...
5 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Today, I submitted a job application, in which I was required to list certain skills that I have. One of the advantages of interacting with people whom specialise in recuiting IT/development personel is that the person with whom I was dealing was sha...
4 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
A while ago (on the scale of years), I created a word-finder/unscrambler utility app for myself that proved quite useful. This was before Wordle was a popular time-wasting thing that it is now. (As far as I know, there's no payout for playing or reac...
14 Jun 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Now, the eagle-eyed and persnickety among (amongst?) you may have noticed that that title contains "why do I care", instead of "why should you care". That's because this post is different from the usual posts in which something catches my eye, I read...
4 Jun 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
AI is capable of writing code, but is it any good? Apparently, it is and I should be concerned about being put out of business (if not now, then soon). However, I don't know of any applications or services (online or otherwise) that offer this. Appar...
31 May 2023 3 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
One of the many things that annoys me about my experiences online is how most Websites handle access/authentication/authorisation. A lot of them still use the method of using usernames and passwords for login, so much so that I have a password databa...
19 May 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
Stack Exchange: A network of Q&A sites for miserable fucks whom take rules too seriously and are devoid of a sense of humour and/or fun, where questions that attempt to inject some of it get not just closed, but deleted. I found that out, to my annoy...
8 May 2023 8 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Usually, by this number of writings on a topic, interest has started to wane. However, I don't see that happening yet on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Besides, I think it's important I (and my readers) have a well-informed idea of what's invo...
