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Decker is an array programming adjacent, hypercard-like multimedia tool that can run on the web. Creating a branching static website is hence possible in Decker, and the process is much less tackier than I imagined.

The code for this article can be found on Github.

I’ve been ardently watching fighting games and smash for ages, and I decided one day in September 2022 to try out the genre. After a year of playing them on and off, I still find it hard to justify continuing to play them.

A certain video game has gotten me into dice-based board games again, and I came to wonder why I stopped playing them as much.

Keyboard controls vastly vary with every video game, but they often have the same homogeneous interfaces that let the user customize them.

Spoilers for the entire game. be warned.

Beware of spoilers.

This page will be updated later, and without notice.

Despite my liking for watching fangames, I had always been afraid of playing them.

This year’s Advent of code language was Lil. I skipped day 16, 19, 22 part 2, 24 and 25.

I saw this video from Eric Rowland a few days back, about an exact mathematical formula to derive the nth prime.

I had the pleasure of participating in the 2022 Google Summer of Code program, and I have a lot of things to say. If you plan on applying for a TruffleRuby project, I hope this helps you.

This is a page of personal notes on Nial that’s published here to help other people lessen their confusion when they are writing Nial code.

There’s a lot of specifics in the Mercury language distribution that pop up often and waste a lot of time. I try to document them here. This page will be updated as I get better at Mercury.

CodeWars is a site that tries its best not to make its users feel like crap.

A few articles have been written on basic tree wrangling in APL. Here I try to aggregate them and use them for balanced binary trees. In general I do not recommend working with trees in APL, but if push comes to shove you can use this, or mess with Dyalog’s .NET integration for a reference-based version.

Thanks to my friend plastic, I decided to enroll in an open source program called Winter of Code. I was in for a thorough beating.

Many, many tips if you’re joining SRM VDP.

Elden Ring has been a big topic on social media for a while now, and many have spoken about it after having spent countless hours discovering its secrets. I am going to talk about it with no in-game experience.

Since I’ve been learning and enjoying some Third Strike in the past few days I’m documenting some of the simpler things I have to keep in mind while playing the game.

Advent of Code in BQN was a fun experience. These are a few short notes about how I solved each of the problems, and how BQN fared with each of them.