Monthly Recap

cameralistics Mar 24 2013
No, you’re awesome. Awesome Camp was a huge success again this year. Thanks to everyone who gave up their nights and weekends to get it off the ground. Writing I broke GitHub again. I was fortunate enough to coach several amazing teams at UNL’s first Startup Weekend event. Reading Javascript numbers can be funny, especially when you start shifting bits. NetBSD proves it’s still really hard to generate random numbers.
avaricious Feb 24 2013
Don’t panic, winter is almost over. Lincoln’s own unconference, Awesome Camp, is coming up soon. Are you registered yet? I’ve been working with parsers a lot this past month. For fun, I implemented a forth interpreter in javascript. Reading Donald Knuth’s original paper on LR parsers - On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right. Frank DeRemer invented LALR parsers. His PhD dissertation, Practical Translators for LR(k) Languages, is fascinating and his later paper has some great information on optimizing lookup sets.
cogitation Jan 27 2013
The Model A ran for the first time in forty years. Here’s a closeup of the engine, jumper wires and all. I wrote a tool that increases the size of PNG files without altering their appearance. You should read about BloatPNG and then visit the GitHub repository. UNL is back in full swing for the spring semester. I’m taking courses in heat transfer and math. Reading Ever wonder why you can’t design nice things on the internet?